Dogen

Dogen

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  1. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    Dogen replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    A clean dork, apparently. Of all the mnemonics for the cranial

  2. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    Dogen replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    Everything around your philtrum is your upper lip (everything that moves when you make a fish face). The reddish part that we refer to colloquially as lips are the vermilion or vermilion zone, and the...

  3. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    Dogen replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    Tragus: the cartilage flap that juts out over the ear hole at the front of the ear. There's also an antitragus, which lives in eternal opposition to the

  4. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, I suppose I didn't recognize that sense because I figured it was the same kind of legal musing as whether we were even allowed to intervene without an MD present. In my limited experience (asking...

  5. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    Dogen replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    A quote, "If it's warm, sticky, and not yours, don't touch it without asking." For some reason I remember who said this, where we were, and what we were doing. (before anyone asks, it was in class,...

  6. This week, I have learned... (8/8)

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I started doing research and now I'm not sure. I'm kind of waiting on the new t:slim G4, with the integrated Dexcom receiver. The Vibe is still a contender, but the antiquated display, and the reviews...

  7. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    How are you being punished? Because there's the possibility someone will ask for ID? I mean... you're protected from liability by federal

  8. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I'm firmly in the camp of people who would do everything within their training regardless of the legal question, but because I'm not a lawyer (thank god), the legal question is uncertain and...

  9. Are care plans valuable?

    Dogen replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The article I cited is only one academic medical center, so I don't know how representative it is, but as a nurse who never sees nurses reading nursing notes (at least, whoever happens to be sitting...

  10. This week, I have learned... (8/8)

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    You know, it's not perfect, but I'd take Canadian healthcare over US healthcare any day. I spent six years in Alberta (left ten years ago), and I remember coming back to the US and thinking, "I have...

  11. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Just like in the hospital, if you don't know the code status then they're a full code. Much like putting Baby in a corner, nobody tells the pilot when to divert. Your authority extends only to the...

  12. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    This is an interesting question. The last I looked - which was a long time ago - four or five states have "duty to rescue" laws. So, if you were an RN in Wisconsin and saw someone collapse on a...

  13. Are care plans valuable?

    Dogen replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know, I was reading an article a while back that said when reviewing access records in an EMR, only 20% of nurses' notes were read by a physician, and 38% of nurses' notes were never read by...

  14. This week, I have learned... (8/8)

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    - I'd watched the FDA website for 3-4 months last year waiting for them to approve a new insulin pump I want, then got discouraged and stopped... and just found out it's been approved since January....

  15. Dear New Grad Nurse

    Dogen replied to ashrose1992's topic in General Nursing

    If you didn't get a job doing what you wanted right out of the gate it's okay. Plan your moves so that you gain more relevant acute skills (tele, progressive care, etc) and you can work your way...

  16. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    That would be me. I'm BLS certified because everyone and their pet rock is, but I'd be rubbish in a code without direction, except to do CPR. It makes me feel bad. I wonder if I could get a PRN job on...

  17. Sadly, discrmination against male nurses still rampant in job applic process

    Dogen replied to Ecstatic2014's topic in Male Nursing Students

    The first bolded sentence is the part that I was addressing in my prior post. It seems like you were hanging your hat on one possible variable that leads to difference in pay between men and women -...

  18. FNP in a psychiatric office?

    Dogen replied to bethymaester's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Somewhat off topic, but I went through this last year, and I wish I'd had more generalist training. I got the "3 Ps," a single course each in physical assessment, general pharm, and pathophys. I can...

  19. Are you Facebook friends with your coworkers?

    Dogen replied to BlueDawnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I haven't yet taken a coworker home with me, but I don't think that's technically what it means to be

  20. I Hate People (my rant)

    Dogen replied to AlyaMF's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I find trying to diagnose people over the internet is neither helpful nor respectful. People don't join AN looking for armchair psychiatrists to tell them what's wrong with them. They come here to...

  21. Why do hospitals continue use the incentive spirometer?

    Dogen replied to felixis12's topic in General Nursing

    We're just so helpful! I'd like to see what people write after asking questions like this. "Some people think it works and other people don't (Allnurses.com, 2015)." Short

  22. RNs: Would you feel comfortable training in and injecting Botox and other fillers?

    Dogen replied to Buggus's topic in General Nursing

    Comfortable? Sure. I can learn to do anything. The chances of me ever working somewhere where I'm expected to give someone a Barbie forehead is slim to none,

  23. Why do hospitals continue use the incentive spirometer?

    Dogen replied to felixis12's topic in General Nursing

    You made me curious, so I searched the Cochrane database for incentive spirometry and found two relevant meta-analyses, one for upper abdominal surgery (which seems like the one you found) and another...

  24. Are you Facebook friends with your coworkers?

    Dogen replied to BlueDawnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm friends with tons of coworkers from my last hospital. Almost the entire PCU, the ICU night shift, most of the neuroscience unit, a third of the float pool, plus the nurse managers of the PCU,...

  25. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    I bet NSAIDs make you itchy, which is why you can't have percocet or vicodin, and tramadol gives you hives, right? I already want to put you in a psych