Dogen

Dogen

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

    Dogen replied to Ecstatic2014's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I don't want to be a jerk or anything, but literally the entire article is about pay disparity between men and women upon graduation. This is the third paragraph: Sixth paragraph (emphasis mine):...

  2. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    My unit is old and hasn't been remodeled in years, maybe decades. It's likely to fall apart whether I have magic powers or not. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure if the place falls down I get the...

  3. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    It's why they only let me work two days a

  4. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    But why are you taking a swing at the ER

  5. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago I would argue with people, show them research, explain the confirmation bias and the availability heuristic... it never did any good. I've never claimed to be a nice person, so now I just...

  6. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a psych RN. There's a lot of research on lunar phases and behavior, and most of them either find no correlation between phase and behavior or are equivocal. You can sometimes find bad research,...

  7. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    Dogen replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Tell you what. I'll do all your discharges and you can do all my admits - you don't even have to take them, just do all the charting and screening and handling of packets and brochures and signing of...

  8. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    Dogen replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    10, 2, and 50. In my hospital that's known as the Holy Trinity. Or a B52, if you only do 5 of Haldol. Though we have one doc (out of eight) that requires us to do q15min checks if we give Ativan and...

  9. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

    Dogen replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    I try not to do things like lay my hands on a patient, close my eyes, hum a little bit, and then yell, "You're healed!" I say "the q-word" all the time, mostly around one of my superstitious...

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

    Dogen replied to Ecstatic2014's topic in Male Nursing Students

    So someone did something similar: they looked at wages of college graduates one year after graduation, by field. They found women were still paid less than men, on average. They even accounted for...

  11. Medical Marijuana for nurses

    Dogen replied to JB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    My employer in Oregon recently sent out an email saying essentially this exactly: it's illegal under federal law, if you test positive we'll fire you. In a recent case in Colorado of a cable or...

  12. Overweight

    Dogen replied to MCNERRA's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Yeah, the problem is that a ton of the research on diets is the worst kind of science imaginable. You can find published, peer-reviewed articles that say virtually anything. High carb, low carb,...

  13. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    Dogen replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    For those nurses who don't do it well I recommend becoming a T1DM. At some point, around 22 years and ~38,000 insulin injections, they'll get really good at it. Trust

  14. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    Dogen replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto. Gnarly wounds with dressings I get to change. Drawing blood on an easy stick. Giving vaccines, because I get told "I didn't even feel it!" a lot Diabetic teaching Precepting students...

  15. When celebs stop by to say hi

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

    I have no idea what a Kristen wig is, but what I like about the children's hospitals in Portland and Seattle is that famous and semi-famous people come by so often it never makes news. That guy from...

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

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Awesome. I've used three charting systems, and they picked the one I like least. It's the most cumbersome and awkward of the ones I've used (Epic, Centricity). Should fit in with the

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

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Links to information about the federal Aviation Medical Assistance Act have been posted in this thread twice. Both mention that it applies to physicians, nurses, PAs, and EMTs. I'll link it again:...

  18. Side business ideas for nurses

    Dogen replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I could do

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

    Dogen replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Huh. Two of my friends have been on flights where they were asked to provide emergency medical care, and both times the only medical supplies were a first aid kit, an AED, a BP cuff, a stethoscope,...

  20. A Public Thank You

    Dogen replied to WellThatsOod's topic in General Nursing

    You know what they say about psych

  21. Nursing corps scholarship 2015-2016

    Dogen replied to Jm12345's topic in General Students

    I got an email from HRSA this morning and got really excited. It was offering a webinar on managing multiple chronic conditions. HRSA shouldn't be allowed to send out non-scholarship/loan repayment...

  22. A Public Thank You

    Dogen replied to WellThatsOod's topic in General Nursing

    Can I make pseudoscientific judgments about you based on your choice of candy? I'll pull out my Freud cigar and say, "Ahh, yeass, zis is verrry interestingk." Which is what it looks like when you type...

  23. Do you talk to your coworkers alot on your lunch break?

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

    At my current hospital I'm still feeling people out. I spend a lot of time figuring out who's worth my time. At my old hospital in WA, maaaaan... some of the best people of my life are there. I hang...

  24. Sexual Comment from Boss???

    Dogen replied to headtotoewounds's topic in General Nursing

    I liked this comment because I love the idea that when your job doesn't suck you do

  25. Stuck in Psych?

    Dogen replied to Dmayonurse121's topic in General Nursing

    I did it the opposite, I did medical before psych, and now I float to the med/surg floors whenever we're overstaffed/less understaffed. But I like your idea to work PRN as long as you can give the...