Dogen

Dogen

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  1. Your worst nightmare (Part deux)

    Dogen replied to canigraduate's topic in General Nursing

    I've had the patient I didn't know about nightmare, and when I was new I used to get the nightmare about mixing up meds - giving the guy with 3rd degree heart block the digoxin intended for his...

  2. Curious-why do people put ADN, RN? It's ASN...

    Dogen replied to RN_SummerSeas's topic in General Nursing

    A husky! Did you do your BSN there, or just the MN? Basically... did you have to wear the purple scrubs? And the

  3. Curious-why do people put ADN, RN? It's ASN...

    Dogen replied to RN_SummerSeas's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not even sure why anyone would put their degree in their signature, except for prestige. Maybe it's just me, but I don't care if you're an AAS, an ASN, an ADN, a BSN, or an MSN. I care that you're...

  4. Curious-why do people put ADN, RN? It's ASN...

    Dogen replied to RN_SummerSeas's topic in General Nursing

    Strangely, even this gets mixed up sometimes. The University of Washington offers both a BA and a BS in psychology. UW has a single college of arts and sciences, which houses something like 20...

  5. Curious-why do people put ADN, RN? It's ASN...

    Dogen replied to RN_SummerSeas's topic in General Nursing

    Because the naming conventions for degrees isn't terribly strict. Some schools award you an ASN (associate of science in nursing) degree, but not others. Some award AAS (associate of applied science),...

  6. I Want To Support My Pre-Nursing Student Girlfriend. Please Help!

    Dogen replied to Fredled's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm not a fan, either, to be honest. If there was a way to get someone else to clean all my patients that didn't make me feel like a tool I'd do it. Until then, I suck it up because I like most...

  7. Non nurses on AN

    Dogen replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    You don't know what bullying is, here let me start a thread about it. I'll quote the dictionary, but you should have used the search feature. If you had any experience as a nurse you'd know how wrong...

  8. Non nurses on AN

    Dogen replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about anyone else, but all of my disparaging remarks are about you, even if I say them to someone else. All of them. Hey, congrats! You passed nursing school. Don't forget to make a...

  9. I Want To Support My Pre-Nursing Student Girlfriend. Please Help!

    Dogen replied to Fredled's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Sometimes people say "I couldn't do what you do," when they mean, "I don't want to do what you do," and that's okay. I don't want to be a peds nurse, even though I'm capable. I just want to wrap kids...

  10. The Truth About Nursing

    Dogen replied to LorieStesk's topic in General Nursing

    Hey! I'm ... wait, that actually applies, except for the wife and kids part. I forget I'm not in my 20s anymore, and nursing is my second career. Maybe your description of my demographic should...

  11. Interview Question - Biggest Mistake

    Dogen replied to kathym1971's topic in General Nursing

    I was reading recently that whole "take a negative and turn it into a positive thing," makes people hate you. Apparently it was not a secret to hiring managers that everyone and their pet rock said,...

  12. I Want To Support My Pre-Nursing Student Girlfriend. Please Help!

    Dogen replied to Fredled's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If someone did that for me, I'd be their

  13. Nursing prerequsites

    Dogen replied to queenbombo's topic in General Nursing

    Hi. I'm from Oregon. The three schools in the Portland area that seem the most popular are: PCC associates, Linfield College BSN, and OHSU BSN. If you're planning to work in the Portland area you...

  14. I Want To Support My Pre-Nursing Student Girlfriend. Please Help!

    Dogen replied to Fredled's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't know. If I joined a forum - even if I were really, really nice, which I'm not - and the first thing I heard was how creepy everyone thought I was I'd probably tell them to go jump in a lake,...

  15. Potential Nursing student in the dark

    Dogen replied to Sweetcinna's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Okay, everyone gave you good advice. You have to have an associates (ADN or ASN) or a bachelors (BSN) before you sit for the NCLEX. If you were a nurse with an associates then you could go to an...

  16. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    Dogen replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    You only spike a patient one time... If you're

  17. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I have that effect on

  18. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    A younger me would have taken you up on this, but I feel like I made my point, and I think if you read eroc's last post you pretty much get the gist of it

  19. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    Dogen replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    In the first season of 24 a woman is smothered in her ICU bed while attached to the telemetry monitor. As she dies her heart rate increases, you hear the beeping increase, then it stops and you hear...

  20. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Judging by the PM I just got,

  21. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe. Before becoming a nurse I was a scientist. No. I used the dictionary. Anecdotal = "based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic...

  22. The Wisdom of Lurking

    Dogen replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I never say in three words what I could say in 300. That's pretty awesome. I'm impressed you were willing to go back and look. Well, that's just

  23. The Wisdom of Lurking

    Dogen replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Broadly speaking, out-group members are more keenly aware of their status than in-group members (unless you're in a really fancy group, like Beyonce's entourage or something). I'm generally slow to...

  24. The Wisdom of Lurking

    Dogen replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Of course, in the offline world, your friends can't join every single conversation you engage in, and when you're off talking by the water cooler no one else can hear you. You can have a disagreement...

  25. The Wisdom of Lurking

    Dogen replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    My experience with teenagers is limited to other people's kids, but I think it's more likely in-group versus out-group perspectives. The same behavior looks different depending on whether you're part...