Dogen

Dogen

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  1. Words You Hate

    Dogen replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Heck yeah. Clue used to refer to a ball of yarn, as clew. Theseus followed a trail of yarn to make his way out of the labyrinth of Crete... see how that works? Naughty used to mean poor - as...

  2. Words You Hate

    Dogen replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    My gay friends will be so glad to know they've been identifying wrong all these

  3. Initial Drug Test

    Dogen replied to Damiapa's topic in General Nursing

    I believe this is what you call kicking someone when they're

  4. Examples of times you have been bullied in nursing profession

    Dogen replied to luvmyyorkie24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It surprises me that it took them so long. She never brought them to management, just the night shift nurses, who never said anything. We used double sided tape to stick the strips on the paper forms,...

  5. Examples of times you have been bullied in nursing profession

    Dogen replied to luvmyyorkie24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I was being trained on telemetry I said something - I forget what, but as I'm generally friendly and boring it was probably not much - that upset my preceptor. Instead of talking to me about it...

  6. Nurses smoking weed?

    Dogen replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    This has become a really interesting part of my NP clinical. Because it's legal to purchase here it's become fairly common among my patients (or they're more likely to disclose it now), and I've...

  7. Arg! Pre-employment personality tests

    Dogen replied to Elinor's topic in General Nursing

    These types of questions use what's called a Likert scale, and it's very common for people to avoid either extreme ("very happy," "strongly disagree," etc). There are a lot of reasons, but typically...

  8. questions about suicide

    Dogen replied to tothopic's topic in General Nursing

    There is no federal law that requires reporting of suicidal thoughts or intent, but you should check your state's mandatory reporting requirements. In Oregon it's not required. We've got a laundry...

  9. Don't go to co-workers' parties where drinking is occurring

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

    It seems like you went to a party, drank responsibly, wiggled a little on the dance floor, and didn't cause drama... that sounds like social success to me. I'd avoid the specific people who caused...

  10. Debating between doing Psych NP and FNP

    Dogen replied to danse87's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't heard that the field is flooded, but there are regional variations and your geographic area may be. Nationally, and in my area, there are a ton of opportunities for all kinds of mental...

  11. Baby Boomers, Gen X'ers, & GenY/Millennials: Can We Work Together?

    Dogen replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    And you can win points in an interview by showing them how to write emails and make emojis on their cellphones. On a tangential note, unrelated to the above... I think it's reasonable that significant...

  12. Baby Boomers, Gen X'ers, & GenY/Millennials: Can We Work Together?

    Dogen replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    This article is ostensibly about teamwork, but seems mostly like a laundry list of stereotypes, and virtually the whole paragraph about millennials is one big slam with a thin veneer of calling them...

  13. My husband doesn't want me on ALLNURSES

    Dogen replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    No one reads more than the first page. They should change the name of the forum to ADN, attention-deficit

  14. Lantus vs other insulins

    Dogen replied to riverotter's topic in Patient Medications

    Heroin and insulin do kind of sound the same. Maybe they thought you asked for 10 heroin syringes. Or did you swing by the pharmacy at the end of a shift that was a little too long? I've had shifts...

  15. Lantus vs other insulins

    Dogen replied to riverotter's topic in Patient Medications

    They need to be frugal or well-off uninsured people, though, as a vial of humulin R runs about $130-160. Which is pretty cheap compared to Novolog, which ran me $230 the last time I had to buy a...

  16. Do I aspirate too violently?

    Dogen replied to lorelei13's topic in General Nursing

    I had to dig to find it again, but during a previous conversation about this I saw this article, which found that among a small group of RNs (164) 74% aspirated when giving IM injections, but only 3%...

  17. Random: best lotion for dry nursing hands!

    Dogen replied to stacylethani's topic in General Nursing

    What's the purple tube of skin repair cream that they have at every hospital? That's all I use. It smells

  18. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Dogen replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe if you observed the way that I quote posts you would find your transition

  19. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Dogen replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Your own observations are anecdotal, not empirical. Or do you have actual empirical evidence? I'd be curious to see

  20. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Dogen replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    During my first degree people stressed over GPA, in part because if you get a psych degree you're going to need to go back to school, so it made sense to keep track of grades. During my nursing degree...

  21. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Dogen replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    It was never asked during my interview, because it's on my resume, but in almost every interview I've ever had they mention where I went to school. It's totally regional. It's likely that no one...

  22. My husband doesn't want me on ALLNURSES

    Dogen replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    The beautiful thing about this picture is that the monkey appears to be in a zoo-like environment, which means it has no control over anything, it's showing off for a woman who doesn't want to sleep...

  23. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Dogen replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Bah. There are two ways in which a person normally gets a 4.0 GPA - hard work or smarts. Tell me which one you'd like your nurse to have less of. Getting a 4.0 isn't a guarantee you'll be a good...

  24. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

    Dogen replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

    Is Sybil the "big girl" whose scooter Mackelmore is riding on the back of? (this is either going to get more or less funny the longer it goes on, I'm not sure

  25. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

    Dogen replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

    I did watch , but I can't spot the placenta.(this is kind of NSFW,