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  1. Please share with me your experiences with this....

    *LA* posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Ok, well, here goes. m new here. I actually found this site when I was looking for "white nurses clogs". I googled that phrase and a journal from this site came up. ( Im going back to work soon, after...

  2. Hi, Im LA and Im going back to work (aka meet me, the big chicken)

    *LA* posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hi Everybody. Im LA. Im an RN (since 1990) and Ive been home for about 4 years. (parents were sick, stayed hom to care for them, they died and, Ive been hme since) ANyway, I am going back to work...

  3. Please share with me your experiences with this....

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I totally agree hey, thanks for sharing

  4. Please share with me your experiences with this....

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I totally agree hey, thanks for sharing

  5. Please share with me your experiences with this....

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    thats EXACTLY how it went ! the talking, then the pauses.... I really hadnt heard of this before (but they dont talk about this stuff in the OR) Im glad to know that there are others it was just, and...

  6. Please share with me your experiences with this....

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I didnt realize that others had had this happen also. it was strange though, she just seemed more lucid than she had been ina week. it was just a very bizarre epxerience. ps thanks for replying,...

  7. Think I might have found something...but i need opinions!!

    *LA* replied to caseyrb's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I graduated from a diploma program in 1990 and the amount of clinical experience was invaluable. you can always go back and get your BSN after you graduate (which is what many of my friends have...

  8. Hi, Im LA and Im going back to work (aka meet me, the big chicken)

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Operating Room

    thank you thank you thank you soo much Ive been visiting ( my urologist is in the same buildling so I would visit the OR, when I'd go to see him) I applied and they said they be happy to have me...

  9. You know it is going to be a bad day in the ER when...

    *LA* replied to Antikigirl's topic in Nursing Humor

    I dont have anything to add but this stuff is FUNNY ! now anyway

  10. funny charting errors

    *LA* replied to hello_nurse_mel's topic in Nursing Humor

    I saw this once on a chart under "social history" for a new admission "patient lives with wife but works part time in a whorehouse" (the resident was learning English. he meant

  11. Hi, Im LA and Im going back to work (aka meet me, the big chicken)

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Operating Room

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ tap tap tap Is this mic on ? anyone out there ??? tap tap

  12. Death stories?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Again, Im sorry of this doesnt fit. I am an RN but I work in the OR and Ive rarely seen death there. This is another personal experience but it relates to how the nurse dealt with "us", my father had...

  13. Death stories?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** this probably doesnt fit here, since its a personal experience, but I left it here anyway*** ( I can probably...

  14. Death stories?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Im so sorry that I didnt see this thread. I just now wrote something that I think would fit. I'll see if I can cut/paste it and put it in here in this

  15. Please share with me your experiences with this....

    *LA* replied to *LA*'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    sorry about all the typo's. I excel at them

  16. Any advice on caring for dying and family?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you very very much Leslie. I appreciate it and Im very sorry about your mom. I think that it almost seems harder when youre the "nurse" of the family. I dont know, people just seem to expect...

  17. Any advice on caring for dying and family?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    that was a good post Leslie. Im sure that youve helped a lot of

  18. I'm starting to panic

    *LA* replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Operating Room

    HI ! you should go and read my post ( Im new, meet me, aka the chicken) In fact, I saw youre post and though, "gee, that would make a great title for MY post" ......lol Anyway, Im an OR RN and Im...

  19. Looking for new Shoes...

    *LA* replied to ShirleyM's topic in Operating Room

    Hi, Im new. LA here. ANyway, I really like the Dansko brand but theyre very exoensive so Ive been looking at them on EBAY. They have them brand new in the box and theyre usually usually about a third...

  20. Any advice on caring for dying and family?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you. My mother was at home, and had had one visit from the hospice nurse , before she died. My father had been at home prior to his hospital admission and died unexpectedly, after one week in...

  21. Not too old for OR but out of nursing too long?

    *LA* replied to rnbackagain's topic in Operating Room

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I wouldn't let a nurse recruiter determine your future. You know who you really are inside not her. Job shadowing is a...

  22. opinions about surgical tech to surgical RN route?

    *LA* replied to kats's topic in Operating Room

    Hi there. well, Ive done both.( OR tech and now and OR RN) I started out as an OR tech and then went to nursing school and became an RN. I guess that becoming an OR tech is one way to get into the...

  23. Any advice on caring for dying and family?

    *LA* replied to Teachchildren123's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hi there. Im an RN and this is my very first post. I found this site by accident, I was looking for white clogs and this place came up on google? Im about to return to work after having been "at home...