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    Outift for an interview??

    carolinapooh replied to Axm611291's topic in Men in Nursing

    "A lot more freedom and fewer rules"? Are you mad, good sir? :) Don't wear a skirt because you won't look comfortable....wear a skirt because, well, you're a girl....slacks make too bold a...
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    New handoff report- scared!

    carolinapooh replied to lilaclover6984's topic in General Nursing

    That's why we do it. But on a huge unit it might not be feasible. I can't imagine this on my civilian 32 bed unit. Report would take, well,
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    Is a slow code ethical?

    carolinapooh replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

    As a civilian RN I had this situation. I was even approached as soon as the resident cross-cover came on the floor. And I had absolutely no problems with agreeing (she even said, "you have X, right -...
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    Is a slow code ethical?

    carolinapooh replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

    ^This. I have no problems with letting morals kick in here. Ethically I think it's probably a gray area, but morally? Either way, I agree with you.
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    New Grad BSN RN...offered position into LTC post hospital unit as charge nurse

    carolinapooh replied to CallMeNurseNek's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wanted to add that this may very well be the case - I'm just speculating based on 'post-hospital
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    New Grad BSN RN...offered position into LTC post hospital unit as charge nurse

    carolinapooh replied to CallMeNurseNek's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Some folks can handle this sort of responsibility right off the bat. Some can't. Think about what's required of a charge RN, and determine if you're up to that challenge. This is a post-hospital care...
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    Thank You Notes to Patients?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You have access to my email and PMs. Feel free. And you indeed opened up this thread to get our opinions - or, at least, that's what you initially said. It's not our fault if our opinions are...
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    Thank You Notes to Patients?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our experience tells us this isn't imaginary. It's real. It happens. I've witnessed it, many many times. Pt X talks to Pt Y and opens a massive can of worms. It's not fiction or myth. It's what...
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    Full length modest scrub skirts

    carolinapooh replied to WannaBNursey's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Also - I wanted to add if you have a Pintrest account, I found some GREAT pins for beginning sewers (it's a hobby I pick up and then put down again), including some for simple
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    What are your white board goals?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient Education

    ^This. All of it. And you're welcome! (Psst, you can always find a health care
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    Did your school allow "thank yous" during your pinning?

    carolinapooh replied to Carson13's topic in General Students

    No, but I think that's a cool
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    Thank You Notes to Patients?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It has nothing to do with us liking or not liking you and that's not the point. And I think plenty of people find sincerity in the smallest gesture for the very reasons you yourself have mentioned:...
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    Thank You Notes to Patients?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Because hospital administration isn't known for its overwhelming abundance of common sense? Just saying. :) I happen to agree with you but couldn't resist the
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    Thank You Notes to Patients?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree it's a lost art, but this isn't the forum to revive it in. We all sent a patient a thank you note once when they bought lunch for the whole unit. A nice lunch - catered and everything. Fancy...
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    What are your white board goals?

    carolinapooh replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient Education

    OMG I thought white boards were a fad only at my hospital/facility. (Sometimes when you're in the military system, you feel isolated from the rest of the world. That's sort of why I came back onto...
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    Alternative Therapies with Western medical model

    carolinapooh replied to boywork's topic in Patient Education

    Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, grates me like therapeutic touch or the treatment it gets in, of all places, nursing diagnoses. OMG - when I read about that and how it 'can't be performed unless you're a...
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    Alternative Therapies with Western medical model

    carolinapooh replied to boywork's topic in Patient Education

    Non evidence-based tx's are paid for all the time by the taxpayers. Sometimes they're called 'off label' uses, which in many cases are not necessarily 'evidence based' per se but are more...
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    Childhood Obesity

    carolinapooh replied to ParkerRN's topic in Patient Education

    I agree with most of your statement except this: Good for you food is the most expensive. This is a common perception, but it's incorrect - and usually the ones who cite the cost as the root of the...
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    Question on swallowing precautions

    carolinapooh replied to Glycerine82's topic in Patient Education

    Not only are they still evaluating the best approach for treatment, but they are also evaluating the possibility (and I'm no rehab RN, just oncology - but we see everything - and I work at a military...
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    ADN vs. BSN

    carolinapooh replied to amgoldsmith's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Oh, man, this has been debated and will continue to be debated for time eternal. I bet if you search the forums for NY/NJ ADN you'll start finding
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    ADN's being pushed out

    carolinapooh replied to MSN Student's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    NOW I see what you meant by 'surgeon without a BS'. Okay. But he's still not a surgeon per se (and I'm splitting hairs and I know it - I'm doing it to make a point). He can't legally go around calling...
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    ADN's being pushed out

    carolinapooh replied to MSN Student's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I think the reason there's not so much infighting is (a) compared to the number of ADN programs, the number of AAS/AS programs for PAs is almost nonexistent, and (b) I don't think there are as many...
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    Full length modest scrub skirts

    carolinapooh replied to WannaBNursey's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    If it's related to your religious doctrine, they have to come up with some pretty compelling reasons to not let you wear a skirt (one I can think of that companies have won on in the past is if it...
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    New handoff report- scared!

    carolinapooh replied to lilaclover6984's topic in General Nursing

    Now since we are a relatively small unit we do actually give 'mass report' with all the nursing staff together, which in our situation I prefer - but we are a ten bed BMT unit, so it's a bit...
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    New handoff report- scared!

    carolinapooh replied to lilaclover6984's topic in General Nursing

    They tried this on my unit. It lasted a