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    Thrown From the Tower!!

    smf0903 replied to pcaldea's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You gave 3-4 days notice that you were going to be late for coughing up a lung and another time for your car not starting? That makes no sense. I couldn't even read past the paragraphs about being 2...
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    Tips for Listening to Quiet Respirations?

    smf0903 replied to lizzayzay's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I second everything already said. One thing I will add, and as weird as it sounds, close your eyes while listening. I don't know if just removing visual stimuli helps me concentrate more or what, but...
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    Never Have I Ever Done That Before

    smf0903 replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in General Nursing

    You guys crap me up...I mean crack me up! I guess this was just one of those "opportunities" that never presented itself before this past week. I am happy to report that the enema was successful Now...
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    Never Have I Ever Done That Before

    smf0903 replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in General Nursing

    I fear the list of what I "have never" is probably about 7 1/2 miles long! I did, however, give an enema for the first time this week. How's that for
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    Tell me why you regret about becoming a Nurse

    smf0903 replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    What I regret about becoming a nurse--->I didn't do it sooner. I was 42 when I got my license. I flunked out of college at 19 and 20 years later was afforded the opportunity to go back to school. I...
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    help! advise needed! what would you do?

    smf0903 replied to texas_rn11's topic in Medical-Surgical

    No matter what the census, we are never allowed to have less than 2 RNs on the floor (for a shift, 1 can be on the floor if say you have to run to another area to grab a med not in your own Pyxis). I...
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    smf0903 replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Well...
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    Words You Hate

    smf0903 replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of years ago my 75 year old mother asked her 72 year old sister if she needed to "tinkle". I swear. My aunt about had a heart
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    I want a new word.

    smf0903 replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    How about chewy bat? Not soft but not yet
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    Words You Hate

    smf0903 replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    "Lochia" is the reason I did a double-take the first time I saw these bracelets online. Way too close
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    Words You Hate

    smf0903 replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my gosh this thread has me laughing! I'm going to have to remember "rectal intubation" just because... to to add to the list, we have about 4 people at work who pronounce hydralazine as...
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    ixchel's 3/7/16 What Have I Learned This Week, with A Lil' Help From My Friends!

    smf0903 replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    I so enjoy reading everyone's updates! I learned that... The weather is going to be nice enough to open up the windows in the house and air this sucker out. I am so looking forward to warmer days!...
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    smf0903 replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Rarely. I mean, sometimes right after payday I have a parabens in my wallet, but usually it's just a parageorge or paraalexander. I'm not against a parabens, I really like them actually. I cannot say...
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    2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    smf0903 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Farawyn, it truly felt like the first day walking onto the floor for me! As soon as I got to the floor I told the day shift nurse who had my patients (who is also a charge nurse) that I haven't had a...
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    2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    smf0903 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    This week I learned: I am scared to death of being sent to another floor. I work MS but we have no surgical patients on our floor, they are all on another floor. Well, guess who got sent there this...
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    2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    smf0903 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Oh.
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    2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    smf0903 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Stats made zero sense to me until I took genetics and we discussed population stats. That was when (2 semesters post-stats class) that it finally all made sense
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    Non-nursing nursing pins?

    smf0903 replied to Nurse326's topic in General Nursing

    We had quite a few people who got non-nursing pins for the ceremony. Congratulations!!! You're almost there!
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    Bedpan Changing Question

    smf0903 replied to rnk1712's topic in General Students

    If one of your patients only uses 1 wipe, can their wipe deficit be given to another patient? My oh my, the wipes police!!! Now that's a good
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    Giving a PRN Medication on Accident

    smf0903 replied to ichiro12's topic in General Nursing

    Trazadone was not the med that was suppose to be given, it's a med error. What's the difference if you have Trazadone instead of Tramadol (both PRN meds) versus say, Dilaudid instead of colace (both...
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    Scanning in the supply room

    smf0903 replied to elizabeast7's topic in General Nursing

    This is the system we have as
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    why thiazide diuretics for DI

    smf0903 replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    I was was trying to find a video that explained it better, but the one I found went way too in depth LOL. I wa having flashbacks to A&P and cellular pumps...I wasn't going to subject someone else...
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    why thiazide diuretics for DI

    smf0903 replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    Thiazides work at the distal convoluted tubule, whereas loop diuretics work at the loop of Henle. Different actions
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    why thiazide diuretics for DI

    smf0903 replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    Here's a journal article about thiazides for DI that may help :) JASN |
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    Acid-Base Balance question

    smf0903 replied to Samm06's topic in General Students

    At the very basic, if the pH is normal then there has been full compensation. If the pH is still abnormal but CO2 is high and HCO3 is high (or if both are low) then there is partial