ptadvocate81 replied to IWANT2BEEANRN's topic in General Nursing
I agree absolutely with what you are saying, and it is true that where I work the doctors go unpunished. As a matter of fact, we were discussing the other day that the doctors in the hospital I work...
ptadvocate81 replied to got2luvnights's topic in Pediatric
I am a nursing student, 24 years old and have never had the chicken pox. I have been exposed to them at various times in my life, but never got them. I was told upon entering RN school that I would...
ptadvocate81 replied to IWANT2BEEANRN's topic in General Nursing
I work in Surgical Intensive Care Unit as a tech while I am finishing up nursing school, so most of the nurse-doctor relations I see are surgeons, especially cardio-thoracic surgeons. I would have to...
ptadvocate81 replied to analiezel's topic in General Nursing
Z Coils are wonderful! They are about $150 new, ugly as everything, but they are great! About the IV lines getting yanked, they now have them where the springs are covered. Hope that
ptadvocate81 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing
All I have to say about that is that I am currently in an ADN program and it is serving and preparing me quite well at the moment. In my city there is a University as well as the community college...
ptadvocate81 replied to catkaminski's topic in General Nursing
Yes, a credit check. I thought it obsurd, but they said that it had to do with character and responsibility, which made sense to me at the time. If you can't manage your finances (thousands upon...
ptadvocate81 replied to catkaminski's topic in General Nursing
Hi catkaminski, I am in nursing school right now and I know that they are more strict than ever about background checks. I had to pay for a generic background check and credit check before I was...
ptadvocate81 replied to Judee Smudee's topic in General Nursing
We have weasels as well, but I have seen that if they are not humbled early on, it tends to bite them in the back side when they least expect it. You can only suck your way so far up the ladder before...