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    Laundered vs Disposable Gowns

    RNsRWe replied to Jtkknj's topic in Gastroenterology

    How on earth can you figure being allowed to wear ANY gown "from room to room" and "from patient to patient" without an infection control nightmare on your hands? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it's...
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    Colon/EGD Recovery Time

    RNsRWe replied to Jtkknj's topic in Gastroenterology

    Strictly Propofol? Out the door in thirty minutes, VAST majority, thirty minutes. I can point to the exceptions here and there that needed 35 or 40. I can think of less than ten in the last year...
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    Patients who "cheat" and drive home

    RNsRWe replied to Lilme04's topic in Gastroenterology

    Ah, but everyone should be screened via colonoscopy after age 50, and earlier with a family history of GI issues. I think there's a scope in your future...
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    Patients who "cheat" and drive home

    RNsRWe replied to Lilme04's topic in Gastroenterology

    Our policies at my endoscopy center (ASC) make it a non-issue, really. The patient knows well in advance of the requirement for a driver home. They are reminded the day before. Upon arrival at our...
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    You're Hired!: The New World Of Hiring Nurses??

    RNsRWe replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I have no data, and it's not a certainty on my part. I've taken these tests myself in the past, they are not in the LEAST BIT new, as I took them decades ago. Not online, but with a pen and paper....
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    You're Hired!: The New World Of Hiring Nurses??

    RNsRWe replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    And interview over in 3....2.....1. You're outta there. Pointing out an interviewer's perceived shortcomings during the interview is a good way to end it fast and completely. If it really WERE...
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    Homecare Nurses

    RNsRWe replied to nursemartin00's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Seems like they want a MUSHROOM sitting there in the dark, not a live human being. Unreasonable,
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    What collar is nursing?

    RNsRWe replied to PRNketamine7's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, my, here we go again! We had a thread on this not long ago.....do a search and you'll see the huge list of posts, everyone weighing in on their reasons for choosing one or the
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    Considering leaving hospital after new grad internship

    RNsRWe replied to GypseyGirl's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Tough call. But really, what you're seeking is permission to quit once the internship is over, bottom line. What I mean is, you KNOW you don't want to work in the hospital, and have all sorts of...
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    Manager With No Prior Experience? What?

    RNsRWe replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Nurse Management

    I wonder if her promotion was more of a "it's not what you know, it's who you know" kind of thing...? And if that's the case, it depends how far up the "who she knows" chain it goes as to whether you...
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    I am very worried. I am feeling very sick please help

    RNsRWe replied to NursingBro's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm not sure that your schooling "expires" at all. You need to get off Allnurses and call your State Board of Nursing to find the answer to the question "What's the maximum amount of time that is...
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    Ooops, I told off a doctor

    RNsRWe replied to catladynurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Two thoughts: 1 -- If this is your idea of "telling off a doc", lol, you're pretty mild-mannered! I opened this thinking you'd been yelling or freaking out or something. 2-- A note for the future:...
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    Asking back for job...

    RNsRWe replied to sfbayrnski's topic in General Nursing

    You say that you were fired from this position because the manager was on a "witch hunt"....and the manager is still there. Which means you won't be hired by her now, or likely ever. She fired you...
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    NCLEX August 25th 2012

    RNsRWe replied to nursebride2012's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    No worries, no harm done, nothing to forgive. It's just that I've spent several years here, dispelling alot of NCLEX myths (my, nothing like a life-changing exam to get the crazy stories going!) and...
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    NCLEX August 25th 2012

    RNsRWe replied to nursebride2012's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm really happy for the OP, it's great she passed....but I wanted to catch you on this before you make someone feel REALLY cruddy: I absolutely, 100% assure you that I have seen, heard of, and known...
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    Should I go back to nursing or stick with accounting?

    RNsRWe replied to angelicasongs's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Ok, I'll be the one to offer the reality check. I don't do this to be mean, or non-supportive, but rather to save you some heartache and money. Grades have to be stellar nowadays to get into nursing...
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    Am I wasting my time going for my ADN?

    RNsRWe replied to ashleylynne's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Steph: you owe me a beer!
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    One week left on the alternates list :(

    RNsRWe replied to Success88's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    So....did you get
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    Am I wasting my time going for my ADN?

    RNsRWe replied to ashleylynne's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    That would be news to the new grads in Houston, Dallas, Austin, etc who cannot find work. Starving? Perhaps in more rural, less-desirable parts of the State? But it appears not the case in the...
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    Nursing pre-req issues.

    RNsRWe replied to Agreen911's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I was with you on pretty much everything except for this part. Simply not true, as many who have gone to both CC and university will tell you. I don't know about "nasty" in weeding people out, but I...
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    IVPB antibiotics and saline locks....

    RNsRWe replied to PinkNBlue's topic in Patient Medications

    Clearly the answer is in your own facility's P&P manual. Last hospital I worked, which I left a year ago, had the policy that all primary tubing was good for three days, all secondary, two days...
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    Visitor silencing neighboring alarms

    RNsRWe replied to PediLove2147's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If the pump was locked, the visitor wouldn't have been able to do anything to it...including silence it. At least, those are the pump locks I'm familiar with: NOTHING works on the front; hitting the...
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    Pt's/visitors reading Fifty Shades of Grey???

    RNsRWe replied to neverbethesame's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    .....and now I've just figured out the OP is a nursing student. Needs more time focusing on HIS/HER books, not the patients' or visitors'....when I was a student, I swear I can't remember if any of...
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    Pt's/visitors reading Fifty Shades of Grey???

    RNsRWe replied to neverbethesame's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    And, apparently, it's important to make sure the staff during a patient's hospital stay, or the staff while someone is a RESIDENT in LTC need to be shielded from the fact that this is a free country...
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    Pt's/visitors reading Fifty Shades of Grey???

    RNsRWe replied to neverbethesame's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    And I say that if someone actually charts that it's "inappropriate behavior" for a resident to be reading a steamy novel, that nurse needs to REALLY get a life. Would it take the resident reading...