TU RN DNP, CRNA

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    Do you enjoy being a nurse?

    TU RN replied to LPNalltheway's topic in General Nursing

    Yes stress is a sure way to remove enjoyment from your work. Others have addressed this on this site before, but nursing doesn't have to be a calling like so many seem to insist. You aren't being a...
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    NICU unit secretary at nights?

    TU RN replied to mee9mee9's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Many secretaries have ancillary duties delegated to them from their managers, so the roles vary widely. Our clerks will put admitted patients charts together, restock some of the gloves and isolation...
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    Med Error.

    TU RN replied to choksantos's topic in Patient Medications

    Is this even a med error? I could understand if you gave the person an insanely high amount of heparin and they bled, but too little and they have to be on the drip longer before they can transition...
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    Do you ever get sick?

    TU RN replied to akey77's topic in General Nursing

    It really depends on what grosses you out and your developed "toughness" towards that stuff. I would say the overwhelming majority of nurses I have known who have "grossness niches" find oral...
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    Am I the only one who hates 12 hour shifts?

    TU RN replied to jdubs99's topic in General Nursing

    As someone who will refuse to work anything but an 8 hour shift I find your commentary about the work ethic of night shifters, who are more often than day shifters to endure higher ratios and shorter...
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    New Nurse Needs Help!!!

    TU RN replied to clucito's topic in First Year After Licensure

    http://www.skillstat.com/tools/ecg-simulator
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    Someone's got to love their job.. help

    TU RN replied to nichefinder's topic in General Nursing

    Imagine somebody wants to leave their first position, after a year, for another position more suited to their professional interests. Does that timer start at the date of hire, or the first day after...
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    I feel like everybody hates being a nurse!!!

    TU RN replied to hershdawg's topic in General Nursing

    What difference does it make whether we're actually miserable being nurses or not? No college student I've spoken with since starting my RN job has taken seriously a single one of my testimonies about...
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    IV piggyback question

    TU RN replied to dorkomatic's topic in General Nursing

    Neither. Depending on where you work and how your facility stands on back-priming secondary tubing, you can use the same secondary tubing for two separate incompatible medications as long as your...
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    To RNs: Would you encourage students to get into nursing from a practical standpoint?

    TU RN replied to Nickoxp's topic in Men in Nursing

    In the immortal and unfaltering words of Gandalf the Grey: "Fly, you
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    Who looks out for them?!

    TU RN replied to tlklvn13's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah people here are tripping over the semantics of "unskilled" as "not necessitating a degree or board certification" (which I take to be the initial intended meaning) versus "unskilled" as "not...
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    The Value of AN

    TU RN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Yes AN is a wonderful source to get some preliminary information, but it's an open online forum. The information on here is limited to the same accuracy as Wikipedia in that anybody can contribute...
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    Racial Refusals In Nursing

    TU RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A patient once refused to let me take care of her because of how my deodorant smelled. As a member of the Old Spice community I was deeply
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    Becoming discouraged about becoming a nurse?

    TU RN replied to RainbowHead's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hey Self, how'd you get over there in front of TheCommuter's
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    Help!..I need some nursing advice

    TU RN replied to coffeebean13's topic in Nursing Career

    Spend more time in the hospital shadowing nurses and experiencing what they do. If that goes well maybe try working in a hospital for a bit. Also keep in mind that, although you were there for a 15...
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    Nurses who believe in herbal nonsense, alternative medicine, anti vaccine etc

    TU RN replied to mhy12784's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Herbals have been proven by plenty of different independent trials to be beneficial, but since so many of them conflict with more mainstream, fully-FDA-endorsed treatment modalities, they're usually...
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    How do you work with a "know it all"?

    TU RN replied to MsLindaW's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You just said you're new to healthcare, so I ask: Is the person inaccurate or are you? If the person really was always wrong and inaccurate, how are they still in practice after all this time? I've...
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    Obesity, diarrhea and skin care

    TU RN replied to DawnJ's topic in General Nursing

    My thought exactly when my hospital switched to this new brand of rectal tube called "Dignicare." There is 0 dignity involved with either incontinence or having a tube inserted in your... ahem. Maybe...
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    Interventions without MD orders

    TU RN replied to Novo's topic in General Nursing

    You can't do anything without an order and even some of those you shouldn't follow. Your job as a nurse is to take the order, consider why it's in place, and implement it in an effective, safe, timely...
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    Persuing a non-nursing degree?

    TU RN replied to mashelle13's topic in Nursing Career

    I guess it depends on your career goals. If you want to be a nurse, why study journalism/communications? Makes sense if you're trying to get out of nursing. It shouldn't be that hard to take classes...
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    Nursing and waitressing/food service industry

    TU RN replied to nursefrances's topic in General Nursing

    No offense to waiters/waitresses and bartenders, but I feel like this comparison is belittling to nursing as a profession. Many in my nursing class were waitresses or bartenders, and two of my...
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    is nursing really worth the debt

    TU RN replied to starnurse2b16's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't get why nursing schools demand such high GPAs. I've run into many nurses who don't seem particularly bright or professional for me to believe that high GPA makes a good nurse. I legitimately...
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    Funny chart entry

    TU RN replied to nurse lala's topic in Nursing Humor

    I like some people's nursing notes that start off "received patient in bed..." Oh
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    Bizarre/funny things patients do

    TU RN replied to AOx1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Disrobing. It seems like every AMS patient is obsessed with disrobing. What psychological process or bizarre cognition could possibly possess an adult's will to necessitate removing their
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    Show Me the Money

    TU RN replied to KeepItRealRN's topic in General Nursing

    "Drive thy business, let not that drive