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  1. Non-English speaking patients

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in General Nursing

    Those are some great ideas, Pepper. I will get my index cards out and start making a "deck" my patients and I can use. We still have the problem trying to figure out if the patient has receptive...

  2. Non-English speaking patients

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in General Nursing

    Yes... We use the AT&T translator services. We try to find that one friend or relative who is bilingual, and we have a list of employees who are willing to come in and translate for us, whether...

  3. Will somebody PLEASE tell these doctors....

    1Tulip replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    21. PLEASE! Do NOT tell your patients they're going to be discharged and then not write the order... or write the order for ANOTHER doctor to clear the patient for discharge. Don't let the "D" word...

  4. If I could I'd run this hospital without nurses

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Dear Gitterbug. One of the nice things about living in Northern Nevada is that we are only a short drive from the capital. And the state is small enough that any group speaking with a unified voice...

  5. Nurse-Missionary?

    1Tulip replied to Nedix9's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not nor have I ever been a missionary. But I've met a lot of them and been a financial supporter. Obviously, experience is important. If you are in a primitive area, you're going to have to be...

  6. Should I leave nursing?

    1Tulip replied to HealthyRN's topic in Nursing Career

    Well... Sounds like a lot of your problems are the environment in which you're working. The nurses I work with are terrific, we're friendly with each other and try to watch each other's backs. We...

  7. Pharmacology help

    1Tulip replied to desmondmarie23's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hmmmm... I would think learning Pharmacology (you know... drugs and what they do) would be more important than how you round off the product of a series of multiplications. BUT... unless they've made...

  8. If I could I'd run this hospital without nurses

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Thanks gitterbug. The accusation I am making is very serious. If I can't verify that he said these things, I will assume it's a baseless rumor and will apologize all over myself. However, here in...

  9. RENOWN HEALTH makes a resounding thud

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Yeah... you're absolutely right. It's unseemly in its arrogance. But, even if it was mistaken for an old-style county hospital, is there anything essentially shameful or bad about that? I think...

  10. Pica

    1Tulip replied to KnarfKS's topic in Nursing Humor

    Many years ago when I was a nsg. student in the very deep south, there was a notorious place on the Mississippi River Bank at which an amazing number of people harvested clay to eat. A pt. came in...

  11. Pass-Fail Clinical Grades. Are educators lazy?

    1Tulip posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    A question has been raised on another thread about why clinical practica are usually pass-fail, though they often constitute a significant number of credit hours. That is to say, suppose a student...

  12. Nursing is my oyster...now where to live

    1Tulip replied to NO1_2NV's topic in General Nursing

    OK... here is the final word on THE perfect place to live. Think high desert. Low humidity. No bugs (Florida and Texas!!! you can saddle up and ride the cockroaches! I live at 4600 ft. above sea...

  13. My Pre-grad Clinical has deteriorated into Hell On Earth

    1Tulip replied to Gaelic's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    yeah, I think you're being too sensitive, but I'd be feeling the same way. You can't judge yourself (only) by what others say. When someone is dumping on you, ask yourself if they're giving you any...

  14. Need your advice before I quit nursing.

    1Tulip replied to RNcool's topic in Texas Nursing

    I didn't think I'd like neuroscience (had a mental picture of gorked out brain dead pts.) but it's nothing like I expected. Intellectually challenging with new stuff every day. The world is your...

  15. Rant: Loopy narcissistic patients

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in General Nursing

    I think you and Daytonite are right. I thought I almost had her out of there, just moments before sending her off, only seconds from getting her signature on her discharge papers... and then this...

  16. Rant: Loopy narcissistic patients

    1Tulip replied to 1Tulip's topic in General Nursing

    Dear NREMT-P/RN & Triage Excellent point about the nesting-at-the-nursing-station. I hadn't thought about the HIPAA ramifications and the issue hasn't ever been raised (in my memory) at any staff...

  17. Endorsement-Diversion-Do They Need to Know?

    1Tulip replied to CA_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm assuming that you agree with the California Board that you were in need of a period of supervision because of a problem related to drugs. I'm also going to assume you're going to be straight up...

  18. What would

    1Tulip replied to Jesskanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Let me sound a contrarian note here. First though, understand that I'm a nurse married to an MD. One daughter is graduating from med school this May, the other is an RN working in our ER. I'm only...

  19. How do you feel about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome?

    1Tulip replied to daisey_may's topic in General Nursing

    Vis. the WTC... There are a lot of chronic inflammatory lung diseases that are the result, often, of small particulates that can settle in alveolae and start a slow process that results in damage. We...

  20. How do you feel about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome?

    1Tulip replied to daisey_may's topic in General Nursing

    You're probably right. In the beginning, no one knew what was going on with AIDS, but they did have a condition that appeared to be following an infective trajectory. They also had circumstantial...

  21. How do you feel about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome?

    1Tulip replied to daisey_may's topic in General Nursing

    I think MCSS is a trash-can diagnosis and the "specialist" may not be doing your sister any favors. By that I mean, your sister may, in fact have something very real and very debilitating, but she...

  22. Morally What would you do?

    1Tulip replied to GeriatricSunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah... I'd be a bit circumspect about giving O2. If I were a nurse at that facility, I'd have given you my thanks for helping the pt. to the BR... and also apologized for being tardy. But I would...

  23. Question from a HS Junior.

    1Tulip replied to Tyrius's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Tyrius... Give a thought to the amount of debt you may incur during nursing school. Starting pay for nurses is not huge. Not bad. Just not huge. Keep your debt load low. I don't think prestige...

  24. Losing your license in Nevada?

    1Tulip replied to jayrelic's topic in Nevada Nursing

    Washoe is trying to get magnet status. I'm not sure how they are going to do this with pt. ratios like they have on GSU. Re: California's numeric ratios... I've heard that this had bitten nurses in...

  25. International Day of Solidarity with Denmark!!!

    1Tulip posted a topic in International Nursing

    These comments appeared on a blog run by the American Enterprise Institute. The whole thing is worth reading. In order to put some backbone in the press for the trials ahead, let's pick a day--I...