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  1. Emergent

    Having such a hard time moving forward

    Emergent replied to HeartRN13's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It sounds like it could be a hostile workplace. Keep your eyes on the job boards, it sounds as if you might be pigeonholed where you are now working. Meanwhile, hold yourself together. Be strong....
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    Can a patient be forced to diet?

    Emergent replied to mothersmart's topic in Home Health

    Just because someone has physical incapacitates shouldn't mean that we have the right to control their lives. I feel strongly that people should be in charge of their own lives. It's bad enough to be...
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    Do you think nursing programs can benefit from more rigorous prerequisites?

    Emergent replied to richardgecko's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hello, drug calculations are actually pre-algebra sort of stuff. I use the cross multiply trick, it works like a charm. That is the only math I've ever used in my 20+ years of nursing. Nurses don't...
  4. Emergent

    Should male nurses put the toilet seat down?

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You all have seen the Girls don't poop advert,
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Emergent replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The ANA is a well funded union and lobby organization that seems to favor big government solutions for perceived problems. I wish they would focus on better working conditions for nurses, period....
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    Fake call outs irritate me

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I suppose I feel that, if I call in sick, I actually enable my employer to save money on staffing. I get the feeling that they don't really mind the rest of us being left in a lurch. They can then...
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    Fake call outs irritate me

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, maybe I'm just hung up based on my upbringing. My mother was a teacher and didn't call in sick unless she was really sick. I guess that value was drummed into me while growing up. So, you all...
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    Should I quit my job, sell my house and sail to Hawaii?

    Emergent posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, just kidding. Wondering why people ask total strangers on the internet for advise regarding major life changes. I don't want to name names, but a lot of people come to this site and ask questions...
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    Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    Emergent posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I just want to say, if I see anyone not using spell check around here, with a misspelling that I can identify at a glance, I'll be taking you to task. Your name is mud around these parts. Nurses with...
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    Pt having a "friend" over for "special nursing care"

    Emergent replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A tactic some ideologies tend to take is to first claim to be open minded and tolerant. Then, when others express differing perspectives, accuse them of hateful intolerance, and trying to force their...
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    Pt having a "friend" over for "special nursing care"

    Emergent replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    FYI, Stone Age humans all did the wild thing any old place. In a civilized society, there is such a notion as etiquette. Certain bodily functions are considered private, out of consideration of the...
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    Pt having a "friend" over for "special nursing care"

    Emergent replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You know what? I may be old fashioned, but I think it is another sign that visiting policies, and society, have become way too lax. In a word, it's disrespectful and, actually, ridiculous. And people...
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    Dealing with a dying family member during nursing school

    Emergent replied to motay68's topic in General Students

    My mother suffered a brain aneurysm rupture during my first semester of nursing school. She lingered on for 4 months and died in my second semester. It was very stressful, and unfortunately, I didn't...
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    Nurse marries patient?

    Emergent replied to Piglet08's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My feeling is, I hope they waited a reasonable period of time before dating. But, really, it's a technicality. I doubt if she used her position as a nurse to take advantage of the patient. In this...
  15. Emergent

    bullying

    Emergent replied to danlee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    May I refer you to this thread?
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    Soma or Enclosure Beds... Cruel or not?

    Emergent replied to Paws2people's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Life is cruel, dementia is cruel, budgetary considerations are cruel. In a perfect world I would be able to fly, we would all live in perfect harmony, and no one would ever suffer. Plus there would be...
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    Pearson Vue: Bullies?

    Emergent replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Back in my day, we took our boards in a big room with proctors and rows and rows of wooden desks in a huge room. The tests took two days, if I recall. I had to go into the big city and stay with my...
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    The loss of PCPs from hospital setting

    Emergent posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A retired family doctor was selling her produce and pottery at the farmer's market today. She had privileges at the hospital where I worked. We got to talking about the changes in healthcare. One big...
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    Pearson Vue: Bullies?

    Emergent replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    What are these things you talk of? What is Pearson Vue and PVT? Does this have something to do with all this talk of a pop up? Does this have something to do with
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    Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That would be me. (remember class, to use me, the objective case of the personal pronoun, in this
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    Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    'Whom' is the objective case, 'who' is the subjective case. In other words, one uses 'whom' with it's the object in the sentence, and 'who' when it's the subject of the sentence. Examples: Who is...
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    Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm headed over to nurses in recovery to do some investigations into the
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    Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    u r 2 uptite wats rong w/
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    More Examples of posting on Facebook and getting fired

    Emergent replied to RNIBCLC's topic in General Nursing

    This brings up the point, once again. Yes, what this woman said is intemperate, low class, loathsome, and considering her wording ('mow down and purge them')and the situation, racist. Many here say,...
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    I never, ever went to ER when I was a kid

    Emergent posted a topic in Emergency

    We were sitting around talking last night at work. Another barely sick kid was in room 4 and it got us on the subject. I have a lot of kids and, in my many years of parenting only used the ER once,...