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    "glorified birth junkies"

    gr8rnpjt replied to OB_or_NICU_hopeful's topic in Ob/Gyn

    SmilingBlueEyes, I would have been honored to have you there for the births of my 4 children. I wanted to respond to your recent thread about your heartbreaking anniversary. I was unable to respond,...
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    Haunted by incidents at work/Part II UPDATE

    gr8rnpjt replied to IloveSnoopy's topic in General Nursing

    What's up with that? We come here for a safe place to vent, and vent we all do. The support that Snoop received is what we all do for each other every day. This is not an easy job and we all need a...
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    Funnies/scariest thing to ever happen to you in the ED??

    gr8rnpjt replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

    I had a patient with a foley and IVF running, he was several hours postop. Had confusion and disorientation after general anesthesia. He was asleep on first rounds when I came on 11-7. About an hour...
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    Family member RN asked for resignation yesterday

    gr8rnpjt replied to GooeyRN's topic in General Nursing

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    Med Errors

    gr8rnpjt replied to UM Review RN's topic in Patient Medications

    A male nurse I worked with gave IV dilantin in the wrong dosage, then went to lunch. When he came back the patient was dead. This guy had the nerve to give an inservice a couple months later about...
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    Increase in I&D's in the South?

    gr8rnpjt replied to LeahJet's topic in Emergency

    A couple of local high schools in our area have had outbreaks of MRSA skin infections among the sports teams. It became a big problem last year and they stepped up the locker room cleaning and...
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    Aaaaaagggghh!

    gr8rnpjt replied to TazziRN's topic in Emergency

    Know how we have new drug resistant bacteria that are immune to regular antibiotics (think MRSA), well there are now "superbugs", lice that are immune to the drug store treatments! I went through this...
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    Anyone ever pass out at work....I just did :'(

    gr8rnpjt replied to IloveSnoopy's topic in General Nursing

    Ovarian cysts can be very nasty!! The same thing happened to me with my first ruptured ovarian cyst. I was working in an office, and I had to be loaded into a gurney and wheeled past all the other...
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    LOCAL for C/S?????

    gr8rnpjt replied to RaeT,RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    She is wonderful. I got to see her over the holidays, my daughter and son in law live in San Diego, he is a Marine and will be deployed in February. I am flying out in May with my little guy, and the...
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    Nurses with learning disabilities?

    gr8rnpjt replied to NYNursingHopeful's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    NYNursingHopeful, Hi. congratulations on your carreer choice and welcome. I had ADD when I was going through school. When I entered nursing school I initially had a lot of problems with study habits...
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    CNA's in control

    gr8rnpjt replied to FlorentineBird's topic in General Nursing

    This is an excellent example of using those communication skills that we all learned in nursing school. Great Job
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    LOCAL for C/S?????

    gr8rnpjt replied to RaeT,RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I suspect the local option would be more acceptable than what was done to my daughter. After 1 cytotec on a thursday morning, they ended up sectioning her on friday. She had not progressed, after the...
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    CNA's in control

    gr8rnpjt replied to FlorentineBird's topic in General Nursing

    Here is the problem. CNA's are needed for the manual labor that is required to keep a LTC functioning. Administration cannot hire enough nurses to do the job, so they rely on the cheap, manual labor...
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    Should Stress Level Determine If You Should Go Into Nursing?

    gr8rnpjt replied to Gumshooz's topic in Nursing Career

    Gumshooz, Nursing is no doubt a very stressful career. It is also very rewarding, and thankfully, there are lots of positions open. Some jobs are less stress than others, but even an office type...
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    Does it ever concern you that we could be making more doing bartending?

    gr8rnpjt replied to blynn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    What an awesome response. Nothing else needs to be
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    vomiting blood and alcohol

    gr8rnpjt replied to krisssy's topic in Emergency

    Blood tests for liver
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    vomiting blood and alcohol

    gr8rnpjt replied to krisssy's topic in Emergency

    I would make sure they check LFT's and do hepatitis
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    Nurses are overpaid!

    gr8rnpjt replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    i have a lipincott from early 1900's from my great aunt who was a nurse. she used to work at the facility where albert einstein worked and they said hi to each other every day. i love looking at the...
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    placentral abruption

    gr8rnpjt replied to tiamai's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :yelclap:
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    CRNA being black-balled by former employer

    gr8rnpjt replied to crnadg's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Can I ask, what were the concerns you went to the CEO about the day after you gave your 60 day notice? It sounds to me that whatever you said pi$$ed him off and he went after you and he fired you....
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    Foul Speaking Nurse..............

    gr8rnpjt replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    This is an excellent suggestion. Very good points that everyone who reads can benefit
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    Assignment Nightmare

    gr8rnpjt replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Travel

    It sounds like a nightmare! Can't you go over the secretary's head? IT sounds unsafe and I would say that if there is even one violation of the contract then the contract is null and void. Try to go...
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    EEEEEK! Please Help Me! Losing New Job????

    gr8rnpjt replied to rnmom3153's topic in General Nursing

    rnmom3153, You are not alone. there are many nurses working out there with chronic pain who would not be able to do their job were it not for their meds. I have had fibromyalgia since I was 17 (31...
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    Nursing students fear of the gross stuff.

    gr8rnpjt replied to amy3072's topic in General Nursing

    I went to nursing school with a girl who fainted the first time she saw a lab tech draw blood on a patient. She stuck with it and at the end of nursing school, the only thing she could not tolerate...
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    Younger Nurses: Do you find people dont take you seriously? (semi-rant)

    gr8rnpjt replied to TexasPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    SmilingBluEyes, to me you look and talk like Marilyn Monroe, because when I joined allnurses you had the picture of Marilyn in your profile. You always say the right thing and you are a smart and very...