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  1. What Patients do to make you mad!

    abooker replied to MichaelFloridaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel frustrated with a LOL (yes, I fully acknowledge and respect her personhood) who believes everything is better if the nurse does it. "I want the nurse to put me on the bedpan" "I want the nurse...

  2. Stethoscope issues

    abooker replied to Tristar's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Another good stethoscope thread is here:

  3. somebody help plss!!!

    abooker replied to spoon16's topic in General Nursing

    IMHO, International health is studying the health care in Zimbabwe or Belgium or Peru ... and Global health would be studying pandemics ... interconnective health issues. Just my 2 cents (or .029418...

  4. Stethoscope issues

    abooker replied to Tristar's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    My professor was an old cardio nurse, and she had me cut a few inches of tubing off the end of my $15 school bookstore scope. It made a huge difference. Mine was a double tube scope, and she said...

  5. Statistics Curriculum Concern

    abooker posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    My potential BSN program requires "nursing statistics" or students can take a statistics course offered by the sociology department. Is/was statistics a part of your curriculum? If so, is/was the...

  6. Nurses have the right to give and recieve information as a professional right?

    abooker replied to bluekermode's topic in General Nursing

    Some of us use computers to chart and pass meds, PDAs to keep ourselves organized, and the internet for networking. I never encountered unfiltered internet access during my clinical training. I don'...

  7. Nurses have the right to give and recieve information as a professional right?

    abooker replied to bluekermode's topic in General Nursing

    Sneaking into allnurses isn't abusing Internet access, it's networking! (That's my story and I'm sticking to it).

  8. Nurses have the right to give and recieve information as a professional right?

    abooker replied to bluekermode's topic in General Nursing

  9. Stripping an IV?

    abooker replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    I just found the term used re: central

  10. EEK! There's a woman in my room!

    abooker replied to 58flyer's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I think actually flicking or thumping someone there would fall under the category of "battery". If I threatened a patient I was bathing that I was going to whack them down there in a way...

  11. Stripping an IV?

    abooker replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    Back in '84 I worked at a plasma donation center, where everything was hung by gravity. I think stripping line is a little bit like stripping wire for an electronics project. If the donor's IV site...

  12. Disrespectful Nurse aids

    abooker replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    Nervous laughter ... aren't we drifting off topic here? I'm a former Patient Care Technician and not RN yet, but I'm trying. On the path to my RN I've encountered the following: An Elsevier online...

  13. Disrespectful Nurse aids

    abooker replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    I'm very fortunate with the aides I usually work with on my hall. There are problems sometimes when aides usually assigned to other halls float over to mine. I've heard a lot of attitude; "This...

  14. EEK! There's a woman in my room!

    abooker replied to 58flyer's topic in General Nursing

    The OP

  15. EEK! There's a woman in my room!

    abooker replied to 58flyer's topic in General Nursing

    Could this attitude about thumping or flicking be related to attitudes about circumcision? Here's what was being recommended by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, of corn flakes fame: Reference:...

  16. EEK! There's a woman in my room!

    abooker replied to 58flyer's topic in General Nursing

    Might I suggest the film about male restroom etiquette to those of us who do not frequent men's rooms? It is comedy, and perhaps inappropriate, but there is some truth in all humor and the first part...

  17. Graduating in Nursing from an all female college

    abooker replied to neenja's topic in Male Nursing Students

    In my LPN class of 60 students, there were very few men. The slim wrestler with big muslces got flirted with, and some disgruntled females said he received special treatment during clinicals from the...

  18. Statistics Curriculum Concern

    abooker replied to abooker's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I’m confused. If there is a significant difference between how stats is taught to nursing students and how stats is used by nursing researchers, then … isn’t that a problem? Maybe I’m...

  19. Statistics Curriculum Concern

    abooker replied to abooker's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I'm an "independent scholar" according to the NAS. Researchers are supposed to get in touch with their ontological and epistemological realities. Blargh. I hope stats hasn't turned into one of...

  20. Department heads yippeeee!

    abooker replied to BRWRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    A stressed-out nurse who is spread too thinly can't be good for patients/residents in any context, LTC or Hospital or anywhere, really. My own administrator toilets residents and answers call lights...

  21. Department heads yippeeee!

    abooker replied to BRWRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I work for a non-profit LTC. I hope our residents and their families don't feel abused or neglected. We lose about $30 per day on our Medicaid patients, but their care is as good as private payers,...

  22. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    abooker replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    I was the 3-11pm nurse for an LTC hospice patient with metastatic bone disease and maybe mets to the brain because she was usually only A&O x 1. I agreed with suespets and didn't give PRN...

  23. EEK! There's a MAN in my room!

    abooker posted a topic in General Nursing

    At my facility, some residents have tried to avoid care from employees who are African American as a matter of policy. Usually, they say, "I don't want a [unrepeatable] working with me!" When this...

  24. I had very poor LVN/LPN training. Anyone else?

    abooker replied to I love my cat!'s topic in General Nursing

    I had a *great* LPN program. The prof from my first clinical rotation in an LTC facility is one of the reasons I'm in LTC. Tough but fair, and cared deeply for the residents. We thought she was a...

  25. EEK! There's a MAN in my room!

    abooker replied to abooker's topic in General Nursing

    Discrimination = disparate treatment or disparate impact. I work in Long Term Care where, about once a month, I get to stand at the bedside and watch someone I've known for a year drown in her own...