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I received this from my sister-in-law-thought it was too funny not to share. Enjoy! My Life With A Nurse, by Rick Williams Ah, such mysterious, wondrous creatures are nurses. What treasures lurk beneath those crisp, white uniforms....What young man...

When I heard this person paged at work, I thought it had to be a joke, then later discovered he is one of our peds residents... Shane Stokes Doubt he'll get many patients whose parents are in the medical profession!

Fake patients are always fun to give report on... Esp. the frequent flier who the night nurse hates....

Stay with OB if that's what you want to do!!! I worked OB for a couple of years with both male RN's and techs. The guys did a great job caring for the ladies and the ladies actually seemed to respond better to the male staff members. It's a little...

As the nurse manager of an Air Force peds clinic, I bought all my nurses a ticket to the steak sale the hospital was having to raise money for nurse/med tech appreciation week at the end of May ( so our hospital does things a little differently!) N...

Good topic to post- In the AF we've been triaging calls for acute appointments for several years. The goal is to encourage self care for patients with minor ailments that can be handled at home. This is a very labor intensive process with very litt...

Thanks for posting-this is one of my favorite e-mail humor stories!:roll

EllanRN- Glad to know someone else out there thinks some nurses look like slobs at professional meetings. It's bugged me for years-you can be comfortable, but nicely attired at the same time. You're right about hotel staff forming opinions about us...

I generally agree with all the other posters on this topic. ER I believe has been a definate plus for us-you see the nurses taking initiative, questioning doctor's orders and taking responsibility for their actions (Carol Hathaway we need you!!) One...

Received my ADN on my 20th birthday! Also the same day I could have my first legal drink!

While on this subject--- I'm tempted to put a sign up in my peds clinic informing parents to shut their phones off while in the clinic. One of our doctors had to go off in search of a parent who needed to leave and go outside during her child's visi...

Kind of hard to say-I've been a nurse for 18 years, in the Air Force for 15, so I plan to retire from the AF in 5 years. Not sure what I'm going to do after that-defininately NOT go back to floor nursing, and I'm not sure I want to be a nurse admini...

I'm currently an Air Force nurse with 15 years in. If you're interested-go for it. I joined with no intention of making it a career, just wanted to do something different...now I'm five years away from a retirement check! I have loved the life styl...

I've been tasked to do a presentation in a grad school class on major issues facing the nursing profession. In addition to the nursing shortage, what issues do you feel are the most significant? There is a lot of them out there, but I thought I'd g...

I've been an RN for almost 18 years and can honestly say I've never puked because of a patient-not to say I haven't come close. The two most memorable occasions I've had- While working as a tech while in nursing school, I was changing out an NG tube...

Thanks for your inputs-didn't think I'd get any comments re: NP's. I'm in the nurse admin track in my program. Have no desire to do the NP thing. I agree, I think the admission standards for NP programss aren't high enough. One MSN program I was i...

I don't know much about the Army end of the military, but as a 15 year Air Force nurse, I have to say, military nursing definately has many things to offer a nurse, esp. someone who is intent on having nursing as a CAREER versus a job. Some of the p...

Excellent poem-it captures the essence of nursing today (unfortunately) I have a presentation to do on issues facing the profession, and I think this poem will be a perfect intro to the presentation. It neatly summarizes all of the major issues we're...

I'm in the Air Force and realized that the only way I was going to get my Master's done was distance learning since I move every three years (actually, San Antonio is my next assignment!)Seems distance learning is gaining in popularity, but since I'm...

Sounds like an EXCELLENT idea. I've been in the health care field since I was 13 (Candy Striper, hospital housekeeping, student nurse tech, RN)and as much as I love the profession I don't like where it is going and what it is doing to it's devoted m...

It's funny how long this educational requirement debate to be a RN has been going on! And nurses wonder why the profession is in such a mess! But anyway-- I got my ADN, got a job, took boards then started work on my BSN all within four months. I r...

Hopefully I can help- I'm currently working on my MSN grad project on cultural diversity. US census 2000 website might get you the demographics you need. I don't have the exact web site handy, but type US census into a search engine and you'll probab...

From a 14.5 year Air Force nurse corps member, I have to say that military nursing is definately a good choice, esp. for the reasons you cite for not being excited about the civilian world. While I was in my BSN program, two Navy nurses said go Air ...