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datalore

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  1. January 2017 Caption Contest Top 8 - Select $100 Winner

    datalore replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    This is why I work night

  2. January 2017 Caption Contest Top 8 - Select $100 Winner

    datalore replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    This is nice... too nice... oh.... My alarm clock is going off for work in 2 minutes, isn't

  3. What made you want to be a nurse?

    datalore replied to MollyM99's topic in General Nursing

    Overwhelming fascination with medicine and health care since early childhood... and a strong aversion to the bureaucratic bullcrap physicians deal with in their roles. Briefly considered being a PA,...

  4. confessions of a RRT

    datalore replied to yahoomagoo's topic in General Nursing

    The only RRTs I don't get along with have attitudes just like this. I call our hospital's RRTs so I can learn from their expertise, and there's mutual trust between our interlinked professions. The...

  5. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    datalore replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    When I pause from eating my young preceptees, I will make sure to really dive in and bully them over the grammar in their patient care notes. Ha! In seriousness, I feel like proper grammar is a dying...

  6. Eating Their Young

    datalore replied to futurelnd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Stop it you guys. Come on. You're making me HUNGRY.

  7. Nurse Residency Program

    datalore replied to k.green17's topic in General Nursing

    The residency program at my hospital is tied to specific jobs in the ICU, CVICU and ED. It includes courses and preceptorships as you go through the six months of residency, which is also your...

  8. What Do You Love About Nursing?

    datalore replied to Allison007's topic in General Nursing

    I find it intellectually stimulating because I'm always problem solving and learning, two things I love outside of nursing anyway! I love the adrenaline rush of finding something important that has...

  9. Gift for a pt

    datalore replied to mountainjc's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Our facility has handmade blankets and stuffed animals available from volunteers/donors that we can ask be brought to patients for comfort. That's as personal as I'm willing to get while maintaining...

  10. Getting a job without being a CNA...

    datalore replied to arojumper's topic in General Nursing

    You would be a CNA for a relatively short time -- if you started applying now, by the time interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding are done, you'd probably have less than a year of experience in that...

  11. Advice please? Path to RN

    datalore replied to EricaYerian's topic in Nursing Career

    Go for the RN! You can work as a CNA after your first semester in many states, and you can gain experience that way. You don't need prior experience to succeed in nursing school, but some experience...

  12. INR 5.2 read as 2.5

    datalore replied to Ethio22's topic in General Nursing

  13. INR 5.2 read as 2.5

    datalore replied to Ethio22's topic in General Nursing

    Only 5.2? Psh. Call me when it's over 15!

  14. What does it take exactly to become a nurse?

    datalore replied to Juson's topic in General Nursing

    From an earlier point -- you don't have to be a CNA to go to nursing school, but personally I found that being a CNA made nursing school (and my first few weeks as an RN) much easier, because I had...

  15. Be honest: do you feel valued by your employer?

    datalore replied to sunnyskies9's topic in General Nursing

    My manager - absolutely. Best manager I've ever had, even compared to non-healthcare jobs I've had. My employer - hell no. But That's been true of every job I've ever held, whether I was making...

  16. Amiodarone

    datalore replied to Newgrad665's topic in Patient Medications

    The best thing you can do now is look up more info and ask yourself questions like: What are the possible side-effects of amiodarone? What's it's half-life? What do you already know about its...

  17. Coffee marketed to nurses. Would you buy it?

    datalore replied to ResumeRN's topic in General Nursing

    There's no marketing tactic that would make me remotely interested in coffee marketed to nurses. I buy the brown caffeine water that I find least bitter, and that's all I care about.

  18. Stethoscope for cardiac surgery ICU nurse?

    datalore replied to LCRN16's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Agreed with Ruby Vee. I have a master cardiology and I love how well I can hear. Any Littmann would serve you well. In terms of not having it stolen -- I took the diaphragm off, wrote my full name in...

  19. Dr. told patient, "Nurses are STUPID".

    datalore replied to Daetwin2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Patients are smart too -- the unprofessional comments made by any member of the care team are not lost on them. I'm sure nurses won some brownie points in the patient's eyes that shift. Kudos to you...

  20. Need a BSN for what again?

    datalore replied to ModernRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    OP states BSN is BS, without offering any specific argument as to why BSN is BS. The ideas about what the scope of nursing is or isn't is tangential to why a BSN is or isn't necessary. Think about...

  21. Best littmann stethoscope model for Nursing School?

    datalore replied to abarreto's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I agree with djh above, I wanted to get one steth once, so for school I got the Classic II SE off Overstock.com for like $70, and I still use it in my practice. It's barely, slightly less clear than...

  22. You are NOT allergic to...

    datalore replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess where this bugs me most is when ACTUAL allergies get downplayed in the giant pile of self-described "allergies". I've seen medical professionals so desensitized to seeing "allergies", that...

  23. What do you guys like to do in your free time?

    datalore replied to PianoTiles's topic in General Nursing

    I hike every week or two, and play video games... my two favorite extremes on the exertion spectrum. ;-) Whatever you like to do, set aside a couple dedicated hours to it one day a week and do it up!...

  24. "How are we doing today?"

    datalore replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It's a regional thing here that people use "hun", "sweetheart" and "dear" a lot, even to strangers. I'm not from here, and it seriously freaked me out when I first arrived. My patients, male and...

  25. Are you Facebook friends with your coworkers?

    datalore replied to BlueDawnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm Facebook friends with all including our boss, and anything I post is tame enough to be appropriate for anyone to see. I've never been one to broadcast my inner thoughts on social media. I gain a...