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  1. Your Specialty & Why

    RNIBCLC replied to AspiringNurseMW's topic in General Nursing

    L&D has been wonderful to me. Continually gaining more skills as we went to couplet care and I became a skilled nursery and postpartum nurse as well over the last 27 years. Then 17 years ago I...

  2. Your Specialty & Why

    RNIBCLC replied to AspiringNurseMW's topic in General Nursing

    OMG.....this made me laugh out

  3. I've been a nurse since.....(fill in the blank)

    RNIBCLC replied to meanmaryjean's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was a nurse when you punched a time card, had a narc key and signed out narcotics in a spiral notebook. When you had to give up you chair for the doctor, had to wear white (hose, uniform, shoes)....

  4. I've been a nurse since.....(fill in the blank)

    RNIBCLC replied to meanmaryjean's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why did you feel the need to interject that tired topic? This thread is not about whether older nurses who are sloppy, bad habits etc. Nor is it about new nurses inexperience. I don't understand...

  5. I've been a nurse since.....(fill in the blank)

    RNIBCLC replied to meanmaryjean's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I sat for NCLEX ( I'm not sure that was even what it was called then) in 1987. I had just had a baby two weeks after graduation. I was exhausted. It was a two day paper and pencil exam. People...

  6. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

    RNIBCLC replied to OCNRN63's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I was on that thread NurseQT. It kinda put my jaw on the floor as well. It seems like some posters get so dug in on their point of view that they lose perspective and really get angry if some...

  7. Nurse files lawsuit over firing

    RNIBCLC posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nurse Sues St. Francis, Claims She Lost Job After Saving Patient's Life Hartford

  8. Nurse files lawsuit over firing

    RNIBCLC replied to RNIBCLC's topic in General Nursing

    ICUMaggie... I'm not an ICU nurse so I have absolutely no expertise in this area. My previous post was in no way meant to seem like I was disagreeing with you. I was just commenting that journalists...

  9. Nurse files lawsuit over firing

    RNIBCLC replied to RNIBCLC's topic in General Nursing

    Hopefully we will get more information. At this point it's just speculation and your right an ambulance crew could mean

  10. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

    RNIBCLC replied to OCNRN63's topic in General Nursing

    Aaah! Great I love being a crusty old bat.....I'm new to AN but not to nursing.... Does that count? Or maybe a COB in training? As you can see I aspire to be a crusty old

  11. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

    RNIBCLC replied to OCNRN63's topic in General Nursing

    What is

  12. Please, could an experienced nurse help.

    RNIBCLC replied to soon_2Bnurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Talk to an attorney that represents nurses. It's confidential and you get to decide based on what you learn how you want to handle the situation. One thing though, what if it keeps happening because...

  13. Nurse files lawsuit over firing

    RNIBCLC replied to RNIBCLC's topic in General Nursing

    Hopefully she has a good attorney who is familiar with Emtala. I suspect this will get settled so as to not expose the hospitals own

  14. So Frustrated I Could Cry..

    RNIBCLC replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad you came back. Most of us here at AN understand your situation perfectly. I'm hoping to hear that you were able to get your shift covered. My heart goes out to you. From your posting,...

  15. Texas - Can they do this?

    RNIBCLC replied to ALIRN09's topic in General Nursing

    Hell will freeze over before the mighty state of Texas will allow unions for

  16. Nurses save lives on and off the job

    RNIBCLC replied to RNIBCLC's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad. I love a happy ending don't you?

  17. Nurses save lives on and off the job

    RNIBCLC posted a topic in General Nursing

    This nurse was more than a Good Samaritan Angel on the Highway: Search for Lifesaving Nurse Read more: Angel on the Highway: Search for Lifesaving Nurse | NBC 10 Philadelphia Follow us:...

  18. What would you do?

    RNIBCLC replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    I would let your physician know what happened. Think of this as a med error and the opportunity to improve the system. They need to know so the can make system changes so this doesn't happen again....

  19. So Frustrated I Could Cry..

    RNIBCLC replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    Me too. I'm not sure all of this discussion has been as helpful as we all intended. I hope it has. At this point I think we should wait and see if she responds. I think we are beating a dead horse...

  20. So Frustrated I Could Cry..

    RNIBCLC replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    Seriously has anyone heard from the

  21. Texas - Can they do this?

    RNIBCLC replied to ALIRN09's topic in General Nursing

    Happens all the time. What The Commuter suggested is a good

  22. All Men Shift

    RNIBCLC replied to kalevra's topic in Men in Nursing

    I agree

  23. So Frustrated I Could Cry..

    RNIBCLC replied to NurseQT's topic in General Nursing

    Had the OP been back? Or did we scare her off with all of our "advice".

  24. My poor husband

    RNIBCLC replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly...I started to comment twice and then deleted the comments. So I'll just say that when I have insomnia I usually read a book or watch some TV.......hope your husband is

  25. Nurses save lives on and off the job

    RNIBCLC replied to RNIBCLC's topic in General Nursing

    When I came across this story I thought it would be nice to post on AN. It does make you feel good. I realized that many times the posts we discuss are very charged emotionally in some way or...