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And this is how doctors use their Stethoscopes.

Nurse Ratched from the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is my favorite nurse. She is ranked as one of the best villains in the film industry. She was a cold ruthless women who had a controlling personality and thought she knew what was best for her patients. She isn't my favorite because of all that but she is the poster nurse for what not to aspire to as a nurse. I think we can all agree no one that comes close to her personality should be given the privilege of caring for anyone, but she is the one I always think of when I encounter that nurse that always seems angry. I think everyone that is a nurse thinks of Nurse Ratched at some point in their career. Come on, admit it we all know at least one nurse we've given the nickname Nurse Ratched. We may not have verbalized it but we all said it in our heads.

I am an OR nurse and one night while on call we had a patient that had shot a nail gun into his knee. He came to the OR on an ER stretcher and we asked him if he could move himself to the OR table or if he would like us to assist him. He was able to slide from the stretcher to the OR table on his own. After he was on the OR table we told him that he did a great job sliding over and his reply was "Yeah I nailed it"

I work in the OR and we use cement when doing total joints. After inserting the implants we have to wait for the cement to set before we can continue. While we were waiting the surgeon told me it like it if I would hold it in my hand and play with it until it got hard. I knew he meant the cement but it was pretty funny to all of us.

Thank you, that makes it much easier to remember :)

Thank you for your reply to my post. I'm still trying to find a way to remember which is which :) This unit is challenging for me.

Can anyone tell me an easy way to remember the difference between Osmolarity and Osmolality? I am a nursing student and we are currently studying fluids and electrolytes. I am having difficulty with these two terms.

The only information given is that the newborn, is being examined in the newborn nursery and the findings that are given are all within normal limits. I need to list 4 four developmental, socioeconomic, and cross-cultural considerations that should be considered during the gathering of subjective and objective data and the provision of health care. My textbook doesn't have much info on this topic when assessing infants. So far I have two but I am struggling to come up with two more. ***Infants have no language skills and cannot tell you how or what they are feeling which makes subjective data difficult ***It is important to know the infants cultural background when assessing the child. This may determine how the infant is assessed. An extreme example I found was the care of some Vietnamese or Thai infants. A cultural consideration of these children would be touching the child’s head. It is believed by some people of that ethnicity the head of the infant is the site of the soul and should not be touched during an assessment-

I have an assignment that asks me to list some developmental, socioeconomic, and cross-cultural considerations that I would need to assess a 4 month old infant. I can't seem to find much information on the topic. I don't have much information on the patient and all physical finding are within normal limits. Does anyone have a suggest for a book that would be helpful for me.