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  1. Nursing Against the Odds -- Who's reading it, or has read it?

    papawjohn replied to Stitchie's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Linda You go, girl. I agree with everything you said--'specially the part about Nurses allowing themselves to be marginalized and de-skilled. Papaw

  2. Opinions please--Did I do the right thing?

    papawjohn replied to RN-TO-BE's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey RN-to-Be You did the right thing. Sorry that you've discovered the truth of that old saying 'no good deed goes unpunished.' Papaw

  3. Do ICU RN's sugarcoat things to patient's families?

    papawjohn replied to mama2amaya's topic in MICU, SICU

    Hey Mama2amaya What a tragic story you and your family are living through!! My warmest thoughts go to you. I have to tell you--you're asking the question about the likelihood of survival and level...

  4. I resigned today...

    papawjohn replied to justavolunteer's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Just Thanx for the update. Your willingness to seek and find a place to simply do good is kinda inspiring. I hope this new place understands what a precious quality you embody. Papaw

  5. Really Need advice about Nursing

    papawjohn replied to BxLibra's topic in Nursing Career

    Hey Ola You asked a lot of questions, really. Giving up on an earlier plan to go to MedSchool? Sounds like Organic Chem made that decision easier. Yer old Papaw has two neices in Medical Education....

  6. Need advice badly.

    papawjohn replied to clee1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hey Clee1 I'll take the opposite side. It's been hard for several new LPNs that I know (one is my wife) to get their 'foot in the door' (as you say). The jobs aren't out there looking for you as a...

  7. Is OXYGENATION an INDEPENDENT Nursing function?

    papawjohn replied to Dervid Jungco's topic in General Students

    Hey Y'all I vote for the 'standard of care' side of this discussion. I had to spend 45min trying to get a Pulmonologist to call me back at 0300 this past (holiday) weekend. It was not critical...

  8. Can't Think Of Any Title

    papawjohn replied to PLTSGT's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Y'all Reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago. A big lecture hall/audiorium--banner over the stage: "MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING"--huge crowd--someone collapsed on the stage--a group gathered...

  9. New Grad. Should I work in CCU?

    papawjohn replied to rdiehl45's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hey Oldiebutgoodie!! (I love your handle!! Feel like a 'golden oldie' myself.) Good point about transition problems from Med-Surg to Critical Care. Hadn't thought much about it until you brought it...

  10. Heart Reverb??

    papawjohn replied to Mizzyfrufru's topic in Cardiac

    Hey Charmin Could it be that your sister has "re-entry"? I have never heard of "reverb". But 're-entry' describes a kind of pathological 'loop' in the heart's conduction pathways that results in...

  11. what is your openion about DNR ( donot resucitate)

    papawjohn replied to realnurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    Hey Y'all The original post in this thread caught my attention because he was writing to us from Oman. The post from Ukraine was particularly interesting to me. I wonder about the cultural and...

  12. Ft. Lauderdale Nursing Question

    papawjohn replied to anmlnrs's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hey Again Anmlnrs!! CNA is a good place to start if you're interested in a career doing this some-times-strange but almost always interesting work. I'm afraid I don't have good advice on how to get...

  13. nurses undertaking angiograms

    papawjohn replied to ann h's topic in Cardiac

    Hey Ann Doh!!! Clueless Papaw John. I was jumping to conclusion that you were writing from the US which I would have at least SOME information about. Sorry if I sounded dismissive. Still, having...

  14. Ft. Lauderdale Nursing Question

    papawjohn replied to anmlnrs's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hey Animlnrs I take it you're a 'vet tech' or something similar? There ARE of course RNs working in veterinary offices. But you didn't specify your background so I guess your questions are 'how do I...

  15. nurses undertaking angiograms

    papawjohn replied to ann h's topic in Cardiac

    Hey Y'all Frankly, this beats all I ever heard of. I agree that with our understanding of lines and labs and meds it is sort of possible to imagine 'doing' a heart cath--but stop and think!!! Do you...

  16. what is your openion about DNR ( donot resucitate)

    papawjohn replied to realnurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    Hey Y'all I agree with LCRN that the younger (I include my 60yr old self) people who've responded here should maybe think again about 'going gentle into that good night'. There's lots of scenarios...

  17. AIDS debate - Most Controversial Story You've Never Heard

    papawjohn replied to JasmineTea's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hey Y'all Yer ol' Papaw was a Nurse before there was a disease called AIDS. I have lived with the disease about as much as anyone can who's not either studying it or suffering from it. This thread...

  18. homeless pt's?

    papawjohn replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    Hey Y'all Doggone it!!! I really didn't mean to get pulled into this thread. As far as the ER Nurse's description of the impact of "trolls" on the delivery of emergency medical care--you are of...

  19. AIDS debate - Most Controversial Story You've Never Heard

    papawjohn replied to JasmineTea's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hey Y'all The belief that HIV does not cause AIDS is fairly widespread for some reason and of course is stupid and completely wrong....

  20. homeless pt's?

    papawjohn replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    Hey VeryPlainJane!!! Uh, I s'pose that a homeless person without any substance problems wouldn't have to go to AA. But such a person would be in a remarkably small part of the homeless population. I...

  21. homeless pt's?

    papawjohn replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    Hey!!! Papaw John has learned the hard way (the only way I learn anything it seems) NOT to talk politics or religion at work. I am a liberal. I support only one charity and it is a homeless shelter...

  22. Stressed

    papawjohn replied to sweet31eve's topic in General Nursing

    Hey!!! Work setting: (actually-almost never. I walk constantly.) Sorry--had to throw that in!! But from now on I'll be cereal. Work setting: 2-300 bed urban hospital Specialty: general...

  23. CVP readings

    papawjohn replied to sazza's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hey SEOBowhntr I re-read my post. You're right, I didn't make it clear that the negative numbers--even if they are sort of mediated by negative intra-throacic pressures--show BIG TIME volume...

  24. what is your openion about DNR ( donot resucitate)

    papawjohn replied to realnurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    Hey Realnurse Gosh, I started to dash off a little note but checked your 'profile' and found you're in OMAN. So let me start off by saying to ya (and all the international folks here) that it is a...

  25. Cardiac Catherization

    papawjohn replied to Mariannsi's topic in Cardiac

    Hey Mariannssi I hope your cath results were OK. (You didn't say.) A hematoma is a painful thing. The iron in the hemoglobin (which of course binds the O2 to the RBC--so pretty important) is very...