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1. Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

   areensee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I disagree. If NK lauches a nuclear strike, they are going to throw everything they have at us, small numbers or not. We will retaliate, which means nuclear bombs dropping on China's back door. Do you...

2. Preparing for Nuclear War: CDC's Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation

   areensee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

   This is what happens when you have a leader who is desperately looking for distraction and will use every channel in the federal government to do it! Do you think if a nuclear bomb falls, it will be...

3. Student nurse dismayed by bedside nursing attitude

   areensee replied to new gal's topic in General Students

   You have q good point. Many nurses complain and they have good reason to. Our health csre system is operated by those who measure success in dollars, not in people. That being said, compromising...

4. Leaving first job, did you have a pay increase?

   areensee replied to Nurse3242's topic in General Nursing

   It depends on what area of nursing you moving to. I have taken several pay cuts, but did so in order to chang3 my focus. When I left the hospital for a hospice position, I took a pay cut. When I left...

5. Why do LPNs only make $40K per year?

   areensee replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   I disagree with many others. Depending on the funding you have available and your need to work, getting an LPN and bridging to an RN program may be just what you need! For example, in Utah, it is...

6. Should I leave this racist town?

   areensee replied to ChutneyFries's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Been there, done that. It is harder to find a job if you just up and leave a position, but like you ChutneyFries, it was the only thing to be done at the time. I did recover and found a new position....

7. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

   areensee replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Nursing care is always a balancing act, as is medicine. We try to do the most good and least amount of harm. If you do a search of research articles you will find a great deal of evidence that...

8. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

   areensee replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   WHAT EBP, give me the

9. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

   areensee replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I don't doubt that you can catch problems, but that can happen any hour of the day. There's nothing magic about 0300. Besides, as I challenged, where's the evidence based research? Anecdotal evidence...

10. Nurse Bullying

    areensee replied to Slhengy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am a clinical instructor and I understand your concern. It appears to me that students are coming into nursing programs less prepared than they used to. That isn't the fault of the nursing programs...

11. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

    areensee replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    By subjecting patients to unnecessary sleep interactions are we helping or are we increasing the incidence of problems? Give me a source that shows that doing vitals every 4 hours is GOOD for...

12. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

    areensee replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wake me up at 0300 and my blood pressure is likely to be abnormally high! Why should this surprise anyone, and why do vitals at 0300? Does it really provide any useful data that can't be obtained 3 or...

13. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

    areensee replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Aside from the fact that the hospitalist in this case is a first class jerk, I've been thinking more about the practice of frequent vitals and all the other horrid things we do to people in the middle...

14. Complaints only, please!

    areensee replied to ixchel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So who authorized the enema on the dementia patient? I'd want to have a word with them. Being a hospice nurse this sounds like something that should not have happened. This very well may have BEEN an...

15. Nurse Bullying

    areensee replied to Slhengy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I can see something of both sides of the issue, however I think sometimes we forget all about the growth and development theories we learned in school. New nurses are entering the workforce at a very...