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Thanks for your responses. I haven't talked to the attorney, yet, but I wanted to be prepared with a price before he called me. I'll do a quick google and see what I can find out.

Hi, AllNurses! I'm an ICU nurse with a little over three years of experience. I've been approached by an attorney (a friend of a friend, who also happens to be an attorney) about doing a little work for him on a criminal case. He is not asking me ...

I dealt with the same issue on a personal level. My grandmother had an AICD, and when we put her on hospice, the MD ordered the pacemaker rep out to "d/c" it. But he didn't write whether to d/c the pacer, the defibrilator, or both. The pacemaker r...

I had my very first ECMO pt last week (yay!), and this was the exact scenario. Crashed pt onto ECMO when IABP and Impella failed. Took Impella out, but left IABP d/t risk of bleeding.

I can only say that if a patient or patient's family member ever has me at gunpoint, I hope like hell one of my co-workers has broken the rules and carried his/her gun to work and that he/she is gutsy enough to pull the trigger. I just got my CHL, an...

Run. Run fast. Run hard. Don't look back. Levo on the floor is an absolute no-no--Very dangerous for patients and very dangerous for an RN with 4-6 patients to be trying to juggle. To me, it's absolutely insane to even suggest something so ridic...

I'm with Esme12 on this one. You, as a nurse, have a duty to your co-workers to inform them of bloodborne pathogens when the CNA/PCT/whomever is dealing with the patient's body fluids. The CNA/PCT/whomever is bound by the same patient privacy laws ...

Very simple. Reflect the feeling. That's all you need to know! Psych is not all that bad. Just don't make it harder than it has to be...If the answer looks right, don't second guess yourself.

Wish I could! Especially since I see PBDS test on my internship schedule, which starts in a couple weeks, and I have no idea what PBDS even stands for!

I need a little advice from my fine nursing friends here! I graduate this May with my BSN, and I have my heart set on a particular internship at a particular hospital. I did clinicals at this hospital and on this floor/area this past semester, and t...

I need a little advice from my fine nursing friends here! I originally posted this in the Career forum, but I thought I might get a few more sets of eyes on it here. I graduate this May with my BSN, and I have my heart set on a particular internship...

Uncool. You owe the OP an apology.I graduate in May, and, although I didn't ever have to do LTC in nursing school, I did have to deal with some pretty nasty poo. My first day, I nearly puked cleaning up a patient. Does that make me a bad nurse? N...

Hello, Hospice nurses! I wondered if you might share some information with me. A lady who is very dear to me is on hospice care right now. She has pancreatic cancer and the doctors give her about 30 days. She is about 200 miles from where I am, so...

Our clinical instructors use texting to tell us what time to meet for lunch, post conference, or if they need to find us for some reason. It's also pretty handy when we need our instructor for something. Often, we're required to either have the cli...

I've written her a letter--Mailed it yesterday. It's hard not to feel helpless, or like what you're doing is not enough, especially when the person is so special to you. My daughter (just turned 8) made her a card that said, "You are everything go...

Thank you for your responses. This very special lady is a nun, and she is in a special hospice house surrounded by her sisters. She is definitely not dying alone and lonely. She was a teacher at our kids' school, and she was/is a very happy and upbe...

I'm a student, so take this with a grain of salt. I have been in clinicals where nurses were on Facebook on hospital computers, and I thought it was very unprofessional. Agreed. But I do have small children, and I appreciate being able to carry my p...

Yes, it's an app that syncs with Google's free calendar. So you can type all the info in your google calendar and it syncs to your phone whenever you open the app on your phone. And when you're in class and need to put something on the calendar, yo...

I'm a third semester nursing student, so I'm all too familiar with how you're feeling right now. About the middle of my second semester, I bought a plaque that sits in my bathroom so I can see it every single morning when I wake up. It's an Eleanor...

I am on the pinning committee for my class, and we need a keynote speaker. Any ideas? So far, we've come up with one, but he's terribly cost prohibitive. Just wondering what other schools do for speakers. We're having to pay for the entire ceremon...

Oh, how I wish we had "limitations." Classes at our school usually raise and spend around $10k on their pinning ceremonies. AS IF we have so much extra time to plan and carry out fundraisers. Just a little gripe...I'm done now and on to being more ...

We're almost done building our new nursing building at my school, and a very high profile individual donated the money for it. I'm trying to find a way to get a hold of said very high profile individual to see if he would be interested in speaking a...

It looks as if the norm is to have one of the clinical instructors or lecturers. Wow. I think our school usually selects someone from the community, but I think I might suggest we use our dean. I took a class from her this summer, and, if she ever...

Hi, guys! I'm a newbie to this site, and I wanted to get your input on accelerated BSN programs in Texas. I live in the DFW area, and I hold a Finance degree from Texas A&M. I've recently decided to try my hand at nursing school, and I need th...

I'm just a student nurse, so take it with a grain of salt... I had a similar experience with a patient's husband while doing postpartum. I walked in and introduced myself as a student nurse, and he immediately rolled his eyes and wanted to know why ...