Jensmom7 BSN, RN

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  1. WILTW: Actually, it's what I RElearned: I love to teach. Love it, love it, love. it. Really love it. Except, the thought of being at a desk in the front of a room facing a sea of blank, vapid faces...
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    Best way to avoid bedside care?

    Yet another reason to loathe the person who decided opening this site to the Facebook minions was a good
  3. Beachy, you are officially my new
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    Should I quit nursing?

    Please, people, for the love of fuzzy puppies, please stop dangling Hospice in front of overwhelmed newer nurses like it's the answer to their prayers. There's so much that goes into being a...
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    Public Schools and transgender bathrooms.

    Don't you mean adults should slow their roll so THEY can take a cue from their
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    Patient refuses meds and treatment

    I think you're confusing Jehovah's Witnesses with Christian Scientists. I could be wrong. That last post of yours made me go cross eyed and I'm not sure I actually read the whole
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    Being a pre-med is so overated

    Why would any self-respecting nurse WANT to waste her time trying to talk rationally to a gaggle of
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    Being a pre-med is so overated

    Back a hundred years ago, when I was in college, those of us who were actual nursing students used to sit in the dorm dining room with the oh-so-important pre meds and tell the most graphic stories...
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    Public Schools and transgender bathrooms.

    Cisgendered means the opposite of transgendered. In other words, people who identify with the gender they drew at
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    Public Schools and transgender bathrooms.

    Seriously? How much contact have you had with the transgendered? A trans female is NOT going to walk around looking like a Justin Bieber wannabe, with a six pack and copious underarm hair. There is...
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    pt complains hospital too much like a hotel

    Some things just don't change. I heard the same complaint from families of former ICU patients who had been transferred to the general floor when I was still doing bedside nursing back in the
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    Patient refuses meds and treatment

    Ok, this homework question is based on misinformation regarding the belief set of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Medical intervention is not rejected out of hand. Hopefully, the young man's...
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    Best way to avoid bedside care?

    Hospice can be difficult enough for nurses who have bedside experience to learn, let alone a new grad. I've seen fairly seasoned nurses run screaming into the night after a month or so of trying...
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    Manners....are they obsolete ?

    Lol my daughter was such a nurse's kid: she knew from kindergarten that unless blood was spurting across the room, a bone was poking out or an extremity had an extra bend in it, not to expect me to...
  15. When I still worked MedSurg, I frequently wished there was such a thing as a permanent PICC, and thought that everyone should have one placed at
  16. Heh...I'm older than ALL
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    Manners....are they obsolete ?

    And now all the indignant threads on here about the unfairness of minimum passing grades, challenging test questions, challenging NCLEX, complaining about having to actually touch sick people make...
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    Nurse's Week Gifts from Employers

    Lol this thread reminds me of Charlie Brown on Halloween: "...I got a rock..." (I tried to get the video clip from uTube, but it wouldn't
  19. Oh, that's wonderful. I've been following, with everything possible crossed for you. I have this crazy superstition that potentially bad outcomes will turn good if I don't pay overt attention to...
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    Manners....are they obsolete ?

    Kids can always surprise you, though. Several years ago, we were on vacation in Florida, and were in a mall. A group of tweenage boys ran past us, and one bumped into me (very slightly, no harm...
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    Sickle Cell Anemia Question

    Very impassioned speech. However, it has nothing to do with the focus of this thread, which involves a homework assignment concerning a patient with SCD, and is two years old, to boot. Didn't see...
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    94 or higher is an A?

    And this is why we need to stop giving a trophy to every kid who shows up to an event. Learning about competition and that not everyone gets an automatic A in life isn't a bad
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    Manners....are they obsolete ?

    I STILL say sir and ma'am, the thing is, I'm now the same age as the people I'm saying it to lol. I'm a city girl, but spent lots of time in the country when I was a kid, at my great grandma's house....
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    When are you officially a nursing student?

    Why not?? Students taking "pre-med" courses don't call themselves med students until they've been accepted to Medical school. Students taking "pre-law" courses don't call themselves law students...
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    So I kind of messed up

    For anyone else who hasn't read the whole thread: Already been addressed and action by the school was to let her continue in the program with periodic random urine screens. She knows she made a...