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  1. 04/09 WILTW: Confused LOLs

    annabanana2 replied to cracklingkraken's topic in General Nursing

    When I was but a brand-new baby nurse I was thrown to a complete mess of a hospice client. She was young, had a terrible cancer with huge fungating wounds, very active user of many substances, and...

  2. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    annabanana2 replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Sharp wound debridement. Literally everything else I've encountered I can handle, but when the wound clinician is just going at it with a curette, especially over a bony prominence and it's bleeding...

  3. Differences in US nursing vs the rest of the world

    annabanana2 replied to irishicugal's topic in General Nursing

    I found it interesting hearing that American nurses need orders to do wound care. I work in home health in Canada and our docs don't know crap about wound care - they call us to ask us what we think!...

  4. Resignation dilemma

    annabanana2 replied to Nursiology's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'd take the top paragraph of advice. Tell them the truth - you realize what a bummer this is for them and you are sorry that this has come up at this time. Tell them you understand if it's not...

  5. What I Learned This Week: Retired Nurses-Where Two Or More Are Gathered...

    annabanana2 replied to OCNRN63's topic in General Nursing

    I got that once as a nursing student. From an elderly-ish guy, probably early 70s. While I'm pretty sure my outside voice said "oh, I'm sorry, that's not in my scope as a student," my inside-my-head...

  6. Never Have I Ever Done That Before

    annabanana2 replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in General Nursing

    I've had a weird run of wound VACs lately. We get them pretty rarely but I've had three these past couple of months. One sternal wound that's coming in nicely but slowly, one extremely painful abdomen...

  7. Personal Values as a nurse

    annabanana2 replied to ksurette's topic in General Nursing

    I think maybe they mean, like, if you believe that murderers should also be put to death (which is a fairly common value, I think, though not one I personally share) then if you happen to assigned a...

  8. 2/27 What I learned this week: crying on the job feels so much better when they're happy t

    annabanana2 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse for 2 years and was just handed my first preceptorship student. They seem great - we met some of our more interesting clients on their first day and they handled it really well and...

  9. Cough Drops/ OTCs

    annabanana2 replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in School

    I live in Canada. Our public schools (in my region, anyway) never have school nurses. It's just not a thing that's done. We have public health nurses that cover about a dozen schools each and, I'm...

  10. Regular hours?

    annabanana2 replied to maco1's topic in General Nursing

    I did 12s for a few months while I was a student and then got hired into a 9-5 M-F community position. I like the 9-5 better, personally. I have time to do things in the evenings and I know for sure...

  11. Have any of your patients ever told you that you're a good nurse?

    annabanana2 replied to EquinoxSolstice92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've gotten that compliment a few times. Sometimes I know it's not sincere but I take it anyway because it means I'm not being insulted! Other times I know, for sure, that the person saying it...

  12. Another reason unions suck!

    annabanana2 replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm Canadian, so I'm union. The vast, vast majority of nurses in Canada are unionized, and let me tell you, thank goodness. I have excellent benefits, great wages that increase on a predictable...

  13. made a mistake...

    annabanana2 replied to Guest02/04/2016's topic in General Nursing

    I gotta say, I was nervous clicking on this topic when all I could see was the title and your

  14. Home births gone wrong

    annabanana2 replied to MNNICU, RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Actually in this study ALL the moms met the criteria for home birth, so they were all low risk: Eligibility requirements for home birth mandated by the College of Midwives of British Columbia Absence...

  15. Home births gone wrong

    annabanana2 replied to MNNICU, RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    It's interesting to hear how different midwifery regulation in the US is versus other countries. In Canada, in my province specifically, midwives must be registered with a college exactly like nurses,...

  16. My first fall

    annabanana2 replied to Alimamethaa's topic in General Nursing

    Oh good lord, you are not going to lose your license because of a fall (or a med error, or forgetting to fill out a form, or whatever other stupid human mistakes people make). I don't know if it's...

  17. Ridiculous NCLEX Wait Times

    annabanana2 replied to terrafermata's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Back in my day (in Canada) you could write your licensing exam TWICE PER YEAR, in June or in October! And we did it by paper and pencil! And then we had to wait SIX WEEKS for our results! Kids these...

  18. The Suicide Pact

    annabanana2 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Nursing News

    This was so beautiful. Thank you so much for posting

  19. ED Ethics In Self Harm

    annabanana2 replied to ReadyToListen's topic in Emergency

    I used to work on a suicide hotline. We didn't use the term "committing suicide" because it came from back in the day when suicide was illegal, and sounded kind of punitive/accusatory. If I'm...

  20. 1/16 What I learned this week: Siamese Twins be Pimpin'

    annabanana2 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I almost never suggest "quitting smoking" to my clients anymore because, absolutely, the automatic answer is "NOPE". Instead I've been having better luck suggesting using nicotine patches to help them...

  21. The sloppy image of nurses today

    annabanana2 replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Good lord. I don't exist to please my clients' sense of aesthetics. To suggest otherwise is condescending and possibly kind of sexist. I have zero hoots to give about whether or not you find my...

  22. Need experienced nurses help with new Stage 2 wound

    annabanana2 replied to hakunamatata's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    You might get a real live WOCN responding, which would be ideal, but in the meantime, I see many many wounds, so I have opinions. What's the drainage like? A calcium alginate + Tegaderm seems a bit...

  23. Night Nursing: Precepting & Perception

    annabanana2 replied to Larry2016's topic in General Students

    You know, saying "I admit I don't know anything about this topic, but I'm going to provide my unsolicited opinion anyway" is a lot like starting a statement with "I don't mean to be racist, but..."...

  24. can I work as a CNA if my RN license is inactive??

    annabanana2 replied to AniraP's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations! That was both unnecessary and unhelpful. Because green cards grow on green card trees right? And citizenship is bestowed on you immediately. Awesome.

  25. New Grad off Orientation

    annabanana2 replied to froggy93's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I felt that way as a new grad, too. I went from school right into home health. I had the benefit of a long and excellent orientation with a preceptor that was a wonderful teacher and I was surrounded...