ArlyleRN

Although you have already had your interview. These tips will help others: 1. Dress professionally: Natural hair color, zero jewelry except wedding ring, cover up all tattoos, no strong perfume, natural makeup, short nails, and conservative attire. 2...

If you can smell it, then it is more than on you, it is in you. For example: You smell the contents of the colostomy bag because of the fecal particulate matter that gets in your mouth and nose. There is so much "micro" splatter on nurses at the end ...

Just when I thought I was out of this thread..... Whoever gave you this scenario should be slapped with a full colostomy bag. Questions like these leave out so many confounding variables that it just irritates the living out of me. Humor me for a mo...

I have a Littman, actually I have two They come in a box, much like a shoe With them I can hear, within their bounds Both lubb and dubb, those cute little heart sounds I am not a doctor, nor will I ever claim to be When you need a caring hand, my fac...

So, I guess now you will try to convince us that cosmology and cosmetology are different subjects as well?

My Apologies

That's what I thought. I took one semester of organic and it was cruel and brutal, and I did excellent in inorganic I & II. Darn carbon-based organisms.

Don't you mean Rutting for her....

Promoted to Chief Nursing Officer.

This is going to be fun

I read some of your earlier posts. Something does not add up, I wonder if maybe one of those deer got you........

"If this doesn't work out, then there's always the pole"

I need to know more. But Kayexalate enema.....definitely not. How did you arrive at the diagnosis of Metabolic acidosis? What are the ABGs? What are the OTHER lab values? V/S? What do the pupils look like? I would ask the doc for an order to give a l...

I have several response to that statement: 1. How much are you getting paid to say that? 2. Is Administration willing to give up their bonus and share it with non-exempt employees? 3. Do you volunteer your time? 4. Is Administration willing to be tra...

You should document accordingly. I suggest something like the following: "That family fired this nurse although this nurse did everything for that family that this nurse could do. That family has requested that nurse and this nurse has informed that ...

If you give a patient a pill, then they will want a drink of water. If you give a patient a drink of water, then they will want a bedpan If you give a patient a bedpan, then they will want ..........

1926: MD on floor. Asks if anyone minds if TV is changed to the football game. Orders timeout.......but football team on TV does not respond. MD slams fist on patient's chest as football team fumbles the ball. Patient expels phone previously lodged i...

We had to go the basement and get them. Not readily available and frowned upon. I wish I had recorded the Educators and Administrators telling us that gloves were demeaning to the patient and were not really necessary. Good thing that MRSA, VRE, and ...

1859: Observed patient's chest wall go up and then go down....second time in three minutes. Will mention this to oncoming shift.....maybe

"This nurse" is okay to use so long as "This Nurse" refers to "This Nurse" entering the notation and not "This Nurse" sitting beside me or "This Nurse" standing in front of me, or god forbid "This Nurse" looking over my shoulder.

1848: Patient found to be logged on to AlllNurses. This nurse, while looking over patient's shoulder, observed patient posting as OP on thread titled "This is what happens when the nurse becomes the patient". This nurse voided (just a little), high-f...

Yes, do not be "that" float-pool nurse that always complains about getting "pulled" when you do not get to work your favorite floor. Do not complain that you always get the "bad" team. I was a prn, float, agency, and contract nurse for years. I alwa...

1. Are you a medication aide? If so, then you are allowed to pass meds. If not, then I am confused. 2. Was the MD notified of the error? 3. The way the issue is to be resolved (giving a lower dose the next day) does not sound ethical or legal.