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  1. Esme Needs Your Prayers

    nurseprnRN replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    A little better every day, looking forward to discharge. :) Hang in there,

  2. Can we just agree, being honest is not akin to being "rude"?

    nurseprnRN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    There is one! (that's : (no space) facepalm (no space)

  3. Higher Calling

    nurseprnRN replied to guest449786's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My kids were called to (respectively) a PhD in physics and a job in nuclear engineering. Ben Bradlee was called into journalism. Thomas Edison was called into inventing. Pete Townshend was called into...

  4. what is a job as PRN? how do you become one?

    nurseprnRN replied to futurenurse93_'s topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    PRN = "pro re nata," from the Latin for, " (by) circumstances" ("as needed") Lots of meds are prescribed on a prn basis. PD = "per diem," from the Latin for, "by the

  5. Being Nurse Ratched

    nurseprnRN replied to proud nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Going back to the OP's family, there's an easy way to avoid the whole conflict, one which has taken me an embarrassingly long time to learn. As an excuse, I plead in my own defense that I know more...

  6. multigenerational staff

    nurseprnRN replied to Shrooq Alsulami's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A post by someone else who might be in your class asked a question and said she would copy our responses into a workbook. I have taught students from other cultures where the knowledge is just given...

  7. Starting to think there should be some limits...

    nurseprnRN replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    But, alas, honored more in the breach than the observance. That makes this question reappear: If somebody is posting an egregious "do my homework for me" question (and I give a somewhat wider berth...

  8. Starting to think there should be some limits...

    nurseprnRN replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    There's a difference between saying, "A bunch of us are studying nursing theorists, and we are having a hard time figuring out why we are assigned this material. Some of us think it's busywork that...

  9. Can we just agree, being honest is not akin to being "rude"?

    nurseprnRN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    Wonderful comic strip in today's paper: Outraged-looking woman is making finger-quoties at a man holding some books in a school hallway, and saying, "What do you mean, helicopter parent? YOU'RE the...

  10. Insight from current professionals

    nurseprnRN replied to OChealthcare01's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Consider some combination of nutrition and nursing-- certified diabetes educator, bariatrics, pediatric GI, underserved population clinic that sees a lot of malnutrition in children, cardiopulmonary...

  11. Hearing heart sounds through stethoscope with tinnitus

    nurseprnRN replied to UnicoRN611's topic in General Students

    I suggest you find someone willing to listen to the same hearts at the same time with you each using your own stethoscope, and talk it through as you compare things. The more weird heart sounds you...

  12. Care plan help!

    nurseprnRN replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Have never seen a NANDA-I that lacks r/t, defining characteristics, or risk factors for all

  13. decision making

    nurseprnRN replied to Shrooq Alsulami's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We will not give you anything to print and put in a workbook without knowing what you think and have learned on this topic yourself already. And besides, you don't know that anything you read here is...

  14. Graduate from High School with a low GPA

    nurseprnRN replied to xpalacios9's topic in General Students

    You can take a few college-level courses at your local community college without enrolling as a full-time student, to demonstrate your new-found love of learning and ability to study. Be smart and...

  15. Care plan help!

    nurseprnRN replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    Get the current book. You will not be sorry. It's an improvement over the one you have, and why not use the

  16. Nursing Diagnosis Help

    nurseprnRN replied to jqcob's topic in General Students

    Hi, jqcob, You'll have to make due with me for the time being, because Esme is out sick. But do follow RoseQueen's advice and use the search bar above to search "esme nursing diagnosis" and you will...

  17. Crutches and Clinicals

    nurseprnRN replied to RookieRoo's topic in General Students

    I got lucky once with a walking cast for an ankle avulsion fracture because I wore long scrub pants and a woollen sock over my toe that was the same color as my other shoe. Nobody noticed at all. But...

  18. Care plan help!

    nurseprnRN replied to NewNurse91D's topic in General Students

    In the NANDA-I 2015-2017, "Activity intolerance" has very specific related factors (p. 225), and I'm not seeing "cellulitis of R foot and septic shock" there. You don't get to choose the words for...

  19. Higher Calling

    nurseprnRN replied to guest449786's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have been called to find the setting where you can ignore a poster.

  20. English (Career) Assignment

    nurseprnRN replied to AshleyC2015's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We get these requests a lot, so if there are any other students out there who might get this kind of assignment, listen up: Part of your faculty's reason for giving you this assignment is to get you...

  21. Please help I need to interview an RN.

    nurseprnRN replied to MishkaLov's topic in General Nursing

    3....2.....1....... We get these requests a lot, so if there are any other students out there who might get this kind of assignment, listen up: Part of your faculty's reason for giving you this...

  22. • initiating & implementing change

    nurseprnRN replied to Shekha Alhatemi's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Also, "your ideas" are so obviously cut-and-pasted from Emerging RN Leader articles, quoted below. I'll bet your faculty uses the same plagiarism-checking software I do....

  23. Higher Calling

    nurseprnRN replied to guest449786's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When my husband gets off on a tear like this (on whatever subject, morphing from one to the next in a way that gives me whiplash, and no, I have no reading disability, thankyouverymuch), I usually put...

  24. Loan forgiveness options? Help!

    nurseprnRN replied to kaimkaim's topic in General Nursing

    Sure would, eh? Some people are surprised at tone, some are surprised at naivete, some are surprised at entitlement. Life is full of surprises. Good luck to

  25. Reimbursement for NP assisting in surgery working for private physician

    nurseprnRN replied to indygrl27's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Look into whether the patient's insurance is billed separate codes for surgeon time and assistant time, and take it from there.