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  1. Tattoos!

    nurseprnRN replied to mmbucklerky's topic in General Students

    When you consider that lab is practice for clinical, and many clinical areas do not allow visible tattoos, it becomes clearer why your lab instructor might want you to practice concealing them before...

  2. Help Me Please!

    nurseprnRN replied to J3w3lz88's topic in General Students

    Oh, so textbooks are boring? Really? I suppose screens are less so. Lucky for you that the NCLEX -- which tests for a lot of stuff in those boring ol' books written by experts-- is done on a computer...

  3. Does Ineffective Tissue Perfusion r/t decreased hemoglobin sound right??

    nurseprnRN replied to jeddyl's topic in General Students

    Perfusion is blood flow. Hemoglobin level is not a determinant of blood flow. Therefore you cannot make a nursing diagnosis of decreased perfusion and say low hgb either caused it or is evidence for...

  4. Help Me Please!

    nurseprnRN replied to J3w3lz88's topic in General Students

    A very wise therapist once told me, "Don't say can't, say won't." Puts a whole different spin on it, doesn't it? You know you have to do it or you'll fail. I have no idea how you passed first...

  5. is nursing a life science degree?

    nurseprnRN replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Of course, without a well-run organ procurement system, we'd be in the death science business even

  6. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    nurseprnRN replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    LNC here, former ICU clin spec. Katillac beat me to the punch-- GSA applies for anybody not exceeding their experience and training AND not getting

  7. They should be force to retire

    nurseprnRN replied to apnurserock's topic in Retired Nurses

    There's a huge difference between expecting better and NETY. I don't eat them, but I do have high standards for them. Not that I expect them to practice at a high level, but that they should...

  8. Getting certification help with the lack of 1yr experience ?

    nurseprnRN replied to tubycat's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Most professional nursing certifications require a certain (usually long) time in practice working in the field before you qualify to sit for the exam, and the exam must be developed and administered...

  9. Be candid how do I handle my illnesses with regards to the BON if I get an interview.

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

    And it's "Crohn's," too. Good

  10. Capstone Project

    nurseprnRN replied to jjones0812's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Your problem is due in large part to the fact that you are addressing preventing a medical diagnosis (thromboembolism) using pharmacological interventions, and this is not within nursing scope of...

  11. RN Diagnosis Chronological order

    nurseprnRN replied to allinoneplace01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Again, NANDA-I does NOT "prioritize" any nursing diagnoses. If you think it does, give me the citation in the current edition (2015-2017) and I will stand corrected. Hospitals do not "follow Nanda...

  12. Sexual Comment from Boss???

    nurseprnRN replied to headtotoewounds's topic in General Nursing

    If he's using this as analogous to, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" in reference to everybody being nicer to help making changes occur, OK. If he's saying, "Be sweet to me, I'm the...

  13. New grads in specialties without the basics

    nurseprnRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how many times and in how many places I have to remind everybody that students are NOT "working under the instructor's license." No. Not....

  14. Is this appropriate behaviour when placing a condom catheter?

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

    That nurse evidently flunked both anatomy and puberty education. An erection will make it exceedingly hard to get anything in -- or out-- of a male urethra. ETA: Difficult! I meant

  15. A Public Thank You

    nurseprnRN replied to WellThatsOod's topic in General Nursing

    Naw, we're all softies on the inside; we just won't show it too often. The hard shell on the outside is for protection. Someday, some of these new ones will understand why we keep telling them to grow...

  16. A Public Thank You

    nurseprnRN replied to WellThatsOod's topic in General Nursing

    That would probably be me. I'm faster and more nimble than most, and I can always get the small parking spaces.

  17. A Public Thank You

    nurseprnRN replied to WellThatsOod's topic in General Nursing

    And we caught you, didn't

  18. New grads in specialties without the basics

    nurseprnRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    In theory this is OK. However, go to any nursing school and you'll find lots of students who think they will specialize in (ICU, ER, PACU, L&D...). If somehow they got the idea that anybody could...

  19. Why do nurses delegate with a power trip?

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

    This is not different from what I posted above. It is up to you to do those things that are part of your own scope of practice-- see that you are delegating something you can delegate (that's in your...

  20. Telephone case management, full time rv'er

    nurseprnRN replied to artistnurse's topic in Case Management

    The Journal of Nurse Life Care Planning has a great article that would be helpful to you, written by a nurse who travels all over the country and manages her practice, including case mgmt, remotely....

  21. CCM CEU's for recertification?

    nurseprnRN replied to RocknRollYogaRn's topic in Case Management

    I strongly suggest joining and using the CMSA. Their annual conference gives you more than enough CEs for a year, and the local meetings also give CEs. Case In Point, their journal, also has CE...

  22. BCBS case manager-bombed my first call

    nurseprnRN replied to luv2shopp85's topic in Case Management

    Practice, practice, practice. You'll be fine. Remember when you were a new grad and had to do an admission history? Same

  23. Dilaudid for self-driving patient.

    nurseprnRN replied to thecode's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I was a single mother when I went to have my tubes tied before my soon-to-be-ex husband's insurance no longer covered me. Needless to say, he wasn't driving me to and from the day surgery unit-- I...

  24. Why do nurses delegate with a power trip?

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

    Not exactly. Every employee (and student, too, for that matter) has a scope of practice and is accountable for it as an adult. You can't help it if a CNA exceeds hers, or performs badly. She is...

  25. Passing Statistics for NCLEX RN and PN-2014

    nurseprnRN replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    These go directly to judgment, not memorization, once again, looking at a higher-order skill. Nursing is more complex than it used to be, with sicker people, more diagnostics, and more treatments and...