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Neural

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  1. WHAT TO DO...Nurse is refusing to give PRN medication

    Does your facility utilize essential oils for nausea? Ginger oil works like a charm for nausea. I've been told spearmint does too, but I haven't used it. Either way, this nurse sounds like a real...
  2. Fragrance Sacrifice

    I work with quite a few Somali staff who mostly work in housekeeping. You can smell their scented oil from a hundred yards away, and it lingers for hours. Despite our hospital policy, they're allowed...
  3. Nurses with self harm scars

    More and more nurses are wearing long sleeves to cover tattoos nowadays. No one will think anything of
  4. How much urine to collect when cathing

    If you're having to straight cath a person because they cannot pee, you're going to want to empty the bladder completely so that fewer catheterizations are needed, thus limiting the opportunities to...
  5. Oooh it hurts to have a bowel movement

    Call your local clinic and make an appointment
  6. The balance between treating patients like patients or treating them like
  7. so many falls!

    Make sure you have another job lined up if you choose to do this. You're gonna need
  8. Night shift for new grads.

    Keep something similar to a night-shift schedule throughout the week. Eat well, drink lots of water, limit caffeine and alcohol. I think many people would agree that a drink after a long night's work...
  9. Hospital that bans family members

    I know that "visiting hours" is a pipe dream, but just I wish our hospital had limits as to how many family members can be in a room at one time. Jeez we have them sleeping on the floors sometimes, a...
  10. Almost undetectable difference in quality, hence the minimal difference in price. I owned a Classic 3, lost it, bought a Classic 2, can barely tell the difference, other than the fact that the 3 is...
  11. As far as I'm concerned, the Littman Classic II S.E. ($70) and Classic III ($80) are a wash, and are just about all that a student or average nurse needs. However, if you're in an 'auscultation-heavy'...
  12. Different hospital units

    Oh there's tons of these, and hospitals don't always use the same abbreviations. For example, NICU can mean neonatal ICU at one hospital and neurological ICU at another. Don't forget the Progressive...
  13. The very first one on the list -- the only one I looked at -- mentioned that new grads are
  14. Verbal warning about sick calls.....please advise

    When people don't show up for work, patient-to-nurse ratios go up, which often results in lower quality patient care and unsatisfied customers (patients/family). That's the bottom line. Your bosses...
  15. I felt unsafe working

    Agreed. Walls of text are rarely even read, to be
  16. Keep fired jobs off resume?

    Don't they get reported to the BON, at least in some
  17. Drug Seeker Stories

    Why not just remove the hand sanitizer from the
  18. Misdemeanor charge on driving license

    I wouldn't think so. They're mainly looking for crimes of theft or abuse. People get DWIs and still attend nursing
  19. Suspended without pay for expired TB requirement?

    They didn't send you an email a few weeks in
  20. I was asked by a male patient, diaphoretic from pain meds, to both itch and direct a personal fan at his sweaty nuts. I also has a notorious drug seeker tell me to go F myself because I couldn't...
  21. Seven Hells: Vent

    Unit directors in my hospital are notorious for doing things like this to keep their prime employees and prevent them from transferring. The better you do, the more likely our bosses are to use their...
  22. Objects that represent a nurse

    Scrubs and worn-out running
  23. Health Insurance costs

    $80 a month for a single male. $180/mo for single mom with two kids (per report). $1750 deductible with $2000 out-of-pocket annual maximum. $25-40 co-pay for expensive prescriptions. Obamacare didn't...
  24. Health Insurance costs

    duplicate
  25. How much do you really make?

    It would depend on where you're going to work (hospital vs. LTC, etc), as well as your location in the U.S. For instance, it's reasonable for a new grad in a hospital to work 'part-time', 50-60 hours...