James W.

Given the recent hysteria-level emotive responses to member Cowboy's concerns, perhaps a longitunal overview/current appraisal of the gist of his topic might well be indicated? Recent mal-awareness of the legally-proper/socially-needful 'Informed Con...

Dude, seriously! I'm currently suffering from the worst bout of 'flu' I can ever recall I've had, (inc' secondary bacterial infection requiring anti-biotic Rx, & bulk palliatives), & since not having had any 'flu' in such a long time, I'd dec...

Yeah, student nurse anecdote time: Back in the day, our starting group of 30 student psych-nurses had 3 smokers. By graduation, I was one of 3, who didnt! Although, to be fair, smoking was rife, & over-tolerated back then, to the extent that the ...

True, & my view concurs, don't make remarks, verbal, or 'on the record' that you could not convey verbatim to the subject of those remarks themselves. Further, nowadays, lax/vulgar terms used in a professional setting ( & even in 'social medi...

Yeah, for newly minted RN's some 'limitation anxiety' is likely a good thing. I completed a 'hospital based nurse-training program' back in the day, & even though you were included as being 'part of the team' within the organisation, each student...

C'mon now Claralee, "honestly." Can nursing-student program entry/reading comprehension-skill prerequisites really be so lax, nowadays? Just wait 'til you have to read research! & about that, how might 'James', or 'Cowboy' be indicative of gender...

One more thing. Perhaps discuss your anxiety issue with an Rx prescriber. A small test dose of propranolol might be indicated/helpful. If that is permissable, of course.

A couple of suggestions. Watch Jody Foster's performance in 'The Silence of the Lambs'. If you can work at emulating that kind of anxiety control, you'll be ok. On the other hand, if you really find yourself losing it, now, & cannot overcome this...

Ok, T-P-B, here's my take - if you really want to put 'preceptor role' in the 'done it' column of your C.V. - for experiential skills, as a prerequisite for your course, then make the effort to put it to the 'powers that be' - on that basis. I doubt...

Yeah, seems like manager mclifford could 'usefully' attend some extra (mandatory) intensive 'feline-sensitivity' training. Herding cats/RN's requires a certain finesse, & frustration tolerance. Mere junk/comfort-food incentives only go so far, y'...

Ah, I don't think so.. There is deceit by omission, as well as by commission.. Both parties were a bit guilty of this, but one had more to lose.. If she'd been switched on sufficiently to take the "Are you a..." cue, then she could've said, "Oh this ...

"Thousands of years?" I knew women had longer life expectancy, but surely, its ~ a century, tops.. Seriously though, that life expectancy thing.. .. is partly due to men working in jobs that kill them.. & for "thousands of years" those men who...

Judgemental much? 'Feminazis' are people too, y'know.. Its not that I'd conflate personal dislike.. . with rejection of corrupt political motives.. ..that'd be emotionally retarded..

Some of the strident seeming 'feminazi'-like posts on this thread, bring to mind a saying my mother used.. "Two wrongs - don't make a right." Men who are nurses are both appreciated, & deprecated, due to perceived reactions to their sex, role &am...

Passing the Entonox? Dr Egon Spengler says.. "Yes, have some."

Bumping your own post Linda? Seriously? Not to needlessly bag your point, but I'd like to think that nurses can tell basic BO from problem indicative smells say, in metabolics such as ketones, or bacterial viz: purulent necrosis, or even unusual vo...

Double standard exemplar, or what - right there ..^.. Back in the day, legally - women were so restricted in matters of finance, & property rights, yet did sheet home debts/fraud issues to their men, too.. There is a hang-over in this attitude to...

I'd suggest she ought to maybe try swappin' some dat bad ol' sodium chloride fo' monosodium glutamate* then.. ..it sure done me a powah o' good! An' it's a legal high too! * I kid you not.. MSG as a neurotransmitter precursor, its some cool-as sh.....

Welcome to 1984.. ah, 2017.. You do of course realize that 'subservient men' have always been subject to the whims of those 'robber barons' too, - right? & for sure, regardless of ethnicity.. At least when women were 'chattels' of their father, ...

Odd convergence.. with pop-culture overtones.. The O.P. presents as an original 'Hot Lips Houlihan' - 'holier than thou' type, & the 'Sherlock Holmes' meme has been raised too.. The popular 'TV Doctor' show ( & where nurses were conspicuously...

Unless maybe.. they was thinkin'.. ..she'd got hair-loss due to cancer, or somethin'? & hadn't come clean on the application health questions.. Now I'd advise that 'A-Rab' smartmouth to wise-up some.. ..before funnin' too hard 'bout folk's idioma...

Excuses.. How difficult is it to swing by a shop that offers perfume tester sprays? Soldiers in the desert where no water was available even used gasoline to launder.. .. Ok, that's a maybe bit too far, yet a spritz of cheap commercial industrial sol...

Nah, sorry, but this simply 'won't wash'.. As if a pint of warmish water, a square of cloth, & a lick of soap - is unobtainable to those on even the most hard-pressed budget.. I'd say that lack of basic hygiene is clear evidence of the failure ...

This aspect needs to be specifically addressed in the patient management plan, & Ok'd by the treating team. If a certain level of (essentially superficial) self-harm 'scratch' is deemed Ok, as agreed by the patient & the T.T., no big deal.. i...

IMO, the OP has valid reason for feeling very hard done by.. After all, if she showed up rank with BO, she'd be confronted about it. Having made that plain, I think that given the 'sensitivity'.. & unpleasant fall-out that this caused, it serves ...