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  1. Childcare costs

    Q. replied to military spouse's topic in General Nursing

    12 hours seems like a very long time to have a kid in daycare. I *think* most centers have a 10 hour limit, but I could be wrong. I think some options are that nurses who do 12's use the center for...

  2. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    No, currently I work as a Patient Education Specialist. But my graduate education was in nursing education where I learned all aspects of teaching in all areas: academia, staff development and...

  3. Age when you had your first child?

    Q. replied to sugabuga's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm 32 and 7 months ago gave birth to my first, and last, children: boy/girl twins. The timing was perfect for hubby and I. I wanted to be settled into our careers before introducing children into...

  4. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    Very true, but depending on the type of clinical or the year of the student, as an instructor I might not want my students getting sidetracked by playing detective on finding missing labs or ensuring...

  5. Does anyone love their job?

    Q. replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I was just telling my husband how I love what I'm doing! I like the nursing profession, but am disappointed in it and it's fragmented and immature presence. I wish nursing would get it together and...

  6. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    I never said it was limited to the medical field, nor was I talking about a new job in a profession. I was talking about education and just mentioned in particular the medical field. As an...

  7. not getting a raise that was promised

    Q. replied to belle2's topic in General Nursing

    Can you clarify? Are they actually dropping your current pay by $1 or is your raise a $1 less than promised? Did you actually get a dollar amount in writing from your

  8. Your employer's policy re: *snow and ice*?

    Q. replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Of course, but one person's definition of "usually inclement weather" can be much different from someone else. For some, the 3 in snow fall this AM could be "unusually inclement" because it was a fast...

  9. Your employer's policy re: *snow and ice*?

    Q. replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    But by that logic, you could get into an accident and get killed by driving during a SUNNY day. I used to work in an inner-city hospital in a VERY dangerous neighborhood. Should I call in and not...

  10. Please help me understand/Domestic Violence Question

    Q. replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    In answer to the OP's question:

  11. Why can't I shadow a nurse...

    Q. replied to lancerRN2b's topic in Nursing Career

    Here at my institution we allow observational experiences all the time. We just have the person sign a form regarding confidentiality etc. Forget the school and contact a local hospital - ask for the...

  12. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    Physically going to the unit and copying down a list of medications is not a learning process. Looking up the medications and figuring out how they interact with one another or the patient's...

  13. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    Nah, it was worth a shot on the part of the student. Depending on how desperate my situation was, I might have attempted the same thing. Part of what irks me about education, especially in the...

  14. working on Christmas?

    Q. replied to scrmblr's topic in General Nursing

    I totally

  15. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not so sure you were doing her homework for her; it sounds like she just wanted the bare facts, like vitals, etc ~ the homework is her interpretation of, or careplanning around, that data. Her...

  16. Nurses: Delighted or Annoyed by Nursing Students?

    Q. replied to AthensICURN's topic in General Nursing

    What's so interesting is that where I worked as an educator, our primary feeder schools were technical colleges and ADN programs. In fact, 80% of our nurse staff was ADN prepared. What was annoying...

  17. Faith Hill makes fun of nurses!

    Q. replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    VERY interesting

  18. EPA Proposes Chemical Testing on Some Children

    Q. replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    You should also post this in the nursing research forum. I don't see how this can even move forward. I don't see how any Institutional Review Board would approve this. While it's true pregnant women...

  19. Treating residents/patients like idiots

    Q. replied to Mirai Kangofu's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I never refer to my patients as "hon, sweetheart," nor would I want to be addressed as such. Do people refer to doctors as

  20. What do you think about egg donation?

    Q. replied to sherichance's topic in General Nursing

    She is the birth mom but the father is also involved to. Even though the father isn't physically going through the pregnancy, he IS going through his own stage of attachment, preparation, etc....

  21. House, MD last night.....AAAGH!

    Q. replied to SteveNNP's topic in General Nursing

    I don't watch ANY medical shows after

  22. Non-viable baby, born alive -parent won't hold him, what do you do?

    Q. replied to enfermeraSG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    No prob, I get it. :) It's awfully hard to write out a response and account for every.single.idea that may come up or be

  23. What do you think about egg donation?

    Q. replied to sherichance's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I could see how that could be percieved as selfish on the part of the dad, but say in the case of us, if biological children were important, wouldn't it be kind of a natural progression to...

  24. What do you think about egg donation?

    Q. replied to sherichance's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't realize that. For some reason I thought that in the case where I was pregnant with say, oh, EIGHT embryos, I would be able to reduce down to say two with the remaining 6 donated. Yes, SR is...

  25. What do you think about egg donation?

    Q. replied to sherichance's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't do it. We went through the whole infertility process and wound up with twins ourselves, but the topic of egg donation came up and my husband and I decided against it. Part of our desire to...