Sour Lemon

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    This job sucks. Please Help!

    Sour Lemon replied to NurseyWorsey66's topic in General Nursing

    Plant a tree? Take a walk in the
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    other rn mama's ..going back to work after

    Sour Lemon replied to erin01's topic in General Nursing

    This "newborn" is six years old now. Hopefully they figured things
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    Wearing Scrubs Outside of the Workplace

    Sour Lemon replied to NewGradRN114's topic in General Nursing

    Medical assistants, CNAs, unit clerks, telemetry monitors, lab techs, veterinary technicians and even hospital housekeeping staff wear scrubs. Scrubs don't show the "whole world" anything about what...
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    Wearing Scrubs Outside of the Workplace

    Sour Lemon replied to NewGradRN114's topic in General Nursing

    Patients don't just teleport to the hospital from alternate realities. They are also out shopping before and after their hospital visits. I'm not a huge fan of going anywhere after work, but sometimes...
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    Patient huddles: how to improve compliance?

    Sour Lemon replied to PCMH2016's topic in General Nursing

    Here's a tip. The patients don't care if it's time to huddle. They want their needs met and they want them met NOW. There's nothing more annoying that a meeting in the middle of a busy shift. Just...
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    Job Hopper

    Sour Lemon replied to 1Sharon1's topic in General Nursing

    If you just inherited a small fortune, then quit. If you have another degree in something highly marketable, look for something in that field. If you need the income and have no other marketable...
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    New Grad trying to deal with stress

    Sour Lemon replied to Newgrad665's topic in General Nursing

    A psychiatrist for coping strategies at a new job? That might be a little overboard unless you have some underlying mental
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    Family stole from me

    Sour Lemon replied to Speedy15's topic in General Nursing

    How did a patient's family come in contact with something of yours valuable enough to steal? It's never happened to me, but I don't create opportunities for it to happen,
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    Behind on charting?

    Sour Lemon replied to rhernandez748's topic in General Nursing

    You might want to scale down your narrative charting. If it's already in your assessment (for one thing), it doesn't need to be repeated. Try reading other nurses' notes or asking them to read yours...
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    Possible to get RN by next August?

    Sour Lemon replied to hellofish's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Those are very specific questions that only the programs you're interested in will be able to
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    Question-New graduate & Out of State- California License

    Sour Lemon replied to Popeye24's topic in General Nursing

    Here are their current processing times. Processing
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    School and working

    Sour Lemon replied to NurseKash's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Now that you're a nursing student (or soon to be one), you should consider a more anonymous presence on the internet ...at least with anything that relates to school or work. That means no "real"...
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    The "How was your day" question

    Sour Lemon replied to dma13's topic in General Nursing

    No one cares how your day was, that's just polite small talk. If someone started rambling on about "emotional distress", cancer and overdosing in response to that question, I'd be very tempted to give...
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    Answers for the Teas v ati test

    Sour Lemon replied to Shakdizzle's topic in TEAS Exam Help

    The NCLEX pass rate for their nursing program is below 80% and they're listed as "provisional approval status". I doubt they'll turn you away if you're funded. That being said, they way you currently...
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    Administering opiates

    Sour Lemon replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    These comments really surprise me. Do you talk to your "drug-seeking" patients? If you create a supportive environment, they will tell you their stories. A lot of them started out with a legitimate,...
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    Bullied by a colleague

    Sour Lemon replied to enc123's topic in General Nursing

    I will never understand this reasoning. We don't go to school to learn how to write in school, we go to school to learn to write everywhere else. Do you leave driving class and swerve all over the...
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    Why are nurses sexualized?

    Sour Lemon replied to Sykadia's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see that they are more than anything else is. There are "sexy" maids, pirates, school-girls, lions, bumble-bees, etc. It doesn't even have to be human to be turned into something
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    Easily annoyed

    Sour Lemon replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing

    What you may not be considering is how understaffed and overwhelmed those other departments are, as well. Their workload is likely as heavy as your own which is why things get delayed, pushed aside...
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    Too old to become a nurse??

    Sour Lemon replied to MyteMite's topic in General Nursing

    I would not want to start this job in my 50s knowing what I know now, but there are people who do with no regrets. My biggest concern would be the physical labor aspect of many nursing jobs (the kind...
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    Administering opiates

    Sour Lemon replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    In some locations its taught and customary to dilute. The biggest advantage I can think of it that it allows the actual drug to be pushed closer to its safe administration rate. It's difficult to push...
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    Administering opiates

    Sour Lemon replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, you're not the type of patient being discussed here. These patients notice if it's "fast, slow or what" because they're looking for the rush ....sometimes along with pain relief, but often not....
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    Narcan pens for kids to use on parents?

    Sour Lemon replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Some situations deserve to be judged
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    misconceptions about nursing pay

    Sour Lemon replied to johsonmichelle's topic in General Nursing

    Where is that? I only know DMV as the Department of Motor
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    misconceptions about nursing pay

    Sour Lemon replied to johsonmichelle's topic in General Nursing

    "Nursing pay" will vary greatly ....especially from location to location. I wouldn't spend six figures for a nursing education anywhere,
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    The struggle is real!

    Sour Lemon replied to Eigy's topic in General Nursing

    Six months is not very long in med/surg. They say it takes about 2 years to feel OK and about 7 years to feel pretty competent. That being said, it sounds like you're pretty at home in OR. Is there a...