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  1. New Grad with 2 Job Offers - How do I decide?

    moldyoldyrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Not going to really give you an answer but just a few thoughts. 1-the rehab job lets you set a schedule that fits your family now. If you take it then you have time to learn more as an RN and simply...

  2. What Did You Get For Nurses Week?

    moldyoldyrn replied to iPink's topic in General Nursing

    Who uses pens any more with computerized medical records? I am sure there are a few places that have written records but so few. Why not a meal break, provided by the facility, you know pizza or...

  3. Manager catch phrases

    moldyoldyrn replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Why not just offer your sincerest apologies? Would be easy to ignore her and just go on about business. I often wonder if people who say things like that realize how Unprofessional is sounds and is....

  4. Adele parody video for "SCHOOL NURSE DAY"

    moldyoldyrn replied to tining's topic in School

    RNs are so under valued especially in schools. Kids need a nurse, so may kids have terrible home lives and RNs can only help them. We need

  5. Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

    moldyoldyrn replied to jack1971's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just like so many places that serve populations no one wants to deal with, understaffed to the max. No one cares if you work yourself to death and no one cares if the patients get any kind of care....

  6. Things LTC Nurses wish EMTs and Paramedics would understand.

    moldyoldyrn replied to downsouthlaff's topic in General Nursing

    I had a wide range of reactions when EMS was called to various facilities that I worked in. I called EMS for transport on a lady having chest pains and the fire trucks and everyone responded. They...

  7. Soon-to-be New Grad : I Don't Want to Settle for Med-Surg

    moldyoldyrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Good old med-surg is hard and tough. After you have worked med-surg I think you get more organized and it teaches you about coordinating care, setting priorities, the sort of thing that everyone...

  8. I'm Stuck - Need to Make a Quick Decision

    moldyoldyrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I would check out with the other students and find out if there are others in your situation. If there are and these changes are causing a problem for all of you then take yourselves, all of you and...

  9. Panic attacks following never event.

    moldyoldyrn replied to Iamgroot29's topic in General Nursing

    Seek help and depending on the state you are in you may be able to claim against workers comp. It's called a stress claim and you have to prove the reaction you are experiencing is related to the...

  10. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    The last patient I had on a Clinitron was a young diabetic who was in renal failure and was broken down from waist to foot. She wanted to live so bad but had never cared for herself the way she should...

  11. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    moldyoldyrn replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    Amen. I worked with some who "hung out" while I worked and intervened with their patients because there was a need. I will not let a patient be neglected, ever. I was considered hard nosed because I...

  12. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    moldyoldyrn replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    I spent 43 years stomping the halls doing direct care, doing clinical education and caring directly for patients. I tried admin and fled, yes fled back to direct care. I have a BSN and Masters and am...

  13. racist patients

    moldyoldyrn replied to Rn 1979's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Being with only those like myself is very boring. Diversity is the core of creativity and richness in life. I will not live in a world nor a place that is not diverse. I love all the opportunity and...

  14. When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    moldyoldyrn replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I have always maintained that one should ACT like a Nurse rather than "look like a Nurse". After all anyone can buy scrubs or white costumes at a costume store. What matters is that we perform like a...

  15. Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

    moldyoldyrn replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    In a word

  16. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Th smaller picture looks like the autoclave we had on my unit at Grady Hospital back in the early 1970s. It had become defunct but we could heat our dinners in it if we had time. I do remember mixing...

  17. Veteran's Day 2016 - A Salute to Military Nurses

    moldyoldyrn replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I was a Navy nurse for 12 years. It was one of the best jobs I ever had, actually probably the best. The education I got was astounding (I had my BSN when inducted, got my Masters on duty), the...

  18. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Never will forget when I discovered a white cream shoe polish and could get rid of the Sani-white and the chalky junk it made. My shoes were so clean and white and no one paid attention. That was when...

  19. Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

    moldyoldyrn replied to jack1971's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Amen. And there are many out there who cannot "recognize and intervene" and some do not want to do that. Here is my take tough, these new grads need support for at least the first year from some RN...

  20. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I think we hit the mark on the "fun topic". what a

  21. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I am wondering if anyone ever threw back? I would have been

  22. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Where i first worked we made 0-2 masks out of dixie cups for our peds patients. No such thing as a peds mask. It worked

  23. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Do I ever miss my white clinics. Sigh, they were hard to polish but beautiful even when worn

  24. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    And knowing how to vent them properly so they would flow. Can't tell you how many times I had to correct that

  25. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    moldyoldyrn replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Epidermal clysis, they are bringing that back some places as a way of gently hydrating fragile people. Who knew, I remember reading about in my text book, that big pink volume that was updated every...