3ringnursing BSN

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    Bra under scrubs!

    3ringnursing replied to LPN_WA's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    The Most Comfortable Wire-Free Bras: Our Top 10
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    What's the most desperate thing you've ever done to advocate for your patient?

    3ringnursing replied to MECO28's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You are amazing. I hope you win a huge lottery for that act of
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    What's the most desperate thing you've ever done to advocate for your patient?

    3ringnursing replied to MECO28's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work from home, but I baked chocolate chip cookies and drove it to a clinic for a provider and team who agreed to see a pt that wasn't his whom had just showed up at the clinic hoping to be seen for...
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    Backstabbing in the work place

    3ringnursing replied to Catherine.H's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Telephone
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    Does anyone really read all this charting?

    3ringnursing replied to gypsierose's topic in General Nursing

    I read Master IM notes, and other people's charting all the time. Yes, I need to get a life
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    Can We Talk? End of Life Discussions

    3ringnursing replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    It can be difficult sometimes to ensure the patient's wishes are carried out and respected when there are family members with completely different ideas about what mom/dad/aunt Millie needs - and are...
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    What HARD truth have you learned once you became a nurse and/or CNA?

    3ringnursing replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    #1 and clear
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    What HARD truth have you learned once you became a nurse and/or CNA?

    3ringnursing replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I think I'll make this into a tee shirt (or have it etched on my
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    ER Nurse to Lunch Break Before Medicating Patient for Pain

    3ringnursing replied to wondern's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, kids say the earnest things, huh? LOL And yes, that boy meant to hurt my little muffin (although I think he may have shat himself when the gun shot crack of the bone breaking echoed through the...
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    a small gift to preceptors

    3ringnursing replied to RN_17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Gifts say, "Not only do I appreciate all that you did for me, I also took the time to think of you right back". I have a fake cut crystal soap dish a family of an ICU patient gave me +20 yr's ago (I...
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    ER Nurse to Lunch Break Before Medicating Patient for Pain

    3ringnursing replied to wondern's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wondern, I'm so sorry your husband was in pain longer than he had to be. I understand about the need for breaks, but honestly as I've had many shifts without a lunch because the road apples were...
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    Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    3ringnursing replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Every one of us were precepted, without exception. We all had to learn from someone else first. I always felt it was my JOB to precept when called upon to do so. I never minded because I never forgot...
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    No Respect.

    3ringnursing replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I do too. It was also easier to bar entrance to visitors in those open bay area settings. No meant, well ...
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    No Respect.

    3ringnursing replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I am Thurston the Magician, and I will be your nurse this evening ... I will grant any wish in the blink of an eye, no matter how
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    What HARD truth have you learned once you became a nurse and/or CNA?

    3ringnursing replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    That the general populace doesn't consider a nurse as a real person with feelings (and perhaps neither does administration). I've had more clear headed, cognizant patient's sneeze or cough in my face...
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    I don't know how I could've handed this differently

    3ringnursing replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah (sigh) ... they would never understand that the amount of time they were taking from you every shift was actually being lost in their loved one's direct care. In one way you can't blame their...
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    Many nurses do not chart?

    3ringnursing replied to Guest716906's topic in General Nursing

    Now that IS the conundrum, is it not? "If you didn't document it you didn't do it". We've all heard this phrase - from the newest newbie, to the saltiest and most experienced nurse (probably...
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    Wants to Work From Home

    3ringnursing replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I work telephone triage nursing from home and it's the best nursing job I've ever had. I love it - it's my forever job until retirement (God willing). Feel free to send me a personal message if you...
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    respiratory therapist

    3ringnursing replied to nursingnurse2b1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Love the joke! And, as sputum (reeeeeeetchhhhh ) is my kryptonite - particularly the foul smelling kind, I will take poop over snot (hoike! Yakkkkkk ...) any day. I once knew an RT who actually...
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    respiratory therapist

    3ringnursing replied to nursingnurse2b1's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've never seen an RT doing heavy lifting of any kind - unless I was SOL and had no one to help me turn, position, or clean a soiled patient and they took pity on
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    Oregon Pre-nursing student in need of reassuring words

    3ringnursing replied to djksjdalksjf's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I turned 27 right after graduating and taking the NCLEX - this is the age I began my nursing career. There were older, and younger amongst the 33 of us out of the remaining original 40 in my...
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    Operative Disimpaction - PPE

    3ringnursing replied to jackandjill123's topic in Operating Room

    That must have comprised the surgical site - how is the
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    Matt Lauer Fired due to Inappropriate Sexual Behavior. Has This Happened to You?

    3ringnursing replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I worked at an unnamed facility in 2002 - I worked in the ICU at the time and had a CNA come up behind me one day while I was titrating vasopressors and squeezed my breast out if the blue. I couldn't...
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    Do you consider it helpful or not to be given a Pt’s attitude during a report?

    3ringnursing replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Every little bit helps. Especially if it diffuses a massive blow out behavior wise. It certainly can't hurt. Sometimes the off going nurse needs a nonjudgmental source to vent to try to not take it...
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    New nurse, opinion?

    3ringnursing replied to bluehealer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You did everything you could possibly do to get this done before day shift arrived for report, and before the bolus was late (potentially leaving the patient in pain) except for attempting to hold the...