Nov 8 - Nov 14 Hottest New Topics
A safe place where nurses and friends can discuss non-nursing subjects. Hot off-topic discussions for everyone. Lots to do - talk about politics, home-computing, recipes, weight loss tips, and much more.
Blogs
It was a happy productive morning on the postpartum floor. I was busy with my group of clinical students overseeing "BUBBLEHE" assessments, reinforcing breastfeeding techniques with the new moms, performing non-stress tests on the antepartal patients, drawing labs, hanging IV maintenance fluids, and administering medications. This was a pleasant unit with all the new mothers and babies. read more
"Stupidity is a lot like nuclear energy---it can be used for good or for evil, but either way, you don't want to get any on you."
This is never more true than when taking care of patients who have done incredibly idiotic things to themselves that require medical attention. I've had a few who make me feel as though my I.Q. drops 25 points every time I walk into their room.........as if their stupidity somehow rubs off on me and causes me to go through the rest of my day pulling boneheaded stunts, like writing half a page of nursing notes in the wrong patient's chart and going home with the narc keys. read more
Articles
If you are like most Travel Nurses, you couldn’t have helped but notice that assignments dried up quite a bit last year. In a profession that basically lives or dies based on the nursing shortage, you would have thought that there were more than enough local Nurses to go around last year. There was in fact a surge in the number of nurses available for local work, but it wasn’t caused by new nurses coming out of school exceeding more experienced nurses getting out of the profession. read more
Topic
I reported it to the supervisor and she wrote the nurse up and stated that she was going to report it to the manager, so my question to any of you out there is this, do you think that this nurse was acting like this out of fear, negligence, or both. I also have to report this incident to the manager, but do you think that i should ask the nurse what happened before I do. read more
Student Discussions
One of my classes is taught in a lecture auditorium with about 90 seats and 72 students. Exams are given in this auditorium. It resembles a movie theater with rising rows one section is dead center and their are two sections--one to the right and one to the left. Obviously testing under these conditions is "uncomfortable" to put it in one word because if you want to cheat all you have to do is move your eyes..no looking up or twisting of the head is necessary. Most people have their papers covered like hawks. read more
Regional Discussion - Oregon
I'm looking for some opinions based on sound experience in the nursing community. I was going to apply to a few nursing programs this Fall for the following year, but recently had a conversation with an admissions advisor at what will remain an "unnamed" school. In any case, they said that in spite of the 14 As and 1 B I have completed for the prereq courses that I stand a snowball's chance in Hell of getting into a nursing program because I have absolutely no medical experience... read more
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