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The title---borrowed from a nurses' desk calendar---is self-explanatory. The situations that give rise to these sayings, however, are not.
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Nursing Articles
I wish I had a dollar for every time my mother's or my mother-in-law's bad behavior prompted a nurse or a CNA somewhere to tell me that. Mom curses at me and tells me I'm ugly and stupid -- the nurse sighs sympathetically and says "that's not your mother, that's the disease." Meaning Alzheimer's. My mother-in-law kicks, screams, spits, scratches and bites when the urge strikes her. And the CNA helpfully tells my sister-in-law "It's not your mother. That's the disease."
Clinical News
Biofield healing is associated with a significant reduction in fatigue and cortisol slope in breast cancer survivors, independently of belief, according to a study published online Aug. 5 in Cancer.
Nursing Humor
I'm working in the ICU, down to one patient because my other one got a helicopter ride to the big flagship teaching hospital in the capital....when we get a call from ER around 2 am. Patient unresponsive, found in the middle of the road, possibly hit by unknown vehicle, can my charge let me come down? I also work in ER so I could be an extra set of hands down there for the patient, and since I'd be the one getting them anyway...win for ER, win for ICU.
General Nursing Topics
Just the other day, my preceptor asked me to "get in front of this guy" who was 71 years old, 300 lbs, demented, and combative. He also had sprained something in his leg from falling a while back and was unwilling to stand. So 4 other people and me had to reach under his arms and bear all his weight onto our backs to try and shuffle him from the bed to the wheelchair so that he could be discharged. We did get him into the wheelchair but he was about to fall forward at one point and so my preceptor had to charge forward into his gut and ram him with her head in order to stop his fall forward and send him backwards into the wheelchair instead. It was one of the most absurd things I have ever taken part in.
Student Nursing
I am getting ready to start my last semester of nursing school and it has me wondering where I want to end up and where everyone in my class will end up! So what area do you guys want to end up in after school??? Did it change from what you thought you wanted when you started or have you found your niche in nursing school?
Regional Discussion - Pennsylvania
I was just wondering if anyone has any info on the Lehigh Valley GN internships. I'm going to St. Luke's School of nursing right now, and I dont graduate for a year, but I'm trying to make a plan of what i wanna do when i graduate. I really have my heart set on eventually working in a PICU... I love the ICU and I also love peds. So I would really like to get into the LVH Critical Care internship upon graduation. I am going to do my best to try to get ICU for my preceptorship and hopefully that will help. Anyone know how competitive the internships are? I will be graduating in August, so that may be good or bad. no one else in the area will graduate at that time, but its just 3 months after the other colleges graduate so maybe they wont be running the intern program at that time?
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