How to do the best job as a surgical nurse – from a surgeon
When you went through your OR training for surgical nursing in nursing school, I’m sure that you heard from the experienced scrubs about what made a good scrub nurse and all the many different things you needed to know to become one. I want to offer you my perspective from the other side of [...]
- October 31st, 2009
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Ways to make money in your time off. Part II- Direct sales
There are literally hundreds of different companies that now have no (or very few) physical stores but instead use individual salespeople to sell their products to friends and co-workers. But to paraphrase George Orwell, not all companies are created equal. In addition to some really fabulous opportunities, there are also a lot of [...]
- October 29th, 2009
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My most fabulous things to do in Vegas during Blogworld
So nurseWendy’s kind’ve scared of the techies and I fear for the hosts of the “unlimited vodka party” (details here) since nurseJennifer’s liver is wired for vodka-sound. But I’ve been to Vegas many times (this year alone) and I’m neither scared of flying nor searching for the ultimate hang-over cure. What’s a cynical [...]
- October 12th, 2009
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Ways to make money in your time off.
I was really tired the other day after the eleventy billionth 2 a.m. phone call. While the 3rd Red Bull of the day chewed away at my gastric mucosa, I turned to NurseWendy and said, “wouldn’t it be nice if I could just quit and go be an aerobics instructor for a living? Then somebody [...]
- October 7th, 2009
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Finding a Nursing Job
Despite the fact that the national news keeps trumpeting nationwide nursing shortages, a lot of nurses – especially new graduates- are having trouble finding jobs. You can look at almost any message board and find people concerned because there are simply no openings, or if there are openings, there are none that want new [...]
- September 20th, 2009
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5 ways a nurse can avoid pissing off a doctor.
Why are phone calls often so hostile between doctors and nurses? We’re both medical professionals and generally speaking can communicate with another sentient human being without screaming. So why can’t we all just get along?
My biggest pet peeves:
1) Page me to a number and walk away – I know some docs [...]
- September 12th, 2009
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How to be a triple A office nurse. The 3 A’s of success.
A while back I wrote about the basics of being a good office nurse. Today here are the 3 A’s of success.
Be agreeable, maybe even a bit deferential; what else? Anticipate, anticipate, anticipate. What do I mean? An okay nurse will pull all the charts for the next day’s clinic, a good nurse [...]
- August 1st, 2009
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