Nurses intuition.
This post is more of a question to you, the readers, than it is a definitive statement. My question is this: what is a nurse to do when there’s a conflict between her clinical suspicion and a doctor’s orders?
I vividly remember an incident that occurred on a surgical floor when I first started in practice. [...]
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When the patient is Houdini, it’s not my fault.
Most of us have been in the situation where things happen beyond our control. Well….when a patient gets the bright idea to rip out some tube or line or other very important and most often not easily reinserted piece of medical equipment….who gets the blame most often? NURSES. Now, I really [...]
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Become a CNA, Then a Nurse
(This is guest post by Sandra Stevens, a Career Blogger. For more information on Certified nursing assistant Training you can visit her blog over at http://cnatraininghelp.com)
Have you been thinking about a career as a nurse? Are you looking into nursing schools for your new career or to attend upon graduating from high school? [...]
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Are nursing unions necessary?
Are nursing unions really necessary? I am trying to look at this from all angles of medicine. The first point of view I am going to take is that of being a patient. I have been very fortunate in my times as a patient to be surrounded by amazing, educated and capable nurses. A good [...]
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Are more nursing degrees too much?
In October, at the Blogworld Expo I had the privilege of hearing “Nurse Ratched” who blogs at her site Nurse Ratched’s Place speak on a panel. The most fascinating thing she discussed (at least to me) was a phenomenon she noted of nurses always undercutting other nurses. She had written a blog post [...]
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7 reasons I loved being an operating room nurse
1) I could go to work in my pajamas because the hospital provides the scrubs, so I got to change when I got there. I could take a cute outfit to put on after work for any about town errands or about town bar hopping afterwards.
2) I did not have to fix my hair because [...]
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VIP patients
I do not know if this is a practice in most hospitals, but where I work it is. Some patients are considered “very important people” when they come in to the hospital and this allows them to pretty much do as they please. There really are no rules for these patients or their families. You [...]
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