Being an on call operating room nurse.
Taking call is a standard part of scheduling in the operating room. I was an operating room scrub nurse for 11 years and I served my time a plenty carrying that evil, evil pager. The rules were simple in our hospital, we had the main day shifters 6:45-3:00, the lunch relievers 10:30-7:00, late shifters from [...]
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Help shoo the flu
With flu season rampant, we nursies in the world of medicine are more at risk for contracting the viral bug because we are surrounded by it. Here’s my plan of action for keeping me and my family well. As a nurse in medical sales, all day long I go from one physicians’ office to another, [...]
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7 Reasons Not to go to the ER
7. Lack of spurting or gushing blood. Ask yourself this question….How large is the puddle on the floor? Is it smaller than a quarter in diameter? If it is then you really should consider a band aid…maybe a snoopy one 6. You wake up and realize you are an hour late for work. The ER [...]
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My pet-peeves about patients.
I just have to say this. Sometimes I just want to slap my patients! Nurses (stereotypically) are generally compassionate people. I have to say I would fall into that category but, there are certain times when I have just had enough and the nice flies right out the window. I am just going to touch [...]
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Perks of being a nurse: free medical advice
The best thing that has ever happened to me as a nurse was meeting my soul mate who just happens to be a nurse as well. I’m not saying that if you go to nursing school and get licensed you to will meet your eternal soulmate. I’m just boasting a little that it happened to [...]
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Are you an apathetic nurse?
For a recent assignment in my advanced research class, we were to speak to nurses that we work with to see what, if any, nursing journals our coworkers read. Well, I was quite honestly shocked at the results, not only of what I found, but everyone else’s results too. What was discovered was that a [...]
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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 graduates. [...]
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