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Preventing Workplace Violence: Strategies for Nurses & Managers

2011-04-24T10:53:00.000-10:00

Preventing Workplace Violence: Strategies for Nurses & Managers

The Nursing Show: News, Tips, and Commentary for Nurses and Students - Download free podcast episodes by Jamie Davis on iTunes.

2010-05-21T12:22:00.000-10:00

Here is a great site for quick nursing related refresher topics. You can subscribe to their RSS feed or in iTunes as podcasts!Enjoy :)

Unemployment Blues

2010-01-17T17:15:00.003-10:00

am in that very predicament of having to choose to advance my nursing career, but feel pressured to change career directions altogether. Being recently laid off after a almost cushy 2 years of State employment, I now have been tossed back into the mix of "the unemployed". Feeling displaced and unsought here where I live and earned my degree, I am one of the many nurses who are struggling to get a

My Career Test Path

2009-12-17T13:53:00.001-10:00

The Dewey Color System® is the world's first and only validated, color-based personality career testing instrument. Based on our experience and your interests, your best suited occupations are listed below.BEST OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORYYou're a CREATORKey Words:Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and EmotionalThese original types place a high value on aesthetic

TV programming secrets, cable doesn't want u to know about

2009-12-02T18:52:00.003-10:00

The best way to get the channels and quality YOU want for LESS......pssst, pass the secret on!

My Horoscope is soTrue its scary!

2009-10-09T18:38:00.001-10:00

October 09, 2009Scorpio (10/23-11/21)You're tired of the same old, same old. The routine. You're so tired of it that in the middle of your intense little heart, you're quite sure that if you don't do something to change it soon, you won't be any good to anyone. Not yourself, not your loved ones and certainly not the people who depend on your keen intuition and impeccable work skills to get them

Isn't bedtime just plain yummy

2009-05-09T19:57:00.004-10:00

Scooby and his bunny calling it a day.

Now you see it, now you dont

2009-05-05T14:06:00.004-10:00

Here is another item I just purchased as well. I think the concept of this transparent case when iphone is active is AWESOME! I hope it delivers! Key Feature: •Brand new custom tailored for iPhone 3G •Fully covers the entire front face of the iPhone 3G with greatest protection, not just covers the lighted screen section•Keeping the LCD screen clean and unscratched•At standby mode, it shows mirror

Ultra-Case is ULTRA cool

2009-05-05T14:02:00.002-10:00

Ultra-Case.comI cant wait for this case to come in! I ordered it yesterday and they said it would be here in 5-10 days. I hope it looks great on my 3G! Its a shame to have a nice, new phone and have an ugly rubber case on it.

Going it alone tonight

2008-10-17T02:22:00.004-10:00

At 430 pm this afternoon I found out I was going to be alone for the night shift in the ER. UUGGGGHHH! Talk about stress and being pissed off. Does the supervisor NOT look at the schedule daily and staff appropriately or what? This is the second time I had to go at it alone. Know I know we are a small ER, but it still doesn't mean I can't get the BIG ONE coming in or an assaultive creep come in.

When Docs get "Short Timers Disease"

2008-08-26T01:13:00.003-10:00

There's this doc who will be leaving us shortly, who just doesn't seem to care anymore about how he treats his patients. In and out they come and go. A head lac, not cleaned, skin just pushed around a bit and stapled. No "nurse please irrigate this wound" but of course we do it anyway. No signed orders, writes for prednisone taper despite us writing down that the patient already takes 50mg

A Dark Place

2008-08-21T10:39:00.001-10:00

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Off to work I Go

2008-02-07T08:51:00.001-10:00

So today I head off to a local High school to escort and provide skilled care this teen. It's about time I got some work through the agency. Even the bus driver asked where I've been. He said that no one escorted this teen yesterday and the agency CD had to do it. It baffles me why they think I am not available. I gave them my availability for February and still they struggle to staff their

Blackberry Users: AudibleAir for your smartphone

2008-02-06T10:45:00.000-10:00

Now you may enjoy downloading audible books, magazines, newspapers, even nursing text/reference materials directly to your phone! Manual Installation of AudibleAir using your phone's Internet Browser: Audible OTA Installation * Open the following link in the Internet Browser of your phone: * http://download.audible.com/audibleair/java.htm * Select the install for your phone and begin

Rules for the Emergency Room

2008-02-04T23:10:00.000-10:00

Here are some tips to those who may end up in an ER, be it yourself or a family member. * If it requires the ambulance team and entire truck crew of firefighters to transport you and safely place you on a hospital stretcher, it is time to go on a diet. * When you present to the triage nurse, do not tell him/her that your doctor called ahead. If you survey our waiting area,

Nursing Inspiration

2008-02-04T22:30:00.001-10:00

I asked for StrengthAnd was given Difficulties to make me strong. I asked for WisdomAnd was given Problems to solve. I asked for ProsperityAnd was given a Brain and Brawn to work.I asked for CourageAnd was given Danger to overcome. I asked for LoveAnd was given Troubled people to help. I asked for FavorsAnd was given Opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

Nursing Inspiration

2008-02-04T22:30:00.000-10:00

My Ultimate Dream Job.....Flight Nurse

2008-01-31T00:00:00.000-10:00

I really want to be a flight nurse! I am looking into getting some more ER under my belt, sitting for some Trauma Certification course in February and seeing what else I might need to do to achieve this goal of mine. I am drawn to this type of career, I love the fact that I can be a nurse and have the thrill and personal challenge of being a trauma flight nurse. My boyfriend isn't thrilled

US Navy Signalman E-3

2008-01-30T23:33:00.001-10:00

I thought I'd post a little something about who I was in the past. I use to be an E-3 Signalman for the US Navy back in 1989. Here is a picture of a sailor doing his thing with the semaphore flags and a pic of me (last year) standing at a signal light aboard a ship that we SM's use to do morse code with. The following is a brief description of a Signalman's (SM) duties:SMs stand watches on

Columbine High School shootings 04/20/1999

2008-01-30T23:05:00.000-10:00

The only reason I have this on here, is that this is my high school and that day when I saw it on the news I became numb, cried and left like I was there. Remembering is educating and sobering.With much sorrow, respect and fellowship to my fellow Columbine Rebels.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi326_Dav6I

You Might Be a Nurse If....

2008-01-29T17:05:00.000-10:00

You Might Be a Nurse If.. You believe that there is a special place in hell for the inventor of the call light. You believe that not all patients are annoying....Some are dead. You believe that the gene pool could use a little chlorine. You use the acronym FOS for constipated patients...(Full of shi*). You have told a patient to "Get some rest now" and they die right there, in front of you

When the Nurse is the Subject of Violence

2008-01-29T16:28:00.000-10:00

By Tina Brooks (Experienced by me....islern) SOME LIFE EXPERIENCES, both positive and negative, have so much impact that they change the course of one's life; just ask Yvonne McKoy, RN, PhD, CS, DABFN, associate professor in the department of nursing at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. "I was a victim as a student nurse," McKoy says. "I was also victimized when I was working with a client.

Moral distress

2008-01-29T16:26:00.000-10:00

"Recognizing moral distress is an important step toward resolution, yet many nurses are unaware of how it may be manifested. Examples from current literature along with vignettes from the author's experience are presented to illustrate the concept.""Job satisfaction and moral distress. Bowles and Candela (2005) studied new nurses' perceptions of their job satisfaction. Nearly one-third of