zeeblebrox BSN

zeeblebrox has 1 years experience as a BSN and specializes in neuro/trauma ortho/trauma.

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1. Nurse Donates Uterus to a Stranger

   zeeblebrox replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Headlines

   I would love to donate my uterus. I have no use for it why shouldn't someone who would want to use it have it.

2. Do Hospitals Get Prestigious National Awards for Poor Nursing?

   zeeblebrox replied to d'cm's topic in General Nursing

   This is what they want us to do. Those that don't get called into offices to discuss their customer service, because their patient complained that the nurse stated they couldn't have their dilaudid, that they set their alarm for, when their blood pre...

3. Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

   zeeblebrox replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

   Having learned from experience I would not have given him the cup of coffee. Had a patient like this and once he got the coffee he decided it wasn't good enough and threw the whole cup at us. Boiling hot coffee as a projectile NO THANKS.

4. Got a nurse aide fired... did I do the right thing?

   zeeblebrox replied to Live.Love.Nurse.♡'s topic in General Nursing

   From personal experience with sleeping aides/techs/sitters having a long talk with them doesn't work. I've tried everything offering the a break so they can get the blood flowing and "wakeup" which has been repeatedly turned down by multiple aides. ...

5. Violence in Nursing

   zeeblebrox replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I unfortunately have experienced work place violence multiple times. I have been punched, kicked , scratched, spit at, purposely peed on, tele packs whipped at my head, strangled once with my stethoscope and once with a call light cord. Not one time...

6. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

   zeeblebrox replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   So I was taking care of an older male who was a large man who was bedridden, incontinent, with Alzheimer. It was my third day with him and the previous two days he adored me so I'm not expecting anything out of the ordinary. I go in to see him and ...

7. New nurse, how can I hide my emotions?

   zeeblebrox replied to stargirl018's topic in Professionalism

   I've been at this for almost 9 years and I have a slightly different problem. If I am really concentrating on what someone is saying or thinking hard on what I can do to fix a problem people misread the look on my face to be mad. I am always havin...

8. Is this really happening??

   zeeblebrox replied to rue2235's topic in New Nurse

   Run don't walk away from this job. They obviously don't care about safety the patients or yours. They don't care about your license either. to not even have an aide with that many patients is ridiculous. You need at least an aide to keep an eye o...

9. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

   zeeblebrox replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

   The schools around here not only recommend it they require it for entry into the clinical portion of classes.

10. Welcome To The Hospital - From Your Nurse

    zeeblebrox replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    If your in visiting someone do you put the call light on wanting the nurse to bring you a coke and oh what do you have for snacks, no i know the patient is NPO this is for me. I think this is what the OP means about the about feeding the visitors. Y...

11. What is the strangest thing...

    zeeblebrox replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

    We had a patient and their family member steal our Gerry chair

12. Nurses Eating Their Young

    zeeblebrox replied to Doc Lori, R.N.'s topic in Relations

    I think that there has been a slight change to the way the eating of nurses has been happening. While there have been older nurses that eat their young their are younger nurses who think they are gonna cull the herd and go after the older (seen as w...