mamabear

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1. Psych Nurse ="not a REAL nurse"?

   mamabear replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

   I've been a psych nurse for 20 years, and it's about as real as anything can get. (I also work midnights only, so sometimes I've been "double zapped" for not being a real nurse and working a shift where I don't do anything!)

2. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you very much! I have nothing against men getting their prostate glands checked. However, I've never in all my years heard of a prostrate gland. Yes, I was being sarcastic (duh!). Give me a break :angryfire

3. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   No, this is by no means new. I'm a perfectionist who bores others to death with my petty annoyances, such as men getting their prostrate glands examined.

4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   once again, it's "couldn't care less". :angryfire didn't most of us go to college and have to take english 101?

5. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

   mamabear replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

   Another Trib reader! I agree wholeheartedly.

6. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

   mamabear replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

   On his best day! If he knows so much about the history of psychiatry, as he claimed during the audacious interview, ask him who is Benjamin Rush? :chuckle (He's considered the father of modern psychiatry.)

7. Has a patient asked you to help him/her die?

   mamabear replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I've had people in general ask me what drugs are "good" for a quick suicide, such as those with very ill loved ones, but nobody has asked me to help them. The Hemlock Society has published a "helpful" (?) book entitled Final Exit for people who wish ...

8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Then there are those who think schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are one and the same :angryfire That really frosts me :angryfire :angryfire

9. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   How about admissions that come at shift change that the preceding shift knew about and didn't do JACK! :angryfire

10. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Amen!! I graduated in 1982, back in the day when they were referred to as "patients". When my newer-to-nursing coworkers started that "client" drivel, I was honked big time. :angryfire It makes no sense whatsoever, and some of us posed the question: ...

11. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mamabear replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    There's no excuse for that kind of behavior. It got so bad at my unit that the students wrote a memo to our clinical manager re: staff talking during taped report, staff ridiculing whoever was speaking on the tape, ridiculing the patients who were be...

12. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    mamabear replied to mamabear's topic in General Nursing

    Some of my former coworkers had been at the 2 Charter hospitals in the area and they got the ax big time Some of them waited years to get whatever wages were do them. After this latest rude event, several of them talked about getting out of hospital...

13. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    mamabear replied to mamabear's topic in General Nursing

    I live in a small town/rural area of Northwest Indiana and we weren't unionized. Some of us wanted to investigate it further, but we were told: Catholic hospitals don't unionize; unions were only for "problem areas" (Gary, Indianapolis); there aren't...

14. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    mamabear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a satellite facility comprised of 2 psych units: child & adolescent and adult. On 3/3/05, our main hospital abruptly and with less than 2 days warning, closed the kids' unit. It had been a financial disaster almost from day 1, but it ...

15. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent advice! However, aspirin and Advil are not the same. Aspirin is, well, aspirin. Advil is ibuprofen