MarisL

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1. Feeling extremely underappreciated

   MarisL replied to Medic2RN_'s topic in Relations

   Excellent advice. First and foremost: Thank you for all you do. You definitely are a valuable worker, and the job you do matters greatly. When the CNA in my area is working as hard as I am, it makes things so very much better for our patients. A ...

2. I am not proud of my track record.

   MarisL replied to STARL's topic in General Nursing

   Yes. Exactly. OP: Reading your post, it seems to me that it is an almost classically exact description of self sabotage. You express that you are puzzled about why you have done things that have led to multiple job changes in a short time period. I w...

3. HELP! Threats to call BON!

   MarisL replied to Nechic01's topic in General Nursing

   " It doesn't sound like you "get" it but I'm not really needing you to get it. This post is for nurses that have had any experiences with BONs. You don't have to understand how I worry or even what I worry about. I'm not you and we are two different ...

4. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

   MarisL replied to adventure_rn's topic in Humor

   Started my career many years ago as an aide in LTC. Strangest thing I have seen happened there: Very elegant aristocratic elderly woman, pt was let's say in her mid 90s. She'd moved several lovely pieces of furniture into her TLC room and it looked l...

5. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

   MarisL replied to adventure_rn's topic in Humor

   Don't you hate it when you have to call a new doc in the middle of the night and he sleepily mumbles an order, the entirety of which is "Hunh? Humm, well, OK, why don't you order him some Haldol." (MD line clicks off as he immediately hangs up.) Oh...

6. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

   MarisL replied to adventure_rn's topic in Humor

   HD may give us a closer view than the consultant was expecting, but yes, it drives me crazy to see the guy in NCIS or whatever that is about to undergo any autopsy CLEARLY still robustly breathing. I keep thinking "Ekkk....well, this isn't going to e...

7. HELP! Threats to call BON!

   MarisL replied to Nechic01's topic in General Nursing

   " My patient population is mainly chronic non-complaint people and I'm so used to being verbally abused at work on a daily basis by patients that you develop a shell. You almost have to in order to survive. " Yes, that happens. More readily to those ...

8. Helping patients kill themselves

   MarisL replied to Cwoods's topic in NP

   While I am glad that you gained great spiritual growth through your ordeals from your religion, I am sorry that you had to go through such pain and distress. Your values gave you a framework for your choices. I'd guess that you would not have wanted...

9. Help!! ICU Nurse Needing Advice!

   MarisL replied to Ingrambl89's topic in Critical

   In the hospital I used to work in, ICU was right down the hall from our unit. Several of our unit's (experienced) nurses eventually tried working there. Despite any level of prior experience, I never saw one of those nurses who did not find the fir...

10. Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

    MarisL replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I take it as an attempt at a compliment. It doesn't land that way for me, but I'm pretty sure it is usually meant that way. That said however, Nursing has fought for a long time for recognition as a career worthy of respect (and dare I say pay) more...

11. Not paying license renewal fees on time (random thoughts)

    MarisL replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    Priorities: Nursing license fees. Second, driving and auto license. Third, rent. And I hope to never have to choose using that list - that must be a really rough situation. My sympathy to anyone who has had to choose. A few years back our state dev...

12. Calling them like you see them: Codes

    MarisL replied to MarisL's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the useful feedback. I've seen things change a lot over the many years I have been in nursing, and you are spot-on that an organized, articulate presentation can open closed ears. Any other specifics jump out at anyone (regarding wha...

13. Colleagues who hate patients

    MarisL replied to Emergent's topic in Relations

    If people were perfect, the nurse you spoke about would probably be out of a job. Hospitals everywhere would close because so few people needed them. Sounds to me like that nurse is really hoping to draw a line, one that divides "people with a right...

14. Calling them like you see them: Codes

    MarisL replied to MarisL's topic in General Nursing

    OK. Slip-sliding to more useful question, then: Disregarding the specific circumstances of the prior post, how about a broader question: Have you ever had difficulty calling a code, OR more broadly, getting your patient what they need, because of ...

15. Calling them like you see them: Codes

    MarisL posted a topic in General Nursing

    You know how once you have been nursing a very long time, you often know early on when a patient is going critically bad? Some of the clues you can articulate, others are harder to put into words. I was wondering if anyone else has ever had an occasi...