clemmm78 RN

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About clemmm78

clemmm78 has 25 years experience as a RN.


I've been a nurse since the early 80s, my last job was in palliative care. I've been working as a medical writer and editor for 10 yrs, finally giving up clinical nursing completely a year ago.

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  1. clemmm78

    Is it frowned upon???

    Many nurses work part time in one place and in staffing agencies during their off hours. Nothing greedy about that. The only issue is if the staffing agency sends you to your part-time place of work.
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    Is that even legal?

    Does it specifically say it has to be *your* photo?
  3. I'm not young but I like to live my life on days off too - just sayin' I'm always a bit surprised by new nurses who are afraid they'll fall asleep working nights. When I did work nights, we were too busy to sit down for more than five minutes, let al...
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    IV starts in nursing school

    uh no. We had to learn, yes. But I was not about to allow someone to start an IV in me for practice. I know how much it hurts, no matter how good the nurse is at starting IVs. We didn't learni n school but were taught in the hospital where we ended u...
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    Holiday Nursing

    Having worked more holidays than I can remember, I feel that too many nurses make themselves miserable over this. Who says celebrating Christmas or Thanksgiving has to be on that particular day? The only time, in my mind, where it's not movable is if...
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    Bullies

    One of the best approaches when something like that is to say innocently and very incredulously: Now why on earth would you do that? (after the bed incident) Why are you yelling at me like that? I'm not quite sure why you're speaking to me like this ...
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    Being trained by CNA to do procedures

    I have a feeling you'd have a difficult time finding a doctor show you how to give an enema!
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    Change of shift call lights

    We always had one staff member assigned to come in a half hour later and leave a half hour later so he or she would cover the call lights. It didn't matter what your title was, RN, assistant, whatever. If it was your turn to cover, you covered all th...
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    "That's why I don't like working with women"

    Thanks for the comments. I don't take the line personally. I just find it funny that *women* blame women for bad environments. It's as if the woman doing the blaming is perfect but the other women around them aren't. That's all.
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    Calling out sick. How much notice?

    what I don't understand about the "call back later, closer to the shift to let me know if you still can't come in" mentality: When I called in sick several hours before my shift because I was sick, I would then go to bed and try to sleep as much as I...
  11. You know, I've lost count of the number of times I've read this comment (just read it a few times in another thread). What I don't get is most of the people (if not all) who write this are women themselves. Does this mean that the women who write thi...
  12. am I the only one who doesn't care for automatic BP machines? At one place I worked, the nurses depended on them so much, even using the results for the heart rate. How can you tell the quality of the pulse if you never feel it? The machines don't te...
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    Giving injections question....

    That's what alcohol swabs are for.
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    I prefer working with new grads,or non-hospital nurses

    It often depends on how you expect to be treated. Because of this "nurse eat their young" mentality that so many nurses buy into, many new grads come in with a chip on their shoulder, acting like "no-one's going to mess with me just because they have...
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    What type of nurse does this?

    Most advanced practice nursing programs require a few years of experience first.