clemmm78 RN

clemmm78 has 25 years experience as a RN.

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   Is it frowned upon???

   clemmm78 replied to lpn-ny's topic in General Nursing

   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
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   Is that even legal?

   clemmm78 replied to BettyBoop01's topic in General Nursing

   Does it specifically say it has to be *your*
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   Red bulls, No-doz, Coffee and Caffeine pills!!

   clemmm78 replied to Dee_RN's topic in General Nursing

   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...
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   IV starts in nursing school

   clemmm78 replied to sunnycalifRN's topic in General Nursing

   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...
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   Holiday Nursing

   clemmm78 replied to lsad78's topic in General 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...
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   Bullies

   clemmm78 replied to jbee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   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...
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   Being trained by CNA to do procedures

   clemmm78 replied to Ginger80's topic in General Nursing

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

   clemmm78 replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

   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,...
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   "That's why I don't like working with women"

   clemmm78 replied to clemmm78's topic in General Nursing

   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...
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    Calling out sick. How much notice?

    clemmm78 replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    "That's why I don't like working with women"

    clemmm78 posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    ....and they had Dynamaps in every room!! (a nurse has gotta dream!)

    clemmm78 replied to Walden-Puddle, RN's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Giving injections question....

    clemmm78 replied to AprilRNurse's topic in General Nursing

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

    clemmm78 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    What type of nurse does this?

    clemmm78 replied to Shelby029's topic in General Nursing

    Most advanced practice nursing programs require a few years of experience