deanzgurll

deanzgurll has 15 years experience and specializes in burn.

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1. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   Insurance companies hmmm? what do I have for proof...just my own word. They can and do put orders in the charts retroactively. In the break room one day another nurse let drop that her provider was taking ss# out of charts to use in getting other ...

2. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   ...I suppose that depends on how you define "MATTERS". It matters to me that I am right (and believe me I stewed about this for weeks, all the time wondering what I had done to deserve this, what I could have done diffrently..we all do that I think...

3. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   ..YOU HAVE BEEN THERE..but tell me...how common IS it for clinics to have such convoluted, disfunctional , canniblistic work cultures?

4. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   ...ANGIE O'PLASTY?...JOULE of an RN?...OOOHH MAAAN...LOL

5. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   Dear AZ>>>, report the office manager and the lab to who? I already tried going up the administrative ladder, and believe me, they don't want to know. To give her some kind of credit, she works her butt off for this system, 24/7. She did...

6. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   ...that last line almost made me cry...thankyou. I am not really sure but I think the "redirect road" only works when ms boss has a license of her own.

7. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll replied to deanzgurll's topic in General Nursing

   i REALLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY. But the issue really isn't about knowing what to draw. It's about choosing to do an invasive procedure; even one as simple as phlebotomy without a doctors order. Although the chance of the patient suffering an injur...

8. Fired for refusing to draw blood without an order.

   deanzgurll posted a topic in General Nursing

   FAIR WARNING Y'ALL...THIS IS BOOK LENGTH My first job out of school was as a burn nurse at a university hospital. When I started the unit put new staff through a kind of hazzing. I had a fairly compliant personality when I got there and I went ...

9. I'm having second thought about being a nurse.

   deanzgurll replied to shawnrj's topic in General Students

   Dear Shawn...I am going to get alot of flack for this, but hey. Nursing school is like any other kind of school...there is alot of hoop jumping, alot of info you will never use and depending on what you are lucky enought to be exposed to in clinic, ...

10. DRS ARGGGGHHH! Can't live with them, can't shoot them!

    deanzgurll replied to MrsWampthang's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a large MAGNET state teaching hospital for 15yrs and everytime I went to the NM with such a problem her response was, "sure, but nothing will be done anyway and they will make all our lives miserable." I think administrations job there wa...

11. "What Do You Want Me To Do About It?"

    deanzgurll replied to welnet66's topic in General Nursing

    I tell them, IN DETAIL!!!