santhony44 MSN, RN, NP

santhony44 is a MSN, RN, NP and specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.

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   Well, heck!

   santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   Oh, I thought you worked for the plant. Well, if they can't find anything for you, then I'd sure look for another agency. It's hard for me to believe they can't find any shifts for you, though. Most seem to need people constantly. Something's fishy i...
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   Well, heck!

   santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   Can you do agency work until you finish school?
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   cholesytectomy during nursing school

   santhony44 replied to wishNhopeNdreamN's topic in General Nursing

   I had mine on a Friday AM and was back at work on Monday. I was walking a bit slow for a few days but otherwise was fine. I didn't have to do any lifting or pulling, though.
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   Just need to vent again, considering not going back to nursing school at all (V LONG)

   santhony44 replied to Comfortably_Numb's topic in Pre-Nursing

   If that's not verbal abuse, I don't know what is. Your mother needs help. You need to get out of there. Will your uncle take you in and treat you decently? If so, then move in with him. Get a job, anything you can get for now, to start supporting yo...
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   Every other weekend- what century are we in?

   santhony44 replied to lizva101's topic in General Nursing

   I think that if facilities were really interested in retention, and interested in drawing non-working nurses back into hospital nursing, then very flexible scheduling would be done more than it is. Obviously, from the replies on this thread, everyone...
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   Just one persons opinion

   santhony44 replied to dauschundlover's topic in General Nursing

   There's nothing wrong with evidence-based practice, although as someone else said there's good research and then there's not-so-good research. I can also understand the concept that some of my experience may not be particularly relevant today- after...
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   Employee Incentives

   santhony44 replied to michael79's topic in General Nursing

   Retention bonuses. I totally agree that huge sign-on bonuses to attract new staff while ignoring people who actually stay is short-sighted, to say the least. I really do not like raffles. Someone gets left out. (I admit it, usually me!) I think it's...
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   Terrified of drawing blood

   santhony44 replied to anxious student's topic in Pre-Nursing

   do not let this interfere with your nursing education! back in the dark ages when i went to nursing school we didn't learn to draw blood nor start iv's. (ojt, later). we did learn to do injections. it was one of the hardest things i've ever had to d...
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   A Doctor lied to make me look bad!

   santhony44 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

   Now that you mention it, the "jerk ratio" among urologists I've known has been disproportionately high! Years ago, there was one at the hospital where I worked who was well-known among the staff for breaking in line in the cafeteria. "I have to be i...
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    Former hospital nurses got a ? or anyone who can answer

    santhony44 replied to henryswife's topic in Correctional

    Hooch: alcohol. The drinking kind.
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    should i feel guilty?

    santhony44 replied to purpil29's topic in General Nursing

    In a word: NO. Don't feel guilty. If it will help any, call it a sabbatical. Say you need time to get you head together, to figure out what you're doing next. Say you're at a crossroads in your professional career, and have to re-center yourself, t...
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    written up

    santhony44 replied to cupcake25's topic in General Nursing

    That's very true. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day; she's a lab tech. She once got written up for not bringing the right kind of salad to a departmental lunch. (Her manager told her to bring pea salad, my friend had never made pea sala...
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    Got my evaluation today...

    santhony44 replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    The comment about not talking much to your co-workers is just plain silly. Are you there to work, or to talk? I don't think much of this trend of "evaluating" people on what other people are saying about them, without little if any investigation by ...
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    I can't believe she said that

    santhony44 replied to litebrightgirl's topic in LPN/LVN

    She reminds me of a couple of RNs I worked with years ago when I was an LPN. I'd ask questions about why a particular patient was on a particular med and get "you don't need to know that, you just do patient care." Translation: don't ask me questions...
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    Doctors and Nurses need to band together against out of touch regulatory overkill

    santhony44 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the day, as an LPN, I did hemoccult cards at the bedside all the time. Those things aren't rocket science, and haven't changed one little bit in 25 years. Now, as an NP, I can't do a hemoccult card in the exam room. I have to send the card d...