dzadzey MSN, RN

dzadzey has 19 years experience as a MSN, RN and specializes in Dialysis, Hospice, Critical care.

Latest Activity

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   Happy Nurse's Week! You ROCK (literally a rock given to RN's for Nurse's Week)!

   dzadzey replied to CABGpatch_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Welp...Nurses Week is, mercifully over. Nurses everywhere got cheap trinkets, mediocre food and cheap sentiment from hospital administration. Hospital administrators got lots of opportunities to lavish nurses with empty praise and mawkish sentiment. ...
2. 

   Who should decide?

   dzadzey replied to PPediRN's topic in Headlines

   Nor is my argument about "spending government money". It's about quality versus quantity. It's about the toll futility of care takes on us as nurses...on the patient's families. Being realistic about end of life issues and death is NOT something we, ...
3. 

   Who should decide?

   dzadzey replied to PPediRN's topic in Headlines

   Medical futility and reality trump hope and prayer. Just because we can maintain the function of a human body until the patient's skin blisters and they have weeping wounds on every extremity doesn't mean we should.
4. 

   Is nursing theory actually used by working nurses?

   dzadzey replied to BCRNA's topic in Professionalism

   Nursing theory is a guide...not writ in stone absolutes...a guide, to nursing practice. Nursing practice is wholly contextual, and nursing theory, nursing experience, life experience, and a whole host of other subjective personal experience contribut...
5. 

   Nurses' Week - Upended.

   dzadzey replied to evilolive07's topic in General Nursing

   National Nurses Week - The one week of the year hospital administrators pretend to care about the well-being of nursing staff.
6. 

   Any Buddhist Nurses?

   dzadzey replied to CriticalJ's topic in Spirituality

   I took refuge in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism back in the 90's and, like you, the philosophy of Buddhism speaks more strongly to me than the metaphysics of Buddhism, although it is still relevant. Having worked in ICU for 10 years, meditatio...
7. 

   What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   dzadzey replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   Had one family the other day crowded in a room after the patient passed, the room smelled like a wet ashtray even after is was cleaned.
8. 

   What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   dzadzey replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   "Sputum... of any kind. Especially have an aversion to trachs... ya know, when they cough and a glob will fly across the room. I just can't even. But along this same topic, does anyone find that their ability to handle blood/bodily fluids is get...
9. 

   What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   dzadzey replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   Patients and families with an overweening sense of entitlement, treating nurses and our support staff as if we were wait staff at a Waffle House.
10. 

    Why are so many nurses against unions?

    dzadzey replied to Icunicenurse's topic in Union

    National Nurses United (National Nurses United) is a good place to start. They can provide you with the training and resources...online and out of sight of management...you need to begin organizing. As nurses, we either hang together or hospital admi...
11. 

    Where is our "Safe Haven"

    dzadzey posted a topic in Activism

    I have passed this sign countless times, and I finally just couldn't stand it anymore. It reminds me of a sign I saw posted in a yard in Norfolk, Virginia when I was stationed there years ago. It read "DOGS AND SAILORS NOT Allowed On Grass". But more...
12. 

    Education of Nurses in the United States

    dzadzey replied to irenedelapaz's topic in Activism

    While inroads are being made in increasing the number of BSN prepared nurses at the bedside, the number will still fall far short of the recommendations in the 2010 IOM report on The Future of Nursing. Part of this lies in the still high numbers of A...
13. 

    Do we need a union? Management is taking advantage of us.

    dzadzey replied to Windynurse's topic in Union

    "I believe that sooner or later nurses and all other workers in hospitals will organize themselves in unions to protect themselves against the injustices of low pay, overwork, overtime without pay, and other intolerable working conditions. Anyone ...
14. 

    Black listing

    dzadzey replied to RN4JUSTICE's topic in Activism

    A nurse who I worked with on our unit for several years accepted a position as clinical nurse manager. I said, " I would congratulate you, but admin will throw you under the bus at the drop of a hat". About six months later, our entire unit managemen...
15. 

    Tired, Burned Out, and Broke...

    dzadzey replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    We attended our grand-niece's "white-coat" ceremony at OU School of Osteopathic Medicine several years back. It was a wonderful event, with all of these young people being welcomed into the medical profession with open arms. Contrast that with my fir...