bossfrog

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1. Got my antibody test results

   bossfrog posted a topic in COVID

   Back in mid-December to mid-January I had what I thought was a strange cold. I had a cough that was productive with an expectorant but only minimal nasal drainage or congestion. It would get better for a few days, then come back bad again for 4 or ...

2. COVID-19 Are the droplets somewhat airborne? Conflicting reports

   bossfrog replied to Pete W.'s topic in COVID

   I wouldn't listen to Mayor Bill. He's the genius who was telling everyone to go to concerts and theaters and parades and festivals on March 13.

3. Critical question, please advise ASAP

   bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not worried about ever reapplying there and I'm frankly not worried about what she might say about me. My work history prior to her is rock solid. The bottom line is that I feel my license is in undue jeopardy under current conditions and that ...

4. Critical question, please advise ASAP

   bossfrog posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I am giving my resignation to my current employer this evening which is to be effective immediately. I cannot give them 2 weeks notice due to concerns about protecting my license. I work in dementia care assisted living and due to some shady ac...

5. Am I wrong? Is this legal?

   bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

   Yep. You're right. I mean, yes, the doc's name always goes on the order form in the morning, but that's NOT the way it's to be done. Just to clarify, in case it hasn't been to this point, I personally NEVER do this. When a referral comes to me I d...

6. Am I wrong? Is this legal?

   bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

   Elkpark: Your first paragraph above is exactly right. When patients come overnight, the admission orders (PRNs, vitals, labs, home meds, etc.) aren't gotten until morning. That itself isn't generally a problem and isn't uncommon. The problem is ...

7. Am I wrong? Is this legal?

   bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks Davey. But what are those appropriate outside agencies? And the write-up really just pissed me off more than anything. My DON said if I'm not comfortable bringing in a pt without talking to doc, that's fine. But the administrative people a...

8. Dangers of teaching kids they can be boys or girls

   bossfrog replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps you, too, should step away from your high horse and get some perspective. Quit pretending you know everything. A great number of teens - particularly younger teens, get on the transgender train for various reasons. One that I see most ofte...

9. Am I wrong? Is this legal?

   bossfrog posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been a psych nurse for 6 years and did some traveling for a while. At my current job in Indiana (which is a permanent job, not travel), they have a practice that I'm not comfortable with and I can't seem to find anything definitive to confirm...

10. Being asked to false document

    bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    Essentially what this is is management pressing us to fudge the data for them to help the unit meet Core Measures metrics on smoking cessation and I've decided along with a couple others not to do it. If they want to threaten discipline, we'll have ...

11. Being asked to false document

    bossfrog posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I work on a psych unit. So I come into work tonight and we have a new "read and sign" instructing us to always put "yes" when our assessment form asks if the patient is interested in smoking cessation, smoking counseling, FDA approved smoking ...

12. Charting Bloopers

    bossfrog replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

    I'm a psych nurse. Last night when attempting to do a reassessment on a borderline patient, she flipped me off and walked away. So I charted the following: "When this RN attempted to initiate a conversation for reassessment, the pt displayed the...

13. How many 2010 grads still looking?

    bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. That's pretty much where I'm at. Except you have a few more months of experience on me. You should be able to claim a year's experience in peds and qualify for about any peds job soon enough.

14. How many 2010 grads still looking?

    bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, we're definitely going back to WI anyway when we get our tax return. (Unless somewhere around here hires me in the next 3 months or so.) We lived in Green Bay for 8 years and we've been away for 6 years and miss it dearly. Between Green Bay,...

15. How many 2010 grads still looking?

    bossfrog replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, my supervisor told me the same things. When the mom removed me from her case, my supervisor said I did nothing wrong and said, "Welcome to home health care." I explained to the mom that it is not within my legal scope of practice to modify pr...