forgop

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1. Attorney contacted me about lawsuit

   forgop replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not willing to testify on behalf of anything outside my scope of practice or to anything they don't present to me that I charted about this patient, so any other specifics, I cannot recall or I don't know will be my answer to anything that can't ...

2. Attorney contacted me about lawsuit

   forgop replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

   And by the way, I'm not a "she". Spoke with my friend/attorney last night and he supports my position-no talking with either side period until there's an actual subpoena. I'll tell the attorney my availability is only between 1-1:30am on a lunch ...

3. Attorney contacted me about lawsuit

   forgop replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

   This case hasn't identified me as being negligent or identified me as a malpractice complaint. Thus is against the MD'S that saw the patient named in the complaint filed in court for failing to diagnose and treat. I recognize this will go to trial a...

4. Attorney contacted me about lawsuit

   forgop replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

   This is the hospital's counsel. The plaintiff has evidently named every person that documented something as a witness, so meeting with this attorney will do nothing to alleviate getting a subpoena. The risk management department made 2 earlier attem...

5. Attorney contacted me about lawsuit

   forgop posted a topic in General Nursing

   Attorney contacted me about a civil suit about a case filed against the hospital. I was not at fault, but they're literally trying to bring everyone involved. This happened over 2 years ago and no longer work for the hospital being sued. The attorney...

6. New offer today-not sure what to do

   forgop posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been an RN for 3 years now. First 1.5 years was spent in the ER and the last 1.5 years has been in critical care at a different hospital. After spending a full year in critical care, I realized it just isn't the best match for me. I get b...

7. Art line question

   forgop posted a topic in Critical

   First and foremost, I don't like art lines. I find them in patients coming from PACU with no real need for them in the first place in almost every instance. That said, I had a patient last week with an art line that was frequently moving and had s...

8. So discouraged - a male RN working in a woman's world

   forgop posted a topic in Relations

   I have a bit of a different track into nursing as I decided after 10 years in a prior career that I wanted to something more meaningful in my life. Admittedly, this prior career was more heavily dominated by men and had much less drama. Anyway, I j...

9. Struggling with being my own dads Hospice Nurse

   forgop replied to foudini's topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new RN-I changed careers as a way of somehow being able to give back to others for what I was unable to do for my parents. It was 6 years ago (yesterday) that my dad passed and today is every bit as rough for me as it was then. It seems to m...

10. Can you explain what exactly I was exposed to?

    forgop replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not asking for medical advice. The only problem with going to my PCP for this exposure is that the visit/co-pay as a result of this comes out of my pocket. I'm told I will see a NP when I go in for the blood draw tomorrow at the occupational he...

11. Can you explain what exactly I was exposed to?

    forgop replied to forgop's topic in General Nursing

    I should have been more specific. The ICU is on the 3rd floor and cafeteria on the 2nd floor. However it happened, the runoff went into the oven.

12. Can you explain what exactly I was exposed to?

    forgop posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work at a hospital and was contacted last week about an exposure at work from the occupational health department. After working this past weekend, I was disgusted to find out what happened. As the story goes, an ICU patient was undergoing contin...

13. What are your pet peeves?

    forgop replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, I don't get the concept of people giving something for every fever. I think our pediatrician doesn't even really encourage meds until you're at least 102. By treating the fever, you're not allowing the immune system to do what it's supposed t...

14. New Grad needs advice for an ER RN interview this week please!

    forgop replied to KGMM's topic in Emergency

    Seems like a stupid HR policy then-giving out free educations and then not recouping their investment. Don't blame them for taking advantage of it. I'm planning on enrolling in NP school and the hospital will pay for most, if not all of it. I'd ha...

15. Want to transition to OR

    forgop replied to RachaelRN7's topic in Operating Room

    Hope you have better luck than me. Granted, I'm a relatively new RN, but in all of the OR postings, I always see "must have prior OR experience". It's not like anyone is willing to train you.