facetiousgoddess

facetiousgoddess specializes in subacute/ltc.

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1. residents and phone use

   facetiousgoddess replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

   Exactly my point ktwlpn and CCM.......its just that at times as a floor nurse every time a new P&P comes down the pike.....I grown inwardly because there is always that realization that we wouldn't have/need a new P & P if something hadn't go...

2. residents and phone use

   facetiousgoddess replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

   Totally off topic here guys... but this just kinda kills me...... that we need a policy to help residents use the phone i smell survey... would be tempted to write Phone Usage/Assistance for Impaired Residents 1. Pick up phone. 2. Dial requested num...

3. Considering FT agency, a few questions...

   facetiousgoddess replied to NoMoreStudying's topic in Agency

   Hi Guys.... I'm an LPN new to agency. The agency I signed with has only one facility in my immediate area. (e.g. I don't want to drive more than 15 miles.) So at the one facility they pay 30$ an hour. I picked up 14 shifts with them for this month. ...

4. FDA ALERT: Antipsychotic Drug Use

   facetiousgoddess replied to Talino's topic in Geriatric

   Has anyone else read Comfortably Numb? It explores the use/overuse e of antipsycotics, meds for depression, how its all diagnosed and the role of the drug companies in promoting use of these meds..... very very interesting..... Tres

5. Reprimanded for cleaning up after myself!!!

   facetiousgoddess replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   rotflmao!!!! seriously, i understand cause i kinda have a case of ocd when it comes to the nurses' station....i can't abide a messy one. i don't mean charts, labs or tools of the trade....but when it looks like a mickeyd's gone bad.....and all the st...

6. do you check you license for any discipline?

   facetiousgoddess replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

   I looked up mine...clean as a whistle....however I had lost the direct link to the AG site.....so I went in the long way.... interestingly enough when going the long way....license information was under the subdivision of "consumer complaints". anyo...

7. I want her fired!!!!

   facetiousgoddess replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Nursing

   and this is why I will probably not return to sub acute/ltc.....I'll either suck it up and take the pay cut to work with my favorite doc or return to social work..... too many times I have found myself saying "Sir/Ma'am in the state of New Jersey ver...

8. funny story

   facetiousgoddess posted a topic in Geriatric

   Last night at work we had yet another "honorary full moon." More than the usual amount of sundowners circled around my med cart. As I give them their meds, oddly enough they start to disperse. Except for one....she says "What about me?" I say "I'm ...

9. How do you get through YOUR day?

   facetiousgoddess replied to epsilonprodigy's topic in General Nursing

   I wear my grandfather's St Dymphna medal pinned to the inside of my ummmm brassiere...I swear I'm turning into my grandmother... But I figure who to better understand a nurse than the patron saint of "mental and nervous disorders." Cause I swear the...

10. wrongfully acused

    facetiousgoddess replied to roypatrick's topic in General Nursing

    Roy, I was once accused by our medical director of writing an order for lasix 40mg po qd x 7 days dx CHF. When our DNS "discussed" this with him he changed his story to "Well, she was diagnosing, she had no right to write "CHF". When our DNS pointed...

11. Such a 'tool'

    facetiousgoddess replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    whomever was angry with you is the real "tool" in this situation... Tres

12. "And it's all going to be your fault"

    facetiousgoddess replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    true that was not your fault!!!! but don't you sometimes, kinda wish, we could will things like that to happen? so we could honestly say :igtsyt: "that is my fault!!!!!!!!":smokin: tres still sick n twisted

13. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    facetiousgoddess replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: I just have this urge to jump up and down screaming "RIGHT ON!!!!" or in this case....write on.... I agree with you whole heartedly and wanted to say "Thank You." Tres Who is taking the summer off, so I don't go the martyr route.

14. HELP,I have to clean my sons room today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    facetiousgoddess replied to proud2b1's topic in Stress 101

    Hi. My name is Tres and I am a neatfreak. My son is 16 and we have been battling over his room since he was 11. It is the only bone of contention in our relationship. (Yes I totally realize how blessed we are :redpinkhe ) However, this is my take...

15. Hospitals That Phase Out LPNs

    facetiousgoddess replied to psalm's topic in General Nursing

    Psalm, Both of our local hospitals went through a phase were they would advertise "All RN Care, All the Time". 3 years later....hiring LPNs back without the proviso that they must become RNs within a specified time frame. I know it doesn't answer you...