BradleyRN

Med Surg, LTC, Home Health

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About BradleyRN

BradleyRN has 32 years experience and specializes in Med Surg, LTC, Home Health.


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  1. I would say the best move would be for all nurses to drop to PRN status. Then when they are begging you to work, you can give them stipulations, like either give me PPE or no coronavirus patient. I don't see how a nurse wouldn't feel responsible for ...
  2. School barely prepares you for the real world. It takes a year, and everybody did it. So regardless of how others act, they were once like you are now. Ask questions. Don't do procedures you haven't been shown and then overseen performing. Be a new n...
  3. Nurses stab each other in the back all the time. They will talk about the girl who isn't there, but when she's back, she will be in the circle talking about someone else who isn't there. Bored, unhappy people. Who cares what they say or think. One ba...
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    I really want to quit..any advice?

    Come on now. Half your post is blaming mean patients. Is that really the main reason you want to quit?
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    Terminated the third week into my orientation

    You seem to try to exonerate yourself for being late just because they hadn't started report. "That was considered late", like you don't know that. And then the "unfortunate mistake of oversleeping". Haha. You can't be late, missing classes, taking y...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Companies just sent 280 million masks overseas. Those shipments should have been stopped and redirected to our facilities. Trump still hasn't released the supplies promised by the Pentagon. 1000s of ventilators apparently don't work because Trump let...
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    Covid-19 and PPE

    Nurses have the right to refuse any assignment they feel to be unsafe.
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    That is ridiculous. "Equipment is never guaranteed"? Ludicrous! You would willingly spread the virus to your grocery store clerk, your family, other patients and your fellow workers, trying to be a martyr. You do what you want, but leave me out of wh...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    If you take care of a patient without appropriate PPE, you risk contracting the virus and taking it to the rest of your patients for 2-14 days until you realize you are sick, as well as family members, grocery store clerks, etc. You could kill severa...
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    I don't get the "anxiety" part of nursing

    The title of the thread is "I don't get the "anxiety" part of nursing"? You're telling people not to cry? You seem a little flippant about the things you "occasionally miss", and perhaps that gives you an edge in the anxiety department. And I'm sur...
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    Cussed out and disprespected by CNA

    It is the lack of true disciplinary action in LTC that gives CNA's this "untouchable" attitude. It is due to such apathy from the DON and administration, that i would recommend to any floor nurse to handle the discipline on their floors themselves. ...
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    Attitudes towards LPN's

    Do you have a little bit of disrespect for CNA's as well? Pompous! :stone
  13. All you need to do is write them up...If you ask them to perform their duties and they refuse, then that is insubordination. After you write people up a few times, word will spread like a ripple in a pond that you are a real charge nurse, and the pe...
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    This site never ceases to amaze me!

    Happy Birthday Tait! :BDCk:
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    Should medication aides exist?

    That was a beautiful post Mentos. A few med aides have told similar stories to yours, and they all seem to paint the same frightening picture. If you ever need any help in any subject while working towards your RN, please let me know. The world ne...