PeacenJoy

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1. Nurse Sick and FIRED: Exploring Nursing Absenteeism

   PeacenJoy replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   In the hospital where I used to work, we had a nurse who called in sick. The manager said he did not believe her and she needed to come in and threatened her job. During her shift, she fainted and fell. She ended up being admitted in the same hospita...

2. Quitting Small Residency for Bigger, Better Residency

   PeacenJoy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I love this site and I am usually a silent stalker of articles and posts on this site. However, this time, I cannot believe the amount of bad advice for this new nurse that I am reading. Let me give you my advice, which might be bad, but in my 10 yea...

3. Patients Say the Darnedest Things - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

   PeacenJoy replied to Brian S.'s topic in General Nursing

   This is more about me than the patient. When I started working as a new nurse, maybe 8-10 years ago, I called the doctor for a patient who was very nauseous. She said to given the patient promethazine PR. I had no idea what PR meant, but I didn't wan...

4. Fired By My Patients

   PeacenJoy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Let me give you some advice that has worked for me: overwhelm them with your knowledge. When a patient looks uncomfortable with me due to something or other, I overwhelm them with knowledge. When they ask a simple question, I answer in such detail t...

5. "Your job is to make me happy"

   PeacenJoy replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

   I worked in a very busy ER. After wheeling the last of my four patients to the parking lot, I always return to the ER with four brand-new patients who need IVs, labs, urine, EKG, not to mention history and assessments with documentation. Then we get ...

6. Everything is our responsibility. Rant.

   PeacenJoy replied to dudette10's topic in Relations

   The most recent annoyance was several weeks ago when the physical therapist called me and said that the patient's BP and pulse went up when she was trying to get the patient up. Should she put the patient back in bed and what was my name so she can p...

7. Dealing with "haters"...

   PeacenJoy replied to mmcc26's topic in General Students

   You know what, there are a lot of techs where I work who said that they dropped out of nursing school because the teacher hated them. Always thought this was bull because I had a teacher who did not like me. I actually thought that she's gonna fail m...

8. The most outrageous excuses from patients.

   PeacenJoy replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   "My father ran out of his BP pills, so he hasn't taken it in two months." I understand, I said, as the Doctor told you, his troponin is high, which is indicative of some cardiac damage. I was thinking to myself, you didn't bother to refill your fathe...

9. Internal transfers- your thoughts?

   PeacenJoy replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

   Actually, I am trying for an internal transfer right now. I want to move from med-tele to ER. If it doesn't come through, I would have to quit. Of 8 the people they hired in Aug 2011 for my unit, I am the only one left. Everybody else went to another...

10. How does your facility flag blind patients?

    PeacenJoy replied to notjustanurse's topic in General Nursing

    I had a blind patient a couple of weeks ago. I gave him the nurse's call button and told him not to get up without calling me. I moved his finger to the big red button on the control. He said, "Oh I see, this one said nurse, this one said TV." He cou...

11. My NCLEX story...8th times a charm!

    PeacenJoy replied to chiromed0's topic in NCLEX

    Wow, 8 times?!! Obviously, you are not unintelligent, judging by your work history and your long paragraphs. What I can attribute it to, I'm thinking, is the fact that you didn't learn how to think like a nurse. Your nursing school or teachers presum...

12. Unemployed for 2 years, No one wants me anymore.

    PeacenJoy replied to lumbarpain's topic in Retired

    Broadway, I think you need to find someone to take a look at your resume. I am surprise that not one out of 500 resumes had a bite. With as much experience as you have, intuitive knowledge that you accumulated does not just go away, and the practical...

13. The Mockery of Nursing

    PeacenJoy replied to Old.Timer's topic in Relations

    Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but this thread is hilarious.

14. The Mockery of Nursing

    PeacenJoy replied to Old.Timer's topic in Relations

    oooo I got one: Why do you want to know how much the jobs pays? You shouldn't be a nurse for the money. You should work just because you love it...

15. Is anybody applying to Austin/Seton for June 2011 cohort?

    PeacenJoy replied to PeacenJoy's topic in Texas

    Congratulations!! Great job. Austin looks like such a great place to live. I know you will enjoy living there and working there for more than two years. I didn't apply for the NICU because neonatals scared of the beejesus out of me. I know you'll d...