DavidFR BSN, MSN, RN

DavidFR has 38 years experience as a BSN, MSN, RN and specializes in Oncology, ID, Hepatology, Occy Health.

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   I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

   DavidFR replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure the new dislike function is a positive move forward. It's to open to being abused and isn't that the reeason many other platforms have disabled it? I'm fine with people disagreeing with me. Debate is the whole point of a forum and p...
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   I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

   DavidFR replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

   I'll be honest, if a thread is brought back up to the top of the board I will often not even notice when the OP actually started the thread. Sometimes it's good to come back to old discussions. New perspectives or things changing over the years ...
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   Charting Bloopers

   DavidFR replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   On psychiatry when a student. Pateint who menstruated all over the floor as she took off sanitary protection, then went off her head: "Placed in seclusion for a short period" As a CNS I once received a referral letter: "...on biopsy hi...
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   I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

   DavidFR replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

   Missmollie, On the one hand you admit that "nursing is overwhelming" (your words) and then you go on to claim you never get anxious, and you do it in the most disparaging way to other colleagues. I rarely cry, though a very traumatic death ...
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   If you could go back, start-over, change majors, what would you do and why?

   DavidFR replied to AlpacaTraveLlamaDNP's topic in Humor

   Would like to have done something creative like being a writer. Never got near my dream apart from once coming third in a poetry competition. I did have a novel rejected by publishers - righly so, it was awful. There's the funny ha ha bit, that I tho...
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   What made you quit?

   DavidFR replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   I once quit when I was passed over for a charge nurse post I had basically been assured of, only to see the post given to a part timer in a money saving drive. Meanwhile the staff nurses were expected to complete the charge nurse responsibilites the ...
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   Quiet Unit

   DavidFR replied to PeachTea7's topic in General Nursing

   Make the most of it! Years ago I worked in a four bedded CCU. We were always 2 nurses, no care assistants. So just 2 patients each but we did everything from A to Z. For me this was perfect since the esence of CCU is I believe, observation and b...
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   UK trained paeds Nurse wanting to work in the US

   DavidFR replied to sophiemills25's topic in General Nursing

   Check out the international section of this forum - there are numerous threads on specialist UK nurses wanting to work abroad. Sadly, there can be difficulties for people who don't have a general adult training. Good advice above - always contact the...
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   De-accessed Port w/o Flushing! Please help!

   DavidFR replied to Bijoux Eze's topic in General Nursing

   Another oncology nurse here who agrees with the above. Port needs to be reaccessed and flushed. And yes, we all make omissions sometimes.
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    DavidFR replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    And I still can't spell! d'Oh.
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    DavidFR replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of these when we went from no longer using commercial brand names to using the name of the molecule only. Oh for the days of Zophren! Several colleagues sitll can't get their tongues around Ondansetron (you'll hear Onstaneron).
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    Return to bedside part time - or not?

    DavidFR replied to Peachpit's topic in General Nursing

    I had an occy health job that wasn't anywhere near as quiet as you describe, but still had certain periods of very little to do. In those periods I surfed the net, I read, but yes that's gets boring after a time. There are initiatives you could ...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    DavidFR replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    One more I see all the time on here. In British English an EKG is ALWAYS an ECG.
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    DavidFR replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    For years I used to slip up and say "He's a diabetic induced steroid". I've finally got it right now.
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    DavidFR replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have Smecta in the US? An anti-diarrhoea medication. I had a patient who told me she was fine now since she was taking Smegma. I worked in the South-West of England in the 80s where everybody made "s" into "sh". Inshulin was a...