RedRubCatheter

RedRubCatheter has 7 years experience.

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1. Floor nurses

   RedRubCatheter replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

   I work primarily med/surg and we do not have care aids (here they are called RCAs or LTCAs) as part of our daily staffing. On days we work in RN/LPN teams where each nurse does primary care for half the team (between 3 to 5 patients) based on acuit...

2. How to deal with constant calls to come into work?!

   RedRubCatheter replied to magn1jes's topic in General Nursing

   Or don't tell them anything. A simple "I was busy" should suffice.

3. How to deal with constant calls to come into work?!

   RedRubCatheter replied to magn1jes's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a "relief pool", which basically means I have a full time job but no home, so I can be sent to a different unit each shift, sometimes. So that means I get calls from multiple areas of the hospital to come in for overtime. I never answer th...

4. Charge nurse with less than a year RN experience???!!

   RedRubCatheter replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in Management

   It's possible she has leadership experience from her previous career which would lend itself well to being charge. She may well be a great critical thinker even if she is fairly new to nursing. I agree that it's ideal to have the charge nurse be a...

5. Nurses Under 30 Years Old

   RedRubCatheter replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in General Nursing

   This is just as much a generalization as saying that younger nurses are lazy.

6. Will this clueless nursing student feeling ever go away?

   RedRubCatheter replied to ComeClarity's topic in General Nursing

   I always tell students, when they are struggling with "feeling new" or feeling like they will never get to the point where any of this comes naturally to them: When you were first learning to drive, you probably felt overwhelmed. You had to look at ...

7. Nurses Under 30 Years Old

   RedRubCatheter replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in General Nursing

   I think the younger nurses who do not fall into this generalization are upset about the existence of the generalization itself. They may be amongst the hardest working nurses on the team, and it is offensive and hurtful when one's age alone causes a...

8. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

   RedRubCatheter replied to Moogie's topic in Humor

   Since my significant other is a nurse, this one comes from my mother... Milk/dairy products (surprise surprise) make her "mucousy", so she avoids them. That's just fine, except she has been telling people for years that she is "a little bit lactose ...

9. What the Heck to You Do on Night Shifts?

   RedRubCatheter replied to RedRubCatheter's topic in Humor

   Yes, here in Canada (or at least my part of it) we're allowed one hour and forty-five minutes worth of breaks for a twelve hour shift. The forty-five minutes are paid time but the hour is not. I think it's horrible that some people are only allott...

10. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    RedRubCatheter replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

    When you have a fight with your wife and do not win, don't proceed to fake "blackouts", go to the hospital complaining of said blackouts in order to be admitted and make her feel bad for winning the fight. Do not, when asked if there are symptoms pre...

11. What the Heck to You Do on Night Shifts?

    RedRubCatheter posted a topic in Humor

    I've been asked on many occasions what we do on night shifts. I've had people (mostly those who have never been in a hospital) assume that we sit around and watch movies all night, because the patients just sleep, right? I've often thought about tr...

12. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    RedRubCatheter replied to sethmctenn's topic in Humor

    We had a general surgeon here way back when named Dr. Kilam (Kill 'em).

13. Male nursing students/nurses

    RedRubCatheter replied to krebs.cycle's topic in General Nursing

    For Glopop & HerEyes73 The issue here isn't about this male student looking for sympathy, nor is it about women entering male-dominated fields. krebs.cycle posted information about men in nursing. He did not say that women going into traditional...

14. Hard to take non-NURS classes w/NURS classes?

    RedRubCatheter replied to luv2yoga's topic in General Students

    Oh, yes, and to add Yes, doing "care plans" for clinical does take up a lot of time. You have to research your patients and write up the plan and have it completed before working with your patients. This includes info about the conditions they have...

15. Hard to take non-NURS classes w/NURS classes?

    RedRubCatheter replied to luv2yoga's topic in General Students

    Have you started the program yet? If not, I reccommend doing the required electives separately from the required courses. If have started, it's a lot of work to do the nursing courses plus all the others. Perhaps you could take one during each year ...