tipsplease

Latest Activity

1. What is wrong (if any)with this picture?

   tipsplease replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   thanks for the heads up. I did interventional cardiology for a long time; never really worked with this stuff until recently. I am learning so much by going back to med-surg!

2. What is wrong (if any)with this picture?

   tipsplease replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   I guess if they are all in the same bag they could go into the same line, but I still wonder about the filter...

3. Nurse:Patient Ratio on Med-Surg Floors?

   tipsplease replied to 3chicago3's topic in Michigan

   Mandatory staffing rations are a good start, but they are not absolute. There have been times I have had 7 patients and could work on the crossword puzzle on my dinner break; there have been other times that I have had 3 patients and not only did no...

4. What is wrong (if any)with this picture?

   tipsplease replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   before even reading any of the responses on this, here is the bottom line as far as I am concerned: TPN and lipids, like blood, should always be administered separately. Lipids don't need a filter, TPN does. The tubing has to be changed every 24 hour...

5. What subject or subjects would you take out

   tipsplease replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

   I really agree with roser 13. I find it humiliating for RN's to use improper grammar and misspell words. You don't find physical therapists or OT's doing this; I know a PhD nurse who uses double negatives constantly. This behavior makes nursing appea...

6. Compassion or reality for obese patients?

   tipsplease replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

   The only way to motivate any addicted person to change his/her habit/s is through motivation. Unfortunately there is a big school of thought out there that it is perfectly okay to be obese. As someone who struggles with her weight, the only thing th...

7. HELP! Social question-over the line?

   tipsplease replied to jlove1821's topic in Relations

   Don't know if this helps any, but maybe sharing my experience with an attorney friend will help you make up your mind. I was in an awful car wreck a year ago; car was totaled, I was injured (hit by a drunk going the wrong way on the interstate)....I ...

8. HELP! Social question-over the line?

   tipsplease replied to jlove1821's topic in Relations

   I have been a nurse for a very long time; over the years I have found it necessary to detach myself from my patients (all of them). I am an emotional, touchy feely type of person; years ago I had a patient stalk me after i held his hand on the way to...

9. What does your username mean?

   tipsplease replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

   I must confess that I picked my user name after a particularly frustrating day of fetching food and drink for a batch of drug seekers.....it was one of those days that I honestly spent at least 50% of my day waiting on these folks....my daughter is a...

10. Moral/Ethical Advice

    tipsplease replied to chinacatSN's topic in General Students

    This is not only a moral and ethical issue, it is a competency issue. Writing papers is an integral part of nursing school, and if this person is either unwilling or unable to comply with this requirement, he or she should not be graduating. One of m...

11. Rant about ungrateful, demanding patients

    tipsplease replied to KSU-SN's topic in Relations

    The worst part of all of this is that management is so worried about patient satisfaction that they never, ever stand up for the nurse to a patient, no matter how egregious the behavior is. It is very, very discouraging.

12. Atlanta area nurses...I need to vent!!

    tipsplease replied to TeeTee,RN's topic in Georgia

    Just a thought.....if job security were the only reason a person went into nursing, he or she wouldn't last. You have to really love it to put up with all the stress and politics involved.

13. Is this a good offer?

    tipsplease replied to ttbird1's topic in Georgia

    There are nice apartments near all the hospitals. Shop around using apartment finder; you usually get a 100 buck rebate if you use them. Also barter with the complex manager. Sometimes you can find an old price on the net; you can make them give you ...

14. Wellstar Kennestone

    tipsplease replied to unknown99's topic in Georgia

    I worked for Wellstar Kennestone twice; once in the early 90's and more recently for a year and a half. The powers that be at Kennestone have no clue how to realistically manage a hospital. It's not just me who thinks that the management is incompete...

15. chronic idiopathic angioedema

    tipsplease replied to bluenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am a nurse and I have chronic idiopathic angioedema. The first time this happened to me was after I had three of my front teeth crowned at the same time. Experiencing this after dental procedures is not unusual. I was working in an ER at the time a...