mehitabela

mehitabela has 5 years experience and specializes in LTC, Med-Surg.

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1. Unhappy Hospital

   mehitabela replied to lilbitgeeky's topic in General Nursing

   What a cranky thread! I'm an RN Unit Manager and I keep a small supply of ten dollar gift cards to various food places and an even smaller supply of twenty dollar gift cards of the same sort. I give them out about once a week and always to someone wh...

2. How many residents is too many for one nurse?

   mehitabela replied to arabstarRN's topic in Geriatric

   Oh, I didn't mention. I work nights, 7-7. Our patients are the normal/ ridiculous mixture of inappropriate for this snf/high acuity- should be in a hospital types. I have worked there for a month. The other night, three of my pts managed to be "found...

3. How many residents is too many for one nurse?

   mehitabela replied to arabstarRN's topic in Geriatric

   How about this? My snf has about 120 beds. We have an accountant, a secretary, a social worker, a dietician, an activities director. Then we have the DON. We have three RNACS and I'm not sure what it is they do that someone else can't. Each shift has...

4. Shadowing in the ED

   mehitabela posted a topic in Emergency

   Hello, Tomorrow I will be shadowing at an ED that might hire me as an RN. Any suggestions? Pet peeves when being shadowed? Tips to ingratiate myself to the loverly person I will be following around all day like a duckling? I have a year under my belt...

5. How to Handle Student Incivility

   mehitabela replied to VickyRN's topic in Educators

   About the laptop issue...I have to admit that while I lived for clinical and the experience that it afforded me, lecture in the nursing courses left me wanting. I had very good, consistent grades and tests were a non issue. I feel that every instruct...

6. What do you do if you are assigned a patient you know outside of work?

   mehitabela replied to cogath's topic in General Nursing

   I had my middle school principle on my unit...the one that flunked me! I went in at the beginning of the shift and surprise...she/he remembered me! I laughed at the look on her/his face (kindly) and sat down with her/him and told her/him that I would...

7. How to Handle Student Incivility

   mehitabela replied to VickyRN's topic in Educators

   Meriwhen, my psych clinical instructor had the perfect solution to inappropriate dress. She warned us at the beginning of the semester that she kept a big baggy ugly but professional outfit in her trunk. If we showed up dressed inappropriately, we ha...

8. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

   mehitabela replied to mindlor's topic in Relations

   Incidentally, I happen to agree with a lot of what you've posted but like I said...the flavor is c diffy.

9. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

   mehitabela replied to mindlor's topic in Relations

   Mindlor, I can only comment on how I perceive the tone of your posts. It has nothing to do with the title for me. It was more the typed repitition "Leslie Leslie,Leslie" and " be advised" and" yes, yes I agree, let us all be careful when we judge" an...

10. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    mehitabela replied to mindlor's topic in Relations

    If you speak in the same overbearing and condescending manner at clinicals that you come across in print it may be that the old and crusty nurses have very good reason to be having a bad day....especially if they're dealing with your attitude in addi...

11. Breaking out of LTC

    mehitabela replied to mehitabela's topic in General Nursing

    It has been two months since my last post on this topic. Last month I was fired after a bizzarely rapid succession of write ups...two regarding issues that I rectified quickly as they were brought to my attention (tasks...not patient care or charting...

12. Disappointing news, what can I do?

    mehitabela replied to WannabeNurse(:'s topic in General Nursing

    My daughter is fifteen and volunteers through the junior volunteer program at my hospital actually on my unit. See if you have something like that where you live. With parental consent, of course. Sometimes she fills water pitchers or spends time wit...

13. A Hero-In-The-Making Learns about Grieving From Real Heroes

    mehitabela replied to PrayeRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    This is beautiful, heartrending....left me speechless in mute sympathy for all you must be going through. My thoughts are with you and yours.

14. Breaking out of LTC

    mehitabela replied to mehitabela's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everybody, I am willing to go anywhere in terms of med surg, icu, ortho, and will definitely be reworking my resume. I'll let you know how it goes! Agency is an option...I figured at least I could get a good idea of how the staff is on differe...

15. Breaking out of LTC

    mehitabela posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone. As a new grad in the current economy I took the first (and only) position available as an RN on a TCU in a hospital. I have stuck it out for a year on a unit with a truly awful culture, consistently understaffed, management that has long...