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  1. Anyone ever have a famous person as a patient?

    I once took care of a local sports personality. He was really needy. REALLY needy!! He didn't bring an entourage with him, but his attorney was with him the entire time. He told everyone that he was the patient's attorney EVERY SINGLE TIME someone en...
  2. If a MD says "Don't Call Back"- do you write that as an order?

    I had a surgeon tell me that once. I was calling about his fresh post-op patient regarding uncontrollable nausea/vomiting and he was so mad that he was called in the middle of the night that he refused to give any orders and told me not to call him a...
  3. Sunrise Senior Living

    The 2 times my grandfather stayed there he ended up in the ER. Once after a fall down the steps and he suffered a head laceration from that. The second time, he fell backwards into the bathtub and my mother found him. We have no idea how long he was ...
  4. Drug Legalization

    So you feel that heroin, crack and crystal meth should be legalized?? Seriously???
  5. New graduate job offer in a surgical floor.

    I worked as a graduate nurse on a med-surg floor until I passed my boards. I worked with another RN during my orientation and then I was on my own for a couple months until I became an RN. I guess some states don't allow this...I don't know. I have b...
  6. Difficult Doctors...Vent

    We have a urologist that hates to be called after 10pm. I had to call him a few months ago for one of his surgical patients. I made the mistake of calling at 10:15pm. He yelled at me for calling that late saying that "this is something that could hav...
  7. Doing a favor vs. being an RN

    I have a neighbor that asked me to do a dressing change for her after her spinal fusion a few years ago and honestly, it never occured to me to tell her no. But, it was just a 1 time thing.....she called and told me that her husband was out of town, ...
  8. Things that patients say that make me smile!

    We had a 92 year old man on our unit about a year ago. He was so cute but soooooo confused. He kept calling the nurses into his room and telling us that we had to call his mom because she had no idea where he was and she was probably worried sick abo...
  9. On the frontlines

    My parents put my grandfather in respite care at one of the many many LTC places in our community so they could go on a vacation for a few days. My grandfather was about 89 years old with dementia. When he had stayed there before, he was always place...
  10. Call light response time policy and procedure

    at the hospital I work at, we are timed on how quickly we answer the call lights. A timer was installed at the nurses station and as soon as the patient hits the call button, the timer starts. The timer doesn't stop until we physically go into the pa...
  11. A cold-hearted manager

    On the last unit I worked on, one of the nurses came up to our floor after her aunt passed away on the oncology unit downstairs. She informed our nurse manager that she would need 2 bereavement days for that week and our manager's response was "Oh s...
  12. Pick and choose policy

    This is an issue on the floor I work on. Usually it's regarding overtime pay. Our NM will pitch a fit if a stand-by RN who works 8 hours a week is there 15 minutes past the end of her shift. Doesn't matter if she had 2 rapid responses and 3 admission...
  13. Favorite "Lay Terms" For Diagnoses

    When I was a fairly new RN, I had a direct admission come in from her GI doc's office. Direct admission = no H&P, no orders, nothing. The patient states her doctor told her she would be "PON for her ursupp the next day." WTH?? I literally starte...
  14. Unsure of my dad's doctor...

    I'm going to start out by saying that I'm not asking for medical advice, I just need some opinions here. My parents have been seeing the same PCP for about 15-20 years now and they really like him but I am starting to wonder if this doctor is kind of...
  15. My nurse manager won't even double check insulin or SQ heparin anymore. She claims she's not allowed since "she's no longer a bedside nurse." And the last time I saw HER boss at one of our staff meetings, she told us we "better start acting like thi...