templeknight7

templeknight7 has 22 years experience and specializes in Chronic Neurology, Palliation, End of li.

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1. Interpreting the Unsaid

   templeknight7 replied to ann king's topic in General Nursing

   "you should spend time listening to their stories even if it makes no sense to you." insight like this can not be taught in college it comes from experience and directly from the heart. it is obvious to me that this is validation therapy (naomi feil ...

2. What does your username mean?

   templeknight7 replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

   Hello everyone, these thoughts have fascinated me for a good while, another angle could be to try and guess, a collective imagination can acheive results that are much more interesting than reality Regards J

3. Speaking Tagalog in English speaking company

   templeknight7 replied to templeknight7's topic in International

   Thank you , our HR are always heavy when dealing with foreign staff and "incidents HR at your workplace has had reported to them" is a passive sentence to say the least, if we are to get picky.

4. Speaking Tagalog in English speaking company

   templeknight7 replied to templeknight7's topic in International

   I agree that English should be spoken to English speaking Patients but for a heavy handed HR response to too people just greeting each other in their own language away from clients is totally uneccessary.

5. Speaking Tagalog in English speaking company

   templeknight7 replied to templeknight7's topic in International

   I personally do not think it is rude I think it is just a stick that rascists use, or paranoia, I also think it may be illeagal for facilities to outlaw a cultures language at work just because they don't like it, I have learned some tagalog and the ...

6. Politics in the workplace or out to get a Nurse?

   templeknight7 replied to OldButCuteBSNStudent's topic in General Nursing

   Your whole situation and experience may be different from ours, but I feel that you would have the right to ask for evidence of such a damming criticism. Patient satisfaction is ethereal but has also been studied and written about http://www.aafp.or...

7. Feeling guilty

   templeknight7 replied to crazytonurse's topic in Pre-Nursing

   You know the answer to your dilemma, of course you must be honest, a) you cannot allow yourself to build a career on a lie, b) If your dishonesty is discovered before you own up, it will be much worse, c) Nursing is all about communication and trust.

8. Speaking Tagalog in English speaking company

   templeknight7 posted a topic in International

   Magandaga umaga, Please could I ask your opinion, Some of my English speaking colleagues are saying that it is very rude for Nurses from the Philippines to speak Tagalog around their non Tagalog speaking colleagues, I can understand why it is unaccep...

9. Use of pulse oximetry in hospice

   templeknight7 replied to HoosierMale's topic in Hospice

   Hello All, This thread seems to almost answer my query which has two parts :- a) Does inappropriate or unnecessary oxygen therapy at end of life, (by this I mean O2 given in response to decreased saturation rather than distress), prolong a patients s...