nurseogden

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1. Are you a nurse from a dysfunctional family?

   nurseogden replied to jenpstudentrn's topic in General Nursing

   so do any of you who share the dysfunctional family thing with me feel it has negatively affected you in nursing. I have a really difficulty time with relationships. After 32 years of nursing, I have just lost my 3rd job due to poor interpersonal ...

2. How often do you work extra?

   nurseogden replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

   smart smart

3. How often do you work extra?

   nurseogden replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

   Good for you

4. So disappointed with the care....

   nurseogden replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

   [color=#b2a1c7]tiger, i am keeping you and your grandmother in my prayers... there is no excuse for what you are going through. you, when you are with your grandmother are a visitor. as a family member, you are not expected to be able to think straig...

5. Are you a nurse from a dysfunctional family?

   nurseogden replied to jenpstudentrn's topic in General Nursing

   thank you for starting this thread. i definitely came from a dysfunctional family. basically i consider having come from no family at all. it had defintely affected me positively and negatively as a nurse. having been a nurse for 32 years...i have l...

6. Admission orders the day before?

   nurseogden replied to cockynurse80's topic in LTC Directors

   [color=#5f497a]i have worked both in and outpatient settings. yes, the change in orders does wreak the occasional havoc with orders written prior to admission, especially in the inpatient setting. however, we live in a benefits outweigh the inconvie...

7. She switched my Hours now what?

   nurseogden replied to LVN2010M's topic in New Nurse

   evening shift isn't all that bad if you are young and don't have children. It is a lot easier to go to the gym in the morning and get all your stuff done before work. If you get in the habit of going to bed at a decent time like midnight, then you ...

8. Nursing Uniform Policy

   nurseogden replied to theatredork's topic in Men

   i have to be the devil's advocate regarding even walmart has dress code because i support coded uniforms for patient's sakes. nurses are supposed to be "professionals" and many feel like forcing them into standardized uniforms takes away from that st...

9. Nursing Uniform Policy

   nurseogden replied to theatredork's topic in Men

   with all the issues facing us in nursing, what uniform you wear should be the least of our worries!!! if it makes these older patients more comfortable and they recognize us better, then why not conform and do this little bit to please them. i have w...

10. will I be sued?

    nurseogden replied to dumaralos's topic in Safety

    One last note. For a lawsuit to be viable, there has to have been irreversible damage to the patient. Going one shift with UTI, if it didn't result in septic shock, is not irreversible damage. I think you are safe on this on.

11. Two nurses quit without notice......

    nurseogden replied to Ling07's topic in Geriatric

    Most professional nurses do not quit without notice. More likely they were let go. It is the policy at our hospital that other staff are not notified when staff are disciplined and are not allowed to talk to the other staff members about any discip...

12. Are managers allowed to give ultimatums?

    nurseogden replied to ITALY123's topic in General Nursing

    Depends on where you live. I live in Indiana. There are no laws to protect your employment here. You can go in one day and they can look at you and say they don't like the way you combed your eyebrow and let you go and you have not recourse!! Of c...

13. nurse manager-request to work on the floor

    nurseogden replied to trulynurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    It might be unrealistic to expect your manager to do actual patient care in and area that she is not used do working. More importantly, it might be a patient safety issue if she is not used to the medications and treatments those patients receive. ...

14. Possible ethical question about Clinical experience...

    nurseogden replied to Studying24.7's topic in General Students

    You seem to have misread the information. This student never said the nurse was hiding in a closet to text!!!

15. Why Does Everyone Hate Florida So Much??

    nurseogden replied to natkoz82's topic in Florida

    I grew up in Jacksonville Beach Florida. Lived there until I married at age 30 Loved it would go back in a heartbeat. I live in Midwest now and 20 years ago when I came here I took a 6 dollar per hour cut in pay and had to start paying state income ...