streetbob66

streetbob66 specializes in Psychiatric and home health Peds..

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1. 1st Nursing Cartoon caption contest - win $100

   streetbob66 replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   "See doctors really are God just spelled backwards!"

2. Discouraged by family that doesn't understand

   streetbob66 replied to tmow86's topic in General Students

   Remember "Dreams are where we put our work clothes on"!

3. Need advice on job offer

   streetbob66 replied to CKS's topic in General Nursing

   From what I understand an employer or former employer either cannot or will not say anything negative about an employee to a potential employer about you. You have no reason to tell the recruiter or your new employer about anything negative about you...

4. Are you going to work tommorow in the big storm?

   streetbob66 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

   I live in Illinois and have worked at the same hospital for almost 16 years, this is the first time that I was scheduled to work when a storm was going to hit. I have driven in bad weather many times to get to work and made it just fine, never with 4...

5. Why do nurses fight so much with one another?

   streetbob66 replied to bree*'s topic in General Nursing

   I have worked in the same place for almost 16 years and bad blood starts between nurses when management allows some nurses to get away with not doing their job and the work load falls on you. I work on a psych unit where the patients are up and movin...

6. Being forced to rethink my views on fibromyalgia

   streetbob66 replied to casi's topic in General Nursing

   I have also been diagnosed with fibro and have been having a terrible time with it. I have taken all the recommended medications and none of them helped. I still go to work everyday and I am working on my BSN on-line, and with the help of a wonderful...

7. How to teach an experienced nurse

   streetbob66 replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

   When an employer check refernces from another employer the pase employers cannot say anything negative. I have heard my managers say many times in the past "if you can't say something good you don't say anything at all". I would guess that if they ca...

8. How to teach an experienced nurse

   streetbob66 replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

   I have had to orient several nurses over my 15 years of nursing. The one's that have already done the job are the worse at times as they already think they know it all. If you are responsible for signing her off on an orientation check list as I have...

9. Excited for psych clinical!!

   streetbob66 replied to decembergrad2011's topic in General Students

   Though I went right into psych and do not regret it I would encourage you to get one year med/surg experience first, I have worked a pediatric home health case that was very much medial and my psych experience gave me an edge on helping the family co...

10. Excited for psych clinical!!

    streetbob66 replied to decembergrad2011's topic in General Students

    Doing my psych rotation in school over 15 yrs ago made me decide to be a psych nurse and that is what I still do today. What you are allowed to do as a student just barely touches the surface of what you get to do as a nurse working on a psych unit. ...

11. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    streetbob66 replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

    I have a habit of talking in my sleep and have started to give report to my fiance', not actually information about patients. Then wake up and say oh never mind I thought that I was at work.

12. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    streetbob66 replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

    When working on a psych unit and the phone rings all present say "not it". Especially when you all know who the caller is by the name on the caller ID. The staff has developed it's own critria for borderline personality disorder ie: wears animal...

13. which specialty does this describe?

    streetbob66 replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    Try psychiatric nursing inpatient, you have some of the patients there for a couple of weeks and because of the nature of mental illness you see many of the patients many times. Nurses get to do education groups and medication groups. The chaos is p...

14. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    streetbob66 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I have experienced many unexplained things while at work but the one I want to share is of a personal manner. My olderst son who is almost 13 at the age of 3 on the night of December 7, 2001 caught on fire at his father's house. 20% of his body had 2...

15. Some crazy/funny things that patients did.

    streetbob66 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Ok where should I start. Right now I have a patient that says he drinks wookie milk, how one milks a wookie I am not quite sure and I am not going to ask. I have met Jesus, Moses and a naked man that talked to animals in his front yard. He would not ...