sblanchet

sblanchet

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  1. suspension for refusing patient 9

    I can't believe administration would suspend an entire shift over something so ridiculous! Couldn't the patient have stayed in the ED? When confronted with situations such as these if I truly feel that I am not able to care for yet another patient...
  2. Length of shifts

    When I was younger I did twelve hour shifts and loved them. It was well worth the extra days off. I lived in sunny South Florida then and had so much extra beach time! Now as a woman of a "certain age" with three school age children I find eight ho...
  3. tired of bedside care, options???

    It sounds to me like you simply went into the wrong profession. It's too bad you were not able to figure this out while still in school. Still, there may be hope that something will work out. I agree with other writers that you should try to find ...
  4. What is "Nursing Theory/Model"?

    Finally, one last thought about this discussion about so-called nursing "theory". What ever was the point of changing the description of a certain sound in the lungs from "rales" to today's accepted word, "crackles"? It is all nonsense. The sound ...
  5. What is "Nursing Theory/Model"?

    When did I ever say that only wounds are called alterations in skin integrity? I used that as an example. I am well aware, as pointed out by another writer, that the term can apply to any number of things and as such has no particular meaning in an...
  6. What is "Nursing Theory/Model"?

    It is absurd to state that anything as verbose as saying "alteration in skin integrity" constitutes some kind of shorthand . By your own account the phrase can mean anything and so therefore actually means nothing. It would be so much simpler to jus...
  7. What is "Nursing Theory/Model"?

    Nursing theory is a fantasy, plain and simple. Sitting around "theorizing" about where imaginary patients fall on "the health/illness continuum" is more properly called engaging in conjecture. There is no more proof that any answer is correct than ...
  8. The Bad Old Days

    I graduated in 1981. Nothing annoys me more than listening to "old timers" bragging to today's new grads that when they started they took 60 patients by themselves, cooked all the patients' meals, did all the laundry, walked ten miles to work uphill...
  9. Is my patient going to die??

    Blow bottles are NOT the same as incentive spirometry. Using blow bottles a patient exhales to force the ball or whatever it is into the next bottle. Incentive spirometry is the exact opposite. The patient inhales as much as they can to use it. T...
  10. what are we coming to?

    The idea that it is better to provide care to all citizens rather than address specific issues of access for those who don't have it is absurd. Canada has its own access issues. It is common knowledge that some Canadian citizens die waiting for car...
  11. Is my patient going to die??

    Do nurses out there really need MD orders to do nasotracheal suctioning? Where I work it a patient requires it a nurse can just go ahead. In addition I have not seen blow bottles in use for a number of years as trying to forcefully expire air colla...
  12. "Just an LPN"....does anyone else get discouraged?

    Actually it is hard to take seriously anyone who claims to have "book knowledge" and can't even spell properly. Everyone has a role to play. RN's, especially the ones coming out of university settings, have much to learn from LPN's who know what ...
  13. Is my patient going to die??

    It is certainly all right to cry at such a sad situation as this. When you get some more experience under your belt you may find yourself more able to detach yourself from events such as this but there is no denying that situations such as this are ...
  14. what are we coming to?

    I disagree that the United States would be better off with a nationalized healthcare system. There are many ways of addressing access issues without letting the government take over seven percent of the private economy. I only ever worked in one fo...
  15. Where do you keep your stethescope?

    I have always worn my stethoscope around my neck. It doesn't seem very efficient to have to keep taking it out of your pocket. It I have a psyche patient with a history of violence I just don't use it at all if there is no guard present. I don't k...