mikala3

mikala3

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  1. How do you handle narcissist patients?

    That is exactly why I asked...there are times when changing nurses just gets another nurse into a bad mood as well. At least we are talking about patients that are few and far between..if I get one a year I feel unlucky. I just havent yet come a...
  2. I am an experienced nurse and the one thing that I just cant seem to handle is narcissist patients. I dont run into them often, but when I do, I crash and seem to fall for their games. At this one hospital I worked for, we had a program that would...
  3. Case study - what would you do?

    if that guy refuses labs and an iv, i would personally "educate" him every few minutes then document my attempt each and every time. That way when his family sues because he wasnt treated, they lose.
  4. New Grad...Is this typical?

    Our school said that anyone could teach a nurse a skill. Being a travel nurse, I have figured out that some hospitals are better at it than others. I left nursing school having never started an IV because we werent allowed to start them as students...
  5. Patient scents

    So I am a travel nurse, and I finished an assignment a while back and something still bugs me. The patients there had a "scent" that I couldnt seem to wash off. One night, we were in for some very bad weather and being that I am not a northerner a...
  6. Rn to bsn, wgu or uta?

    I also skipped UTA after finding out I had to take History of Texas. I just dont need it in Minnesota!
  7. Sounds like she was just mad at having to clean a patient up. It happens.
  8. Pulled from floor by "Men in Black"

    ps: One of them was a risk manager.
  9. Pulled from floor by "Men in Black"

    They were the hospitals legal team. They gave me their card, my manager was present I have left out details...
  10. I was working, and a group of suited up men pulled me from the floor and asked me questions about a patient's care. Afterwards, my charge nurse said that more than likely there is a law suit in the works and that they had pulled several people inclu...
  11. Is this holding me back?

    I work on a floor where practically everyone is either on dialysis, tons of steroids or both. Nurses on my unit do not start IV's. I have been told that it is because all of the patients are "impossible" to stick. I asked about getting certified t...
  12. RN's forced to do CNA work

    We are expected to do both, our job and the NA's job if the NA's have to sit. I would DIE to do one or the other. It stinks when I have six patients, four are totals and one has over 30 meds to be given NOW.
  13. MD screaming at RN's in front of patients regularly

    We have a lateral violence policy where I work. It says that things need to be handled in private. If anyone is rude to anyone for any reason in front of a third person, that's a voilation of policy and a write up. Not that doctor's still arent ru...
  14. Bad week

    I am a new nurse. I have today off and still do not want to go back tomorrow. It was too stressful.
  15. Bad week

    I am starting to think that six patients is too much for me and I will never be able to be a good nurse. I just had a really bad week. I had three doctors yell at me. One yelled at me because a patient left the hospital and he thinks I should have...