butterfliesrus

Latest Activity

1. Three months to kill before Nursing School... what to do

   butterfliesrus replied to Myoclonicjerk's topic in General Students

   If you want to invest in making your first semester easier- go ahead and make flashcards as you want for the drugs you are about to learn. That is probably my weakest part of my academic career as a nursing student so I can only give that as good adv...

2. Should nurses perform outside scope of practice during emergency situations?

   butterfliesrus replied to chels0641's topic in Student Assist

   I don't think you will find a lot of information specifically with intubation though it is a true legal and ethical problem. I recommend looking at nurses performing outside of scope in general during ER or Trauma situations and tie it with legal cas...

3. Win CASH! 12th Nursing Caption Contest - $100

   butterfliesrus replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   How about Thanksgiving lasting a month? Then I'd get time and a half and vacation!

4. Win CASH! 12th Nursing Caption Contest - $100

   butterfliesrus replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   the beginnning of small pox

5. What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

   butterfliesrus replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

   I am still a nursing student but even I know that the doctor's first degree means very little in their scope of practice so that's not really a good arguement in their favor. I've taken pre-med classes and honestly Nursing school classes are a lot ha...

6. Did I just get thrown under the bus? Or I'm a bad nurse?

   butterfliesrus replied to proudauntie415's topic in Geriatric

   Oh goodness. I am still a nursing student but I worked at a LTC facility for a good hard while with plenty of experience in watching the new nurses get "thrown under the bus" by nurses who "eat" their young. Educating yourself is the top priority in ...

7. Is your workplace haunted?

   butterfliesrus replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

   Ha! I am not a big believer in ghost stories, but that doesn't mean I'll say that they don't happen. I haven't been haunted or anything like that, but the LTC facility I used to work at was famous for the passing in 3s and window-opening ceremony, an...

8. I love you boss ... BUT!!...

   butterfliesrus replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

   Personal vent: A friend was working a double and asked to stay for a triple so that another worker wouldn't be paid overtime. Ridiculous! She said no and I covered the shift; I got paid the over-time. Make sense to anyone? Nope. Another story: Calli...

9. Did I deserve this?

   butterfliesrus replied to jaelpn's topic in General Nursing

   Pretty sure that if you are "trained" to be the urine-collecting nurse who is in charge of deciding whether or not the co-worker is going to get compensation for an incident, then you are liable for not doing the collection, whether or not they sough...

10. Death- your experiences

    butterfliesrus replied to Darkfield's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't say I am comfortable with death. I work in a nursing home and we have hospice patients who pass every few weeks because our company is very close partners with a hospice company. The nurses are wonderful and allow me to pray for every clie...

11. does anyone regret this career?

    butterfliesrus replied to cantdoit's topic in General Nursing

    Highly recommend home health care. I worked in a nursing home for almost 2 years and was dying, not because of the patients or even my fellow nurses/cna/co-workers. It was the ridculous management! I am a firm believer in not speaking bad about previ...

12. Nursing Mandatory Continuing Education Research Survey

    butterfliesrus replied to fer1220's topic in General Nursing

    I would recommend putting this in the Nurses tab then since most of the "students" on this area of allnurses are going to be those going for their BSN. Just a recommendation.

13. Please quit wasting my time: Interview Advice from Hiring Manager

    butterfliesrus replied to Teacher Sue's topic in Job Hunt

    I had the same problem with the CNA job I worked at for a full year. I stuck it through primarily so my resume wouldn't look as if I had no loyalty; and the job loved me for it because I actually cared for my patients and loved my job despite various...

14. Can someone "dumb down" what Obamacare really means?

    butterfliesrus replied to EarthwormRN's topic in Activism

    I don't usually post on political areas of nursing but I did want to give you the website where the Affordable Care Act is pretty striaght-forward, just in case you weren't aware of it. Read the Law | HealthCare.gov Cheers,