Fairemaid

Fairemaid

med-surg 18 months, respiratory 3.5 year

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About Fairemaid

Fairemaid has 5 years experience and specializes in med-surg 18 months, respiratory 3.5 year.


Attended art school, two wonderful children

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  1. LATERAL Violence. How Nurses treat Nurses!

    As someone who has always been the target of bullies initially, I would say it usually is my own fault because I will not stoop to their level:wink2: I left my original unit because of a very mean day shift charge RN, but I was new grad and at that ...
  2. frustrating doctor

    I took care of a alert and confused, non-verbal, CVA pt recently who was a DNR on HD and she was in for sepsis, needed to have her Tesio removed. One of the surgeons removed it in her room. Pt's family member had been notified that the procedure ha...
  3. I always figured that if I flunked nursing school, I would become a tattoo artist, as I have prior art training.... Rebecca
  4. Shift Assignments - Who bugs you the most?

    There is a 11-7 charge nurse on my floor who makes out very unfair assignments for her overnight staff. This has been an ongoing issue for the past year. The 3-11 charge nurse is not even allowed to do the boards for the next shift. Recently 11-7 ...
  5. How do you get out on time?

    When I was a new grad I worked on a med-surg floor and always left late. Part of the problem was my own time management skills, which have improved. The other problem was that the unit I was on was newly renovated and was 2 nurses stations and one ...
  6. Do you enjoy nursing?

    I have been a nurse for only 2.5 years, and I escaped from a very toxic environment on a med-surg floor, and now work on a respiratory floor, and I love my job, but a lot of the nurses I work with are burnt out, having been nurses for >15 years. ...
  7. Huntington's Disease

    Unfortunately, I'm very familiar with Huntington's as it runs in my family. I would like to add a few things that I don't think were covered in any of the posts, though they may have been covered in some of the off-site info. Since this disease gen...
  8. Do you ever forget your patient's names?

  9. Where were u 9/11/01?

    I was sitting on the floor, sewing wedding dresses for my children, because though my husband and I had been together for 20 years already, we had picked Sept. 22, 2001 as our wedding day. My sister was on a cruise ship crossing the Atlantic and DH'...
  10. Happy Nurses? Anyone???

    I have been an RN for 1.5 years, and I love my job, but I hate unit (med-surg)I've been on until now. Some of my first days as a new grad, I literally was breakfast for the day resource nurse:chair: This person, in my own opinion, has some sort of...
  11. C'mere and share your on-the-job laughs!

    I had to look twice because I couln't believe my eyes, when I went to sign off the inhaler med for my pt, the previous nurse had written the pt's blood pressure under her initials. Showed my resource and asked, "Since when did we have bp parameters...
  12. What's your holiday bonus?

    I got $60, but I only work part time and full times get more. Still it's enough for a nice ticket to the Christmas Revels show. Rebecca
  13. Walking rounds

    At my hospital, we have 30 min. overlap, and on my unit we are expected to do walking rounds. Normally we only have 3-4 pts/nurse. This is what I was told on rounds by previous shift RN. "In room such-and-such we have Mr. So-and-so, and he's a BI...
  14. What did you learn today as a nurse?

    Today I learned that if you stick your finger in an electrical socket, you may have to have it partially amputated. And when this same pt wanders down to the nurse's station, with her IV pole in tow, all the while eating Doritos out of her emesis bas...
  15. Ok, lets flip this coin!

    I have been an RN for 9 months now and I feel that some days I have got the hang of it. Only a few times have I had such a frustrating, unproductive shift that I can't wait to leave. Even on the bad days, I still like my job. I've had wonderful r...