AuntieNursey

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1. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   AuntieNursey replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   No, your mother is not going to "snap out of it", it's dementia and it's probably been going on for quite a while, which you would have noticed it you had actually visited her at home instead of...

2. Has anyone ever been accused of elderly abuse

   AuntieNursey replied to cnabeginner's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Yes, by a "manager" whom I had found doctoring charts and billing for supplies not used and caught having an affair with another nurse. Thought it would take care of all his problems. But the BON in...

3. My bad attitude

   AuntieNursey replied to jessiern's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I have just quit a job related to the same type of BS. Short-staffing (perpetual), no or negative response from management, lousy raises, and no quality assurance or employee evauation process (the...

4. er visitors...a funny

   AuntieNursey replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

   And we SO need to stop judging each other, and those who work in other environments and eating our young. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL NURSE! Regardless of where she works and what she does, she does it because...

5. er visitors...a funny

   AuntieNursey replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

   We laugh so we CAN be concerned and compassionalte instead of telling people to take their self-induced psychotic/physical issues back into the community where they will do the most harm. We laugh...

6. er visitors...a funny

   AuntieNursey replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

   :lol2: We all have those

7. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   AuntieNursey replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Can I help you pack anything? Need a w/c to get you out of the building? Here let me push, can I call you a

8. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   AuntieNursey replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Not only abandonment, but lord knows what could have been living on the bed. She didn't know what the room mate had, the possibilities are endless. To put a baby on a dirty bed is inexcusable. The...

9. Her perfume stinks!!

   AuntieNursey replied to DebRN06's topic in General Nursing

   YOU stated that upper management has spoken to her, does your workplace have a policy about wearing scents? Don't laugh, I worked with children with D.D. as well as physical and emotional disabilities...

10. I have never been nasty to a student until now!!!

    AuntieNursey replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter is currently studying abroad in France and because of that, I have my cell phone on and on my person 24/7. My husband and I both work 3rd shift and neither of us are near a phone...

11. Nurse Phobias?

    AuntieNursey replied to pattycakeRN's topic in General Nursing

    The visuals are bad enough, but the audio is always what gets me, and if it's alcohol related, the smell. Gets me every

12. Nurse Phobias?

    AuntieNursey replied to pattycakeRN's topic in General Nursing

    me,too. i did ok, not grat mind you, but ok with my offspring and, very surprising, my husband. most of the time, except that guiness :cheers: spout, that was just nasty. he was very grateful i still...

13. Entitled Generation

    AuntieNursey replied to javajaydon's topic in General Nursing

    I think its unreasonale to expect nurses, or any medical staff really or any human for that matter, to work rotating schedules. There have been many studies that reinforce how physically disruptive it...

14. Entitled Generation

    AuntieNursey replied to javajaydon's topic in General Nursing

    [Valerie Salva;2614551]If a facility has good working conditions, pays well, treats me with respect, provides the resources needed to do a good job, has mgmt that rewards good employees and gets rid...

15. Nurse Phobias?

    AuntieNursey replied to pattycakeRN's topic in General Nursing

    vomiting. I'm hoping I'll get over it. I actually reflexively gag when I hear the noises. I feel your pain. This one took me lierally years to get past. A patient/resident would throw up, I would...