brattygrl

brattygrl has 15 years experience and specializes in Peds critical care.

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1. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

   brattygrl replied to nikkole318's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Was once called an Ugly Mother F**cker by a two year old. Was sooo surprised by what she said that I askes mom what she said. Mom looked up from her cell phone and said, "Oh. She said Ugly Mother...

2. Inappropriate Facebook postings by family and friends of the patient

   brattygrl replied to morman's topic in General Nursing

   Late to the conversation. Anyhow, our hospital policy is to not leave the deceased alone until they are taken to morgue. We take turns as nurses sitting in with the deceased and family members...

3. Here Now Gone Tomorrow

   brattygrl replied to WonderingWhichWay's topic in General Nursing

   Have to agree with all of the others with regard to the heavy physical demands of the job. Just to give you some hard numbers, my coworkers and I like to compare "miles walked" each shift. I would...

4. The film: Vaxxed.

   brattygrl replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

   YEESSSSSS!!! Thank

5. The film: Vaxxed.

   brattygrl replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

   Pediatric Critical Care nurse here. Seeing babies infected with pertussis turning blue and struggling to breathe has reinforced my pro-vaccination stance. Same with measels encephalopathy and...

6. Losing patience with residents.

   brattygrl replied to Sbrewster's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Hey, as an adult, in my own home, I'd be ****** off too if someone told me I couldn't have a cup of coffee just because it's 2am. I'm just sayin. Think about it from their point of view once in a...

7. HIPAA?

   brattygrl replied to IThinkICan100's topic in General Students

   I have over one hundred friends that are nurses on my FB page and you would never know it. NOBODY mentions ANYTHING remotely work related, no matter where any of us work. It's just understood. You...

8. Need help having problems with my teacher and the program

   brattygrl replied to CNAintraining's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   Oops. Duplicate post. Had to delete it. Anyway, good luck again. Their behavior sounds wrong and illegal (although I'm not a lawyer). Don't give up yet. Give em

9. Need help having problems with my teacher and the program

   brattygrl replied to CNAintraining's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

   I'm so sorry you are going through this. It sounds horrible. Have you considered having a lawyer write a letter to the Dean of your school stating that, if the harassment doesn't stop, you will take...

10. Pt having a "friend" over for "special nursing care"

    brattygrl replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Even worse when it's parents or other family members while visiting a sick kid in a children's hospital. We just call security. I can imagine it's a bit different when its a consenting adult patient...

11. Did I do the right thing?

    brattygrl replied to rainydaysRN's topic in School

    A scalp lac will heal eventually (even without staples). Thats what those of us in the ER call a distracting injury. When you focus on something nonlife threatening. I would have sent her to the ER...

12. Dealing with bad coworker

    brattygrl replied to Purpsfrog's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Is she signing off the meds?Charting the dressing changes and flushes to g tubes? Just

13. Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    brattygrl replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Go back to preschool. Get out of the gene pool." Weird Al. Almost spit my coffee out! Too

14. What is the worst mistake you've made as a nurse?

    brattygrl replied to unpocodeam0r's topic in Emergency

    Please don't be so hard on yourself. In the big scheme of things, this wasn't catastrophic. You obviously are bothered by it and my guess is you will be more mindful of normal ranges of vs for the...

15. Nursing is a gift

    brattygrl replied to Erusso's topic in General Students

    What a poorly written piece of fluff (No offense, just very hard to read due to poor grammer usage). Nursing is so much more than just compassion. Many people can be compassionate and never cut it as...