RNforLongTime

RNforLongTime

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RNforLongTime specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.


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  1. What's Rude?

    Sounds like someone has a mental illness. Now I'm not knocking legit people with mental illnesses but I can think of a LOT more things to spend money on than scrubs. That said, the day my grandmother was dying in the hospital and I'd come down the st...
  2. What's Rude?

    Things that bother me: Coworkers who cannot be bothered to perform the basic components of their job. Bosses who DO NOTHING when you inform them via incident reports and emails that your coworkers are not doing their job. Coworkers who feel that it i...
  3. Do Rn's miss having Lpn's in the hospital setting?

    To be honest? No. While I've worked with a few kick-butt LPN's most of the ones I did work with, did not like to take responsibility for anything and would constantly blame the RN...like look, YOU CAN call the Dr yourself for your patients LOW BG......
  4. Difficult coworker..how to deal?

    I wrote her up last night after I found out more information on how she's running her mouth about me to the higher ups. So I wrote up the incidents from last week...how she was on the phone for over 30min to her 'boyfriend' and refused to do anything...
  5. Cancer Made Me a Better Nurse

    I had cancer too! At age 39, I started peeing blood one night at work������������������Drank a LOT of cranberry juice as my coworker assured me it was just a UTI. Erm no I had A tumor on my kidney the size of a bas...
  6. Difficult coworker..how to deal?

    She is passive-agressive to the MAX! We have to do these medical release summaries for inmates who are leaving on parole or maxing out. I did one on a certain inmate the week before and then got notice that he was being paroled. I reprinted out the o...
  7. Difficult coworker..how to deal?

    How would you handle this? I work 3rd shift in a medium security state prison. On 3rd shift, we have 4 staffers. 2 RN's and 2 LPN's(one is male, one is female). I'm a female RN and so is the other RN. We have a difficult coworker in the female LPN. S...
  8. Why white shoes?

    Danskos don't work for everyone. I have a pair and tried wearing them during a 12 hr shift in a Level II Trauma ICU. My feet never hurt so bad. My back ALWAYS hurts...the herniated disc and 2 bulged ones assure me that I'm never without pain. Danskos...
  9. Why white shoes?

    Cleveland Clinic and it's affiliates Nursing staff ALL wear white :/ I'm 44. I hardly remember any nurse ever wearing a cap when I had my tonsils out and had to stay overnight in 1978. With as sick as patients are in hospitals these days, it's not p...
  10. Why white shoes?

    Same reason that nursing uniforms cost so much! WHY is a pair of pants $10 at Walmart and from Landau/Cherokee/Koi companies they're 3 x that much...why? Because they can! I spend MORE on my scrubs than I do for my every-day life clothes. It's ridicu...
  11. How do you get meal breaks?

    I'm the ONLY RN on duty at night...I DO get to go grab a bite as the chow hall is open for us from 11:15pm-1 am with Inmate workers prepping the food. Most of it is unhealthy and/or tastes blah. Most nights I get a grilled egg and cheese sandwich. I ...
  12. Detox in Jail?

    I work in a male prison...we get a LOT of Parole Violators who are high when they get to us and then we Detox them for a few days...most of them are opiate addicts and a few ETOH addicts. I tell them they're gonna feel like death warmed over for a fe...
  13. Do you always get out of work on time?

    I always get out on time Unless something really bad happened at the prison near the end of my shift and I have to do a buttload of paperwork for control. Or I get mandated :/
  14. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    Colostomies and Trach care! I hate them both! I get gowned. masked and gloved up when doing either!
  15. When a patient complains

    Yep, you're exactly right Mom to 4. I'm glad I'm no longer at the hospital bedside either. This push to customer service is ridiculous. My patients can complain about me but 9 times out of 10 their complaint is thrown out and laughed at by my boss.