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[Stargazer]

Originally posted by hoolahan

Or, I would absolutely dog ger to death with stupid questions until she says uncle.

Me too! I would pester the living daylights out of her by updating her and asking for validation Every. Single. Time I took an order, gave a routine med, took a routine set of VS, turned, cleaned or fed a patient, explained something to the family, talked to the doc, or took a potty or meal break.

When she finally asks exasperatedly why you need to tell her everything, do this:

Better yet, she will not beleive she really does this, they never do, write down some specific instances dates and times, when she did this and say. You may not realize it but you questioned my judgement three times in four hours so far today.

[deespoohbear]

I probably wouldn't last very long, I would be disciplined for insubornidation!! I don't have time to tell the charge everytime I call a doctor, pull an IV, wipe a behind....if she wants to be that involved, I would tell her to take my patient assignment and I would enjoy the rest of my shift doing nothing......

[Nurse Ratched, RN]

Sounds extreme in your case, but I will mention there is a nurse on eves that has had to become that way as a result of several bad experiences (at 11pm having a nurse call a doc who has been on call for 48 hours to ask him if the patient's home birth control pills can be continued when the dose isn't due until tomorrow afternoon - stupid stuff - not to mention the dangerous stuff that I won't go into.) I'm guessing that once she, like the nurse I am referring to, becomes comfortable with a person's skills and critical thinking ability, then she backs off, knowing that you will come to her when it's necessary.

[kids]

Originally posted by baseline

Well I finally figured this one out.....highlite it and then hit the quote button at the bottom of the reply page.

actually, you don't have to hi-lite it...just hit quote...when it it is a really long post and you want to scale it down to the point you are responding to just click inside the quoted area and edit it down...onw word of caution, I ALWAYS make a point of doing a ... and ... before and after to clue people into the fact it is an excerpt quoted from a post.

[ShandyLynnRN, BSN, RN]

thanks for the advice everyone. What about quoting multiple ppl's posts??? Meaning, quoting one person, thenanother person, then another person, all in my one post?