If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

[DixieRedHead]

I don't know if I am just hard hearted after so many years of nursing, or if I have just seen too many malingerers, or just too many people who blame their problems on anything and everyone but themselves. But if I answered half the posts on here with what I really feel, I think I would be thrown off.

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

"yes, that was another beaut! gee, what do we need math for?? i wanted to come through the computer screen and grab the person who wrote that by the nose hairs and scream "are you freakin' kidding me?" i could not believe that was a serious post......things like that make me very afraid for the future of this profession"

well, never fear- the mean, arbitrary, and vinhdictive nursing instructors who have no heart and don't like facial piercings and don't remember what it was like to be a student with loooooove in her heart will flunk their butts out. and we'll hear about it here. but at least we may not have to have them care for us when we are in the beds.

i hope you are correct, however, after reading multiple posts by the students that did make it through (maybe because they didn't have any facial piercings or tattoos) but are asking questions such as the one who wanted to know if she could run an antibiotic whose name she didn't know...but thought it was something like_______ and proceeded to name an antidepressant...with d5w or ns!!!.. the point being she was asking a question about a drug she had no clue about...that she should have absolutely known all about...or looked up on her own..or called the pharmacy about...or whatever...i could not even imagine that someone would have asked such a ridiculous question on this board....and this was a licensed nurse....this is a travesty! not the fact that she didn't know this particular drug....obviously, everyone doesn't know every drug but the fact that she didn't look it up...and she just willy nilly guessed at the name of it...what happens when she guesses the next time but doesn't ask anyone on allnurses?? or anywhere else? that may be far fetched, but that is how med errors happen!

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

I just don't understand. Any sane person who is unfamiliar with a medication would consult a drug book, use their pharmacy intranet, maybe check with a colleague. There are multiple sources. Why ask here for that information? Or give anyway? Don't they recall the 7 rights of medication administration?

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

See if you can find the thread...it's pretty amazing...and not in a good way.

[DixieRedHead, ASN, RN]

PeepnBiscuitsRN I am so stealing this:

A lot of what I would say would probably get me thrown in the "intolerant of other cultures" bucket, bound and tied with "Coexist" bumperstickers.

[nursel56]

I just don't understand. Any sane person who is unfamiliar with a medication would consult a drug book, use their pharmacy intranet, maybe check with a colleague. There are multiple sources. Why ask here for that information? Or give anyway? Don't they recall the 7 rights of medication administration?

She never learned how to utilize resource materials because selfless and kind allnurses members handed her the answers on a silver platter every time she got stuck? :chair:

[realnursealso/LPN, LPN]

OK, I had to find this thread, so I could do this :banghead: A thread today made me do that. I am constantly reading on here how LPN's/ LVN's are being done away with, according to this ones professor, or that ones dean. Which I know is a crock! But when I read a thread written by a new nurse, not LPN, about a very important, you have to be correct to give it med, and they don't know the answer, but decided to ask on this board what to do, instead of asking their charge at work.:pntrghi::banghead:

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

If you need clarification re: Drs orders, ask him! Don't ask us....how would we know? Isn't this nursing 101?? Help me....

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

She didn't need clarification...she needed to READ the order...she didn't know the name of the antibiotic....she took a guess...this was one of my all time favorites.

[Aurora77]

I thought you guys were psychic! What really got me about that thread was the accusations of not being "supportive" of the poster.

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

She didn't need clarification...she needed to READ the order...she didn't know the name of the antibiotic....she took a guess...this was one of my all time favorites.

No Diva, this is a different brilliant one. Someone needs clarification about insulin. Instead of calling their Doctor, they are asking us here. Unbelievable! You aren't sure? Call your MD and/or check your own site protocols.

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

No Diva, this is a different brilliant one. Someone needs clarification about insulin. Instead of calling their Doctor, they are asking us here. Unbelievable! You aren't sure? Call your MD and/or check your own site protocols.

Oh NO...must have missed that one!!.......Gee, is there something wrong with that??? I always ask a bunch of strangers for "advise" on everything important in my life...whether it's clarification of Doctor's orders...( I mean it's ONLY insulin, nothing could go wrong with that, right?).......or what specality of nursing I should go into--or which postition I should take--because a bunch of strangers know what is best for me and I am not capable of making any decisions on my own!!!

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

Ugh. It's very disturbing that some of these individuals even have a license.

Gee....I'm not sure about the order that MY Dr wrote for MY patient. Nah....I won't call him. I'll ask a bunch of strangers on the internet. They'll know what I should do....