Fleur deLirious

Fleur deLirious has 28 years experience and specializes in Rehab, Ortho, Telemetry.

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1. IV Placement Hacks

   Fleur deLirious replied to Ashley Hay, BSN, RN's topic in General Nursing

   @SaltySarcasticSally -- You may not be fully into the vein. When you see the blood flashback, continue advancing just a smidge to make sure that the plastic cannula, and not just the needle tip, has entered the vein lumen.You should be more successfu...

2. Doctor's lying about telephone order

   Fleur deLirious replied to Irabee's topic in General Nursing

   I've experienced this "cover-your-butt-by-throwing-the-innocent-nurse-under-the-bus" behavior before. I received a patient to the Rehab unit, where we normally would change them from IV/IM to p.o. pain management. This patient's orders still had them...

3. Manager catch phrases

   Fleur deLirious replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   The secretary on our unit says this (sarcastically) whenever we experience "managerspeak" from someone in the upper echelons.Makes me laugh every time.

4. Manager catch phrases

   Fleur deLirious replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

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5. The Nurse at the Bedside

   Fleur deLirious replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

   I have 29 years of bedside experience. Over the years, I've been the designated charge nurse (but keopt a second job at the bedside. I've been offered management positions, and always turned them down. In the end, I'd rather be on the front lines, ta...

6. Nurses smoking weed?

   Fleur deLirious replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

   You'd be a fool to risk your career to get high. Even if it were legal, until there's a test that can determine current intoxication levels, I don't think healthcare professionals should be allowed to smoke or ingest marijuana, even in their off time...

7. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

   Fleur deLirious replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated in 1988, and worked as a nurse tech for a year prior to that. In those days, many people still smoked, and smoking was allowed in hospitals. Only doctors were allowed to smoke at the nurses' station or in public areas; nurses smoked in th...

8. Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

   Fleur deLirious replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   24 years after having switched from BSN to ASN programs due to financial constraints and graduating with an ASN, I returned to school and graduated with my BSN from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2012. I had always felt like a failure for no...

9. Correcting Others mistakes?

   Fleur deLirious replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

   Perhaps the first correction we should make is changing the title to Correcting Others' Mistakes...

10. The Dreaded Group Projects

    Fleur deLirious replied to naptimeRN's topic in General Students

    I had the same beef when I returned to school for my BSN. There were a few motivated people in each group, and everyone else just rode their coattails for a grade with no consequence for their inaction. One project, we had a student who was MIA for t...

11. Feeling dumped on as new PRN

    Fleur deLirious replied to adpiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've experienced "dumping syndrome" as both a PRN nurse and an agency nurse. It's quite frustrating. The justification I have often heard charge nurses use is that "they're making the big bucks, let them take care of the tough patients." This is ridi...

12. Priorities Can Kill: When Passing the Buck Gets Dangerous

    Fleur deLirious replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    EXCELLENT article; I would love to put it in the newsletter that I do for my telemetry unit (with proper credit to the author and a link to your website). Would that be okay with you?