PewpSmith

PewpSmith has 23 years experience and specializes in Special Procedures.

Latest Activity

1. School Nurses and Mental Health

   PewpSmith posted a topic in School

   Saw this article on NPR and it raises some interesting points I hadn't considered about this specialty. I mean.... I tend to think of you guys being responsible for physical health and student well being during school hours. When it comes to mental h...

2. Pet Peeves with Doctors

   PewpSmith replied to BeenThere2012's topic in Relations

   2 things- When they take nearly all the charts on the floor and hide with them. When you find them and ask for your chart to do documentation they're like- I'm not done with it yet- then take the chart you wanted that they weren't even using- and ope...

3. Nurses Who Harm Patients

   PewpSmith replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Ok.... so by your own statistics of 2000 nursing being convicted of this WORLDwide.... let's do some statistics..... Many accredited sources report 3.1 million Registered Nurses in the USA alone.... 0.065% of nurses are convicted of this if we just ...

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

   PewpSmith replied to nikkole318's topic in Relations

   I am super guilty of asking people where they are from and/or what their ethnic background is. Sometimes I've even gone so far as to ask, "Were you born in another country?" after they say a local place. Sometimes these questions have led to fantast...

5. how serious are HIPAA violations taken?

   PewpSmith replied to RUSerious's topic in HIPAA

   Honestly, as crappy as this is, it depends on who it was that violated you. My husband's ex, who is a doctor, looked up my records for AT LEAST my demographic info (SSN, address, phone numbers, emergency contacts, etc etc) and while they couldn't pro...

6. HELP!! NEW nurse feel like Im getting eaten by sharks

   PewpSmith replied to newbie9909's topic in New Nurse

   Can I just give advice about the friend request on Facebook coming from my own personal experience? Don't add this person. Until you have been there a reeeeeaaalllly long time and you actually would call that person a friend for sure. You never know ...

7. New grad wants to QUIT first job, PLEASE HELP.

   PewpSmith replied to WowzersRN's topic in Critical

   Can I just say that I, too, hate when other nurses make the "I got less than 2 weeks orientation so don't complain about your orientation" remarks. Especially in critical care areas or for any new nurse on any type of unit. I'm fairly certain those s...

8. Nurses Humilated - Illinois

   PewpSmith replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

   This is disgusting and makes me see red! Ya know, it MUST be nursing's fault and never that there isn't enough staff and resources (sarcasm font needed) I hate this mentality that it's everyone's fault except administrators who don't want to pay for...

9. CEN 2016!

   PewpSmith replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

   So I'm very excited to announce that I took my CEN exam today and passed it with 131/150! I bought several books but found that only a few were actual useful and/or pertained to the exam. The 2 books that I would buy if I was doing this over again a...

10. CEN 2016!

    PewpSmith replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

    Boswell Page: (link removed) Make sure you go back through at least 10 questions bc a couple are softballs And Solheim: (link removed)

11. CEN 2016!

    PewpSmith replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

    Hey you guys-- I'm on Facebook and was wondering if those of you who passed the CEN exam already could look at the questions posed on the Mark Boswell Facebook page and the Jeff Solheim page and tell me if the questions are really comparable to what ...

12. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    PewpSmith replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Uuuuuugh I forgot about that crap! That's the thick white cream we slather on high skin risk pts right? I haven't had to deal with that stuff for a while since I moved to ED

13. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    PewpSmith replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Just asked Mr. PewpSmith (GI MD) and he said he couldn't think of a reason

14. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    PewpSmith replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Can I just say HOLY crap for a moment? I nearly called this post "What is your Achilles Heel" ..... And then settled on kryptonite.... And then our shared aversion to dentures??? I also don't bat an eye with maggots in nasty wounds and am an ER nurse...

15. SERIOUSLY, sometimes I just surrender!

    PewpSmith replied to Mango Juice's topic in School

    Reading that in my head made me giggle like the immature 5 year old I really am at heart. Poop (pewp) should totally be an honorary SN