kamoity

kamoity specializes in Oncology.

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1. Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

   kamoity replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Career Support

   Hurricanes are predictable? Hardly. Take a look at Florence over the past couple of days. No one knows for sure where "she" is going to hit until it actually happens.

2. How do you feel about having other nurses as patients?

   kamoity replied to purplegal's topic in Relations

   Recently, I had a retired private practice doctor and a retired RN as patients. I didn't find this information out, though, until about halfway through my second day with each of them. Did it change the way that I cared for them? Nope.I continued on ...

3. what's your pet peeve?

   kamoity replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

   "I don't take insulin at home, so I'm not taking it here." Never mind the fact that their blood sugar is 300+.

4. what's your pet peeve?

   kamoity replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

   I had an awesome family member the other day tell me that she was going to let the rest of her family know that she was going to be the designated spokesperson so I wouldn't get a ton of calls for updates. She said she knew nurses were busy and she d...

5. what's your pet peeve?

   kamoity replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

   I had a patient peering at me from her doorway, trying to catch my eye, while I was clearly involved with explaining to the husband of my suicide watch patient what was going to happen once she was transferred to the behavioral health unit of another...

6. "Cell phone" vibration in your thigh?

   kamoity replied to srercg's topic in Lounge

   I've felt the same type of sensations before, too, mostly in my groin area. Hasn't happened in a long time, but when it did occur, it was so annoying! Glad to see that I'm not the only one who's experienced this!

7. Being blamed for fall after shift

   kamoity replied to notyetnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Sadly, in the hospital system that I work for, even an assisted fall is considered a fall and it counts against our unit. Any time that a patient's body physically touches the floor, it's seen as a fall, no matter the circumstances behind it.