blue49

blue49 specializes in med/surg, Icu/Ccu. ER, PACU, HHC, LTC.

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1. Nurses writing up nurses?

   blue49 replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

   As many have said disciplinary action comes from a supervisor or manager, therefore your co-worker was following procedure and reporting a missed med: that means a doctor's order was not carried out. Your manager should have had you make a late entry...

2. Typical Orientation

   blue49 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Home Health

   Most here are commenting on home care?private duty and that is a totally different animal. I recently, after 30 years ina hospital setting and not wanting to start over in another, was a case manager for a home care agency. My orientation was terribl...

3. Please share something GOOD that happened at work!

   blue49 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

   Been a nurse 31 years soon, so I do have both stories (good and bad)... Yes reading the *bad* can be a downer, but when the situation is bad it so helps to hear/read that others have had and unfortunately may have the same problem, but foremost that ...

4. need help--husband died at home

   blue49 replied to pyseymo's topic in Cardiac

   I hope that with the time involved and the caring and compassion from friends and family near and here you are doing as well as can be expected. I hope you have found that someone or just here to talk with and be assured that you did what was needed,...

5. What Would You Do?......thanks for input in advance

   blue49 posted a topic in Home Health

   I have been orienting with a small rural home care agency for 8 days. I have no home care experience, but I have been a nurse almost 30 years. Last week when I started there was one full time RN and an RN that has been there 6 weeks and a Per diem RN...

6. Calling all HH Nurses, roll call

   blue49 replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   Well first of all thank you to all for the posts about good and bad days in home health......i just returned from an interview with an agency that covers many counties in my rural area and am hoping that i can catch on to the *jargon* and get the pap...

7. Help*please* co-worker lying blaming me for her possible mistake

   blue49 replied to MarsMe's topic in General Nursing

   I am also confused.....*she may have* *she did* and if you have no knowledge of ANY of the particulars; ie date, time, content of order, you should have nothing to worry about...case closed. also question why a lawsuit??...........

8. propofol

   blue49 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

   dumb question........since my icu days were so long ago and we did not use prop drips/occasional boluses.........even if the patient is ventilated are u not concerned about the other overall concerns mentioned, like pt's cardio status, resp status, e...

9. How much did you start as a nurse and when.

   blue49 replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

   In 1976 in rural southeastern Indiana ina small county hospital I started at $4.96/hour and in the *city* Cincinnati I was offered a job at $5.13 an hour. After almost 30 years I am only making $26.81...... seems like from 1975 to 1985 there wasn't m...

10. Pet peeves!

    blue49 replied to ADN 2002's topic in General Nursing

    You mean ER DIDN'T cure them????...................lol,j/k.

11. Suspended without prior write ups

    blue49 replied to rehab nurse's topic in General Nursing

    i feel your pain........i was given a verbal/written warning in dec 05 and after a *meeting* in jan we all decided to play nice together......thw actual write up was for petty bs too........then i decided that i wanted this job and hoped it would be ...

12. Pet peeves!

    blue49 replied to ADN 2002's topic in General Nursing

    seems to me that most of these boil down to 1) those of us who care 2) and those that do not. Thank God for those that do care re:not doing their jobs completely, not working together and remembering the patients come first, restocking what u have us...

13. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    blue49 replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    oh i forgot.......scc=suicide completion course........sorry

14. I'm an ER nurse and I love my job because...

    blue49 replied to sowie's topic in Emergency

    I agree with you jessica and that is why I miss ER..... Non-medical or floor nurses look at me so weird when I say I love a GOOD trauma and a successful TPA for and MI or stroke......of course when they do well and survive it is so much better....but...

15. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    blue49 replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    An Er doc i used to work with said when he was first out of school (years ago) they used to write on the bottom of selected charts.......FOAD=f**k off and die.....Bad i know. Also one we used especially when a babe or child was brought to er, obvious...