sasseynurse

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1. What was most embarrassing moment as a nurse?

   sasseynurse replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

   With my wacky sense of humor, I found HappeeWendy's mishaps too amusing. Perhaps I could see myself being wacked by some object in my path. (has happened on many occasions). Everyone had something funny to contribute. Here's a story from one of m...

2. How do you deal with a patient slapping you?

   sasseynurse replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

   Amy, IMHO, you did the right thing. I would persue the documentation if it happens again. Reason is that if there isn't a filed report of threatening behavior--treatment can be delayed or even ignored. Even if I didn't fill out an incident report,...

3. What Would YOU do?

   sasseynurse replied to Paprikat's topic in General Nursing

   Here's my 2 cents. I'm not sure what a "rack" is because we use bubble packs in my facility. Our medicines are organized in drawers according to AM, PM, and Odd Times. How did morning nurse confuse the pills? The MAR should list all meds and the t...

4. consequences of medication errors

   sasseynurse replied to babsRN's topic in General Nursing

   Quote "Only the nurse was fired" really touched my heart. It's the nurse who carried the burden of guilt in that particular situation. Others who were involved are still going on with their lives and their paychecks. As for me, I did recently make...

5. Resignation Letter

   sasseynurse replied to Shandy12's topic in General Nursing

   K-I-S-S Keep It Short -Simple I left a job over 1 1/2 years ago and they recently re-hired me. Things change and people in nursing bump into each other at the most unexpected places. Resign professionally and you will be glad you did. Just my humbl...

6. Ooooooh!!!! My Aching Back!!!!

   sasseynurse replied to shay's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I can sympathize because I had sciatica pain down my leg and surgery (microdiscectomy) was the correction. That was back in 1991 and when I had recurrent pain, a chiopractor offered therapy with better results than the other methods I sought. Ch...

7. If you have a minute,

   sasseynurse replied to Level2Trauma's topic in General Nursing

   A very well done site! You mentioned "thanks to Pam" --but when I tried to view her "Grannie" site-it took me to "Sorry we moved" and no links to her site. All in all-very good job! Thanks for the LPN description. It's very accurate, because that...

8. I Said... 'huh?'

   sasseynurse replied to betts's topic in General Nursing

   Betts, I know you are going to do the right thing here. I read the entire thread and all bases seem covered. What can I do to help? Collectively, we are of one voice and the patient comes first. Under the circumstances, I might have been the fir...

9. Anyone else addicted?

   sasseynurse replied to proud2bme's topic in General Nursing

   Count me in! A place to grow, find information, support, humor and a place where everyone is welcome. I'm hooked!

10. Pot Smoking and Nursing

    sasseynurse replied to MrsNurseCA's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of good comments here. And I think each point of view has its merits. IMHO, people do take risks and they indulge in all sorts of risky and immoral behaviors outside the parameters of work. Random drug testing is ok with me, since I have sub...

11. Men or Women? who is a better nurse?

    sasseynurse replied to mhyq_m3's topic in General Nursing

    Gender in health care, particularly in nursing. should not be an issue. Both are capable of giving the patient the best of their abilities. It can become a sensitive issue for some patients, particularly in geratrics where gender can make a differe...

12. Medication Errors!!

    sasseynurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have just made the inexcusable mistake of giving a patient of a long term care facility the wrong medication! The occurrence was Sunday 3/31 and as an agency licensed practical nurse I did not know the residents, the staff or the routine of that p...