NightOwlNurse

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1. I really need some advice ASAP

   NightOwlNurse replied to jocelynlpn's topic in General Nursing

   We hold ourselves to a higher standard than those who are sick (mentally, spiritually, physically) that we care for. If something related had happened out in public, and the HCA was just a citizen, she would get to express herself without constraint...

2. Nurses, have you been been spit on, pushed, scratched and verbally or assaulted?

   NightOwlNurse replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   That whole 'having each other's back' thing is so great when it works (which is almost always) and so stunning when it doesn't. I have NEVER failed to respond to another nurse calling for help. It would not even occur to me not to respond as fast ...

3. Have you been ever gotten sick from working as a nurse?

   NightOwlNurse replied to Aly529's topic in Stress 101

   Yep- ALMOST got sick, decades ago. This was 'back in the day' when we didn't know all that much about HIV/AIDS except that it killed. I'd just given an IM to an end - stage AIDS patient, and went to snip the needle off the syringe (which is what we ...

4. Interview for CNA position--no job experience, how can I seem condfident?

   NightOwlNurse replied to JennNHD24's topic in General Nursing

   My suggestion: 1- You clearly already know you will do well in this position. You have listed some reasons why. Write those down and then add to that list, drawing from the things that others have said to you about why THEY think the job and you are...

5. Peeves at work

   NightOwlNurse replied to november17's topic in General Nursing

   Gotta' add another one: That oncoming nurse who truly lives to play Lab Jeopardy, instead of sincerely taking report: Where I work we already fill out a formatted report sheet (with a section on each of our patients) for the oncoming shift. When ...

6. Peeves at work

   NightOwlNurse replied to november17's topic in General Nursing

   Funny stuff. Most of mine have already been posted. Here's my current #1 pet peeve: A low level manager who bad mouths everyone that's not in her/his little clique. Then if you accidentally offend that person by asking "Why?" when they tell you that ...

7. work overload

   NightOwlNurse replied to starstruck_83's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know what the legal nurse-patient ratio is in an LTAC hospital. I do know that most facilities of all kinds have forms where we can document our objections if we feel we are being given an unsafe load (patients we aren't trained for, too many...

8. Ever had a nursing instructor hate you?

   NightOwlNurse replied to bustthewave's topic in General Students

   This situation is clearly not fun for you. It is, however, useful education. When you start working as a nurse, it is more than possible that some one will take a dislike to you for reasons that do not primarily come from you, or what you have or hav...

9. Legal ? re: med timing

   NightOwlNurse posted a topic in Medications

   In nursing school 2 of my instructors forcefully stated that if we had an order such as " Morphine IV 1-10 mg every 4 hours prn" we absolutely were not allowed to give, for instance, 1 mg of IV morphine, then an hour later, 2 mg of IV morphine, than...