TreetopAngel_RN

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1. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   This past weekend was it! Two patients in the same room, they both work hard to wake each other up, i.e. banging on furniture, yelling and shouting to each other, ambulating (which they are NOT supposed to do) to the other side and waking if they don...

2. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   :rotfl: Thank you! Thank you! I needed that one after my weekend.

3. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   Oh how I wish I could do this. I will tell patients that no staff member will be answering their call light for 15 minutes. This at least gives us a breather so we can take care of our other 19 patients. And I make it stick, the call light is not...

4. Is Your Last Name On Your Badge?

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

   Only once was my last name obscured on a name badge, as a student nurse on the psych unit. Since then my full name has been on the badge. I believe we could get by with a first name and last initial, that should be enough identifier for anyone. If ...

5. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   I came up with one from Saturday noc, after a set of circumstances left me alone on the unit (20 patients) for 8 hours without a CNA: Never, never call the front desk to report that you want the overhead light cord tied to your call light cord at 030...

6. Have you noticed an increase in patients with type II diabetes?

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to Brian's topic in Endocrine

   Definitely YES! And many of them say they didn't have diabetes before they went into the hospital. I have patients that I am checking blood sugars four times a day and they have sliding scale insulin. Their blood sugars are within normal limits. I...

7. My BEST Day At Clinicals Today!!

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to Siouxz2's topic in General Students

   Fantastic! Keep it up!

8. Vacation Woes (rant)

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

   I fully sympathize with your position. I get to try to call for replacements after the bars close and people call-in at three in the morning. There is no best time to call people to be in at 0630 and , like you, I don't know who is already on the s...

9. Vacation Woes (rant)

   TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

   The spousal unit says, "BRILLIANT!" Elizabeth

10. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I refuse to get an answering machine. The scheduler had the guts to tell me I *HAD* to get one so she could leave me messages. I told her, "If I don't answer the phone, I'm unavailable." But, now with no land line and only the cell phone...

11. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the advice. However, I still feel that a person's vacation should be inviolate, let alone recovering from surgery. I have voice mail and caller ID, but I resent that I cannot even answer my phone.

12. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    As of midnght tonight my two-week vacation is over. I chose to take vacation at this time because I needed surgery, a surgery that my doctor considered urgent. I waited to take this vacation (have my surgery) for a month since there were already tw...

13. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

    That's when I make sure their bedside table is as close to them as possible and remind them that their arms are not broken. I also remind them that I am there for the things they CANNOT do for themselves.

14. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Too often! I had a dream one night that I came in to drop something off and the nurse on duty asked me to flush a tube feeder as she was swamped. While I was flushing the one I heard the next pump beeping, signaling the end of another tube feed. By...

15. ER Pet Peeves

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    But, if my norm is lower than the average norm, I hope you listen before I start into seizures. I had a nurse ignore my high temp of 98.8, my norm is 94.2 and I went into seizures, and found out my primary raked her over the coals for it. Sometimes ...