AliceTrout

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1. If You Could Only Give ONE Piece of Advice to New RNs

   AliceTrout replied to renardeau's topic in New Nurse

   Best advice I have to offer in nursing - or anything is one from my mom. "First things first, second things never". You can't get bogged down in unimportant things if you remember to always keep your first priorities first. Granted, knowing what is ...

2. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

   AliceTrout replied to hamsterwheel's topic in LPN-RN

   I was a non-trad in my nursing program, but the youngest one (I jumped degrees back to back). I will tell you at my school there was a pretty strong anti-nontrad sentiment, and for a somewhat good reason. The non-trads typically liked to voice the...

3. I failed my school drug test. Am I finished forever?

   AliceTrout replied to Breatholife's topic in General Students

   I don't know if anyone said this yet, but my idea was maybe to contact your local state board and ask them. They are the ones that make decisions about the consequences of licensed nurses who are determined to be abusing drugs and/or alcohol. Maybe t...

4. I let one slip past me

   AliceTrout posted a topic in General Nursing

   Before I was a nurse, I was a domestic violence advocate for the county. I would get a page from the PD whenever they were on scene, and I would provide assistance and outreach to the victim. I had received substantial training and certification for ...

5. Negative Post on Facebook About New Nurses - I'm Fired Up!

   AliceTrout replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in Relations

   I think nurses who make snarky comments like these instead of seeing that they are in a teaching opportunity are more of a disgrace on the profession than someone who is still learning. Maybe this young nurse did have attitude, maybe she didn't. I do...

6. Hospice: What You Don't Know Can Hurt

   AliceTrout replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice

   Thank you for this story, it helped illuminate some of the emotions I have picked up on emanating from family members when we bring up the idea of hospice to our ICU family's. I struggled to understand why some people seemed to prefer having their lo...

7. Disrespectful ad against nurses on Craigslist

   AliceTrout replied to Trilldayz,RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

   I have found that the hospitality industry is very often where future nurses start their careers. I know I did, and so did an overwhelming number of my former hospitality working cohorts. The fact is there are interesting and subtle similarities bet...

8. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

   AliceTrout replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I like to give report somewhere quiet without interruption (no family or patient trying to play HouseMD and misinterpret or get nervous from things in our report, no oncoming nurse looking around the room while I talk and missing important informatio...

9. Screaming match with my preceptor

   AliceTrout replied to jherd's topic in Relations

   You kinda sealed your fate by letting this get to the point you blew up. You should have asked for a different preceptor before you blew up, or found some other way to manage the bad friction between you two. This is in no way a defense of her behavi...

10. Odd finding (Concerning genitalia)

    AliceTrout replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    HA. Well it turns out he did have a peritoneum to house those bleeding guts. I am guessing the fake IV had something to do with the profoundly low H&H and furious blood bank who called them 99 times to say blood was ready. (Blood bank told me the...

11. Odd finding (Concerning genitalia)

    AliceTrout replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    This reminded me of one of the best/worst/best again reports I ever got from the ER. Stated that the patient was a "bilateral AKA with dependent edema in the lower extremities" being admitted for upper and lower GI bleed, but that he had "no peritone...

12. A sobering story-------

    AliceTrout replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    I read through all the (somewhat catty?!) replies just to see if anyone else thought this very thing! It was all that went through my mind when I read what happened - how did the massive quantity of this medication not just scream WRONG at this woman...

13. Call bells

    AliceTrout replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    The absolute worst are the people who hit the call light while you are still in the room. We had a guy doing that a few weeks ago that was on the bipap and would hit the light literally and actually at least every five minutes to ask for ice chips. N...

14. I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    AliceTrout replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't read every reply, so forgive me if this has already been said; but to me not having some anxiety as a new grad sounds suspicious and dangerous. On one hand as a new grad you shouldn't have so much anxiety you are paralyzed and ineffective. B...

15. Are You Protected Against Identity Theft? - FREE Offer for Nurses

    AliceTrout replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Skeptical is my middle name, but surely I am not the only one who thinks this deal sounds to good to be true...am I?