tedards1

tedards1 has 10 years experience.

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1. Bullying

   tedards1 replied to xyzrn29's topic in Professionalism

   Recognized as definition of workplace bullying in a court of law in 2014: Workplace Bullying is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators. It is abusive conduct that is : *Threatening, hum...

2. New nurse having a hard time with coworkers

   tedards1 replied to Me93RN's topic in Relations

   Fresnovet made an outstanding observation about a novice nurse not necessarily being a greenhorn at life in general. I have a sneaking suspicion that in many circumstances I would rather have fresnovet caring for me than a myopic, selfish nurse with ...

3. New nurse having a hard time with coworkers

   tedards1 replied to Me93RN's topic in Relations

   I sympathize with your difficulties. Some of the posts below have given you some helpful and constructive advice. Some of the replies have even been empathetic, but the comment that stood out most to me is that of Nurse___RN, BSN who said: I have to ...

4. EPIC ASAP Charting

   tedards1 replied to tedards1's topic in Emergency

   Thank you for the words of encouragement. I was in trauma last night and my preceptor assumed I knew more than I do about EPIC. I did fine with patient care but I had no idea when labs or additional pain medication or a CT, etc. were ordered. When I ...

5. EPIC ASAP Charting

   tedards1 replied to tedards1's topic in Emergency

   Thank you for the advice. It will be frustrating and tedious, but you are right. Hopefully six months from now I will laugh at myself for stressing over EPIC. Maybe I will even write my own how-to instruction guide for charting in EPIC ASAP for obs...

6. EPIC ASAP Charting

   tedards1 posted a topic in Emergency

   I came from an ER that used paper charting and then I briefly used MedHost at another facility. I just started in an ER that uses EPIC ASAP. I am trying to keep an open mind but I dislike this software intensely. It is incredibly messy, disjointed,...