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  1. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

    Fiddleback replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

    I use a plumber whose daughter is his right hand. She is one of the few certified master plumbers in the state and she makes well into six figures every year. One of my cousins has a 24 year old...

  2. Do you ever pick up your phone on your day off when work calls you?

    Fiddleback replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Our managers and charge nurses are actually smart enough to know people won’t answer the phone when work is calling. So they developed the sneaky habit of using their personal cell phones when they...

  3. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

    Fiddleback replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Spent six years working an intake unit where all our patients were fresh off the street and still seriously psychotic. I had one grab me from behind and try to choke me out one night while I was...

  4. When Nurses Dream...and Have Nightmares!

    Fiddleback replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Having 50 or 60 blood sugars a shift my recurring dream always involves me trying to gets all those FSBS’s charted but I keep getting interrupted every couple of entries. Or is that

  5. What do you like best about working in a jail?

    Fiddleback replied to Alexxoxox's topic in Correctional

    I actually work in a large state correctional facility. My employer is a large state university that provides healthcare to several of the state penal facilities so my benefits are good and the pay is...

  6. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is a question I ask every time I look at my paycheck stub. I have a deduction for FICA and for Medicare. Then there is a deduction for State Retirement that is higher than FICA and Medicare...

  7. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    What I think about these laws isn’t important. They survived the test of constitutionality at the time Roosevelt fist got them through. In reality, Medicare was simply an extension of Social...

  8. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Each of the countries that make up your merry little group has its own Health care system and I doubt that any two systems are exactly alike. You also failed to mention that the most populous of these...

  9. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I’m not opposed to Medicare for all - all who want or need it. What I am saying is there are people in this country who are happy with their benefits and we should not be forced give up what we have...

  10. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Not without an act of the state legislature they can’t. And that’s not likely to happen in a state where nearly thirty percent of new hires quit within the first two years of employment because...

  11. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    At no time have I said I am against a system that would provide DECENT health care to people who can’t afford insurance. What I am against is taking insurance plans that people are happy with and...

  12. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    But Bernie is currently the loudest and most strident voice and he is calling his plan Medicare for All. As the loudest voice he is getting the most media coverage. So much so that a number of the...

  13. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    How is it different from slavery? It’s different because I still have a choice whether or not to continue working there or not. I guess I forgot to mention that I passed the “rule of eighty” a...

  14. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    There seems to be an assumption on some people’s part that Medicare For All would be better than any other insurance and everyone should be happy to switch their premiums over to a payroll tax....

  15. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    Fiddleback replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The “end of private care” probably comes from Bernie Sanders stating that BCBS would be reduced to only being able to cover nose

  16. Curiosity Killed the Cat and Got 50 Hospital Employees Fired

    Fiddleback replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. Working in a large psych facility I would come in at night and one of my responsibilities was the census at midnight. Patients who hand been on my unit for weeks could suddenly be gone and you...

  17. Calling Out for EXCEPTIONAL Snow Conditions

    Fiddleback replied to River&MountainRN's topic in General Nursing

    I realize not everyone would want or really need this but I have a GMC 3500 with a 9 inch lift kit on it. The tires on it will go through just about anything but six feet of snow would be a tad bit...

  18. How safe to you feel working in mental health sector?

    Fiddleback replied to northmississippi's topic in Psychiatric

    Psych units control what visitors bring in? Most of the contraband we see is brought in by visitors. And since Texas now has a license to carry law visitors who are licensed can openly carry their...

  19. How safe to you feel working in mental health sector?

    Fiddleback replied to northmississippi's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm going to change the tone a little bit here. I work in a forensic intake unit - all male. We are chronically short staffed. In the past eight years I have seen one RN and a Tech attacked and...

  20. My DON accused me of patient abandonment during a snowstorm

    Fiddleback replied to NurseScorpio88's topic in General Nursing

    Being a nursing home the place should have an administrator or some person to whom the DON answers. It may be a corporate set up but she has to answer to somebody. I agree with everyone who says get a...

  21. Accepting verbal orders from another nurse?

    Fiddleback replied to amberrenae, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Had a big public blow up with a charge nurse on my psych unit one night over a stat order for Benadryl of all things. The doctor had told the charge nurse she would enter it in a few minutes. My...

  22. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

    Fiddleback replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Not always. I work in a state facility where we have adolescents, geriatric, and everyone in between including forensics. The adolescents are the ones you need to watch. Not only are they mentally ill...

  23. IM Injections

    Fiddleback replied to nina12345's topic in Psychiatric

    A lot of times it depends on the situation. Most of the patients I deal with are forensic and will refuse pills. They aren't very happy about the idea of a shot either. It can sometimes take five or...

  24. Dodged a swift kick to the face today

    Fiddleback replied to NurseNinja1990's topic in Psychiatric

    In six years on a forensic unit full of patients who all want to be the alpha male, I have been choked, kicked, punched, bit, spit on, had one concussion, and received stitches twice. Why do I stay...

  25. Zyprexa and Ativan IM Compatibility - (Haldol Allergy)

    Fiddleback replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Psychiatric

    The state run facility where I work requires a 2 hour wait between Zyprexa and Ativan injections. For that reason The doctors usually order a shot of Benadryl at the same time time as the Zyprexa....