Barriss Offee

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1. Older Nurse no BSN needs advice

   Barriss Offee replied to Jon C RN 2024's topic in General Nursing

   Hey that's awesome! I am super happy to hear you are back in the game. I never worked PACU, only a little bit of recovery at an endoscopy center (it is WAY easier than anything PACU related) and none of the patients were ever under general anes...

2. Older Nurse no BSN needs advice

   Barriss Offee replied to Jon C RN 2024's topic in General Nursing

   I am sorry you are going through this. I think the BSN requirement is completely unnecessary if you simply want to be a clinical RN. I would much rather take a RN with an ADN and decades of real experience over a new grad with a BSN. Your experience ...

3. What made you quit?

   Barriss Offee replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   What?????? You are per diem. By definition, you do not have the commitment of a core staff nurse, and the hospital does not have the commitment to you to maintain your hours or give you benefits. The fact that there is no such committments...

4. What made you quit?

   Barriss Offee replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   Part of me has the urge to ask if there is more to the story. Another part of me thinks that this story may just be exactly what it says at face value. I have been astonished by the wild things I have seen people do in the clinical setting. It sounds...

5. Hospice Doctors

   Barriss Offee replied to Juniper369's topic in General Nursing

   Absolutely Keeping your license is worth way more than the courtesy of a 2 week notice. If I told a jury that I continued to provide unsafe care and obey directions that required violating scope of practice and acceptable safe standards just to ...

6. Hospice Doctors

   Barriss Offee replied to Juniper369's topic in General Nursing

   It's up to you about the notice. Personally, if I had to choose between walking away now with an email stating my resignation is effective immediately versus doing a whole 2 week notice, I would absolutely minimize my risk of malpractice, patien...

7. Hospice Doctors

   Barriss Offee replied to Juniper369's topic in General Nursing

   A little sketchy? "LITTLE"? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

8. Hospice Doctors

   Barriss Offee replied to Juniper369's topic in General Nursing

   Bro. Think about it. If you are working in a place where your providers and even your own nursing manager have made it so calling the provider is not allowed, AND you have to determine your own treatment plans and medication orders by using Goo...

9. Hospice Doctors

   Barriss Offee replied to Juniper369's topic in General Nursing

   Bro. You are determining treatments and writing your own orders, plus a non-licensed person is signing the orders. No bueno for me if this is the expectations put on you. A good argument could be made that you are practicing medicine without a ...

10. Medication Route Error

    Barriss Offee replied to OneRN50's topic in General Nursing

    I know I am SUPER late to the game here but aren't suboxone tablets small-ish? Couldn't you crush the pill and then pour the contents of powdered/finely-granular medication into the mouth and under the tongue, and then have the patient si...

11. Medication Route Error

    Barriss Offee replied to OneRN50's topic in General Nursing

    I know I am SUPER late to the game here but aren't suboxone tablets small-ish? Couldn't you crush the pill and then pour the contents of powdered/finely-granular into the mouth and under the tongue and then have the patient sit there with the mo...

12. CNA Frustrated with Being the Blame

    Barriss Offee replied to Kirsten Creator's topic in General Nursing

    PERFECT representation of OP.

13. CNA Frustrated with Being the Blame

    Barriss Offee replied to Kirsten Creator's topic in General Nursing

    Unprofessional behavior here as well. The idea that you think that communicating you are rolling your eyes as a viable response to someone trying to give you constructive feedback is very unprofessional. Neither myself or my collegues would not toler...

14. Failed Orientation

    Barriss Offee replied to Sapa22's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed.

15. Thoughts on nurses who became physicians

    Barriss Offee replied to NurseMcMuffin's topic in General Nursing

    I am sort of similar to you. RN to PA. I remember being on an emergency medicine clerkship in PA school and one nurse treated my very similar to your experience. Some nurses don't like med/PA students I think and take it upon themselves to try to bri...