Daisy Joyce

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    Please Help

    Daisy Joyce replied to guest1136129's topic in General Nursing

    As much as I hate Pop-psychology-new-age jargon... this is a girl who really needs to find herself and decide what “she” wants to do. Not Dad, not fiancé, but
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    Nurses and Bullying: 4 Things You Can Do

    Daisy Joyce replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    This is a good point. I hadn’t noticed it in my first reading. I guess I was drawing on my on turbulent early years in nursing.My first preceptor was less than five years out of nursing, we were on...
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    AMA Looks to Retrain Doctors on Taking Blood Pressures

    Daisy Joyce replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    LOL the pic with the BP taken over two (possibly three)
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    Nurses and Bullying: 4 Things You Can Do

    Daisy Joyce replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, you have to be careful who you tick off. I've come to realize that in the workplace, you need to get allies,
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    Nurses and Bullying: 4 Things You Can Do

    Daisy Joyce replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    One of the issues about bullying in nursing is that the staffing issues and busyness of most floors, cause new nurses to question themselves (“is my preceptor bullying me, or she stressed from an...
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    "huge puddle of blood!"....oh boy

    Daisy Joyce replied to guest464345's topic in School

    My own kids were prone to frequent nose bleed from a very young age, the doctor knew all about it, and we would just treat them as they happened. By four years old, my kids would literally tell me at...
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    How to "calm" down autistic pediatric patient?

    Daisy Joyce replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

    Twelve hours is a long stretch to go without a break, especially when you have responsibilities and no authority. That being said, you have an opportunity to be a positive force in this child’s...
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    Why so long

    Daisy Joyce replied to NurseHeatherBSNRN's topic in School

    I got the call to pick up my sick kiddo while I was in a school two school districts over caring for other people’s sick kiddos! So I explained to the SN how I was working in the (blah blah) school...
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    School nurses, what is the worst emergency you've had?

    Daisy Joyce replied to Avill's topic in School

    I wasn’t there when it happened, but a school I was subbing at had a chest-high (to an adult) oldtimey wrought iron fence between the school yard and the adjacent property. Ball got kicked over the...
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    Feeling So Guilty I Could Cry

    Daisy Joyce replied to AlmostThere19's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, this whole thread makes me mad. Not at you, OP, or at the responders, but just at the fact we nurses accept impossible workloads as normal, then blame ourselves for not being able to do the...
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    Are Braids Professional?

    Daisy Joyce replied to POB21's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The black nurses I work with wear their braids “up”, just like the long haired white and Asian nurses and nobody has a problem with
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    I Was Fired...for Being Abrasive and Having Attitude

    Daisy Joyce replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I can relate to this one. My learning style is such that if I’m caught in a mistake, I want to explain my thinking behind it so the other person can show me where that train of thought went wrong....
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    CNA forgot to take patient off bedpan for 4 hours and now patient has wounds

    Daisy Joyce replied to rork17's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Unlikely, but not impossible. I can imagine a scenario where the CNA *usually* stays in the room while the patient is doing their business, but in this case gets called away, the spit hits the fan...
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    Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    Daisy Joyce replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    Sometimes in totalitarian regimes, HCPs don’t have choices. If you refuse to participate, they’ll go after innocent people like your family
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    Social Media and Doxxing - Your Thoughts???

    Daisy Joyce replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Because if you reveal you know what EMR they use, you prolly work there. And have left a breadcrumb to figure out who you are in real
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    Social Media and Doxxing - Your Thoughts???

    Daisy Joyce replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    We don’t even have this because there is no exhaust fan to blunt the noises (and smells) off the break room
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    Rejected by Patient

    Daisy Joyce replied to AlmostThere19's topic in General Nursing

    One of my patients complained I was “loud”. TBF, I actually am loud. But the nurse she told this to is even louder than
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    Nursing Smells You Love?

    Daisy Joyce replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Voltaren gel and NPH
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    Unwilling link in the enabling chain...

    Daisy Joyce replied to Jedrnurse's topic in School

    This. I feel like more and more adults feel the need to be “popular” with the kids. Maybe I’m an old fart now, but when I was a kid, no adult gave a rat’s butt whether we liked them or
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    Nurse bringing child to work

    Daisy Joyce replied to adclay's topic in General Nursing

    Oh please. She brought in her kids? LOL. Ive seen coworkers bring the family
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    Webcams in Nursing Homes?

    Daisy Joyce replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    I always act as if I’m being filmed. One of our residents has a camera. I smile and wave at
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    Bedside Nurses: Undervalued, Poorly Retained and What Experts Say

    Daisy Joyce replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    First, more
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    Job Opportunity or Relationship

    Daisy Joyce replied to ctruon1's topic in General Nursing

    If you don’t have a rock on your finger and a wedding venue booked, the. You’re a free agent. Take the
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    What is your "thing" and how do you deal with it?

    Daisy Joyce replied to Robin Verde's topic in General Nursing

    People coughing up sputum. I deal with it by looking away. But when I was pregnant, I had this sweet LOM who would cough up every morning, and no amount of looking away could help. So I just gagged...
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    Families Saying "No" To Male Nurses?

    Daisy Joyce replied to moretonel's topic in Private Duty

    I took care of a MR twentysomething lady whose parents were adamant—no male staff. Some elderly patients I’ve had said the same thing. One of them had been raped in the past. Not by a HCP, but...