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  1. Psych Nurse ="not a REAL nurse"?

    mamabear replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a psych nurse for 20 years, and it's about as real as anything can get. (I also work midnights only, so sometimes I've been "double zapped" for not being a real nurse and working a shift...

  2. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you very much! I have nothing against men getting their prostate glands checked. However, I've never in all my years heard of a prostrate gland. Yes, I was being sarcastic (duh!). Give me a...

  3. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    No, this is by no means new. I'm a perfectionist who bores others to death with my petty annoyances, such as men getting their prostrate glands

  4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    once again, it's "couldn't care less". :angryfire didn't most of us go to college and have to take english

  5. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    mamabear replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    Another Trib reader! I agree

  6. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    mamabear replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    On his best day! If he knows so much about the history of psychiatry, as he claimed during the audacious interview, ask him who is Benjamin Rush? :chuckle (He's considered the father of modern...

  7. Has a patient asked you to help him/her die?

    mamabear replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I've had people in general ask me what drugs are "good" for a quick suicide, such as those with very ill loved ones, but nobody has asked me to help them. The Hemlock Society has published a "helpful"...

  8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Then there are those who think schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are one and the same :angryfire That really frosts me :angryfire

  9. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    How about admissions that come at shift change that the preceding shift knew about and didn't do JACK!

  10. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Amen!! I graduated in 1982, back in the day when they were referred to as "patients". When my newer-to-nursing coworkers started that "client" drivel, I was honked big time. :angryfire It makes no...

  11. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    mamabear replied to bonnieL123's topic in General Nursing

    There's no excuse for that kind of behavior. It got so bad at my unit that the students wrote a memo to our clinical manager re: staff talking during taped report, staff ridiculing whoever was...

  12. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    mamabear replied to mamabear's topic in General Nursing

    Some of my former coworkers had been at the 2 Charter hospitals in the area and they got the ax big time Some of them waited years to get whatever wages were do them. After this latest rude event,...

  13. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    mamabear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a satellite facility comprised of 2 psych units: child & adolescent and adult. On 3/3/05, our main hospital abruptly and with less than 2 days warning, closed the kids' unit. It had...

  14. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    mamabear replied to mamabear's topic in General Nursing

    I live in a small town/rural area of Northwest Indiana and we weren't unionized. Some of us wanted to investigate it further, but we were told: Catholic hospitals don't unionize; unions were only for...

  15. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent advice! However, aspirin and Advil are not the same. Aspirin is, well, aspirin. Advil is

  16. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I do too, and thanks for your

  17. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    mamabear replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Amen and thank

  18. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    mamabear replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    Since I work on a locked psych unit, the students all appear to be scared out of their wits! Even after they've been coming to us for over 6 weeks, some of them still seem terrified. How they...

  19. Has your Nursing License ever been in Jeopardy?

    mamabear replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    As it's been said in this thread and countless others: nobody chooses to be an addict, anymore than they would elect to have diabetes, schizophrenia or cystic fibrosis. I've been clean and sober for 6...

  20. Truth about Nursing diagnosis

    mamabear replied to UTRN2005's topic in General Nursing

    A few thoughts: The other day, I met a member of my RN graduating class and we talked about this very thing (mind you, this was back in the day of glass I.V. bottles, all white uniforms, etc.: 1982...

  21. Have anyone else heard of "basic care NURSES"?

    mamabear replied to Nursingangel's topic in General Nursing

    Zip, zero, zilch and nada, for starters.

  22. The nightmare returns---Hunter Group is coming!!!

    mamabear replied to prmenrs's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Our hospital has Press Ganey also. We have to wear these stupid "Strive For Five" attachments on our I.D. badges. And it's really a load of laughs trying to explain that to some of the patients...

  23. Truth about Nursing diagnosis

    mamabear replied to UTRN2005's topic in General Nursing

    I've been an R.N. since 1982. If there were nursing diagnoses around back then, nobody thought them important enough to include in our ASN curriculum, and many of my BSN coworkers don't recall having...

  24. Would you let your kid ride a MOTORCYCLE ???

    mamabear replied to Oregon Runner's topic in General Nursing

    You won't "let" your husband ride? And what does or doesn't he "let" you do? Or are we still in the

  25. Have anyone else heard of "basic care NURSES"?

    mamabear replied to Nursingangel's topic in General Nursing

    If my sketchy memory serves me correctly, back in the late '70s or early '80s there was some type of program in the works, initiated/owned/operated, whatever, by MDs that was supposed to train people...