Gooday

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    Nurses Promoting COVID Misinformation

    Gooday replied to Tigerlily8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    When vaccine first came out I was against it. I wanted to wait until a few million people got it and see if there were any side effects because my body tends to experience almost all of them with...
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    Nurses Liability Insurance: Yes or No

    Gooday replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse since 1995 and worked in the medical field prior to becoming a nurse. I always believed it was not necessary but now I believe it’s essential. I started working at a hospital...
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    OOPS, WHOOPS, & POOPS | Share Your OOPS Moments of the Week

    Gooday replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    A patient had just been pronounced dead and I was taking out all the tubes and the catheter. I neglected to empty the urine bag prior to removing the catheter. The CNA bumped the urine bag just as...
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    Very new RN.. hate bedside nursing... thinking about leaving

    Gooday replied to brunetteRN06's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Anytime you start working in a high stress area it's extremely hard those first 3-4 months. My first nursing job I wanted to quit every day. I was almost in tears out of sheer frustration. After...
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    Nursing Abuse

    Gooday replied to 2017_PEDSRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was assigned a young man who was an ex-gang member as a patient through my registry. It was not a problem for a while, then the patient started having gatherings and going to gathering full of gang...
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    Protecting Your License: Notes from a Nurse-Attorney

    Gooday replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    I have cleaned patients up after they've passed and when the mortician showed up they leaked on the way out. The case sounds frivolous to me. The nurse should not have been prosecuted. It also has...
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    HATE Nursing - Career change options?

    Gooday replied to megan0518's topic in Nursing Career

    Teach, health insurance, telephone triage nurse, referral processing is pretty cool, you work on the computer all day submitting and deciding on whether or not to approve referrals. Try clinical...
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    What nursing specialty has the best work life balance?

    Gooday replied to dianearc's topic in General Nursing

    Clinical Nursing, usually 9-5 and very
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    Cna incident investigation

    Gooday replied to Nnb07's topic in General Nursing

    Are you in trouble for changing the patient in the lift? I know that is not supposed to be done. Some of the lifts now days only require one person to transfer so leaving would not be an issue, but...
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    Patients & Pet Peeves

    Gooday replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    I had an elderly patient who use to scream at all the nurses, no one wanted to be her nurse. Everytime I had her she would scream at me and call me names. After work I started stopping by her room...
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    Weird actions that are out of nursing scope

    Gooday replied to AriRN36's topic in General Nursing

    I would not give medication to anyones child without permission, that will get you in trouble if your a doctor or just a
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    Gooday replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    I have been reading these post and there is almost a kind arrogance in the way that some nurse's talk about Corpsman. I was a corpsman for 4yrs. I did and or was trained to do everything an RN does...