SaraO'Hara

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    How do you deal with a doctor who sweared on you over the phone?

    SaraO'Hara replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I told him to vent somewhere else and hung up. He called back and we discussed the issue more
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    if you had to do it all over again, what profession would u choose?

    SaraO'Hara replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    Particle
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    HHA working as a LPN

    SaraO'Hara replied to hha77's topic in General Nursing

    Run away. You may have been taught to pass meds, but you weren't trained to assess patients. You might end up toast if anything goes
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    Breakfast before a 12 hour shift..

    SaraO'Hara replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    Scottish oatmeal and tea - keeps me full until
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    IV Flushes

    SaraO'Hara replied to smiler2010's topic in General Nursing

    It's a vacuum! /Admiral
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    How do you care for yourself??

    SaraO'Hara replied to dixiebelleRN's topic in General Nursing

    Liquor.
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    Why do nurses get licensed by a state board instead of a federal board?

    SaraO'Hara replied to Samian Q's topic in General Nursing

    Because our country is
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    SaraO'Hara replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You have dysphagia. I don't care if you don't like crushed pills. You will take them crushed or you will take them rectally - your
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    Just curious- What do you use on the floor?

    SaraO'Hara replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    Paper, paper, all paper. Hand-written paper MARs. Paper assessment sheets labeled with pt. names by the night shift. Oooh I loathe
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    Am I too young?

    SaraO'Hara replied to mariemac89LPN's topic in General Nursing

    I was licensed at 20. Just do your job well, stay out of workplace drama, and don't giggle too
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    am I retarded? Lol.

    SaraO'Hara replied to kvdlr's topic in General Nursing

    My first instinct is that you are silly, based on use of
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    home remedies you would NEVER try

    SaraO'Hara replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    From The Modern Medical Counsellor, 1942, re: Smallpox: "2. The sickroom should be darkened. It is best if all light except red light can be excluded. 3. See that the bowels move daily, using a...
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    Skin prep on open areas...

    SaraO'Hara replied to gabrielle76's topic in General Nursing

    If it's purple and non-blanchable you might have a deep tissue injury on your hands - in which case the wound will just keep growing as the injured tissue dies off. Stage II in my facility is...
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    Nurses with depression

    SaraO'Hara replied to grandmawrinkle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    That's where I am at. Without meds - major depression with some delusional features. With meds - still have depressive episodes but they are MUCH milder and I have a
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    Bloody patients

    SaraO'Hara posted a topic in General Nursing

    Patients: Please realize the following. 1. If the order says q 4 hours prn - even if you did not get pain pill #2 until 5 hours after pain pill #1, I cannot give you pill #3 one hour "early." You...
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    Bloody patients

    SaraO'Hara replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, no, not all. Not even close. It's just a perfect storm of a long shift, heavy patient load, and one person calling 3 times in the half hour before their meds were due to inform me that their...
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    Bloody patients

    SaraO'Hara replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Or maybe just a drink after this worse-than-average shift? I'm not this crusty usually, I
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    Celebrities who were formerly nurses...

    SaraO'Hara replied to Gldngrl's topic in General Nursing

    My district's congressional rep (Lois Capps) is an
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    Is Dakins still used?

    SaraO'Hara replied to clemmm78's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen it once in two years - a deep, sloughy, infected groin incision from a fempop bypass upon which we performed wet-dry
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    Can we get rid of the sugar in nursing?

    SaraO'Hara replied to Nurse Joey's topic in General Nursing

    I can be kind without being sticky-sweet. I reserve the sticky-sweet side for patient's
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    How many nurses?

    SaraO'Hara replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    23-bed subacute rehab, 12-hour shifts for nurses, 8 hour shifts for CNAs: Day shift (AM and PM for CNAs): 2 nurses, 2 CNAs, plus management staff. Night shift: 1 nurse, 2 CNAs. Nights was 1 nurse,...
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    Black scrubs?

    SaraO'Hara posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    All right, I admit it, I tend toward the Gothic side of things outside of work. My problem is that I feel... ill at ease? in bright or pastel colors. I made myself a scrub top from a black print...
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    birth defect, not allowed to practice nursing?

    SaraO'Hara replied to westheimer1234's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a nurse who had about three fingers on each hand - she did perfectly
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    are filter needles necessary?

    SaraO'Hara replied to brownbook's topic in Patient Medications

    Another nurse here who's never heard of NOT using the filter
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    anything you wish you were told in nursing school that you werent?

    SaraO'Hara replied to karyan06's topic in General Nursing

    You will swear more, drink more, and feel more futile than you ever have in your life. Sometimes managers will get in the way of treating patients just to prove their own power. It's always the...