ashagreyjoy

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  1. Security Won't Stop The Violence

    ashagreyjoy replied to Silent No More Foundation's topic in General Nursing

    Your examples are inappropriate. If I startle a sleeping patient, I am rolling the dice. That was my choice not to wake the patient and therefore not allow them the opportunity to refuse care they...

  2. Is 35 yrs old too old to start nursing?

    ashagreyjoy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I started my accelerated BSN program at age 35 and graduated at 38. I was in customer service and IT prior. I found intrinsic motivation and level of physical fitness were two very important factors....

  3. Escaped Mental Patient

    ashagreyjoy posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a secure setting. Today I took an unexpected phone call. Today I answered the phone and noticed the caller ID was a local hospital. The caller, (Maureen, not her real name) was asking to...

  4. How do you handle touchy/feely coworkers?

    ashagreyjoy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    So this is going to sound weird....to me it depends on the co-worker! I am not a hug-giver myself by nature but. We have some nurses where I work, who have been nurses longer than I have been alive,...

  5. Stupid hurts.

    ashagreyjoy replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Nursing

    Shoot heroin, nod out, while wearing a polyester jacket vs. campfire = 3rd degree Burgler vs. drug dealers bored pit bull = hamburger leg Fugitive hopping fences vs. cops are tired of chasing you and...

  6. So I called the police on a patient

    ashagreyjoy replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Jail nurse here. My 2 cents. Threats of harm from a patient or attempts to harm self or others by a patient need to be dealt with as 100% serious. Staff safety is just as important as patient safety....

  7. What are your perspective on Mandate Fairness?

    ashagreyjoy posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a 24 hour institutional setting, union contract, 8 hr shifts as an RN. Our union contract is such that if there is a call off on the next shift, we can be mandated to a second full shift...

  8. What are your perspective on Mandate Fairness?

    ashagreyjoy replied to ashagreyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Jedrnuse, you are not wrong. Beyond the ADA no-mandate, co-worker in question, often does not come to work in the first place. The funny thing is although they cannot be mandated, when they call off...

  9. Safe Staffing Levels for In-hospital Nursing Units

    ashagreyjoy replied to NURS5870's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How does the lift team work exactly? Is your charge free-float or do they take a

  10. Breaking New Grad Contract

    ashagreyjoy replied to Nursenursexoxo's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I broke my new grad contract. I think I just got lucky, and they were very disorganized. Check this out: I graduated from a nursing college attached to a hospital system. They waive my last...

  11. Patients that interfere with another patient's medical treatment

    ashagreyjoy replied to Mandy2016's topic in Emergency

    sounds like your disruptive patient was scoring!!Librium To The Rescue!! Nighty

  12. What are your perspective on Mandate Fairness?

    ashagreyjoy replied to ashagreyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all of your perspectives. Reading your comments made me feel a lot better about the whole situation. There are other "plus" sides to this job which make it worth it right now. And you are...