Riseupandnurse

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  1. How did you escape the floor?

    Riseupandnurse replied to slumdogthousandaire's topic in Nursing Career

    Go back to school!!! There are so many different fields of nursing out there. And network like crazy. You can not have too many friends or too few enemies. Join professional organizations. It is...

  2. "How many nurses flirt with this Doctor?"

    Riseupandnurse replied to smilealot's topic in General Nursing

    He has been watching too many TV shows. On TV shows nurses have all the work load and brain power of candystripers. The thought of flirting with the doctors I personally know makes me want to gag....

  3. Qoute "If you quit, I will report you to the state B.O.N.!!!!!!"

    Riseupandnurse replied to bobs201's topic in General Nursing

    Never resign in an e-mail. It seems cowardly and that you are intimidated, which is just where the DON wants you. It's also just not professional. I think you need to follow the advice of those who...

  4. Ever hear of "rollover charting"?

    Riseupandnurse replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    OP here. I was amazed and confused to hear of the new rollover charting. The nurses said that "someone" told them they had up to 3 days to do their charting, so sometimes they wait until they have a...

  5. Ever hear of "rollover charting"?

    Riseupandnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nobody ever gets out on time where I have been working (hospital). The 12 hour shifts consistently turn into 14 or 15 hours. Then sometimes the nurses have to come back the next day. Some of them...

  6. Burnout, bad hours, heavy patient load, what to do??

    Riseupandnurse replied to Nurse Blondy's topic in General Nursing

    I agree! Why are nurses so loyal to their abusers? Quit, quit,quit! That's why you have more than one job, why I always did. So if one turns into the job from hell you can walk away. They will use...

  7. How would you interpret this order for pain medication?

    Riseupandnurse replied to I<3H2O's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that the order is too vague. On the floor I work, we give either the morphine or the Lortabs. If the morphine doesn't do the job, then we need an increase in the morphine. On another floor...

  8. New Grads, Bitterness, and Maybe A Real "Nursing Shortage."

    Riseupandnurse replied to Trinitas2010RN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    This was all inevitable once the Great Recession started. I said for years there was no nursing shortage, as proven by government figures there were 400,000 RNs out there with licenses who chose not...

  9. new graduate with very hard orientation.should I quit my job?

    Riseupandnurse replied to belle05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is nuts. You need to get out of there NOW while you still have your license. Otherwise you may very well lose it. Your job is not your license. I pity the poor residents,

  10. Is it okay/appropriate to make a home-cooked gift to instructors?

    Riseupandnurse replied to RevolutioN2013's topic in General Nursing

    Guess what! I went out to lunch with my clinical group today (last day of clinical). I bought two plates of appetizers for everyone to share. One of the students brought a bag of Swiss chocolates...

  11. Is it okay/appropriate to make a home-cooked gift to instructors?

    Riseupandnurse replied to RevolutioN2013's topic in General Nursing

    As an instructor, I have accepted home-baked gifts, and small knick-knacks (worth less than $10) from individual students. It did make me a little nervous. It's much better for the class as a whole...

  12. After 15 years - I may be one more nurse to add to the shortage

    Riseupandnurse replied to BrokenRNheart's topic in General Nursing

    Well, add me to the nursing shortage. After almost 23 years, I finally quit bedside nursing. It wasn't the patient care, it wasn't the backbreaking, emotionally draining work itself. It was that...

  13. A Conversation with my Supervisor

    Riseupandnurse replied to raebabelvn's topic in General Nursing

    If I had to call in sick,I always did it from the er. Their er. so if there was any trouble I would say, "Sure, I'll be glad to work. Would you just come down and speak to this unreasonable ER DR...

  14. Funny doctor orders

    Riseupandnurse replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    no, he didn't crack a smile. he had just scrawled the order not 3 minutes before and had already forgotten. so now it was our

  15. Funny doctor orders

    Riseupandnurse replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Had an order that said "4 mg. prn" the Dr. signed. Had another one nobody could read. I chased him into the parking lot with the chart and asked him what it said. He said, "How would I know? I...

  16. Made a mistake!

    Riseupandnurse replied to what2donow's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Being human means making mistakes. You MUST forgive yourself and move on; we've all been

  17. Is the ANA worth it????

    Riseupandnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am confused by the threads and posts I have been reading here about the ANA. Today I renewed my membership. At over $300, I would like to think it's worth it. But I'm not sure. Some posters...

  18. How many nurses?

    Riseupandnurse replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    They would leave one nurse with up to two patients, but other than that there would be two. In a situation like that they close the floor and move the

  19. Did I Do the Right Thing?

    Riseupandnurse replied to sweet_b's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you did the right thing. You were a good friend and a good

  20. What kind of patients?

    Riseupandnurse replied to NurseMegh's topic in General Nursing

    I worked home health for 9 months and I found it very challenging. Had to make a lot of decisions on the spot without any one to "bounce things off of." I found it much harder than hospital work...

  21. Can we get rid of the sugar in nursing?

    Riseupandnurse replied to Nurse Joey's topic in General Nursing

    Altra: Yes, I know I'll get flamed but the cutesy scrubs are a big part of the problem. Why do nurses want to look like hairdressers or servers at Applebee's? I can't for the life of me figure out...

  22. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    Riseupandnurse replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Just a little story from the old days of nursing, before we had phone translators. Somehow we got a Russian woman here in our small Midwestern town. No family to translate; I don't know how we got...

  23. How do *you* tell your patient "No"?

    Riseupandnurse replied to anonymous1919's topic in General Nursing

    This is more of the continuing debate we seem to be having about the nature of nursing. We used to believe it was helping the patient reach mutual goals to make them the best they can be. Now it's...

  24. SBAR for shift report

    Riseupandnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you use SBAR for shift report, and if you do does it work for you? We recently went to SBAR housewide. We were giving taped reports with Kardex worksheets. Now it's just a few lines on each...

  25. Students who won't listen---what to do?

    Riseupandnurse posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I have a student in MedSurg II who wll not prioritize. She has it planned in her mind what's important, mostly issues like ROM, feet elevation, etc. and will not pay attention to the clinical...