Xbox Live Addict

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  1. Bipolar does not mean "druggie"

    Xbox Live Addict replied to aslaten08's topic in General Nursing

    There's still an ugly stigma on psychiatric illness, and so many people continue to display the same ignorant attitudes towards people struggling with it that were common in the 19th century. I've...

  2. how many of you go to the grocery store after working with patients?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ilmbg's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: I've seen my share of nasty undies in patient care, and these people were probably pictures of proper decorum in public. Anyway, I see a lot of totally gross people, men and women both, out...

  3. Rock the Vote Tomorrow!!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I'll be voting tomorrow before I go to work. However, I loathe the "winner takes all" aspect of our Electoral College, especially as I am a Democrat living in one of the reddest of the Red States. If...

  4. how many of you go to the grocery store after working with patients?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ilmbg's topic in General Nursing

    Or they wear them because that's what they were issued at the local psychiatric hospital... Anyway, there are plenty of lay people who are just plain lacking in basic hygiene skills, who don't bathe...

  5. how many of you go to the grocery store after working with patients?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ilmbg's topic in General Nursing

    I go around running errands in work scrubs all the time, along with countless others. I'm too bloody tired to go home, change clothes, then go to the store. Once I'm home, I'm finished for the day,...

  6. In your LTC dining room

    Xbox Live Addict replied to LPN&momof3's topic in General Nursing

    In one facility I worked in, the nurse was mandated to be in the dining room at all times while residents were eating in there, in another only the CNAs or CMAs needed to be present. I hated messing...

  7. I did something that now makes me think I was acting like a druggie/doper/thief...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I have a big thing about people going and sticking their hands in my pockets myself. I would have reacted the same way and I wouldn't feel like I was acting like I had something to hide. Sticking your...

  8. calling the doc

    Xbox Live Addict replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm... I was always taught to chart exactly what the doctor said, even the juicy four-letter words. It's not "negative charting" if you're objectively stating the facts of what happened, and it is...

  9. nursing home MAR's

    Xbox Live Addict replied to canadianlpngal's topic in General Nursing

    The DX is increasingly becoming a requirement for Medicare and Medicaid; they want some justification for why they're being asked to pay for a medication. Also, they are requiring more checks on...

  10. Day shift nurses needed...WHAT??!!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    I was a 3-11 person myself, although I don't know if it was necessarily any easier. True, there is only one meal to get through, but generally there weren't any less baths on 3-11 (some facilities...

  11. calling the doc

    Xbox Live Addict replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Heck, yeah! Do these docs think we're calling because they make for such scintillating conversation or because we want advice about our personal lives? Ha, ha. Seeing the personal lives of some of...

  12. calling the doc

    Xbox Live Addict replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. If the physician doesn't want to act and the patient has a bad outcome, it's documented you took all measures within scope of practice, and it's on his head. BTW, I'm equally shocked that there...

  13. nursing home MAR's

    Xbox Live Addict replied to canadianlpngal's topic in General Nursing

    I always wrote the date of the order on the MAR, but I've never heard of the name of the ordering physician written on the MAR itself; that's always on the physician's order form, as well as the nurse...

  14. 3 nurses laid off

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    There are some areas that are still strapped for nurses - my area is woefully short of nurses and it's easy pickings, and Texas is usually a good job market for

  15. 3 nurses laid off

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    and with the economy in the horrible shape it's in, nurses will just be glad they're not the ones getting laid off. It's gonna be hell to pay when the economy recovers and health-care

  16. Would 8 hour shifts help alleviate burnout?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to OgopogoLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I hated 12's myself. I had to work 12's at when they were mandated for licensed nurses at one LTC/SNF, and since I was a 2-10 nurse, I got shafted both ways. I'm not an early morning person, and I...

  17. Options for Nurses who HATE nursing.

    Xbox Live Addict replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

    Another option: Blood/plasma collection centers. The nurse's job in these cases is to assess potential donors and keep the ones at highest risk for pathogens like HIV or Hepatitis B/C out of the donor...

  18. 3 nurses laid off

    Xbox Live Addict replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    Here, here. I've heard people say "oh, well, people will always need health care." True, to a point... ...but I can tell you from personal experience that when your money's tight, you find out how...

  19. How does working major holidays go at your hospital?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to HappyPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    Whether I got holidays off in LTC/SNF, no matter what facility I worked in, depended entirely on if those holidays fell with in my 4-on 2-off schedule. There were no special holidays off for floor...

  20. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    no ppe, no work. if something like that even looked like it was going to happen, i would be making plans to be away long before quarantine was imposed... in australia or new zealand. if things did get...

  21. Casualties: Nurses struggling with burnout

    Xbox Live Addict posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to start a new thread aimed at those of us who are struggling with "compassion fatigue", also known as burnout. This is for nurses who are struggling at every level of burnout.... ....those...

  22. I want to be a nurse..what is it like?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to kgheen09's topic in General Nursing

    Because there are so many facets to nursing, it's very difficult to categorize "what it's like", partly because everyone has their own experiences. You will get wildly different responses,...

  23. Mental health days...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to november17's topic in General Nursing

    We've all taken mental health days once in awhile, we need them. Trust me when I say that your supervisors, who probably get much more PTO than you do, don't feel a bit guilty about using their PTO....

  24. Casualties: Nurses struggling with burnout

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Xbox Live Addict's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, Roy. Shifting the blame onto the victim - a classic way in which abusers maintain emotional control over their victims. Yes, and there is always plenty of new nurses to replace the...

  25. Do you think the nursing shortage is disappearing?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to MissAnthrope's topic in General Nursing

    Why don't you ask the ones that did bail out after 4 years of abuse? Bully for your facility. At every facility I've ever worked at save my current job, which is a plasma center, the most senior floor...