Xbox Live Addict

Xbox Live Addict

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  1. Casualties: Nurses struggling with burnout

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

    I hear ya, Honest. I'm looking forward to going back to school because it will give me a legitimate excuse to just work part-time. Nursing stress wasn't quite so bad when I wasn't constantly being...

  2. Do you think the nursing shortage is disappearing?

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

    With the average length of a nurse's career being four years, due to burnout, half of these new grads will end up leaving in disgust and disillusionment within a year, and more noobs will be hired to...

  3. The Forbiden Relm

    Xbox Live Addict replied to swilliams01's topic in General Nursing

    For the sake of your license, your patients, and your own sanity, it is important to maintain clear professional and personal boundaries. You aren't the first, nor will you be the last, to have such...

  4. Low staffing = med error-DHS tagged me with abuse and neglect-what can I expect the b

    Xbox Live Addict replied to fkey541's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I feel for you; being tagged as an abuser over one late pain pill with everything else going on. Just about every one of us would be in front of the board if that were truly such horrible abuse; who...

  5. Casualties: Nurses struggling with burnout

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

    I read your thread where you had witnessed another nurse being assaulted by a physician, only to have the hospital's medical directors flat out tell you that assaultive behavior was perfectly...

  6. Casualties: Nurses struggling with burnout

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

    That's the thing: it seems like the less stress there is involved with a nursing job, the more it pays. Nobody that gets jobs like that ever wants to go back to bedside care, and I don't blame them, I...

  7. Casualties: Nurses struggling with burnout

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

    I worked LTC for years and did the best I could struggling with short-staffing, lack of supplies, hostile, me-first families, hair-trigger physicians, smiling backstabbers, and unsupportive...

  8. culture-shocked...i want to understand why

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

    At most facilities I worked at, if a resident had a poor prognosis and didn't want their puree/NAS/thickened liquids, the responsible party would sign a witnessed AMA dietary waiver, the physician...

  9. culture-shocked...i want to understand why

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

    I should clarify, that Staff members should not be obligated to spend money on resident's cigarettes... that actually could be considered a minor boundary crossing, and it would be unethical of any...

  10. Have you ever missed a day because you didn't know you were scheduled?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Ginger45's topic in General Nursing

    I have, a couple of times, forgotten that I was supposed to work on a given day, or forgotten that I was supposed to come in an hour or two earlier than usual, and in most cases, the phone calls or...

  11. culture-shocked...i want to understand why

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

    I saw this all the time in LTC. While an increasing number of acute-care and psych hospitals do not allow smoking anywhere on the facility's property, smoking is still alive and well among LTC...

  12. Please help me come up with a name for a New LTC facility!!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Singlemom40's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    With some facilities, that would be false advertising unless you used the opposite of "heaven". How about "Stairway to

  13. Please help me come up with a name for a New LTC facility!!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Singlemom40's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    :rotfl: Or maybe "Happy

  14. Please help me come up with a name for a New LTC facility!!

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Singlemom40's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    most facility names seem to follow the formula of "pleasant adjective + name of tree" or "name of tree + natural feature (creek, hills, woods, etc.)", something with a high-class sounding name like...

  15. Anyone work as a CNA while going to NSG school?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to gardenpartyy's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I worked as a CNA all during nursing school. If I had a problem, some of my fellow CNAs would stand up for me and remind the troublemaker that I would end up being their supervisor before too...

  16. Morphine doses while dying?

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

    Morphine, when used correctly, is one of the safest drugs there is. It does not stress your liver the way Tylenol does. It is not addictive in the presence of severe pain. Even the effect of...

  17. Morphine doses while dying?

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

    "Holding medication when the family requests it" would also be an unethical physician order. For all that I am against literally drowning a person in medication just to make a family happy, if the...

  18. Told to go home..

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

    And sometimes, when enough BS has been shovelled on you, you have to decide whether you're going to keep laying down and take it. I'd wager that this gentleman has manfully swallowed a great number of...

  19. Told to go home..

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

    I don't think so. Any workplace that treats its staff like that over the color of one's scrub pants is a place that won't hesitate to throw you to the wolves if something seriouis happens. Besides,...

  20. Carrying Equipment Outside of Work

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

    I don't carry any supplies anywhere. I do have my CPR card in my wallet, though. I've heard that in Canada, being a good Samaritan is REQUIRED by law for all health care professionals. Is this

  21. how to wash your hands

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

    When I was in CNA training, we had a 2-hour session on handwashing. The instructor demonstrated first, then had us all perform. With everyone she would say, "So-and-so did an awesome job...

  22. Would you come in during an epidemic?

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

    The government would probably handle an epidemic with garrisons of armed and armored soldiers to quarantine the area. Personally, I'd be getting myself and my family as far upwind of the epidemic as I...

  23. Need help with incident reports...Who fills it out???

    Xbox Live Addict replied to PickMePlze's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    In LTC, it is the first NURSE that responds... CNAs do not fill out incident

  24. Morphine doses while dying?

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

    There's more than a lawsuit at stake here. That same overzealous family member could make a criminal case for murder or manslaughter against the NURSE, if the family takes it into their heads that...

  25. Morphine doses while dying?

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

    Thank you very much for your insight on this subject as a hospice nurse. I've no issue with ensuring a dying patient leaves this mortal coil as comfortably as possible myself, and aggressively...