deespoohbear

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1. Bad Eyesight

   deespoohbear replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

   I have had glasses since I was 9 y/o (now in mid 30's) and had no trouble getting into school. I had to have a general medical check-up but I would think as long as you can read the eye chart with...

2. Nurses Diverting Drugs?

   deespoohbear replied to jfpruitt's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, same thing happened at our facility. The nurse was removed from her management post and was given a position with no weekends, no holidays, no call. Made for a lot of hard feelings at our...

3. Teen daughters 1st pelvic exam...

   deespoohbear replied to itsme's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I would think any doc of either sex would want another person in the exam room with them when they examine you. Big time liability issues

4. Orienting nursing students in nurse tech role

   deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been assigned a Nurse Tech to orient to our med/surg/tele/peds unit. She is an LPN student and will graduate in August. Our hospital hires nursing students as Nurse techs after the complete a...

5. Have you ever felt that you have too much work to do for just one nurse

   deespoohbear replied to debbie17368's topic in Medical-Surgical

   That is way too many patients for med-surg tele! And did I read you right about the vents? There is no way in Hades I would take 15 med-surg patients and no way I would do a vent on a med-surg...

6. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

   deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

   We have frozen meals too, that the staff has been accused of eating. Yuck. I won't serve those things to the patients much less eat them myself. To be accused of stealing and eating them is a...

7. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

   deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

   It is a power struggle with the dietary department, period. Our dietary department supervisor is so warped he got the administrator of the hospital to make a rule that the hospital staff cannot take...

8. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

   deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

   I don't what is causing the burr up their butt lately. You would think that the extra money that the food costs (all $2.13 of it) was being taken right out of their pockets for pete's sake. They act...

9. Dietary department...(ranting!!)

   deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

   Oh, my patience was tried to the upmost last night at work. Why? The dietary department, again. I don't know who they think they are, but I am tired of having to argue for every little extra...

10. Holiday schedule....

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just got a call from my boss about the holiday schedule for the year. Said it is giving her the biggest headache of her life. Wants some of us to come in and discuss it Friday. Here are the...

11. Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    deespoohbear replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    TMI!! for

12. Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    deespoohbear replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    Exactly why I do not do home health care!! (Besides the gawd awful paperwork you have to do!) I don't have any advice for you but I can tell you that you are better person than

13. Nurses collecting copays

    deespoohbear replied to hogan4736's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely not a nursing duty. That is why there are admission clerks and

14. Pneumatic tube systems....

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely off topic here, but I have never heard of a carotid blow out!! Wow!! Bet that was a sight to see....glad to hear the pt made

15. What does med/sug. nursing entail?

    deespoohbear replied to Kim33's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Mine were so long ago I can't remember. Seriously I have worked med-surg for 8 years. I don't ever regret starting out in med-surg. You will definitely learn organization skills and obtain a...