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  1. Don't you love it when the doctor compliments you?

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Canoehead: I do enjoy getting complimented from my fellow nurses and like to compliment them too. We are co-workers and friends. I was just observing that the doctor actually took the time to say...

  2. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    deespoohbear replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient once who was constipated. I had given the pt a suppository, placed the pt on the bedpan, and informed my CNA. I asked the CNA to tell me if and when the pt had a BM. A few moments...

  3. not documented, not done. what does this mean?

    deespoohbear replied to kmahoneyrn's topic in General Nursing

    Good documentation can save your backside bigtime. Not only in a court of laws, but with the doctors. I had an elderly lady one evening going into obvious CHF. She was A & O X3. I put O2 on...

  4. Let's hear it for second shift?

    deespoohbear replied to huggietoes's topic in General Nursing

    I love second shift. If I didn't have school-age children and a husband, that is where I would be! (I do 7a to 7p). After about 4 pm all the bigwigs are usually gone. Second shift is usually not...

  5. Bedside charting and confidentiality

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    I figure that if the our manager insists on doing this, I will just keep my patient's flowsheets on a clipboard at the nurses's station. At the end of my shift, I will hand them over to the oncoming...

  6. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    deespoohbear replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    I had a male patient once that pooped in the plastic 6 ounce water cup that was on his bedside table. He proceeded to put the cup on his lunch tray. Thankfully, one of our nurses found the cup...

  7. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    deespoohbear replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    We usually get some kind of treat like cookies from the kitchen (how special) or the stupid trinket things. Now, on doctor's day there is a full sized newspaper ad taken out recognizing our...

  8. Let the next shift deal with it...

    deespoohbear replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    We had a nurse one time who had a long history of not tending to problems similar to yours. Well, finally she screwed up big time. She was taking care on an elderly gentleman who kept c/o abd...

  9. Potassium error kills newborn

    deespoohbear replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I for one will speak up to a doctor if I think a dosage is inappropiate for a patient. No way am I going to be left holding the bag!! On the Free Republic forum one nurse put it so eloquently: Sh*t...

  10. Admission paperwork

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in Medical-Surgical

    How did your hospital reach that decision? Did they contact an attorney or something? I would love to present that idea to our administration but I would need evidence to back it

  11. How do you handle requests for medical/health advice?

    deespoohbear replied to Squirrel's topic in General Nursing

    For the general public I usually tell them to ask their doctor. If someone wants to know what to do for a sprain or something that is common first aid I will usually tell them such as ice, elevation,...

  12. Admission paperwork

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in Medical-Surgical

    No admission orders from the ER when the patient arrives to the floor? That just blows me away! Our ER pts ALWAYS have admission orders when they arrive to our unit, even if it is just the bare...

  13. Admission paperwork

    deespoohbear replied to deespoohbear's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Don't you just love it when you do an admission on 3-11 and they are discharged before 9 am the next day!! This happens frequently to us also. We are small hospital that has to transfer patients to...

  14. Cell phone use in hospitals

    deespoohbear posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital has signs posted all over the place about not using cell phones in the hospital. We are told they may interfere with the medical equipment. But then on TLC on shows like A Baby Story...

  15. body removal...

    deespoohbear replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    traumasRus_Love it! I do have a funny story about a body. At our small hospital we had a mobile MRI unit that came to our facility twice a week. One afternoon when I was working as house supervisor a...

  16. MDs who don't sign/date/time orders

    deespoohbear replied to atlkidrn's topic in General Nursing

    At our facility we have a stamp that we are suppose to use when we take a TO or VO. It has a line for the physician to sign his name, and a line that says date and time. EXCUSE ME! These people...

  17. body removal...

    deespoohbear replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    We use the gurney that the funeral home brings. Usually the bodies are not taken to the morgue, they just stay in the bed where they died. The funeral homes are pretty quick about getting there to...

  18. What Freaks You Out?

    deespoohbear replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Cindy A- I think it is the fishhook. I had guy come in last year to the ER with a fishhook in his NECK! Gave me the creeps when the doctor pulled it out! The guy did well though. He said he was...

  19. What Freaks You Out?

    deespoohbear replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Colostomy! Yuck! Grosses me out! I will change them, but it isn't without holding my breath, and going lickety split! Hate it! One thing that grossed me out one time happened with my own son. It...

  20. PAIN as the 5th vital sign ..What's it about??

    deespoohbear replied to prn nurse's topic in Pain Management

    I have tons of trouble with docs and PA's about ordering adequate pain meds. I just had a round with a PA about a pt. This patient had some nasty ulcers on her legs. I mean the kind with gangrene...

  21. Unhappy family members

    deespoohbear replied to moonshadeau's topic in General Nursing

    Families can drive you absolutely insane!! We actually had a family complain about the way their Mother's hair had been done by the CNA. The CNA took the time to set this lady's hair after washing...

  22. Night Shift Differential

    deespoohbear replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    At our facility the evenings and night shifts get $1 more an hour. This past November we started getting a weekend bonus of $3 hour. Not as much I would like, but it sure beats what we were getting...

  23. What is a real nurse?????

    deespoohbear replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    I always felt like our LPN's get shortchanged at our facility. The only thing they can't do that an RN can is get blood out of the blood bank. Otherwise, they are able to everything an RN does. The...

  24. Bullied in Report

    deespoohbear replied to Sleepyeyes's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes the unit is so busy, I just tell the nurse to give me the "highlights", especially if I had the same group the day before. Makes life so much easier. I don't go into history either. I...

  25. Tardiness...

    deespoohbear replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    In my unit we all just got nastygrams on our lockers from our boss. The clock in times for 1st shift is from 0638 to 0652 without being docked. Our new manager has decided that if we clock in after...