Terrie

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1. Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

   Terrie replied to Mijourney's topic in Nursing Career

   I happen to think male nurses are great. Most of them know there stuff well and do a good job. If most nurses give them a chance they would find the same

2. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   She has won, she is free to neglect her patients all she wants too. They said she has been a nurse for a long time so she has to be taking care of her patients. If I knew I could tell the family about...

3. Are you ashamed of being a nurse?

   Terrie replied to Mijourney's topic in Nursing Career

   I am very proud of being a nurse. That is all I ever wanted to be. I help people, I care for people, I help them physically, mentally, and spirtually. I am ashamed that nurse are push around, walked...

4. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   The Unit meeting came and went. They did not mandate OT or 12 hour shifts and they are not going to schedule us over our status. Too many people said they would walk. They had us put up suggestions....

5. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   night owl, Thank you. I do care about patients and I feel that there needs to be some kind of screening for people that want to become nurses. Patient neglect will come back to haunt her I am sure I...

6. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   deespoohbear, Everyone keeps telling me to document. Where am I supposed to document this stuff. I have every email I have sent to management and higher up. Is this what you are talking about? There...

7. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   You have a wonderful way of looking at things. I will try your suggestion. By the way if her back side spreads much more than it has she will not fit in the chair. I guess she has been neglecting her...

8. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   Nur20, You are a wise person and your suggestions are taken straight to the heart. If they do not do anything after the investigation I am already setting up interviews. I just feel that there are one...

9. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

   Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

   Nur20, I understand that I need to walk a straight line and keep my facts straight but it really doesn't matter if they want to get ride of me they will. I do not kiss managements back side and she...

10. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

    Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

    This is a great deal of the problem she has been there longer than I have and she knows what she can get away with. Also, we are the only two nurses on the unit so its my word against hers. She did...

11. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

    Terrie replied to Terrie's topic in General Nursing

    The supervisor thinks she is boss so there for she does nothing. I finally got administration to investigate the complaint. My manager is mad enough to fire me!!! I guess I will wait and see what...

12. What to do about nurses who neglect their patients and their responsibility??

    Terrie posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work with a nurse that does nothing but sit behind the desk and charts pages of nurses notes. How can you chart care on a patient you only see one time, especially in CCU? She had a post-op pt that...

13. RNs Intubating???

    Terrie replied to nurseyperson's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We are taught how to do it in ACLS and PALS because we are a small hospital and if we were to have more than one code (which has happened) someone would have to intubate the pt. But if there is...