TiddlDwink

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  1. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    TiddlDwink replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Originally Posted by beewink Unbelievable... But nothing should surprise me anymore. A bit off topic but along the same lines - I recently interviewed for an ED position. Along with being told that...

  2. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    TiddlDwink replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm pretty old, but not quite THAT old ... but even when I graduated from nursing school, there were no ICUs, no monitors, none of the sophisticated equipment we have now. There were very few...

  3. Smelly question

    TiddlDwink replied to allie1230's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I had had these suggestions years ago. I'm about to retire, and I still get really sick at some odors... like a festering putrid decubitus, or an open cancerous ulcer. I decided to end my...

  4. Adventist and Agnostics?

    TiddlDwink replied to PiedPiperRN's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Well, I'm about to retire, but over the past 40 years I've worked in many different settings, and in several different states. I firmly believe that while I'm a nurse, it really isn't anyone's...

  5. 30+ page care plans

    TiddlDwink replied to Boog'sCRRN246's topic in General Students

    This reminds me of MY nursing school days, over 40 years ago now. We didn't have computers back then. Care plans were hand-written, and I had a real problem making them more than 5 pages long. Also...

  6. At my boiling point...you are NOT a Nurse...of ANY kind!!!!

    TiddlDwink replied to nursehunnie's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh I've heard that many times in my 30+ years of nursing... In Alabama, where I live/practice now, as well as in Tennessee, Georgia and Texas, where I've worked before. It really isn't uncommon in...

  7. Past and future graduates of Excelsior College

    TiddlDwink replied to oldlpnnewrn's topic in General Nursing

    In my humble opinion: Nursing is a knowledge-based profession of course, but it is also skills-based. Without any clinical experience at all, how would the candidate show that s/he had any skills?...

  8. CNA doing Rectal Stimulation for Fecal Evacuation?

    TiddlDwink replied to protrend's topic in General Nursing

    My brother-in-law was a quad from age 18. He always had his sitter do his "bowel training" as he called it. That was TN and AL over a 50-year period. Neither apparently required a license for it, just...

  9. Highly disturbed today at Clinical...

    TiddlDwink replied to cookiesandcream22's topic in General Students

    In my state there is a LTC regulation that states what the staff to patient ratio must be for each shift. I don't think 1:18 is acceptable even on the night shift. I KNOW it's not here, but check your...

  10. Highly disturbed today at Clinical...

    TiddlDwink replied to cookiesandcream22's topic in General Students

    In my state there is a LTC regulation that states what the staff:patient ratio must be for each shift. I don't think 1:18 is acceptable even on the night shift. I KNOW it's not here, but check your...

  11. Sharing Personal Information at Work

    TiddlDwink replied to Urban_Durga's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it's like this: You come into a new job, but you're the "new" one. The others have been working together for a long time. They have already "bonded" ... they have already worked for each other...

  12. Dear future nursing students,

    TiddlDwink replied to BeeFree963's topic in General Students

    I love this thread! I had a charge nurse once who told a particularly annoying nurse (who boasted daily about not HAVING to work... she just enjoyed being around people etc. ad nauseum) that she...

  13. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    TiddlDwink replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    I'm just posting to say "thanks". In over 40 years of being a nurse, I have seen no real usefulness in nursing care plans (which I really haven't written many of since nursing school back in the dark...

  14. Have you ever cheated?

    TiddlDwink replied to JustYouWait's topic in General Students

    Well, I think I did cheat... kinda... once. Not on a test or anything, but on my care plans. My instructor said they weren't long enough, and I was making Cs and Ds on them, so once I showed some of...

  15. A&P prof's inappropriate response to request for alternative to animal dissection

    TiddlDwink replied to sarailyse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    "Originally Posted by Jiminocala The cow was dead before it was dissected and the eye would have gone into petfood had it not found it's way to your college for the purpose of teaching Nursing...

  16. Disgusted

    TiddlDwink replied to sistasoul's topic in General Nursing

    This reminds me of a time when I was working night shift on a med/surg floor in a county hospital in Texas. More often than not, one of the nurses was pulled for duty somewhere else in the hospital,...

  17. Help! How do I sign my name??

    TiddlDwink replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    Initial of first name, last name, then RN. It's all you need for most charting. I agree. I also have multiple degrees and certifications. One caution, though... If you use a nickname, do NOT use your...

  18. Should Continuing Education for Nurses be mandatory in all states?

    TiddlDwink replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    While the "nos" have some valid arguments, I believe that mandatory CEUs is the only way some nurses will ever look at information generated since their student days. I know that it is possible to pay...

  19. I do not care anymore

    TiddlDwink replied to JB2007's topic in General Nursing

    It looks like a lot of people have been reading my journal I wrote out my 2-week notice from hospital nursing on the day this happened: Arrived at work 3pm... started my rounds to meet my patients...

  20. Student Uniform - My Gosh!

    TiddlDwink replied to Meg_student's topic in General Students

    I graduated in 1969, before pants were allowed for females. Our ugly dresses were green striped, but they hit mid calf. Maybe you could get one extra uniform and cut it up to add about 12 inches to...

  21. Please help

    TiddlDwink replied to POMD01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    RN.com has an excellent CEU thing this month on blood transfusion

  22. help needed for my report/assignment

    TiddlDwink replied to winningguy's topic in General Nursing

    I think any change in hospital policies would originate with the charge nurses/head nurses of those units that have these kinds of patients. There should be a "chain of command". If not, there should...

  23. My God, these family members!!

    TiddlDwink replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What a response!! I think you've hit a nerve with nurses EVERYWHERE! I don't think there is a more universal problem than dealing with family members like these. "Waitressing all day" pretty well...

  24. Introduction and question!

    TiddlDwink replied to 2boyzmom's topic in Alabama Nursing

    Hi, Stephanie I am a graduate of JSCC, but so long ago I would be of no assistance to you now (1969). I hated it at that time, but I understand it is much different now. I was just thrilled to get...

  25. Dr. Dean (democratic primary contender) on Nursing

    TiddlDwink replied to geekgolightly's topic in General Nursing

    Furthermore... You cannot ban mandatory overtime unless you want to make patient abandonment an OK thing to do!! WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!! I don't know about the whole country, but here in Alabama we have...