walk6miles

walk6miles

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  1. Florida Nursing License

    walk6miles replied to KathyBannRN's topic in General Nursing

    I moved here 15 yrs ago from New England. The process is THOROUGH and that makes it tough. You will need several passport size photos (done at a local photo place - look in your yellow pages for...

  2. Mature Nurses over 50

    walk6miles replied to Su360's topic in Michigan Nursing

    You sound like my clone. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you have done and/or planned. Until, that is, all my vegetarian lifestyle/run 6 miles a day - marathon/bike/skate, etc. fell away when...

  3. Nasty Doctor

    walk6miles replied to scrubberRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, kids....this thread has gone crazy, off-the-wall, and seriously silly. We are not going to camcord without permission (no matter how bad he looks, you will pay a very dear price for using a...

  4. Nasty Doctor

    walk6miles replied to scrubberRN's topic in General Nursing

    We have a few like this at the facility in which I work - they are "intensivists".....one, a woman, is always so nasty to the nurses -she actually told one that "she didn't trust her and working with...

  5. Feeling patronized by "older" nurses

    walk6miles replied to Tortoiseshell's topic in General Nursing

    I am an oldie (but, I promise, a goodie) and I see your side of it too. I wish you could take her aside and let her know how you feel....sometimes that works, sometimes, it makes it worse......if she...

  6. Abandonment

    walk6miles replied to kamani811's topic in General Nursing

    I believe abandonment can be used only IF the nurse has accepted the assignment. Clearly, this nurse had not. As a matter of fact, if she felt overwhelmed, frightened for the patient's safety...

  7. Charge nurse with less than a year RN experience???!!

    walk6miles replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in Nurse Management

    Happening in our hospital too. The latest is someone I try not to work with (why? because this particular nurse is angry, angry, angry. His attitude spills over into everything he does). A new grad...

  8. Strange experience yesterday, feedback please...

    walk6miles replied to LovingLearning's topic in General Students

    Congratulations! You are going to be the best of the best. Any nurse who has experienced fierce, unrelenting, and unrelieved pain can relate to your patient's plight. It is the nurse's job to...

  9. Will the nursing field become saturated with new graduate nurses in a few years?

    walk6miles replied to mariposabella's topic in General Nursing

    One unit in the hospital in which I work is saturated with new nurses - most of those of us who are experienced took early retirement last year. From what I see, and I qualify this by saying the...

  10. Angry over lack of proper care by a nurse

    walk6miles replied to nurse grace RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My sincere condolensces. I completely understand. It is extremely difficult in this latest "nursing shortage"..the worst nurses are kept on by the hospital. I swear it's true (seems that way)...I...

  11. Stiff Stethoscope tubing...Ugh!!!!

    walk6miles replied to mcknis's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    My goodness, have they raised the refurbish fee that much?? I sent mine to Littman a few years ago and it was $20.... inflation hits even there! Thanks for the

  12. Just a reminder re: Diltiazem drip !

    walk6miles posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I recently followed a nurse (she is days; I am nights) I admire. We recently followed each other on the same assignment (makes report sooo easy). We discussed the difference in the patient's high...

  13. How do you assess this video of fainting public official?

    walk6miles replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Let me share a story: my uncle, corporate attorney for the world's largest airline company, walked into his kitchen for coffee and fell on the floor -PLUNK! Being an intelligent and educated man,...

  14. Mature Nurses over 50

    walk6miles replied to Su360's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I loved your comments. I turn 60 in less than 3 weeks and have no intention of leaving nursing (bedside, especially). My presence is validated every day by my coordinator ( I work central staffing -...

  15. Pt signed out AMA then died! what do you think?

    walk6miles replied to jenrn6282's topic in General Nursing

    First, you have no control over any one else's actions.....let go Second, you can talk until you turn blue, if the patient is determined, and won't even listen (frequent reaction), LET GO! Third, I...

  16. If I Murder A Co-worker, How To Hide The Body??

    walk6miles posted a topic in General Nursing

    So here is the scenario: step-down for by-pass surgery/thorocotomy patients..first time in the unit; 3 patients - one DOS, the other two matching thorocotomy with "issues". I was assigned to this...

  17. Okay, Okay, Okay. Is It A Joke?

    walk6miles posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I swear to the heavens this is the absolute truth. I have done 18 years plus in critical care nursing and I thought I had seen it all. But! Oh no! I agreed to do recovery (one-on-one specialty)....

  18. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    walk6miles posted a topic in General Nursing

    Here is my take on the new nurses today. Not all new nurses do this but, at the facility where I work - 80 percent have the following behaviour: Consistently late to take report (20 minutes...

  19. Okay, Okay, Okay. Is It A Joke?

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in MICU, SICU

    An update: one chronic "problem " was FINALLY written up for wearing IPOD earphones and, for a serious medication error. Bet she will still be around since the place doesn't fire anybody. Warm...

  20. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    An update. Administration (supervisor? - unit manager?) has now written up a nurse for walking around with an IPOD blasting through ear pieces. They also wrote her up for wrong patient - wrong med....

  21. Okay, Okay, Okay. Is It A Joke?

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in MICU, SICU

    I have said things to those doing it and those in charge. It all comes back to poor management. I am told that "you must work it out among yourselves. I don't get involved in personality...

  22. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    When I say that administration does not care, I mean it. I worked with a RN who smoked - this was before the "smoking ban on campus" was implemented. She took her bag and went outside (I assumed to...

  23. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the kind words - I thought the same. Wow. I cannot begin to understand some of the defensiveness.... oh well. Life moves on..... I did find a solution however. I spoke with the...

  24. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    I appreciate your comments. I have seen so many promising new nurses leave our unit and on their exit interview name several of our more experienced nurses as the reason. Conflict only makes the...

  25. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    walk6miles replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    Some very good suggestions.... management has a great deal of responsibility for allowing this behaviour. Complaints by long-term staff fall on deaf ears. If I hear the comment, "I don't get...