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    Are we doing good for our patients?

    PMFB-RN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    You were standing on the high ground. What he was ordering is not the standard of care for chemically paralyzed patients. Good for
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    Are we doing good for our patients?

    PMFB-RN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I have refused to code "full code " patients on a number of occasions. The first time I expected to get fired but nobody said anything to me about it. On those occasions I had reasons to know...
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    Code Black

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I know this show has been discussed here already. Unfortunately I just sat through an episode. One thing that really stood out to me as being SUPER unrealistic, I mean part from the many,...
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    Dealing with mean docs

    PMFB-RN replied to MillyPeets1234's topic in Operating Room

    That is shocking. I have been treated the same way. I have a VERY effective way of dealing with it. I wait out by their car in the parking lot, catch them alone and have a little "talk" with them....
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    Are we doing good for our patients?

    PMFB-RN replied to GeologistRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Yep, you nailed it. Its why I always preferred SICU vs MICU. What you have observed is standard across the country in my experience. Its caused by our awful culture that won't accept death and...
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    Pretty much told to lie

    PMFB-RN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Usually given the "approved" answer to give surveyors and threated with being fired if we don't provide the "approved" answer, true or not. Usually about staffing levels, practice counsels ,...
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    Pretty much told to lie

    PMFB-RN replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in School

    Never been a school nurse, but being told or ordered to lie is common and standard in nursing in general. For example I was ordered to lie to surveyors on every Magnet
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    Does your facility have 12 hour shifts or 8 hour shifts?

    PMFB-RN replied to smartypants22's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    In theory yes. But they set themselves up for retention problems since fewer are willing to work
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    Code Black

    PMFB-RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    My first nursing job was in the old USC/LA County hospital. It was a great place to learn. I started in burn ICU. 6 months after graduation they were asking me things like "hey do you want to float...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm, not sure if you actually read my post. Nowhere did I say or imply that only Americans want to kill Americans. Thanks to our actions and policies around the world lots of people want to kill...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    What the gun buy back amounted to was theft of huge amounts of valuable property by the government. My father in law had a 1911A1 made by the Singer Sewing machine company during WWII. The rarest of...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! You are seriously misinformed. That technology is unreliable, at least it is so far. No way I am going to trust my life to technology that is so frought with problems. Then there is the...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Guns are not tobacco. Tobacco is not good for anything. It damaged those who use it and damages the land it's grown on. Tobacco never saves lives. Guns can, and often do save lives. Mine has been...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe, there are other very valid reasons to pass laws. Groups in power may try to pass laws to gain control over those not in power, law makers may have their own nefarious reasons to pass laws, like...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Except that lots and lots of people in Australia still have guns. I know several of them. I read comments from hundreds more on the gun discussion forums. It's a lie that Australia got rid of...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have any thoughts on the rest of my
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    I was speaking generally. Sorry I didn't make that part
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    Code Black

    PMFB-RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Not saying Nurse Jackie is realistic, just more so when compared to Code Black, House, GA, and the other medical shows. It at least shows nurses doing nurse
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Evidence
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Some have been prevented by CC. Not that many but I think it's an unfair bar to hold CC to. Far more often the CC has been used to prevent, or stop more mundane crime. Twice in my life carrying a...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    I have to disagree. While it may be true that most Americans will never personally kill anyone, the vast majority are quite blood thirsty and are very willing to have their killing done by proxy. I...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    I dint know why. Just making an
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Ya, but have people been nicer to each other on the road since
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    Having lived and worked in New Zealand, and traveled extensively, yes I do know what life is like in other places. What foreigners don't understand about the USA is that it is Americans nature...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    PMFB-RN replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. An armed society is a polite society. I remember living in California. Every time there was a freeway shooting, everyone would be real nice and not cut each other off or flip the bird...