Never experienced C-section without anesthesia but do understand the idea as I did experience the extraction of a wisdom tooth without anesthesia. They had shot me up with novocaine but the instant...
Anyone hired as an instructor has an obligation to instruct. The administration needs to be made aware that this is not happening in this class. Nice lady or not, she needs to take classes in how to...
Write her up - now and when it happens again. This CNA has an attitude that definitely does not belong in the art/business of health care. Years ago, a hospitalized friend told me he had requested...
My dad always worked for precision in our speech. If we twisted a sentence or used the wrong word, he would respond to what we had said rather than what he knew we intended to say. So the correct...
Many specialists, although they can put M.D. behind their names, are so long out of touch with the basics that they would be of little help in a crisis. It is actually a matter of knowing what to do....
edowhitetop replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students
Instructors should be required to correct their mistakes. Back in the old days, when I attended a very small high school, one of my teachers asked me to grade some semester exams in a subject I had...
Before I retired, I had to be particularly careful about client contact in public because I worked at a mental health center and this was widely known. Since I retired, I have moved (from Wisconsin to...
Sorry, Dr. Knope, your example does not impress me. The PhD poet would understand the question even if you do not. And the Doctor-Nurse could probably handle the crisis at least as well as the...
edowhitetop replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing
It sounds as though this woman has been subjected to years of mental abuse. She is so convinced that she is worthless that she has become "worthless." It takes a lot of work to get past
edowhitetop replied to susi_q's topic in Emergency
Seems to me that ANY open offer to do something for someone is asking for trouble. Even in an ER you could get some pretty off-the-wall requests - and a reminder that you had ASKED for
:studyowl: I believe that the main problem was the panic factor. I was born at home - breech - and the doctor did not make it in time. Attending was a midwife - my grandmother. Despite the crisis...