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    Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    hiddencatRN replied to Snowbird17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Your OP raises questions about flu vaccine safety because there are no studies refuting any link between flu vaccines in pregnant women and egg allergies in children, and you question safety if the...
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    Need to vent...being volunteered by someone else to do overtime...WHAT?!

    hiddencatRN replied to uRNmyway's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like they need more staff. Why not hire some prns from those stacks of resumes? Til you start saying no there's not much motivation to do so since the schedule is getting
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    Need to vent...being volunteered by someone else to do overtime...WHAT?!

    hiddencatRN replied to uRNmyway's topic in General Nursing

    "I'm sorry, but I'm not
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    Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    hiddencatRN replied to Snowbird17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Not sure why you're comparing the flu vaccine to thalidomide. The flu vaccine has been used safely in pregnancy for years. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/qa_vacpregnant.htm I can understand...
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    Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    hiddencatRN replied to Snowbird17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Don't vaccination recommendations for infants have a lot to do with when their immune system is capable of converting and building immunity? Don't maternal antibodies make certain vaccines ineffective...
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    Dropped pills

    hiddencatRN replied to mandaaRN's topic in Patient Medications

    I actually had a dropped pill incident last night and thought of this thread. My patient must have read up on mouth MRSA because there was no argument in me getting a fresh pill for
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    VIP treatment. Ethical dilemma for paper?

    hiddencatRN replied to metfan's topic in General Nursing

    At a place I worked, VIP patients would have a room held for them and come right back, regardless of what their triage level was and what else was in the waiting room. This was in an emergency...
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    Dropped pills

    hiddencatRN replied to mandaaRN's topic in Patient Medications

    My sample note included those things though and the whole thing seemed time consuming and irrelevant to you. A quick note barely takes any time, and that's not really a weak argument for whether the...
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    Dropped pills

    hiddencatRN replied to mandaaRN's topic in Patient Medications

    Idk, I manage to chart patient education and activities and incidents in short narratives on my patients while still providing patient care. I must be a
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    Dropped pills

    hiddencatRN replied to mandaaRN's topic in Patient Medications

    We have a place to chart narratives everywhere I've worked. "Patient updated on plan of care, given meal tray, ate pills off floor at own insistence. Family at
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    hiddencatRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    The nice thing about vent threads like this is that we can say the things here that we don't say to the patients. It doesn't have to be appropriate, it's venting frustration to other folks wh will get...
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    New grad, first week off orientation and assigned at student nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to aem31's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had students fresh off orientation and didn't mind, but in the ED they were just there to observe and had a really limited scope. I liked sharing what I knew with them. I think I'd have felt...
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    Dropped pills

    hiddencatRN replied to mandaaRN's topic in Patient Medications

    If the patient later complains that the nurse made her take pills off the floor or develops mouth MRSA or starts doing other bat poo crazy things, I'd sure be glad to have documented
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    hiddencatRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Right, but this thread is about dumb things people go to the ER with, not "how these complaints should be handled in a doctor's
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    MD screaming at RN's in front of patients regularly

    hiddencatRN replied to AtivanIM's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sometimes, your first job in nursing is a complete bust. It's OK, it happens. Look for another job. In the meantime, document and file incident reports as others have advised. Tell HR in your exit...
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    How do you stay positive about your career?

    hiddencatRN replied to Jw1724's topic in General Nursing

    What about when the next stressful thing comes up? There are always stressors. Having to plan around a weekend commitment is a pretty minor one. If you hate your schedule, try to find a better one....
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    how many calories do you think nursing burns up?

    hiddencatRN replied to SNB1014's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Ain't it the
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    hiddencatRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Air conditioners can cause all that?
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    Immediate bedding

    hiddencatRN replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    Honestly, I think it only works well when you don't need to triage patients, when the department is empty and patients are just coming in in a trickle, the nurse can see them immediately, and the...
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    Leave you family for nursing??

    hiddencatRN replied to litebrightgirl's topic in Nursing Career

    Most doctors I know brought their families with
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    Nursing Jobs....?

    hiddencatRN replied to Helematu7's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Good luck with the
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    Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    hiddencatRN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The Constitution also used to allow slavery and limited voting rights, so I'd hardly consider it the authority on human
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    Name Badges Worn Backwards

    hiddencatRN replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I've actually always been on a first name basis with the doctors I work with... I just started a new job and our badges are on lanyards that do dot flip. But because they are around our necks, they...
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    What to do in family emergency situations?

    hiddencatRN replied to treeye's topic in General Nursing

    That's crappy. We've had employees with family emergencies way more minor than that who we've covered and gotten to their families way faster than that. I'm so sorry about your father in law.
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    Organizing the maddness

    hiddencatRN replied to Safe student nurse's topic in Emergency

    I've explained to patients the benefit of following up with a PCP rather than getting tx in the ER: better continuity, decision maker has a better understanding of the medical hx, leading to better...