whipping girl in 07

whipping girl in 07 RN

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  1. To tattle tale or not tattle tale... that is the question.

    whipping girl in 07 replied to bluesky's topic in General Nursing

    "Like I said there are many other good nurses who totally agree with my analysis but they either grin and bear it or quit the unit. No effort is made to actually change the situation. I want so badly...

  2. Appropriate interception or invasion of privacy?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say I agree with you. I'm not here to judge my patients' actions, I'm here to be their nurse. I'm not going to cure anyone's drug problem in the short time I care for them. Now if he had...

  3. straightforward question for CRNA's

    whipping girl in 07 replied to speed's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Um, a question here...Isn't a 9 year old a little young to be diagnosed with a personality disorder? It's been a couple of years since my psych rotation in nursing school, but from what I remember,...

  4. Trying to pick a city:Houston, Dallas, or Austin?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to nimbus2004's topic in Texas Nursing

    Of the three, I like Austin the best as far as being a nice place to live. My best friend lives in Kingwood, TX (suburb of Houston that a previous post spoke of) and it's a nice area too. Definitely...

  5. How you work nights with kids?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to TLC RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for almost two years and I've worked nights most of that time. My husband sometimes travels out of town for work, sometimes for a couple of nights, sometimes for several weeks at a...

  6. Pain scale

    whipping girl in 07 replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Pain Management

    I have to say I tend to err on the side of giving too much pain/anxiety meds rather than not enough. OK, I'm not giving so much that I completely knock out my patients (unless they're on vents ),...

  7. Who transcribes med orders?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to AHarri66's topic in General Nursing

    Medium size acute care hospital, ICU. Unit secretary (day shift only) transcribes all orders except meds/IVs, then primary nurse signs them off. Primary nurse transcribes meds/IVs, faxes to pharmacy...

  8. "Thats not my patient"

    whipping girl in 07 replied to nurse2002's topic in General Nursing

    I'm gonna put on my flame-proof panties before I say this. "That's not my patient." However, I use it judiciously, as in Suzy Q (whose patient it is) is taking her third smoke break in the past hour...

  9. Holiday schedule....

    whipping girl in 07 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Our weekend-only people have to work the same holidays as the rest of us. Full-time and part-time employees have to be scheduled half the holidays each year (you work one half of them one year, the...

  10. Why LPN??

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    My mom became an LPN back in 1971. She was a high school dropout who got a GED (couldn't pass algebra, so she dropped out of high school!!) She made straight As in nursing school (except for...

  11. Should nursing charges be separate from the room charges?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that nursing procedures, assessments, etc. should be billed separately. The room charge should be exactly that, for a room, and the charge for a Tylenol should be hospital's cost plus a...

  12. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    whipping girl in 07 replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    "Happy, happy, joy, joy..." (from Ren & Stimpy) as I'm doing the six-o'clock-the-shift-is-almost-over happy

  13. Patients who refuse to cooperate with medical/nursing treatment....

    whipping girl in 07 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Reading about all these idiots gave me a good laugh. My husband and I had to take our son to the ER yesterday (Ian had stuck a rock up his nose) and the people in the waiting room were just making us...

  14. Manual vs. automatic blood pressure cuffs

    whipping girl in 07 replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I work in ICU, so I have the automatic cuffs at my disposal. If there's a question about whether the BP is accurate, I always check with a manual cuff. I find our automatics in the unit tend...

  15. Albuterol vs. Xopenex....

    whipping girl in 07 replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Medications

    Generally speaking, our docs don't order Xopinex unless the patient has problems with a fast heart rate (espicially when a patient in SR or ST goes into a-fib 15 min after his neb tx with...

  16. Stripes

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Paprikat's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for posting the interesting link, Youda. No caps here, and none of the schools I'm aware of around here do caps anymore. I remember back in the mid-90s I was working at a hospital in Arkansas...

  17. blackmail by hospital

    whipping girl in 07 replied to poppyrn's topic in General Nursing

    I just looked through my P&P book. It said nothing about working upcoming holidays if you give sufficient notice that you are quitting. I'd vote with my feet! Broken promises are just not cool....

  18. How are you supposed to answer the phone?

    whipping girl in 07 replied to MRed94's topic in General Nursing

    If it's slow, "name of hospital, ICU, this is Konni, can I help you?" If it's busy, "ICU, this is Konni, can I help?" If it's crazy, "ICU, Konni." If it's an inhouse call, I try to remember to say...

  19. Pros and Cons of Baylor Plans

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Jenny P's topic in General Nursing

    Jenny, the nurses that I know that do it or have done it are happy with their decision, although they all agree it's not something you want to do forever (I mean, you work EVERY weekend). The norm...

  20. Pros and Cons of Baylor Plans

    whipping girl in 07 replied to Jenny P's topic in General Nursing

    The weekend program where I work is becoming SO popular that we're having a harder time staffing the weekdays than the weekends. We (well, not me) work 24 and get paid for 36 (Sat and Sun AM or PM),...

  21. How to stay organized

    whipping girl in 07 replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    I really hate our computer system at work; however, it does have one good attribute...it prints a patient care summary at the beginning of each shift. It lists any labs and tests that are ordered or...

  22. Nursing Theory???

    whipping girl in 07 replied to k123456's topic in General Nursing

    Like I said in my previous post, nursing theory was covered in one class, and I don't remember anyone ever referring to it again. I'm not sure many nursing schools will have anything in the brochure...

  23. Nursing Theory???

    whipping girl in 07 replied to k123456's topic in General Nursing

    Like I said in my previous post, nursing theory was covered in one class, and I don't remember anyone ever referring to it again. I'm not sure many nursing schools will have anything in the brochure...

  24. Nursing Theory???

    whipping girl in 07 replied to k123456's topic in General Nursing

    Ahhh, nursing theory... I took it way back in 1995 the first time I went to nursing school. (I dropped out twice before I finished but that's another story...) Thank God when I applied to the school...

  25. Nursing Theory???

    whipping girl in 07 replied to k123456's topic in General Nursing

    Ahhh, nursing theory... I took it way back in 1995 the first time I went to nursing school. (I dropped out twice before I finished but that's another story...) Thank God when I applied to the school...