dream'n BSN, RN

UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych

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    Nurse Companionship Call Service

    dream'n replied to viera101's topic in General Nursing

    I would need to learn more about it. Is it companionship only? Like spending a day talking, going to the grocery, helping with cooking? If so, you wouldn't need a nurse but perhaps a home assistant....
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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    dream'n replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Today in the US, if you aren't rich and don't qualify for Medicare or Medicaid, you are at the mercy of your employer and the insurance
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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    dream'n replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Facts: Many receive Medicare that never worked. My mother for example, she never worked outside the home a day in her life. She's on Medicare because my father worked. And with the standard Medicare...
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    I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

    dream'n replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I hear and agree with you. A few years ago, I was offered a new job and I asked about the insurance plans offered. This was after I had been working at another employer with crap insurance, so it was...
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    Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

    dream'n replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I sure hope not. Still have quite a while to go until retirement age and my mind and body are already
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    Radonda Vaught Was A Guest On A Good Nurse / Bad Nurse Podcast

    dream'n replied to Anonymous865's topic in General Nursing

    Every nurse has made a mistake; therefore, every nurse has at one time or another practiced sub-par and unsafely. So, if the mistake happens to be deadly, the nurse should be prosecuted criminally for...
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    Radonda Vaught Was A Guest On A Good Nurse / Bad Nurse Podcast

    dream'n replied to Anonymous865's topic in General Nursing

    Does that mean we put nurses in jail only if the mistake is deadly? Also, a police officer doesn't have to pull either the taser or the gun. But the nurse has to provide whatever care they are...
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    Radonda Vaught Was A Guest On A Good Nurse / Bad Nurse Podcast

    dream'n replied to Anonymous865's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with GREAT nurse that was my preceptor when I became a RN. She had decades of nursing under her belt. She was careful and mindful. Stuck to policy, worked safely, but one night...patient...
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    Radonda Vaught Was A Guest On A Good Nurse / Bad Nurse Podcast

    dream'n replied to Anonymous865's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that staffing wasn't the issue at the time, but who gets to decide when some other nurse makes a
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    Radonda Vaught Was A Guest On A Good Nurse / Bad Nurse Podcast

    dream'n replied to Anonymous865's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion is that criminal charges should never have been filed. Nurses work many times with high ratios/bad staffing/too critical patients and it's totally out of our hands. Many shifts are running...
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    UAB Announces Xenotransplantation Breakthrough

    dream'n replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I know animals are killed for food all the time and I'm no vegetarian. But this is causing an unsettling feeling in my gut and I'm not sure why. I can pin my own feelings down because of course I'm...
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    Okay to wear traditional nurse uniform to work?

    dream'n replied to Elliebeanlovesmisterbubbles's topic in General Nursing

    I really thought I read BON. That's what I get for responding while
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    Okay to wear traditional nurse uniform to work?

    dream'n replied to Elliebeanlovesmisterbubbles's topic in General Nursing

    Why did you ask the Board of Nursing? Your work attire is up to your
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    Abuse Accusations

    dream'n replied to Jess0418's topic in General Nursing

    The facility is being ridiculous. Talk with your attorney first, but perhaps the facility needs to be aware that 'false reporting' can result in a lawsuit against them for your stress and legal fees....
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    dream'n replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    JC and the ANA are both useless in my
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    Peri-care without gloves?

    dream'n replied to lightwing's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen some nurses that I think overuse gloves. For example, they put on gloves to deliver a meal tray or taking a blood pressure. But for peri-care, heck yes, I'm wearing
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    You show up for work and there is no one there. What to do?

    dream'n replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    I need more information. What type of facility do you work in? How many patients? What are your and the other nurses' usual responsibilities? Are you a RN? Is there management also in the facility?...
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    I’m struggling....

    dream'n replied to Ally Fearnow's topic in General Nursing

    We all know the answer to why. It's a broken health care system that is profit driven. Now the real question is what we are going to do about it on an individual and collective
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    In the wake of Covid. The times, they are a changing

    dream'n replied to Guest 1152923's topic in General Nursing

    I've lost hope that nurses will ever unite to demand the ratios and treatment we deserve. Nurses unfortunately can't seem to ever agree when enough is enough and stand strong with other nurses....
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    How does write ups work in the hospital?

    dream'n replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    How low was the O2 and how low was the blood
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    Mandatory Overtime

    dream'n replied to ChknWing's topic in General Nursing

    Actually they can..or at least in my experience (which was long ago granted) could. I needed to give report on MY patients and if my DON/ADON were leaving or left there wasn't a darn thing I could do...
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    Mandatory Overtime

    dream'n replied to ChknWing's topic in General Nursing

    In many places you have no choice. If your relief nurse doesn't come in, you have to stay. Otherwise, it's considered abandonment. When I first became a nurse, I worked dayshift in a LTC...
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    How do you know when you've found your niche? Unhappy with nursing in general

    dream'n replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if I'm weird, but I've never had a job I loved. I've had jobs that are rewarding, or interesting, or better than most other nursing positions; but none that I've actually loved. I have had...
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    Scope of Practice Question

    dream'n replied to kjones1982's topic in General Nursing

    I even worked at one facility where I was the only night nurse in the entire building, but was expected to be responsible for Respite patients that were in other buildings down the road. I was unable...
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    Scope of Practice Question

    dream'n replied to kjones1982's topic in General Nursing

    I understand and have worked for facilities that owned Respite care centers. They are too cheap to hire a nurse to cover Respite, but have no issue trying to involve the other facilities nurses when...