Patti 2nd gen RN

Patti 2nd gen RN specializes in L&D, medsurg,hospice,sub-acute.

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1. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   I think that new nurses don't yet have the thick skin that we get over time, esp. when dealing with moody docs, difficult families and just different ways of communicationg. Sometimes people are considered rude, when all they are is rushing and brusq...

2. How do you address your patients?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to anonymurse's topic in General Nursing

   My name badge has my first name large, and my last name and credentials tiny...I call my patients by mr/ms until we have a relationship, or permission to do otherwise, but because of how we ask them to address us, we mostly wind up with first names o...

3. Should Continuing Education for Nurses be mandatory in all states?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I think learning outside your specialty can be very valuable...I have worked L&D and am now on a TCU unit...and taking classes on grieving, the legal issues with documentation, and with meds I don't usually use..have helped me a lot. Also, I bel...

4. "English Only" Rule at Work?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

   But sports is a different cup of tea. It is a-entertainment, and b-the body gets across the communication...words are needed only after the fact to communicate commentary. In nursing, both with our patients and our professional community, communicati...

5. "English Only" Rule at Work?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

   But what he was doing was a-entertainment and b-spoke it's own language with the body....it needed no words...communication is fundemental to what we do as nurses, both with our patients and in our nursing community....the rule about language needs t...

6. Getting MSN Online

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to jennieojala's topic in Post Graduate

   I have a meeting with the Regis/ Network college people next week---what kind of questions should I be asking to compare them to other online master's programs??? Any ideas about other schools and financing??? Anybody KNOW a professor that teaches t...

7. Is your manager not paying when you work through your break?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

   You are speaking from a particular situation, that many of us are not in...and can still be 'smart' nurses and not get a break...we have no manager or person without a team on nights at my facility, and on days, our manager does not cover for staff w...

8. Is your manager not paying when you work through your break?

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

   Don't work any time for free!!! That kind of thinking allows management to take advantage of nursing as a whole..and they should understand, and allow newer nurses to need more time--needing more time as a new nurse is not a bad comment on you, it is...

9. Psych drugs and BP's

   Patti 2nd gen RN replied to Patti 2nd gen RN's topic in General Nursing

   A woman in her 50's, on methadone as well, and her xanax dose is 0.5 mg q6hrs prn---too much for me....and when I told her if she would rink enought to get it up to 95 systolic, I would give it to her, she said she didn't want to pee that much, and ...

10. Psych drugs and BP's

    Patti 2nd gen RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anybody out there have any experience with psych drugs that also lower BP?? My co-worker and I disagree about giving Xanax to a patient with a BP of 80/50--it was MN, and this is her usual when she refuses to drink water...doc said in her case it was...

11. Is your manager not paying when you work through your break?

    Patti 2nd gen RN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    We use our ID's as punch cards..better than the last place I worked where the unit secretary decided what time you came in and put it in the computer--less professional than a punch card

12. Is your manager not paying when you work through your break?

    Patti 2nd gen RN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, we are supposed to turn in a "no Lunch" slip, so our pay can be adjusted if we don't get a break...BUT..it must be approved by the supervisor or manager---and if you work nights, the one who approves or disapproves wasn't even present...and the...

13. "English Only" Rule at Work?

    Patti 2nd gen RN replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    It makes a difference when you could be learning or teaching, when you could get or give some important information about a patient...that happens all the time at our nursing station as people change teams, and know different things about families an...

14. Debate on alternative methods reproduction

    Patti 2nd gen RN replied to atpeace's topic in General Nursing

    Having mixed feelings about it personally for me doesn't matter--it's about freedom of choice--just as abortion is not about murder, but about the freedom of choice to decide for ourselves what we believe about when life begins---but I heard in inter...

15. nursing stuff

    Patti 2nd gen RN replied to nursing81's topic in General Nursing

    I carried a B-B plus through my undergrad days, including nsg school...I did it because more than one c was unacceptable to my nursing school at that time---but truly, I learned at least half of what I actually use on the floor after I graduated...my...