GardenDove

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  1. Wrote up for being negative?!?!

    GardenDove replied to RNLisa's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat:

  2. Networking with patients' families

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering about that. However, one thing is that I live in a small town where it's hard not to run into your pts. The other sister, daughter of my pt, owns a furniture store where I have...

  3. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, your wording is better. Tolerance is the word, not necessarily respect. We can act respectful without really feeling

  4. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a smoker, but I think society has gone overboard in villifying them. It's only one of many unhealthy habits that people have. I get tired of the puritanical outlook that people have about this...

  5. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly Tweety. We are not going to change lifelong personality traits or addictions in one hospital stay. We are there to do the best we can with the pt based on their individual needs. We shouldn't...

  6. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    That's nice, but sometimes people just cannot tolerate things. I'm glad you're so persuasive. Some people have severe claustrophobia. They have a right to refuse treatment of any kind. Yes, there are...

  7. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Take, for instance, the pt refusing to wear O2 or BiPap. As long as you inform them, inform the doc, and document, then I think that's their choice. There may be other aspects of their treatment that...

  8. NONCOMPLIANCE, why be at the big H? in the first place?

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I understand the frustration, but otoh I'm a big advocate of pt rights. I think that people should be free to pick and choose what treatments they'll accept while there, even if the nurse disagrees....

  9. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    GardenDove replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Wow Jessica, that's the worst case of nursing instructor bullying I've read yet. I have some experiences from my own nursing school that were unnerving, and I did get told maybe I wasn't cut out to be...

  10. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    GardenDove replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    I work with a nurse in ICU who is fantastic and she was told by her clinical instructor that she's never make it as a nurse, that she should go into something else. She's

  11. I really, really feel like calling it quits

    GardenDove replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, that's pretty harsh. I feel for you. I don't know what to

  12. I made a boo boo!!!

    GardenDove replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Especially if it were part of your abdominal

  13. What do I tell her?

    GardenDove replied to HisHands's topic in General Nursing

    You friend just walked out without saying anything to anyone? No matter what the inadequacies of the situation were, that's an appalling lack of communication. I don't blame the DON for being PO'd....

  14. What do I tell her?

    GardenDove replied to HisHands's topic in General Nursing

    It's totally infantile to just walk off the job like that. For one thing, this precepting two people at a time on her first day of orientation shouldn't have been the end of the world. It's not ideal,...

  15. I made a boo boo!!!

    GardenDove replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Your charge nurse is not a very good charge nurse it sounds like. She's supposed to be the more competant one who knows all the policies. All you did was waste with her, next time you'll be more on...

  16. liar liar

    GardenDove replied to MsKieshaRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sounds like a real fun friend. . Your conversations must be very meaningful, talking about pretend things. Nothing like a trueblue, genuine, real MacCoy, I wish I had such an interesting

  17. Do you count resps every time you do vitals?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    My poll answers are inferior, I'm not sure if I can

  18. Do you count resps every time you do vitals?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen nurses do that, I've noticed that following certain people my resp counts are invariably

  19. Helping the goof offs

    GardenDove replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I think the term for this behavior is

  20. Yay!!! I Passed

    GardenDove replied to maureenlynn's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Congratulations and good luck with your first

  21. Helping the goof offs

    GardenDove replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    These are the same people who in nursing school wanted to copy your homework because they didn't have time to do the work due to having been 'busy' with their boyfriend the night before. They seem to...

  22. i feel like quitting (long post)

    GardenDove replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Shining Star, you'll make it. You're a sensitive person and that trait will make you a great nurse! Just stick it out and make it through. Probably the advise that valerette gave you is good. I had a...

  23. i feel like quitting (long post)

    GardenDove replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, I think I remember that from nrsg school, now that you remind me... To the OP, this instructor is a B-!-T-(-H, I have no doubt about it from your description. She probably has her head so filled...

  24. i feel like quitting (long post)

    GardenDove replied to shining_star28463's topic in General Nursing

    What are the 5 Ps of restraint

  25. What do I tell her?

    GardenDove replied to HisHands's topic in General Nursing

    I hope she learns from this. It was very immature of her to deal with the situation like