GardenDove

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  1. Staff nurse with MSN

    GardenDove replied to NextSummer's topic in General Nursing

    Every nurse has the same frustration. Even if you have a nurses aide around, you can't predict why someone is ringing their calllight. I wasn't giving you backlash, but pointing out that it's...

  2. Staff nurse with MSN

    GardenDove replied to NextSummer's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes the most efficient use of resources is for whoever is in the room to empty the urinal. It's often more steps and effort to find a less educated person to do it, and it's part of pt

  3. what your hospital policy on sick days?

    GardenDove replied to lannisz's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I live in a mostly all white area and people do it here

  4. Stage fright and report

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've always dreaded public speaking and am not gifted at oral presentations, including report. Sometimes I'm more discumbobulated than other times. I always feel as if I left out something major, or...

  5. what your hospital policy on sick days?

    GardenDove replied to lannisz's topic in General Nursing

    All I know is that we accumulate sick time each paycheck. I very rarely miss work so I don't know what they do about frequent sickdays, if they talk to you. There ARE many of my co-workers who...

  6. Staff nurse with MSN

    GardenDove replied to NextSummer's topic in General Nursing

    Why not? Going to school can be very rewarding and it should help you in your

  7. Stage fright and report

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a newbie, btw. I still have stage fright when speaking though. My nursing program had oral arts as a requirement for a pre-req. I think I'll make a more organised sheet to refer to. Part of my...

  8. Have you ever been made to feel useless and incompetent?

    GardenDove replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    No, absolutely not . My entire nursing career has been filled with loving people who guarded my sensitive nature vigilantly, and only uttered uplifting words of encouragement.:blushkiss I have never...

  9. When your patient dies.....

    GardenDove replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    Spoken like a true veteran... Usually the death is expected hopefully. Just let the family handle it privately, it's their loved one. Empathy is good, hand and hand with

  10. Could have Lopressor contributed to death?

    GardenDove replied to Anagray's topic in General Nursing

    She probably stroked out from a thombolytic CVA, which would have shown negative on CT. I see nothing in your description that would indicate that lopressor should not have been

  11. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Hit and run evangelism really turns me off. St Francis said "Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use

  12. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    A lack of humility in nursing is a big obstacle to advancing. I know nurses like this, not just new

  13. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    My community is having an explosion of this epidemic, we have pts who are positive for it, and visitors who also appear to be users. Are you also encountering this? What do you know about Meth? I...

  14. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I did call CPS opn the daughter across the street and they started a file on her. The daughter of my tenant came over the other day when I came for the 24 hr notice that the officer said I had a right...

  15. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Just an update, I decided to hire a lawyer to deal with my tenant, they served a 3 day notice to move for non-payment. Just talked to husband, he is being docile and will be out on Sunday. He goes...

  16. Bipap

    GardenDove replied to MM2007's topic in General Nursing

    The pressure settings should be ordered specifically. 12 and 4 are common. That is the inspiratory and expiratory positive pressures. I think different machines are different. Often there will be a...

  17. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, that reminds me of my MIL who died this year at the age of 95. She had been a Unitarian all of her adult life, and the last 12 years of her life she lived in a fancy retirement apt and finally...

  18. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt who I discharged yesterday. She was a stepdown pt with a hx of COPD and psyche problems. She was admitted for increase SOB and decrease LOC. She also was a chronic pain pt with non-specific...

  19. Small Town HIPPA

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, you can switch assignments, but you don't always know ahead of time that you will find out sensitive info. People trust their nurses, and I must be particularly trustworthy looking because the...

  20. Small Town HIPPA

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I'm more talking about the discomfort of knowing all this stuff. For instance, the mother of a girl my daughter plays with was my pt. I know that she is on 2 antidepressants and has a psyche...

  21. Small Town HIPPA

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Precisely! Thank

  22. Small Town HIPPA

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    It's very awkward, you have to live in a small town to understand. For instance, I just got back from the only supermarket in town. I've taken care of a bagger there recently who was a DKA. I've also...

  23. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    As far as baptizing a stillborn, if it brings comfort, fine, but it's theologically incorrect. You can't baptize a dead

  24. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I think people were thinking of in the public forum, for instance atheists who can't stand it if a prayer is recited at a football game. This thread has been very civil. Most non-believers mind their...

  25. When is it ethical to talk about religion with a patient?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    This isn't a religious debate thread as to which religion is correct, maybe we could keep it to the original subject matter? I didn't start the thread to attack any one religion or to have my religion...