GardenDove

GardenDove

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  1. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

    GardenDove replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

    Everytime I see this thread now, I think of the line "Goodbye cruel world!". It strikes me as melodramatic actually. Say, not to change the subject, but did anyone watch the Saddam execution

  2. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure they aren't manufacturing there, I already did a cursery walk through with a woman who is interested in buying the house. It's a pigsty, but no way do these people have it together to...

  3. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I ask this because I am a landlord and one of my tenents is in jail now for meth, I am grappling with a situation. The police are aware. I think everyone in the house is using, they've only been there...

  4. What do you know about Methamphetemine?

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    How dangerous are these

  5. Help with a assigment

    GardenDove replied to munster's topic in General Nursing

    Thank God I'm not in

  6. Committees

    GardenDove posted a topic in General Nursing

    For some unknown reason, I volunteered to be on the pt Safety Committee. Our QA gal, who heads the committee, sent me the minutes of the last meeting. I think she's really glad I'm on the committee...

  7. Leaving your first nursing job, how hard was it?

    GardenDove replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    What I did was to get a per diem job elsewhere and gradually work into an FTE there. You can simultaneously cut back where you are

  8. have you ever had a surrogate mom as a patient?

    GardenDove replied to lannisz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had a friend once who did this for another friend. She already had 4 children. She didn't charge and did it out of the goodness of her heart. She had a homebirth. The couple she did it for were an...

  9. fitness for duty

    GardenDove replied to jetscreamer101's topic in General Nursing

    I ended up phasing out of my unit and into ICU. I needed a change and am much happier. Probably you just need a

  10. fitness for duty

    GardenDove replied to jetscreamer101's topic in General Nursing

    I had a needlestick from a Hep C pt, which caused me to have a meltdown and small breakdown due to the circumstances surrounding it. I had to be cleared by a regular doc because of my stress level,...

  11. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, right on Sahara. Tell it like it is! Legal fix, that's a great term. Sorry, but some of this PollyAnna talk on this thread is just too much. And also, it's not nice to bash people's nursing...

  12. How to shut up people who gossip !!!!!!

    GardenDove replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    So, you think calling people 'hags' is mature and

  13. write ups

    GardenDove replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    I think so. I think women nurses are more into it, none of the men I work with are into it. I think it's infantile. It's a shift war type activity, I

  14. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Oral care for people on vents actually does save money by reducing the incidence of ventilator associated

  15. write ups

    GardenDove replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Some people are really into writing up at my facility. I've gotten 3 ridiculous write ups in my 6 years where I work, but I think others have gotten more. Last hospital I worked at I never heard about...

  16. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I think you have to be really careful being too judgemental, esp in report. I've gotten some really negative reports on pts that seemed more of a personality conflict between the previous nurse and...

  17. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Angie, your post makes plenty of sense. For me, it boils down to human decency and respect. Clear communication helps, and giving the pt plenty of choices. I'm a big believer in TLC and little...

  18. Night Shift and Phone Calls from Family - Vent

    GardenDove replied to incublissRN's topic in General Nursing

    You can't expect everyone in the world to know that you work nights, even if your mother wasn't bugging you. I never sleep by the phone, how can I expect people to know I'm sleeping. It's hard enough...

  19. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    12 mg of Dilaudid? That's a hefty

  20. Body Glitter?

    GardenDove replied to sissyboo's topic in General Nursing

    Not a great thing for the image of men in nursing. Most of the guys I work with like to be perceived as macho. Hetero men definately don't want nursing to be perceived as an enclave of gay men, no...

  21. Patient as Customer model of healthcare

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    It does seem as if the pendulum has swung perhaps a little too far in the direction of catering to every whim of pts and their families, sometimes at the expense of order and safety, not to mention...

  22. Anyone ever see this? Med question

    GardenDove replied to clemmm78's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if there will be a danger to her if she is switched to a similar dose in another form that she'll be absorbing much

  23. I learned a lesson yesterday

    GardenDove replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry about it. Healthcare workers deal with the stress of a failed code or dead pt with humor, it's a way to protect ourselves and remain detached. You acted correctly and compassionately, I'm...

  24. Pain shots are us, not this nurse!

    GardenDove replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    The OP said it was an exaggeration, why don't you just believe what she says? She said it was an overstatement. People will believe the 10/10 claims to pain by every scruffy, tattood from head to toe...

  25. Committees

    GardenDove replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, thanks for the imput. I think this will be an interesting new experience for me. You all give good advise. I'll have to feel it out, and yes I do have a particular interest in pt safety, which is...