santhony44 MSN, RN, NP

FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed

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    Working holidays and weekends

    santhony44 replied to mycatmax's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guilty of that one!!! I never minded working Thanksgiving and worked a number of them in a row for that very
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    Any Market for Handmade Scrubs?

    santhony44 replied to KentuckyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    If you are a good enough seamstress to do some custom fitting you could probably do extremely well! I think standard sizes would sell also, particularly if people could select their own colors or...
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    Am I sensitive about the title Nurse?

    santhony44 replied to SaderNurse05's topic in General Nursing

    You are right, in Texas you can't use the title "nurse" if you are not an LVN or RN. EMT-P has always stood for EMT-Paramedic as far as I know. I think she made "EMT Plus" up! My neighbor is a...
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    Think I am in trouble, maybe fired

    santhony44 replied to Furoffire's topic in General Nursing

    Are home health or hospice possibilities? Those are pretty much
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    Mean nurses

    santhony44 replied to heather318's topic in General Students

    :yeahthat: I agree
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    Funny things that pts say

    santhony44 replied to jRN4now's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was in FNP clinicals and had a patient who was a 60-something female. She'd never had a pelvic, though she'd been married and had a child. She agreed to have the pelvic and pap. So, I'm doing her...
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    No She/he Did Not!!!

    santhony44 replied to Maggie in NC's topic in General Students

    Write an order for the patient to have in and out cath for urine C&S. The patient had a Foley. The resident wrote the in & out cath order. Guess who wrote the order for the
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    Old timer wants to grow, part 2.

    santhony44 replied to garciadiego's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Congratulations! I hope it goes well for
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    I had a very bad day in clinical (ugh)...

    santhony44 replied to ARRR10's topic in General Students

    Don't worry about it. The patient is doing all the students a favor by not allowing any to take care of her! If I'm reading this right, she waited about 15 minutes for her pain med. Even if you had...
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    I need an honest opinion:am I wrong here?

    santhony44 replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    If there are longer-term patients who are difficult to deal with, then maybe they could be rotated among all the staff so no one gets "burned out" with taking care of them. Maybe it doesn't do much...
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    Concerned about Daughter's Assignment

    santhony44 replied to imenid37's topic in General Nursing

    Not trying to sound funny, but I think the instructor is nuts!! And it sounds like she is trying to intimidate your daughter, knowing she's 19 and won't fight it. Myself, I'd refuse the patient and...
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    resume question...please help!!

    santhony44 replied to julesRN07's topic in Nursing Career

    No, I never have and wouldn't. I just put Registered Nurse, State of____. Here in Texas, any prospective employer can go on-line and see if you have a valid license without that
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    Don't you just love the stereotype?

    santhony44 replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school, the class bimbo did show up to psych clinicals in spike heels and a well-above-the-knee skirt! She did it once, anyway. I understand subsequent classes got a lecture on...
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    Dressing for Halloween?

    santhony44 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    The best costume I ever saw was worn by a drug rep. This guy was quite tall but bore a distinct resemblance to Lurch. Awfully nice guy, so of course I would never have dreamed of saying anything to...
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    Writing Skills important for an RN

    santhony44 replied to mycatmax's topic in General Nursing

    In order to write clearly, you have to think
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    Doctor who?

    santhony44 replied to wooden nickel's topic in Men in Nursing

    As Commuter says, it's largely a matter of socialization. I've seen a nurse walk into a room with a big "RN" pin on his chest, introduce himself as the nurse, and immediately be asked "Are you my...
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    Night shift giving breakfast insulins w/o tray

    santhony44 replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like a very task-oriented approach: just get the task done, whether it makes sense or not. Giving insulins with no breakfast tray in sight sounds like a very bad idea to me. As someone...
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    When did you decide what you wanted to do in nursing?

    santhony44 replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Nursing

    I finally decided about 10 years after I
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    Arrrgghhh...Team leaders...managers...schedules....

    santhony44 replied to vamedic4's topic in General Nursing

    It's like someone says, well, we're shorthanded here. Let's see what we can do to tick even more employees off, so that we lose them and get even more understaffed! Think past the immediate future!...
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    Proficient in math to be a nurse?

    santhony44 replied to studentnurse3's topic in General Nursing

    Don't let the math scare you. I've always been horrible at it but it's not hard to learn what you really need to know how to do, such as drug dosage calculations. For me, it's much easier to learn...
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    questions

    santhony44 replied to pat531's topic in General Nursing

    True. Then too I recently saw a journal article where the patient was having what looked like runs of v-tach. He had Parkinson's. Someone was able to correlate his tremors with the "v-tach."...
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    Any males working in Pediatric Med/Surg or PICU?

    santhony44 replied to Lericalpoet's topic in Men in Nursing

    I've worked with guys in peds in the past, and they were all great to work with. I never saw that there were any problems as far as gender was concerned, either with staff or with parents. Someone...
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    My mother is embarassed that I'm going to be a nurse...

    santhony44 replied to iriska_meller's topic in General Nursing

    I think I will quit complaining about having "my-daughter-the-nurse" parents. The things some of you have had said to you is awful. It hurts me to read them. To the OP: this is your mother's issue,...
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    is she crazy ???

    santhony44 replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    Her lack of forethought is breathtaking. The thoughts of patients/family members showing up at her door, or worse yet, waiting in her house for her to come home from work, should have made her discard...
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    Do you work w/ a bully?

    santhony44 replied to Vroom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would say that your level of experience, education, and certification have something to do with it. It also sounds as if your director is not doing her job or she'd do something about this- she...