santhony44 MSN, RN, NP

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

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    Should I Quit (Sorry It's Long)

    santhony44 replied to kendratyler2001's topic in General Nursing

    Give notice ASAP. In the meantime, I'd be keeping detailed notes for myself of everything that goes on and of your attempts to get help from the DON and administrator. That way if later they get into...
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    How many times can I get sick in one year????

    santhony44 replied to ILWannabeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's the stress combined with a whole new set of germs!! In graduate school all six of us in my class got sick in pediatrics, and we were all doing clinicals in different places. I got the...
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    Why does Nursing put up with short staffing?

    santhony44 replied to elfinM's topic in General Nursing

    I've wondered how the floor staff would really react to someone who has been away from the bedside a while trying to help. I'm a NP. I've been away from the bedside for over 10 years, and away from...
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    Use of restraint on out of control pt....look out !

    santhony44 replied to lauralassie's topic in General Nursing

    I'm puzzled by the detective saying that the ER worker approached the patient so it wasn't assault. Now, I'm assuming that the ER person didn't "hit the first lick" so to speak. If the individual in...
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    What will Jacho do?

    santhony44 replied to MIA-RN1's topic in General Nursing

    If you are asked a question you don't know the answer to, say "I don't know the answer to that but I'll find out and let you know." Then do it. I'm sure they are accustomed to talking with folks who...
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    Need tips for working with student RNs!

    santhony44 replied to Fairlythere's topic in General Nursing

    Is this something the schools are doing to get around not having enough clinical instructors to supervise the students? I'm sure there is a ratio they are supposed to have, one instructor to "x"...
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    Forced to stay at work or abandonment?

    santhony44 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    If you're not there to start with, it can't be abandonment. At least, I don't think
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    SENIOR IN NURSING SCHOOL FACING HUGE PROBLEM...please help

    santhony44 replied to JNogueira95's topic in General Nursing

    Check out your student handbook and the catalog you were admitted under to see if there is any help there. Is there any kind of appeals process in place? If so, use it! I don't know how successful...
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    Three c's

    santhony44 replied to MissRainy's topic in General Nursing

    Chart, chart, chart????? No clue. Sounds like a specific questions from a specific textbook. Do they think you have time to play guessing
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    If you won the lottery, would you still do your job?

    santhony44 replied to SK-222's topic in General Nursing

    I'd call in rich too. After the dust settled, though, I'd still do something in nursing. Part time or per
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    Families, are they getting more demanding?

    santhony44 replied to MrsWampthang's topic in General Nursing

    That's when the patient needs to smack the family member up side the head. :lol_hitti A short course in 2x4
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    Semi-private

    santhony44 replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    The acessiblity and safety issues with that are probably far more serious than potential HIPAA viloations from having semiprivate
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    Semi-private

    santhony44 replied to SCRN1's topic in General Nursing

    I remember doing clinicals in a "new" VA hospital in 1982 which had 4-6 bed wards! The hospital was about 10 years old at the
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    What is your weakness?

    santhony44 replied to StrwbryblndRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sputum. I can suction somebody if I have to, and handle it OK, but don't ask me to help. If I'm not focused on the task it gets me. Watching things be done to eyes. I just can't handle that! I don't...
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    Hospital Survival Guide for Friends and Family

    santhony44 replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    If I were a patient in a semiprivate room and another patient's male SO were staying I'd pitch a fit. Sorry, but I don't even want mine there, no way do I want a stranger there. I'm one of those "just...
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    Stupid things your school does/did

    santhony44 replied to MountainMan's topic in General Nursing

    I taught assessment, to graduate students, and no one was expected to disrobe. Although listening to lungs and hearts are best done with nothing between the stethoscope and the skin, for purposes of...
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    What about this, inappropriate or teambuilding?

    santhony44 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    And next time, take your wax kit with you and join in the party!!!
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    Too Late to be a CRNA?

    santhony44 replied to ReeseW's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm no CRNA either, but I took core courses in graduate school with CRNA students. There might have been one in the group as young as 33, but one only out of 8 or so. The rest were quite "seasoned."...
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    Hepatitis and insurance.. what to do???

    santhony44 replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    A certain percentage of people are protected after the first shot, with higher percentages after the second and third. The only way to know for sure, though, would be to get a titer done, and those...
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    Christmas Gift for your unit from docs

    santhony44 replied to fetch33's topic in General Nursing

    I remember Christmas on the floor from you-know-where with the head nurse from the same place. One doc gave the whole floor a bottle of whiskey. Just one bottle. Did he think we were going to pass out...
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    massage, still done?

    santhony44 replied to jo272wv's topic in General Nursing

    I went to school in the "old days" and we learned to give them and yes, to offer them to patients, particularly those on bed rest. I agree that they are an excellent way to assess the skin and...
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    Small Town HIPPA

    santhony44 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I'm small town too, and I know exactly what you mean. We know a lot of stuff about a lot of people we'd just really rather not know. It's almost a "loss of innocence" thing. I rarely have any...
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    Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

    santhony44 replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

    Too high to register on the mercury sphygmomanometer over 100-something. I don't remember the bottom number, I remember pumping the mercury all the way to the top and hearing it immediately. CHF...
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    Share Your Saying

    santhony44 replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don't be so openminded your brains fall out. That person's so ugly s/he would make a freight train take a dirt
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    Shoes with Wheels! Would you want to try them?

    santhony44 replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    Risk management would never go for it! It does make an amusing mental picture though! It reminds me of a scene from a movie I saw years ago, with a nurse rolling down the hall on an IV pole, tossing...