neenrn

neenrn

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  1. Orders from hell...

    neenrn replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    When I get orders like this I ask for an order I can actually

  2. Social Class and Nursing

    neenrn replied to AllOfMyWat's topic in General Nursing

    I just think it's improper to wear things like that when your client population consists of poor inner city people. I feel it's flaunting wealth. One of those rings could pay off part of a medical...

  3. Social Class and Nursing

    neenrn replied to AllOfMyWat's topic in General Nursing

    I know, right? I've got a collection of single earrings too. A friend of mine lost her engagement ring at work.... She pinned her ring to her scrubs. I never did figure out how to tie rings into the...

  4. Social Class and Nursing

    neenrn replied to AllOfMyWat's topic in General Nursing

    California, Texas..... I don't know how they did it. I'd be terrified of losing them, and man they scratch like crazy, go through gloves.... In the OR people wore them on thick necklace chains, or...

  5. RN Graduate Establishes Dominance

    neenrn replied to nicmdavi's topic in General Nursing

    The problem I had to deal with when I took over as the charge RN in a fly in rural clinic.... MA- gave a steroid injection the NP was supposed to give in a shoulder joint into a deltoid, gave sets of...

  6. Social Class and Nursing

    neenrn replied to AllOfMyWat's topic in General Nursing

    I groomed too! And I worked at a vet clinic to pay off my horses vet bills! Nothing like being horse poor. Wish I'd never left the

  7. Social Class and Nursing

    neenrn replied to AllOfMyWat's topic in General Nursing

    I wished I'd thought that way...... I usually just donate my extra, or give it to my kids..... I don't fit any group

  8. Social Class and Nursing

    neenrn replied to AllOfMyWat's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I had a privileged childhood.... Upper middle class. Over the years I've pretty much thrown that away. I live a pretty simple life. I rent the bottom floor of a falling apart Victorian, my...

  9. RN Graduate Establishes Dominance

    neenrn replied to nicmdavi's topic in General Nursing

    But this is work... Peoples lives are in this persons hand...... It's not therapy. Do your job, or

  10. RN Graduate Establishes Dominance

    neenrn replied to nicmdavi's topic in General Nursing

    What a nightmare, is right! I'd have blown a gasket the first time she tried to tell me my job! Actually I've been in that situation. I don't like confrontation either, but, it got to the point where...

  11. Lowest stress (still great pay) nursing specialties?

    neenrn replied to Aliens05's topic in General Nursing

    No Sh!t, Sour Lemons RN ! Is there even a nursing job like

  12. Lowest stress (still great pay) nursing specialties?

    neenrn replied to Aliens05's topic in General Nursing

    No kidding..... I don't think it's possible to have a least stress job in nursing. As a nurse you are responsible for your clients welfare. It's a pretty big responsibility, maybe she/he should have...

  13. Least stressful nursing specialty

    neenrn replied to Svkd's topic in General Nursing

    NICU is very difficult due to the families and the parents..... I had a father pulling his baby's hair out before we turned everything off.... He was collecting it to have this babe cloned at a later...

  14. How to handle rude doctor

    neenrn replied to Rnfortuna's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I usually ask if they need a time out.... Like a 3 yr

  15. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

    neenrn replied to Jennifer in Cali's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I chart the conversation...... And the fact he hung up..... CYA. I had a situation like that.... I could not get the ER doc ( peds ER) the charge nurse or the house manager that night to listen. I...

  16. When should nursing homes be allowed to evict residents?

    neenrn replied to Emergent's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When the facility has gone through all efforts to try and have the client settle..... The only client I know of being shipped out is a woman who was daily violent to staff and other clients..... We...

  17. Nursing speciality for someone that hates people

    neenrn replied to Gogol's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Don't go into nursing...... That is my

  18. Full moon

    neenrn replied to SaltineQueen's topic in School

    I've seen it....... New moon or full moon.... It's crazy. I've worked ER, OR and now

  19. Least stressful nursing specialty

    neenrn replied to Svkd's topic in General Nursing

    I think someone has never worked

  20. Least stressful nursing specialty

    neenrn replied to Svkd's topic in General Nursing

    I work long term care..... in my last 3 shifts I've been hit, punched, bit, clawed.... I love my clients but watching my people sundown it's very sad. I'd have to say it's the families who never visit...

  21. Least stressful nursing specialty

    neenrn replied to Svkd's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think there is one. Each area has to deal with the same issues..... Unhappy clients, unhappy families, rude doctors, short staffing, **** load of paper work and a general lack of respect and...

  22. MSN Nurse without clinical experience please help!!

    neenrn replied to Sspino's topic in General Nursing

    We joke that the nurses who can't actually do the job go to the BON to make our lives

  23. Acute care to LTC

    neenrn posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am thinking of changing from acute care in the Hospital to LTC. I'm 50 and starting to think about settling down. I've been travel nursing, NICU, PICU, Peds OR and Peds trauma OR. I have an...

  24. Acute care to LTC

    neenrn replied to neenrn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I've worked in a small community hospital which had about 4-6 LTC people waiting for placement. I enjoyed caring for them. I realize that LTC is getting more and more like acute care. People are...

  25. frustrations

    neenrn replied to cyncopia's topic in Operating Room

    That surgeon sounds like a real jerk. If he dosen't like how you pronounce procedures have him do the time out. That should shut him up. The OR is a tough environment and you need to build a thick...