ceecel.dee MSN, RN

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    Infusing TPN

    ceecel.dee replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    WOW! I thought it was a lot more....I mean...way more! I'm going to ask a friend in the office to show me what we
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    Pay day and Mandatory Staff Meetings/Inservices

    ceecel.dee replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think that is a policy that cries out for a
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    "The View" insults nursing

    ceecel.dee replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

    I would expect (and laugh at) this portrayal, if done by Carol Burnett....but Merideth??.....on an "intellegent women's show"? I sent an
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    Being Charge

    ceecel.dee replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    No way, could I have said this better myself! I say to our charge nurse's all the time, "It's your shift! You need to manage it! If you want the respect, you must act like managers! This is...
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    72 yo patient, 12 days post hemicolectomy, ileus 5 days post-op. Finally up and around, but p.o. intake poor. Patient weights 125#, so no reserve there. Also PSA 500+, so he definately has other...
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You, of course, are exactly right! :chuckle
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You, of course, are exactly right! :chuckle
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    How very true! It really is out of character for him to have written that. It's the talk of the hospital (the report room anyway:chuckle ). Quite unusual language for him
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    How very true! It really is out of character for him to have written that. It's the talk of the hospital (the report room anyway:chuckle ). Quite unusual language for him
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sue, you are aligned exactly with my line of thinking. I agree with everything you said! Unfortunately, no ethics committee, but we derailed this order before any "forcing" would even be...
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sue, you are aligned exactly with my line of thinking. I agree with everything you said! Unfortunately, no ethics committee, but we derailed this order before any "forcing" would even be...
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Absolutely! This is a gentleman, who says "I'm sorry you girls will have to write down that I ate so little, but I am really trying.":o This man is sick, not
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Absolutely! This is a gentleman, who says "I'm sorry you girls will have to write down that I ate so little, but I am really trying.":o This man is sick, not
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    "Force Feed"

    ceecel.dee replied to ceecel.dee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    72 yo patient, 12 days post hemicolectomy, ileus 5 days post-op. Finally up and around, but p.o. intake poor. Patient weights 125#, so no reserve there. Also PSA 500+, so he definately has other...
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    Nursing as a customer service profession?

    ceecel.dee replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    AN EMPLOYER'S DREAM! A PATIENT'S DREAM! A FAMILY MEMBER'S DREAM! A COWORKER'S DREAM! and a good, christian human being. You can be all of these without "selling out". Work ethic is important,...
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    Nursing as a customer service profession?

    ceecel.dee replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitals are big business! Nothing new. I really don't think a smile costs a person much. Do your job well, and you don't need to have personality to spare...as long as you are unoffensive. Even...
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    eICU...is it for you?

    ceecel.dee replied to jadednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a "reality" TV show. In our hospital, there already is continuous monitoring of the patients in ICU...by the best people we have...they are called
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    Do all surgeons think that they are Gods?

    ceecel.dee replied to angiebaby's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose you need an overly confident ego to actually think you CAN cut someone open, fix what is wrong, and close them back up, assuming they will function better after your "tweeking". ....but I...
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    poor spelling -- it matters

    ceecel.dee replied to glow_worm's topic in General Nursing

    I agree totally! Spelling goes with professionalism (did I spell that right?
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    Saline flushes or Blood

    ceecel.dee replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto
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    Chiropractors

    ceecel.dee replied to Paprikat's topic in General Nursing

    My DH wants to go. Was wrestling with our son (now big enough to "take" his dad) and hurt his neck. I made him first clear his C-spine with the MD, who did not recommend a chiropractor (NO surprise,...
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    Bad Eyesight

    ceecel.dee replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

    You should be fine! Welcome aboard! :kiss:
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    Cheating In School

    ceecel.dee replied to cokie's topic in General Nursing

    They will never learn...really learn...what they need to know to function in their chosen "professional" role. They will fail. "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I learned." - author...
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    Transferring patients to larger hospitals...

    ceecel.dee replied to deespoohbear's topic in Rural

    No trouble getting the bigger hospitals to accept transfers from here. We usually go with the hospitals our outreach docs come from, so we already have a relationship with them. Some of our younger...
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    Nursing unions and small hospitals

    ceecel.dee replied to deespoohbear's topic in Rural

    35 bed facility, non-profit, unionized. The union is beneficial if your admininistration is unapproachable, user-unfriendly, nursing-unfriendly, dictatorial. The union also allows the management to be...