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    RN's barking unsafe orders at me

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    rn/writer, it would be my ultimate fantasy shift if they would only find some truth behind the real meaning of The Serenity Prayer. It really applies here. Thanks for understanding how fragile and...
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    RN's barking unsafe orders at me

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    Awsome advice and support. I did end up NOT drawing up the ativan for an 8 yo who had 0700 routine meds anyway. I walked over to her and the child she was holding down on the floor because he was...
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    My nurse partner showed up impaired

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Pediatric

    Thanks for the
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    My nurse partner showed up impaired

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Pediatric

    Turns out that 2 nights ago my nurse manager came to my floor and told me she wanted me to write up an "observation report" on this incident. It wasn't an option to decline to do it, mandatory. So I...
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    Yeeeeeaaaayyyy!!!! For healthcare reform

    newtress replied to Mr. Evans's topic in General Nursing

    No my disillusioned friend. What nurses will want to go to work in clinics for less hourly rates and a huge increase in patient load. The exact opposit of what nurses have been fighting for....
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    A Letter to Hollywood: Nurses Are Not Handmaidens

    newtress replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    This.. is a
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    What is the med pass like at your DOC

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Correctional

    You're not kidding there's a lot to do! I currently work at a psych hospital and I do meds for the adult unit, adolescent, chemical dep/detox and childrens sometimes. The most I may have on a shift...
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    Psychiatric Nursing Student needing Employee Interviews

    newtress replied to angela1234's topic in Psychiatric

    Hello angela1234, I sent you a message to contact me. Be glad to
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    What is the med pass like at your DOC

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Correctional

    To danrodz and the other posters: Is the 2 hr or more med pass to 80 plus inmates when you come on shift, and there's another one w/in your shift and you have prn meds also? What I'm fishing for here...
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    NEED INPUT PLEASE

    newtress replied to pnlm_a's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with that. The program director should be given a heads up on what is going on with an instructor that overtly singles a student out. I don't know what your nursing school contract is with the...
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    NEED INPUT PLEASE

    newtress replied to pnlm_a's topic in General Nursing

    I had an interesting twist in the tormenting bully of an instructor I had. She did all these blatantly obvious things to me as a student, similar to what is posted above. But guess what. Two of the...
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    My nurse partner showed up impaired

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Pediatric

    Yesseree, agree with you on that
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    Wishing to work in California, from another state

    newtress replied to suzanne4's topic in California Nursing

    You're very welcome. You know what is cool, when I finally received the license in the mail 4 days ago, to my surprise I was expecting some sort of paper license. It was actually what looks like a...
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    What is the med pass like at your DOC

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Correctional

    NurseJudy posted that she has poured in one night what she would give for a week in a nursing home. Is this considered uncommon or common? That's why I said I would rethink doing corrections because I...
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    Wishing to work in California, from another state

    newtress replied to suzanne4's topic in California Nursing

    Curious, you are trying to endorse your license from your home state to Cali for a Cali license? You are requesting a fingerprint card from the Cal State Board? I just finished the process of...
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    What is the med pass like at your DOC

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Correctional

    I have always been interested in corrections and wanted to get into the Cali D of Corrections. But I started having these premenitions that the med pass would blow me out of the water. Heck, I have...
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    What is the med pass like at your DOC

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Correctional

    Oh..
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    Has anyone ever med errored with geodon

    newtress posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hello to all psych nurses. I started a new position at a psych hospital a month ago. I have been the med nurse on several different units at this facility. Most of the days I am the med nurse and...
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    Has anyone ever med errored with geodon

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Psychiatric

    Personally I'm letting all of it go. Lessons were learned, other employees making mention of her mental disorder etc. My med error and incident report was very generic, no names, just "nurse" and...
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    Has anyone ever med errored with geodon

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Psychiatric

    The nurse in this case did tell me toward the end of the shift herself that she is bipolar and didn't think her meds were working well for her. Her behavior was frenetic and had all the little...
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    Has anyone ever med errored with geodon

    newtress replied to newtress's topic in Psychiatric

    S/P Next day. I didn't sleep last night, but went in to work and the pt was/is alright with no untoward events. Everybody heard or knew about the incident. Yes I had to write up the med error report...
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    Nurses that you remember

    newtress replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    I will not ever forget one special nursing instructor. I live in the deep south and you had an instructor/advisor that you would have throughout the entire program. They were refered to as your "mama...
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    Inappripriate things you've seen a CNA do?

    newtress replied to Silent Prayer's topic in General Nursing

    I had a CNA assignment with agency during nursing school and watched in horror as the CNA was shaving an accute ICU patient's face with a blood disorder, rinse and swish the disposible razor in the...
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    Dilemma I love and hate my job

    newtress replied to sistasoul's topic in General Nursing

    You just perfectly described why I chose to leave the ortho neuro job I had three months ago. For exactly the reasons you just shared. I loved the floor I was on, and most all of my patients. But,...
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    Worried about a couple fellow co-workers and what this may mean for the rest of us

    newtress replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I fully agree with MsRN. The on call doc should have had her sent out first go round. Even if the individual was hospiced and or DNR, the on call doc didn't even consider it an emergency that night,...