SmilingBluEyes

Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis

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    Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    He held the man up while *I* tore off the dirty brief and wiped the poor man's butt. He did this kind of a thing a few times, once complaining when I asked him to help Hoyer a rather large, heavy...
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    Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Was precepting a new nurse once where I work. A patient on dialysis pooped himself during treatment (even when they ask to go, it takes a few minutes because we have to rinse back their blood and be...
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    Nurses as Costs for Hospitals

    SmilingBluEyes replied to advor's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I realize that Red. However, I don't like when people say one thing and then later, say that they said something else. I am not worried about feeling inferior; my job is important, too. As is yours....
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    Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding dry feet: We have to check our patients' feet every month in dialysis per CMS requirements. You see hella gross things. I wear a face mask, so I don't breathe in the dry (snow) flakes coming...
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    I don't mean to complain..

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse216's topic in General Nursing

    I made the mistake of letting nursing identify me in my first year or two. I then learned boundaries and began to leave work at work, and home at home. I don't look for or expect kudos or thank-yous...
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    How to NOT Aid a Cheater?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Angeljho's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would mind my own business. And just say "no". No more or
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    Do I Have a Legal Leg to Stand On?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Spikey9001's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Based on your original question and based on the information provided since, Nope, don't think you have a leg to stand
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    I lack social skills and confidence. Is nursing a possibility for me?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to DerAustin's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Academically, you may do well, but nursing is much more than academics. I suggest you take some speech classes or join Toastmasters to get the fear of talking in front of others under control....
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    Nurses as Costs for Hospitals

    SmilingBluEyes replied to advor's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Linda, in ANY specialty, skills used everyday are NOT taught in nursing school. I used MANY skills in OB that were not taught in school. Nursing school is just a foundation. None of the specialities...
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    Nurses as Costs for Hospitals

    SmilingBluEyes replied to advor's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    WELL SAID!!!!! Thank
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    Been 'nursing' for 1 year, kinda disenchanted

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jbphburg's topic in General Nursing

    Said this before, will say it again: "BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED". So you think cause you got a "BSN with honors", just last year, you should have a "better" job already? Lots of us graduated with...
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    SOBER 1 YEAR

    SmilingBluEyes replied to newmommy26's topic in Nurses Recovery

    CONGRATULATIONS and best
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    To tell or not to tell!

    SmilingBluEyes replied to XNavyCorpsman's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A little off-topic, but it's ORIENTING, not
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    social media problem

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Here's a suggestion: as a rule, why not make it your goal to ENJOY social media and stay off hot-button topics like politics, religion or race? It will save you a lot of headaches and annoyance....
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    So Sick Of This Nurses Eat The Young Crap

    SmilingBluEyes replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    It would help to STOP using the term, NETY in schools. I remember back in the late 90s when I was in, our instructor using that term. SO of course, we came to expect it. And you what they say about...
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    So Sick Of This Nurses Eat The Young Crap

    SmilingBluEyes replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    From what I am reading that is going on in the schools today, the generation after the Millenials will be much worse. Glad to know I will be likely retired by then. Helicopter parenting, "bullying"...
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    The grumpy aide ... And how to stop us vs. them

    SmilingBluEyes replied to ixchel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    STOP RIGHT NOW, justifying yourself and your workload. I like the post above mine, saying essentially: "we both have a lot to do, let's just do our best to get it done. I will help you if you need me,...
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    Tips for New Dialysis RN

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JEEE's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    And be very respectful of your patients. They know their bodies and dialysis well, most of them. They have been doing it for many years, at times. Ask them questions and be willing to learn from...
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    Tips for New Dialysis RN

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JEEE's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hi and welcome. You will go through classes over several weeks, on didactic related to dialysis nursing, then you will be put on the floor with a tech preceptor, to learn tech duties. Pay attention...
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    Hepatitis vaccination

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JEEE's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Also, sometimes patients who were immune, become low in antibodies and have to have the series again. We check Hep B surface antigen and antibody status on all new admissions, and everyone else,...
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    Hepatitis vaccination

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JEEE's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    We do 4 doses, 40mcg IM each, given in two shots, one in each arm. Most people sero-convert but some never do. That is a problem if you have a Hep B positive patient, you have to seat them specially...
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    maybe im being paranoid...

    SmilingBluEyes replied to eternalbride's topic in General Nursing

    APRIL
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    Working the same unit you were once hospitalized (psych)

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Ddestiny's topic in General Nursing

    No one is saying such folks should not be hired. But stigmas persist. I would never disclose such a history, given any choice. And NO I would NOT work in the psych unit where I was once a patient. It...
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    Working the same unit you were once hospitalized (psych)

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Ddestiny's topic in General Nursing

    BOUNDARIES. I say it would be a bad idea to share/disclose, and no way would I work where I had been an inpatient in psych. Not a
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    Would you have called out?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Angeljho's topic in General Nursing

    No. But then, my family was aware of what nursing would mean in terms of missed occasions, and we were a military family so it was already expected. Family members who don't get, you can educate and...