SmilingBluEyes

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

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    Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    SmilingBluEyes replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    RIGHT?! I am outraged. School standards have changed. "call me on my cell or text me if you need me". ARE you KIDDING me????! Glad I am no longer in the hospital. I would be annoyed (and it...
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    COVID Immunized Guilt

    SmilingBluEyes replied to TravelNurseLady's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am doing it for others, not just myself. If I don't get sick and pass it around, I AM doing my part by being vaccinated. I feel this way about all vaccines from MMR to flu. The ones I love want...
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    Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    SmilingBluEyes replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    WOW a lot of stuff to unpack. This is wrong obviously. I don't like that a "clinical coordinator" is floating around, not directly observing and supervising students. You guys pay hella tuition and...
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    Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Medicine (and nursing) have LONG needed to change focus from "fixing" to "prevention" of poor health. I take care of people years younger than I who won't move a muscle to help themselves and are in...
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    Leaving Work / Nurse Duties Incomplete Passing To Night Shift

    SmilingBluEyes replied to coffeeandvendingmachines's topic in General Nursing

    There are only so many hours in a shift. If you find the same people are leaving the same tasks over and over and can tell their shift was not a s--- show, you can assume there was maybe time to get...
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    If Nurses are "Essential", Why Can't We Be Treated Like It?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Catalin's topic in General Nursing

    That CNO should be
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    CNN: Abortion Performed on Wrong Woman

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Alex_RN's topic in Nursing News

    Off topic but I just found I could not justify eating animals any more as an avid animal-lover. If I were to eat meat, it would be from local farms/farmers' markets, not any supermarket where the...
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    That First Domino

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I am truly taking these words to heart. Another domino.....thank
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    Citric

    SmilingBluEyes replied to uae808's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    There should be a policy in your company exactly how to do it. In mine, only an RN can push or remove citric, not techs. We have a policy in our company (one of the Big
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    Pay raise/Maternity leave

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse_Sassy's topic in General Specialties

    Can you afford to stay home with the baby for a while? It's such an important time in bonding and infant/child development. Work will always be there; kids grow up
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    COVID Misinformation/Ignorance

    SmilingBluEyes replied to GS ED RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The vaccine affects fertility? Hmmm that's news. But then the disease may too, if not indirectly, in death. We don't know all the destruction this disease can wreak on the human body, but we sure...
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    That First Domino

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like my dream life Daisy. Good for
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    That First Domino

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Well said Daisy. Did I read somewhere you are retired? If so how is retirement treating you? I want to pursue art when I retire. I actually would like to take classes at a local liberal arts college...
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    If Nurses are "Essential", Why Can't We Be Treated Like It?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Catalin's topic in General Nursing

    Truer words never spoken. Comparing myself to others always leads to anxiety and upset for me. Teachers do NOT have it easy. I would not be one. It's not the kids, but the parents, that would drive...
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    When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

    SmilingBluEyes replied to KC,RN's topic in General Nursing

    I also tell them I don't keep up and watch the news. I am too busy being outdoors or reading books. That works,
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    Superstitious Nurses

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses and fishermen. Some of the most superstitious people on the
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    I Feel Responsible For A Patients Death

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Flashsomefang's topic in General Nursing

    Don't give yourself that kind of power; you did not cause this. It was a cascade of very unfortunate events. Really look at it after some rest. Realize people do die, and sometimes, we can't stop it....
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    New Nurse Needing Advice: Should it be this bad?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to kale_'s topic in General Nursing

    I did not start out in ICU/CVICU but in OB/GYN/newborn nursing. It took 2 solid years to become confident in my chosen specialty (as a new grad). You are being way too hard on yourself. It takes time...
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    That First Domino

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I digress but: If I had had my choice when I was young, I would have been an artist. I encouraged my kids to do what they desired, making a living. You want to be an artist while working tables to...
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    How could I do this?! Forgot to give report.

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Ioreth's topic in General Nursing

    I had done that a few times early in my career. I remember being ready to go to sleep and realizing I never reported one thing or another on a patient that was important. I found myself calling the...
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    That First Domino

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I was very happy with my choice (as a 2nd career) nurse for about 12-13 years. Then I saw things changing and not for the better--- mid-late 2000s. As the years have gone by, I have seen many cuts...
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    Nurses with Unusual Diets

    SmilingBluEyes replied to SilverBells's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Hate to say it but: your diet will land you in a hospital or dead. Seriously, this is" OK" when you're young but as you get older, like me, it does not cut it. I don't eat an "unusual"...
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    Twitter bans Trump permanently!

    SmilingBluEyes replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Impeachment has very far-reaching consequences. Banning him from Twitter and FB is only a
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    President Donald J. Trump to Award the Medal of Freedom to Devin Nunes

    SmilingBluEyes replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Didn't Rush Limbaugh receive the same
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    Inside the GOP’s week from hell

    SmilingBluEyes replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    and they have only just