SmilingBluEyes

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

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    Ageism

    SmilingBluEyes replied to katbird03's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    https://allnurses.com/nurse-colleague-patient/ageism-in-nursing-751533.html https://allnurses.com/nurse-colleague-patient/concern-age-discrimination-585877.html...
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    Ageism

    SmilingBluEyes replied to katbird03's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's been discussed at length in other threads, often getting quite heated. I have seen ageism on both "sides".......older nurses being treated horribly and even pushed out, by employers in favor of...
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    RN shortage

    SmilingBluEyes replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it depends on where you are; I have seen jobs posted for months and longer, that people applied for, that qualified for, but somehow, no one ever hired. Suspicious to
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    RN shortage

    SmilingBluEyes replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    I think we all know it's
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    Case management

    SmilingBluEyes replied to darlajo86's topic in Home Health

    Why are you not sure you should take the job? Need more information than
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    RN shortage

    SmilingBluEyes replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    True, but, they are a huge generation/demographic and this "falling off "--- so delicately put--- will still take a while. At least a decade or even more. The youngest boomers are just in their early...
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    What does your nursing career repair bill say about you?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    I do wish you the best. Good
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    Advice studying LPN/Medical Assistant

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Bhgmm's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    And you can get a job as a CNA, often, with training on the job. No need to go to school to do that in many cases, such as in nursing homes. Save your money for nursing
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    Advice studying LPN/Medical Assistant

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Bhgmm's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Don't waste your precious money and time on medical assistant programs/schools. They cost upwards of 10s of 1000s of dollars for you to earn little more than minimum wage. And no, they don't offer...
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    Orders from hell...

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

    Back in the not-so-good-old-days of OB nursing, we used to get orders that read: "pit to distress" which meant keep cranking up the IV drip pitocin to induce and maintain labor until the baby could...
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    Unit Clerk Reading Allnurses.com ..

    SmilingBluEyes replied to PacoUSA's topic in General Nursing

    I figured out who one person is on here. Not gonna say who. She may have already "outed" me
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    Where to work as a new grad...

    SmilingBluEyes replied to skirbyRN17's topic in General Nursing

    Take the CIC job. In today's employer-favored market, you really are lucky to have anything at all as a new graduate. You can always move on later. Many new grads (who are also at the top of their...
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    RN shortage

    SmilingBluEyes replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    And others are "sandwiched" between dependent elderly parents and their children who are having a hard time making ends meet. And yet, others may not want to retire. Some people find work satisfying...
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    My due date is in the middle of my last semester

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Catarina82's topic in General Students

    It can be done clearly. Should it? Only you can decide. But like said before, you will never get this time back. They are babies for but a short time. You may look back and wish you had spent more...
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    Pretty sure my clinical instructor HATES me.

    SmilingBluEyes replied to kmartin906's topic in General Students

    "pretty sure" this person has either graduated school or moved on by now. (5 years
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    What does your nursing career repair bill say about you?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    No. Nursing does not need lower or altered standards for anyone, including veterans. And I am one. 10 years USAF. There is a reason for the standards and everyone needs to meet them. You want the...
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    The View from the Other Side of the Bed: The Family Member

    SmilingBluEyes replied to justjamesthenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry for all your family has been through. How harrowing! Glad you felt the nursing care was top
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would call the ER doc up when the OB was not going to make it, but knew I would be delivering the baby myself. They would just step back and make sure no major complications came up. They wanted...
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    And a great granny (the cutest most elderly lady I ever had in a delivery room) who asked if you hear a baby talking from the womb if that meant the baby was smart. True story. PS: OP, great article....
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I DID have a dad ask me if we would know in an ultrasound if the baby was circumcised or not. No
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Aww, Lighten, up, Francis. Your narcissism is
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    Should high absenteeism be cause to be fired?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Ah this is where calling out sick when you don't need to catches up to you. If you are sick, yes, call out, esp if contagious. But be aware "someone" is keeping track and there will, one day, be the...
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    Again, I must be lucky cause that does not happen either. We have a really solid, collegial relationship with our docs built on mutual respect and
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    Don't do the physicians work!

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

    Guess I will count myself lucky. I have had to take verbal orders from physicians in my clinic and never had problem with them signing off on them and backing me up. I don't think nurses are "doing...
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    Tired of the Stereotypes of Medics and EMTs

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

    I respect the heck out of EMT/Paramedics. All first responders, actually, including police officers and firemen. I have never been one ( a first responder), so I can't speak to how it is to work as...