LadysSolo

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  1. How to react nicely if a patient asks for your social media acct?

    LadysSolo replied to hedzinkwly's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I tell the truth - my licensing body "suggests" we not be on social media, and since they control my ability to make a living, I am not on social media and have no account. Happens to be true, but...

  2. How low would you go?

    LadysSolo replied to Goldenfox's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    First of all, the education requirements are wrong. It says Bachelor's degree, a NP MUST have a Master's degree. And I made more than that as a floor nurse 10 years

  3. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    LadysSolo replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    The problem that SobreRN does not seem to get is: How long would you remain sober if you had to drink alcohol every day to survive? This is the problem people who are overweight have: They have to eat...

  4. Is this my fault? Am I right to feel mad?

    LadysSolo replied to futurenurseC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You say "oh, I'm sorry, I must have missed it" about the sticker on the flow sheet and let it drop. The MRI - are we talking about the person going within the first hour or two if the oncoming shift?...

  5. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    LadysSolo replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    I also might add that I (at age 61) have AWESOME bone density (per ortho.) About two years ago when one of my horses dislocated my thumb (not a fun experience) the orthopedist stated, "You must have...

  6. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    LadysSolo replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    I am about 30 lbs overweight with normal blood pressure, normal blood sugar, a bit anemic (but always have been.) I also a couple weeks ago received and stacked a shipment of 191 50# bales of hay on a...

  7. I survived the Board of Nursing

    LadysSolo replied to KCMnurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I can't believe they made NO investigation! (Actually I can, and that's scary.) However, that is SHAMEFUL! They needed at least to look for corroborating evidence of the complaint. When there is a...

  8. Patient NOT a nurse with a ???

    LadysSolo replied to JWFeeII's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't mind the OP (information-seeking) as much as I mind a non-nurse giving nursing advice (posing as a nurse.) In my state that is criminally actionable (a non-nurse posing as a

  9. What Nobody Told You About Graduate School

    LadysSolo replied to nurselyfe4115's topic in General Nursing

    It was worth it. When I did it it was with relatively low expectations - I would continue until either the money or brains ran out. I also was a single mom, working full-time, going to grad school,...

  10. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    LadysSolo replied to Sykadia's topic in Men in Nursing

    As a female nurse who has been "hit on" by male patients, let me tell you that what turns females off is bigotry (one of the patients in attempting to prove he was a "manly man" told me how he could...

  11. Organ Donation Organization Unethical

    LadysSolo replied to dangerous1's topic in General Nursing

  12. Question from non-nurse

    LadysSolo replied to Imnotanurse's topic in General Nursing

    As has been stated, recommendations are not permitted. Staff is also not permitted to make recommendations. What you need to do (I am in various nursing homes 5 days per week) is to go to them and...

  13. Organ Donation Organization Unethical

    LadysSolo replied to dangerous1's topic in General Nursing

    Read the article linked, "Abusing the gift of tissue donation" on page 7 of this thread, where the person from the Funeral Director's Alliance states that the for-profit trade in donated tissues is a...

  14. Organ Donation Organization Unethical

    LadysSolo replied to dangerous1's topic in General Nursing

    I have always marked my driver's license as an organ donor, but I am now thinking I may change my mind. I do NOT want my organs sold on the black market (as is said can happen with for-profit...

  15. Wound Care- Good choice for a new nurse?

    LadysSolo replied to SarahisanRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am a wound nurse practitioner, and have been a nurse for over 30 years. You need extensive knowledge unless all you plan to do is put dressings on. You need a knowledge of circulation (wounds do not...

  16. Is it wrong to request PTO because you've been assigned a shift you don't want?

    LadysSolo replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think trading is bad, the PTO could look bad though. Trades should not look bad, because no one has to agree to trade with you, they only trade if they want to, so no big deal. PTO is a bit...

  17. Accidentally told my coworker what I make, BIG ISSUES NOW

    LadysSolo replied to newrn93's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    NPs in my state make (average) $35.00 but most are on salary so you have to divide it out. I have 10 years experience as an NP and I make $32.00/hr (although I am on salary so I divided by my average...

  18. Accidentally told my coworker what I make, BIG ISSUES NOW

    LadysSolo replied to newrn93's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At the hospital where I had worked for 23 years I was making about $1.00 more an hour than new hires when I left. I was actually making MORE than the RN maximum salary because I had been there so...

  19. Confessions of a Hospital Administrator: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    LadysSolo replied to ServantLeader's topic in General Nursing

    They wanted to CUT our staffing once. We asked a board member to follow us for one day to see what we did. The board member made it for 4 hours, and left the floor saying "CUT your staff?!? I don't...

  20. Confessions of a Hospital Administrator: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    LadysSolo replied to ServantLeader's topic in General Nursing

    You make it work because it's all about the patients. I got out on time about the same # of times I got lunch - you could NO WAY keep up your charting under the circumstances, you make notes on the...

  21. Confessions of a Hospital Administrator: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    LadysSolo replied to ServantLeader's topic in General Nursing

    There were two nurses on the floor, one other one plus me. The poor STNA and the nurse on that team (either me or the other nurse) had to do it. So (obviously) breaks and lunch were out of the...

  22. got fired/terminated

    LadysSolo replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In an "at will" state, you can be fired for no reason. I was terminated because another NP in the practice said the COO was a **** (she was having an affair with the married not to her CEO.) The next...

  23. Confessions of a Hospital Administrator: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    LadysSolo replied to ServantLeader's topic in General Nursing

    I was just thinking, all these administrators/DONs/other hospital administrative types come here asking what the problem is, and we KEEP TELLING THEM and nothing ever changes. We TELL them we need...

  24. What Nurses really Want to Say When They Chart

    LadysSolo replied to SICUshortCait's topic in General Nursing

    I call this "fix me in spite of myself." It happens a good bit of the

  25. Confessions of a Hospital Administrator: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    LadysSolo replied to ServantLeader's topic in General Nursing

    If they REALLY want to know why mistakes happen, I worked 23 years on an oncology unit. I 95% of the time was doing primary care on 6 - 7 patients, and 99% of the time (I can count on the fingers of...