JBudd MSN

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    How far in advance do you get your class/clinical schedule?

    JBudd replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in General Students

    It also depends on the facilities your school uses; sometimes they change things at the last minute, or have other scheduling problems. Short notice is fairly common in my opinion. Many schools...
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    Nursing School Essentials

    JBudd replied to VampyrSlayer's topic in General Students

    Not all facilities allow use of outside BP cuffs, partly due to infection control (my hospital uses single pt use only cuffs), and partly due to calibration issues. How do you clean it between...
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    What to do if family refuses to accept responsibility for deceased's body....

    JBudd replied to Ruas61's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You could make it easier on everybody, to just designate ahead of time to donate your body. If you really don't care, but there are people you care enough to have told not to bother paying for...
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    As a RN did you ever get paid minimum wage for a training?

    JBudd replied to Marian96's topic in General Nursing

    My state is $7.50/hr. One of the gubanatorial candidates wants to make it $10. No, I've never been paid less than my full wage for whatever I was there doing. Paperwork, workshop, staff meetings or...
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    Transgender patient and a dilemma

    JBudd replied to CBlover's topic in General Nursing

    He is a minor, so should have a parent or caregiver (if not with the family) there until admit to psych ward. That should cover it. All our minors have to be escorted by a responsible adult. You...
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    How long have you been a nurse

    JBudd replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    37 years,last 21 in
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    Patients & Pet Peeves

    JBudd replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    They put up a faced combo numeric scale chart in our triage, Lego faces which the kids love. Under the 10 it says " death immenent" with 8 being unbearable. It has cut down on my 10s a lot, but...
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    Dark Scrubs

    JBudd replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    "rotten brain boy" for misdiagnosed brain tumor My son's radiation oncologist was shocked when I called him
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    "Sharing Humour"

    JBudd replied to Dinatg's topic in General Students

    "You missed the point, I laugh with the patient, not at!" ""Heard that one before. "I called him "rotten brain boy" in front of one the cancer radiologists" Rotten brain boy? Really?""" When the...
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    SHHHHH, dont tell anyone I'm a RN

    JBudd replied to Barbie8808's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    1. It is called integrity: whether reciprocated or not. When you take a job, you agree to abide by the policies set by the people paying you. and FYI: my hospital stood by me during the 4 months I was...
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    SHHHHH, dont tell anyone I'm a RN

    JBudd replied to Barbie8808's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    No one has called you unworthy, and the helpful advice leans heavily toward being honest with your employer. As with my previous post, guard your reputation, and your work history. Better to use a...
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    Dr makes me feel so incompetent?

    JBudd replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    If it was ordered for withdrawal, not just HTN, of course you would notify the MD about it. You didn't say how long you waited to take the 2nd reading. If after the peak time it was still high,...
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    SHHHHH, dont tell anyone I'm a RN

    JBudd replied to Barbie8808's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You have to tell them. Since you haven't "seen" him, let him know now. Unprofessional to do otherwise, you were specifically asked to let him know. If he finds out another way, you never know what...
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    "Sharing Humour"

    JBudd replied to Dinatg's topic in General Students

    You missed the point, I laugh with the patient, not at! People imagine the worst, I try to bring the anxiety down a
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    "Sharing Humour"

    JBudd replied to Dinatg's topic in General Students

    absolutely! we renamed my breast cancers "the beastly conundrum", and mocked it. When my son was misdiagnosed with a brain tumor (long story), I called him "rotten brain boy" in front of one the...
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    Patients & Pet Peeves

    JBudd replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Bugs me when I go to do a temporal thermometer reading, and they scrunch up their forehead trying to see the thing approaching their face. I say ahead of time, "I'm going to touch your forehead and...
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    AZ New Grad RN

    JBudd replied to EveeRN224's topic in First Year After Licensure

    New grads need further training, not many are able to just step into a job right out of nursing school, especially if you don't have any previous experience. Why do you think you need a part time spot...
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    Is it too early?

    JBudd replied to OsceanSN2018's topic in General Students

    Most of the time those courses are paid for by your employer, if they are required for your position. Gets pretty expensive otherwise. ACLS uses a lot of drugs and knowledge of rhythm strips, don't...
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    Peer feedback

    JBudd replied to Ahopkins81's topic in General Nursing

    One place I worked had a teddy bear, with a note or picture of the employee they were "honoring". Seriously, it looks like kindergarten, same as the gold stars. If we are (and we are) professionals,...
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    Dropping the "Nurse Card"?

    JBudd replied to RNJay_'s topic in General Nursing

    I think it works better if you are in a smaller city with only one hospital; we tend to know most of the LEOs on the night shift. And they know us! I paused in traffic one time to let a car enter in...
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    medication calculations

    JBudd replied to blossomheart's topic in General Nursing

    Hint, start with figuring out how many units an hour the pt is getting now. set up dimensional analysis u/ml times
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    Critical question, please advise ASAP

    JBudd replied to bossfrog's topic in General Nursing

    No, because if you then told any of them to do anything, you are delegating that task to someone you've already deemed not qualified to do it. See Katillac's post above, about
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    June 2018 Caption Contest: Poll - Select $100 Winner!

    JBudd replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Don't know why they built it, everyone knows you can't break a
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    is this bullying?

    JBudd replied to jennalou's topic in General Nursing

    There was an older student in my class, who had one goal to work with one specific group of people; and everything had to be about that group. Read all the books before the semester started and was...
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    Recent DWI arrest

    JBudd replied to adjrn's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I doubt that it will be, or there would be a lot fewer nurses. Our hospital tried at one point to put into the contract they could fire anyone for a DWI, saying it would reflect badly on the hospital...