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    "Fired for NO Reason"

    talaxandra replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If you're task oriented you focus on the jobs that need to be done (do the obs, give the meds, wash the patient) but don't think about why these need to be done. So, for example, I'll sometimes find...
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    "Fired for NO Reason"

    talaxandra replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As someone who's worked with a few nurses like Sal, your post really resonates, Ruby. Sometimes there are surmountable problems, like a poor fit between preceptor and preceptee. And sometimes it...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    From tonight: 1. Much as I'd love to sit with you and dish about what's wrong with the patient in the bed next door/room next door/down the hall, it's none of your $%^& business. Oh, you'd be...
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    Colour-coded hospital bracelets

    talaxandra replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

    When we give blood the patient has blood taken (which lasts three days) that is cross-matched in the lab. The unit is labelled on collection with type of product, type of blood type, unit number,...
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    Colour-coded hospital bracelets

    talaxandra replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

    What are blood
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    Is this odd to you too?

    talaxandra replied to mom4josh's topic in General Nursing

    It's easier, when we don't have a relationship with the deceased, to see the body as a shell, unrelated to the person it once held, but making that distinction is sometimes harder when it's personal....
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    Best Melbourne Grad Program?

    talaxandra replied to Claz403's topic in International Nursing

    I haven't worked with any UK nurses doing their grad years here but any number of Kiwi and the odd nurse from Asia (primarily the Philipines, Hong King and one from mainland China) - the latter seemed...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's how we pronounce it here - and ca-PILL-ary, not CAP-illary (t really htrough me in first year when our A+P lecturer talked, in his American accent, about CAPillary
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Really? Put her back to bed? Well, we were just going to leave her sitting out in a chair for the rest of her admission but if you think transferring her back to bed is a good idea, I guess we could...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I swear the next relative who randomly asks me how "dad" is doing will hear: "I'm so sorry, he died. What? You're not Mr Brown's son? Sorry, we've got a lot of dads here - maybe you could narrow it...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, I'm not that interested in attacking my patients, which I think most of us consider to be a good thing.If venting here helps me to that end, all to the
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Well, you started out with 7/10, the standard default score that assumes you're pleasant to staff, invested in your own health, and cooperative with interventions. Of course, you have the right to...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A friend of mine had a patient who used to give the nursing staff grades on how well he thought they'd performed their duties - "well, that wash would have been an 8/10 but you had to leave in the...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    What's
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    Tattoo/employability question

    talaxandra replied to smirkingvag's topic in General Students

    Wow - I'd be much more concerned about infection control than visible tattos! One of the guys I work with had a mid-forearm piercing that he covered with a bandage at work, for infection control...
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    Rude Resident Physician!!

    talaxandra replied to RNbabe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have a lot of overseas-trained doctors (and nurses) at my hospital - I generally find them more friendly than the home-grown
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    Rude Resident Physician!!

    talaxandra replied to RNbabe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not that I can imagine one of our residents (or registrars) saying it, but I would have responded to the inital remark that "all nurses are trained monkeys" with something - maybe "and yet to all...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Better under our breaths or on a board like this (or in the tea room) than to the patient/relative. If it was my family member (including my child), I wouldn't be caring for them in a professional...
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    help-i'm a student who failed a drug test

    talaxandra replied to chloe79's topic in General Students

    from wikipedia the mythbusters episode was filmed in 2003. for other things that can cause false positives, see here. for advice of what to do, see
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Come to Ausstralia - there's no "customer care" ethos in the public sector, at least, and visitors who disrespect the staff get told off by the resource nurse, unit manager or clincal coordinator. If...
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    What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    talaxandra replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Or "great, so you're the one I need to talk to about a
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ah, I love when patients tell me about the evil nurse who looked after them the night before when it was
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Also from tonight: "When I tell you that I can't make icepacks for you because we have an emergency with another patient, but you're welcome to make one up yourself: 1) don't tell me you don't know...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Yes, there are two standards here - your neighbour can have a cup of tea, but as you exceeded your fluid restriction before the afternoon staff arrived, you can not. And, as we have told you already,...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    talaxandra replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Surely there are easier ways to auto-remove an IDC -