Nurse Ratched RN

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    Creepy!!!!!!!

    Nurse Ratched replied to huggietoes's topic in General Nursing

    Kevin, yet another reason I *LOVE* male nurses
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    Creepy!!!!!!!

    Nurse Ratched replied to huggietoes's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh. I get this at times. I am always very blunt with the offending person, at first saying simply, "I am your nurse, and that is not part of a professional nurse/patient relationship." "You will...
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    RN signatures after LPN's

    Nurse Ratched replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    On my unit, LPNs do not process admissions because RN's must perform or co-sign the initial assessment and medical hx (and to me co-signing means agreeing with it, so I have to perform one anyway, so...
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    Beverly Enterprises pay $2 Million re nursing home abuse

    Nurse Ratched replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Then the secret is to fine them enough that it's CHEAPER to actually hire enough people to do the work and treat the residents as they deserve to be. I saw a lady friend suffer in a nursing home...
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    Crazy, abusive patient? What do u do?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Anagray's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Anagray, that doctor should be shot. I'm sure from a liability standpoint he couldn't discharge him without a 23 hour observation (sure as he did, the guy would have keeled over on the hospital...
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    Crazy, abusive patient? What do u do?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Anagray's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And that wasn't to be flip or minimize the abuse you took. In my facility, any patient who treated the staff like that would find himself on the psych floor or out the door so quick his head would...
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    Crazy, abusive patient? What do u do?

    Nurse Ratched replied to Anagray's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have two words for you: "psych consult" We're waiting for the call
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    involuntary committments by POLICE!

    Nurse Ratched replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

    In our state, anyone can petition, a doctor (medical or psychiatric) has to agree and sign off on the 72 hour hold (this is actually 3 court day - weekends and holidays don't count.) If the person is...
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    Nurses negligent in Minnesota

    Nurse Ratched replied to smg's topic in General Nursing

    I know we don't have all the details, but I am still confused. If it was a PCA, wasn't the pt administering his own drugs? Not that that means we aren't assessing him, too. It's been so long since...
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    What Freaks You Out?

    Nurse Ratched replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Gonna have to add "memberes that look like split hot dog buns" to the list now! What is neuro
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    Has anyone ever heard of this? Can you give me some information on it if you have.

    Nurse Ratched replied to nursecheryl's topic in General Nursing

    Holy cow. You all have just given me cold chills..... Hubby read over my shoulder and visibly
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    Travelers: picky scheduling

    Nurse Ratched replied to redhedgoddess's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have to call it selective scheduling on the part of the traveler, which she is entitled to assuming she can get a contract specifying that. Not to sound insensitive to your unit's needs, but she...
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    "Floating" rears its ugly head again

    Nurse Ratched posted a topic in General Nursing

    Once again I found myself in the position of charging and being told one staff member (not specified) would have to float to another unit. This was not floating to a like unit - it was going from...
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    What do you enjoy the most in nursing?

    Nurse Ratched replied to getbabygirl's topic in General Nursing

    I love geriatrics, too. It's such an art to be able to get a demented person to do what you NEED them to do because they WANT to do it because of the way you interacted with them (ok that is a HUGE...
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    "Floating" rears its ugly head again

    Nurse Ratched replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    You all have given me a lot to think about. Our facility has no policy for orienting nurses to other units - only states that, as another poster put it, you work for the facility, not the unit, and...
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    "Floating" rears its ugly head again

    Nurse Ratched replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    I keep thinking to myself I should just suck it up, request orientation to the meds floors, and go willingly and happily, with Micro's idea in mind that help is short. But darnit, I don't want to!...
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    Constipation

    Nurse Ratched replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    In the ECF it was BAP (own special concoction of bran, applesauce and prunes/prune juice.) One medicinecupful at bedtime seemed to keep people regular. I preferred making sure they got regular fluids...
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    Nursing Commercial Ideas

    Nurse Ratched replied to Sleepyeyes's topic in General Nursing

    Lrae - how about we go on to the surgical sterilzation and someone (perhaps a monkey) pulls a sterile instrument out of the clave, drops it on the floor, blows on it to "get the germs off" and puts it...
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    What Freaks You Out?

    Nurse Ratched replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Fecal emesis right at the top. Oddly - it coming out the CORRECT end doesn't bother me in the least. I saw a green pus-filled abcessed sac explode when someone was having their massively fungal...
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    Do you approach patients or families about code status?

    Nurse Ratched replied to RNinICU's topic in General Nursing

    Since the nurse spends more time with the patients and families, it seem like we have a better rapport built up to discuss a sensitive subject like this. The main doc I work with is not as...
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    Has medicine and technology gone too far?????

    Nurse Ratched replied to micro's topic in General Nursing

    Good question, Micro. Ask any Hospice nurse who more and more finds that the "new" patient she/he is admitting is in MSOF and will probably be dead within 24 hours because no one wanted to admit that...
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    Medication Aides

    Nurse Ratched replied to R.L.Silva's topic in General Nursing

    Rusty et al - it's a shame the public in general doesn't realize it (or perhaps more accurately, the suits.) Anyone in scrubs with a week of class is qualified to dispense meds...especially if...
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    Medication Aides

    Nurse Ratched replied to R.L.Silva's topic in General Nursing

    I think you're talking about a QMA. Do they still use them? It's important to have someone passing meds who not only can read the package and dispense the proper amount, but understands the effects...
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    Pregnant and working as RN

    Nurse Ratched replied to tcolleen's topic in General Nursing

    Wendy - stick with me, kid - we'll avoid that evil pregnancy virus lol. I'm with you - scares me to death when everyone on the unit starts "turning up" pregnant! Congrats to those that are getting...
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    Paperwork Hell

    Nurse Ratched replied to Joules's topic in General Nursing

    Wow - and I thought ours was bad. I have to say that since we got the computer charting my admissions DO go faster - all the data from previous admits comes forward and you don't have to spend time...