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  1. Failed NCLEX 5 Times! Am I The Only One Who . . .

    mazy replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

  2. what to do when pts aren't nice?

    mazy replied to treeye's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow. That guy sounds like a peach compared to some of my grumpy patients. He just sounds frustrated with you not being able to help him up so he could go to the bathroom. You have to think about how...

  3. Disheartened

    mazy replied to Nursein2011's topic in General Nursing

    Holy moly. When did I become an "elder?" How did that happen? I have also been saddened by the recent spate of posts pitting nurses against each other. Two of those threads were started by the same...

  4. Problems with the aging nurses

    mazy replied to RNGriffin's topic in General Nursing

    In my 50s here and able to keep up with the best of them. If it were possible I would retire on the spot. I think many nurses would. In the past year two of my 50-ish co-workers dropped dead. Both...

  5. what did I see?

    mazy replied to gfoster6993's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I learned a little bit about IO in nursing school and thought it was fascinating. But when I think about the patients I work with in LTC; how fragile they are -- especially in terms of their bone...

  6. How to Determine Whether a LTC / SNF is Well Run

    mazy replied to vintagemother's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You can go to the Medicare site for their ratings: Medicare.gov - Nursing Home Compare When I am job hunting I usually look at this site. Unfortunately, sometimes when I go to the nursing home that...

  7. STAT services..what do they mean for your facility

    mazy replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Where I work we have a five hour-turnaround on our STAT labs as well as x-rays; although things like dopplers, EKGs, and the like cannot be ordered STAT, they have to be scheduled for the next day. If...

  8. WHY do nurses apologize for doing their jobs?

    mazy replied to rntj's topic in General Nursing

    There is a dr. where I work who says "You're going to kill me but I left a lot of orders, I'm really sorry." It is my job to deal with those orders, and it is the dr's. job to write those orders, but...

  9. WHY do nurses apologize for doing their jobs?

    mazy replied to rntj's topic in General Nursing

    I don't usually apologize to drs. However, if I were calling at three o'clock in the morning I would probably apologize for waking them up; and on the rare occasions that I have to call the on-call...

  10. "Don't you find this degrading?"

    mazy replied to shhhh's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with this. I think she felt upset that you had to be up in her parts; and she felt that it was probably really unpleasant for you. She may have felt apologetic and this was her way of kind of...

  11. Question regarding insulin administration

    mazy replied to mappers's topic in Patient Medications

    This is really interesting because we just had a patient come back from the hospital with these orders and we were all scratching our heads because we had never seen anything like it. That is, 1/2 the...

  12. Most important things to know in LTC ????

    mazy replied to beatrice1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The first thing I do after report is I sit down with the MARs and TARs and go through and flag all of the "off-time' meds and blood sugars. That way I don't forget, in the heat of the moment, that...

  13. Medication error scenario

    mazy replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

    That order is a complete mess. I can barely make sense of all the mistakes that led to such a fuster-cluck of med errors. It almost sounds like people were confused about the dosing of percocet 5/325...

  14. I can't confide with my head nurse...

    mazy replied to hazyblue's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Your post sounded familiar so I went back and looked at your profile. It seems like you have had an issue dealing with your head nurse for several months now. That you have made some mistakes that you...

  15. Why did you choose to become a nurse?

    mazy replied to shadet541's topic in General Nursing

    I think this is a really good thread. I have gotten to know a lot about other nurses and who they are and what motivates them. Nursing is a complicated and difficult job. It's nice to know all the...

  16. Why did you choose to become a nurse?

    mazy replied to shadet541's topic in General Nursing

    I was always introverted and bookish and got my bachelor's in a similarly bookish non-health but advocacy-related field. Managed to build a professional life but I had just gotten so sick of being...

  17. The False Advertising of For-Profit Institutions

    mazy replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in General Students

    Nursing is a female dominated profession, and as everyone knows, women are obsessed with fashion and their looks to the exclusion of everything else. So they were probably trying to appeal to their...

  18. Am i fully to blame for this or did my mentor act complacement.

    mazy replied to tinkerbell419's topic in United Kingdom

    It's been quite a while since I worked with an NG tube, and I work in geriatrics, not peds. So I'll throw this out to the more experienced nurses there. If I remember, you use the same type syringe to...

  19. Feeling pretty negligent and the size of an ant right now

    mazy replied to mLPN79's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yay! I'm breathing easier on your

  20. New Nurse, when to send a patient out.

    mazy replied to beatrice1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This is a very good suggestion. I always do that when a patient comes back from the hospital. Because then you can see how what you assessed was diagnosed and treated, and that is more information you...

  21. Am i fully to blame for this or did my mentor act complacement.

    mazy replied to tinkerbell419's topic in United Kingdom

    I agree that anyone can make a med error, it happens to the best of us. However, the process for handling a med error is to assume full responsibility for it, figure out how it happened, what the...

  22. New Nurse, when to send a patient out.

    mazy replied to beatrice1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The dr. was being a snot, no question about it. But when you call a dr. you need to have more data than just that her bs was low -- and depending on the time of day, 77 is really not low enough to be...

  23. What's up with veteran nurses hating on new grads?

    mazy replied to jennilynn's topic in General Nursing

    Can we get one for crunchy young batlings? All of us aspiring old bats in the making? What do we have to do to earn our

  24. Nursing Home LPNs

    mazy replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Thank you for letting us know your opinion. Now please go

  25. Feeling pretty negligent and the size of an ant right now

    mazy replied to mLPN79's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    First thing is you need to stop being so hard on yourself. I don't really see exactly where you made a mistake. A lot of people were more knowledgeable about the patient and were continuing along a...