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  1. Guilty for pursuing a nursing career

    mazy replied to outonalimb's topic in General Nursing

    There is a difference between what people say, and what they mean, and what we hear. We are all just flawed, imperfect individuals stumbling and tripping and falling through life, some of us trying to...

  2. Are LPN's being phased out?

    mazy replied to JSlovex2's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I guess I am most ticked off by this comment. And the attitude. RNs do not babysit LPNs. LPNs are members of a team effort who have specific job duties that in doing them frees up the RNs to do their...

  3. Lost my cool

    mazy replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I think what you said was fine. As someone said, you set boundaries and you were able to articulate your areas of concern in very concrete terms. I don't know what else you said or how you said it but...

  4. Guilty for pursuing a nursing career

    mazy replied to outonalimb's topic in General Nursing

    I have suffered from similar thoughts -- not just in nursing but in my life. The first time I made a nursing mistake I was convinced that I should turn my license in, that I was a menace as a nurse....

  5. in a difficult situation with "natural med" friend

    mazy replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    Your friend wants to do what's best for her children but she is making poor decisions. I think there is a lot of merit in a natural/homeophathic lifesyle options, but not when someone is not...

  6. "They give the meds, we do the care"

    mazy replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    That show comes on when I'm at work, usually at the time I'm running around like a lunatic because it is at the peak of my med pass and all the whacky patient stuff happens at that time so I'm trying...

  7. GUM! Can you chew it on shift?

    mazy replied to SummitRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I stopped chewing gum because I always lose track of what I'm doing and end up smacking my gum in a really obnoxious way. Also don't chew it at work because I get this weird smell/taste thing where if...

  8. HELP...MA or RN

    mazy replied to HCC2010's topic in General Nursing

    If they are saying they might potentially hire you on as an RN in the future I would say the chances of that ever happening are non-existant. Why would they pay you more to do a job that they've...

  9. Moral Dilemmas: Two Scenarios - What would you do?

    mazy replied to MichelleDawnLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Scenario #1 I've seen. It happens when the dr. does give those orders to be patient and so it becomes incorporated into every dialogue about the patient, "well, the pt is doing this that or the other...

  10. Unethical? Illegal?

    mazy replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't $50 an awful lot to pay for pierced ears? I did my own when I was a teenager -- cold potato/hot needle, an alcohol prep, voila. I didn't have any problems. Not recommending it to anyone, I was...

  11. Thinking about ditching the job search for a while...

    mazy replied to criticalRN10's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a fantastic idea. You might decide that that is an area of nursing you want to pursue and stick with it! Really, if you have the energy and the room in your life I think it would be great....

  12. Nurses-How to be a blessing as a CNA?

    mazy replied to Bbo.W's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It might be a bad idea to mention your future plans in an interview -- unless they ask. You don't know what will happen in the future and things might change, and you also don't want them thinking...

  13. Question for experienced nurses about dealing with problem co-workers.

    mazy replied to aee1977's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm not sure why reporting a skin tear would have been such a big deal for that other CNA. It happens all the time, it's not a big deal, the follow up is a pain for the nurse but it's really pretty...

  14. just a health question..

    mazy replied to malicexmirage's topic in General Nursing

  15. New Grad RN...Why can't I hear lung sounds!!

    mazy replied to sameyjaney's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately true. Maybe you can take your stethescope to your ear Dr. appointment and have the dr. take a stab at

  16. Scared of the future...

    mazy replied to cknorr's topic in General Nursing

    I used to suffer from pretty severe anxiety attacks and one thing that helped me was to understand that people who suffer from the attacks have a tendency to "catastroph-ize" things. That is, we take...

  17. New rn grad starting a ltc with only 3 days orientation?!!

    mazy replied to Hokis1130's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Three days is unfortunately normal in many LTCs. Well, usually the bad ones. They need to have an RN in the building to be legit, so what they want is a license attached to a warm body. Since you are...

  18. Everyone's wearing scrubs...is this good?

    mazy replied to caregiver1977's topic in General Nursing

    I don''t have any strong feelings about it one way or another. I find that people usually know the difference. My experience is that when patients start talking to the non-nursing staff about medical...

  19. Do acute care nurses look down on LTC nurses

    mazy replied to MouseMichelle's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. I see a lot of posts on this site, especially from new grads, who say things like "I've put out hundreds of applications and I'm so desperate I'm even starting to consider LTC." Or that...

  20. New Grad Co-worker driving me NUTS!!!!

    mazy replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    Dumb question here, but did she take the dropper out of the Roxanol when she did count? Because if you keep it in there while you are looking at the measurements, it will displace the liquid, making...

  21. LPN goin beyond scope of practice

    mazy replied to SweetheartRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Where I live I can do assessments, discharges, admissions, and initiate care plans. In some facilities I can also initiate wound treatments. An RN has to sign off on them, and I pass them off per...

  22. On the frontlines

    mazy replied to DaisyMountain's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely. LTACs are can be very shoddy, shady places. It's about the big bucks, or any bucks, as they usually have problems keeping their census up. I worked in one and went screaming for the hills....

  23. Terminated over the phone.

    mazy replied to hellokitty9's topic in General Nursing

    I imagine the DNS was taking a lot of heat from the Dr. and had to make quick work of resolving things from that end, which is why she didn't take the time to sit down with you to discuss this. She...

  24. Older mature nurses: How can I encourage my mom to pursue her RN with me?& should I?

    mazy replied to Skylarslaughter's topic in General Nursing

    Your mom is young! But it sounds like she's had to juggle a lot of responsibilities in her life and has seen plans derailed because of life circumstances -- happens to us all as we get older -- and...

  25. New Grad LPN, waiting to be hired in LTC.

    mazy replied to joycie20's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure she said three months orientation? Or was it three months probation? It is typical for employers to give their employees a three month "formal" probationary period in which they assess...