sissiesmama ASN, RN

ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG

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    Just starting assistance program, question!?

    lifeisweet - I did the same thing as far as the family and friends and that helping to keep track. I live in Louisiana and our state has to be the WORST in not losing everything we sent them. I...
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    Gum Chewing

    Blleeecccchhh!! But funny, anyway! Anne,
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    Gum Chewing

    Oh, u are right!!! I can't believe administration didn't get mad about the way she acted, because they sure got them about this MD. The ONLY person that has asked me to spit out my gum like that is...
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    ED Float Assignment

    Our ER isn't a level 1 trauma, but our float nurse usually works 11am to 7 or 11pm, depending on staffing numbers. This float usually covers for other nurses while they are on break. They also start...
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    feeling guilty not going in due to snow

    I finally learned to drive in ice after I had been driving more than 15 years. My "at the time" hubbie was a police officer and his patrol care already had dings and bobos on it and the steel bumper...
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    feeling guilty not going in due to snow

    I agree. If you weren't scheduled, it does make a difference. I live in north Louisiana and have had a "decent amount" of snow very few times - once in the early 90s, one in the late 90s, and then...
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    Gum Chewing

    Oh, that makes me laugh!! One agency used to call me to work in their smallish ER on nights. There was one female ER MD who is from out of town and is rather ...PARTICULAR about who she works with...
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    Sick of RNs not believing patients about pain

    You and I sound a lot alike. I have been a nurse for 19 yrs and started having bouts of pancreatitis a few years before graduating. I was in the hospital for 2 plus weeks at a time, NPO, and on and on...
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    Gum Chewing

    I LOVE THAT! Great idea. Anne,
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    Gum Chewing

    I know! But when I read the comment about not even being able to drink water except for on break. Man! The hospital where my dh and I work only allowed you the 1 lunch and 2 15 minutes (if u were...
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    night shift

    Hello- My dh and are RNs in louisiana and we both got into our state's RNP program in 1999. For the first 6 months, everyone in the program gets these stipulations - --no nights --no OT --no agency...
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    Rules for the ER (long)

    Me too!! I hadn't even looked at this thread in a little while, Now I'm glad I did. LOL! :sofahider I've been a nurse for more thn 19 years, most of it being the ER. I do love working in the ER. I...
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    Rules for the ER (long)

    ? ? Anne,
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    I'm very disturbed by this

    Oh, raindrop!! This thead brings back some "unsettling" memories from when I was working on a LTAC vent unit. I have been a nurse for 19 yrs and learned this pretty early in my schhol. This shift I...
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    stupid mistake(my fault) may get me fired.

    Stupid question - was it a patient that had a pleura-vac r/t a pneumo or a wound that had a wound-vac? I just wasn't sure which. If it's the latter, I hate to mess with them. Always have trouble...
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    An update on the stepson

    I have a question for anyone who may have an opinion. Quite a few of you guys probably remember some of my postings about my stepson, who is 17 yrs old. My hubbie and I have been married 5 yrs and...
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    An update on the stepson

    Oh, yes! That's what I have thought too. I am on a lot of meds after my surgery in June (BP, ect) and 1 time I caught him trying to get into my meds in my bathroom. I'm not sure what he thought...
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    med error and Sick about it

    Just the fact that you feel so bad about making the error says a lot. When I was in school, one of our instructors talked to us about med errors and said that if someone says that they have never...
  19. Wow! Scary situation for the pt. I think some othe posters said they have some of the same policies that we do at our facility. It seems to be a "comedy of errors", so to speak, but OP, I don't...
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    IPN affecting other professional licenses.

    I wish that in Louisiana the only fees we pd were $50. Far from it. Anne,
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    Update

    Hello - I am glad to hear from u, I had been thinking about u. Best wishes to u on your road to recovery, and feel free to pm me if u would like. Anne,
  22. Good thread, OP. I have been a nurse for 19 years, and most of that I have worked ER or med surg. I have wondered the same thing at times during my nursing career. The sickle cell patients, especially...
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    Just introducing myself to this forum.

    Hello - WELCOME!! My name is Anne, and I am an addict. I am also an RN and have been clean and sober since August 15th, 1999. I was working at a charity hospital in our state and got caught for...
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    Hanging up my stethescope

    I have been nursing for the past 19 years, and working in the hospital for 3 years before that and have always loved it. It hasn't always been the "dream job", and it hasn't always been easy. I have...
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    Hanging up my stethescope

    Yes - my dh has told me the same thing, I did work long and hard for that nursing license, and just because I'm not still in the ER running like my pants were on fire doesn't take away all those...