sissiesmama ASN, RN

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    Missing narcs returned to med cart...sorry long

    sissiesmama replied to OklaLPN's topic in General Nursing

    my thought exactly!!!!!what right does this staff member have to "' 'teach a peer a lesson?' " sounds like this person needs a little "education" anne,
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    Tired of impaired nurses

    sissiesmama replied to epipusher's topic in General Nursing

    RNnTraining- Hello- My name is Anne and I am a nurse, and I am also an addict. I am glad to hear your story. At this forum, you will meet many nurses here that are able to share their experiences and...
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    Most common non-emergency visits

    sissiesmama replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    cursenurse - Oh man, you are so right!!!!! We always get the screaming baby at some ungodly hour with a temp. And of course, the baby has a temp of 102 or so and the triage nurse asks, "When was...
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    I yelled at another nurse.

    sissiesmama replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Motorcycle mama - You have to be kidding me!!!!! OMG!!! My BP is going up just reading your post. I have worked with people like that and, in my past experience, it never ends well. And it...
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    Most common non-emergency visits

    sissiesmama replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Nursesuey --It's not that the posters are being mean or anything. If you start in the ER, you will understand more about the need to vent even after a bad shift, whether in the ER, or on one of the...
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    Most common non-emergency visits

    sissiesmama replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    The one patient that I can remember even chapping an easygoing MD Was a woman in her 30s that brought in 4 kids because she (not the kids) had been in a wreck 4 or 5 days before. She demanded that...
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    Well, it finally happened after 2.5 years...

    sissiesmama replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    Leslie is right, Sue. People like that are just miserable in their own lives, in their own skin. And it can't be easy to live in their own skin, and one day it will come back to bite them in the...
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    Most Humorous Call-In Excuses

    sissiesmama replied to jeffrey_rn's topic in General Nursing

    jeffrey - Hello - I have to tell you that is by far the funniest excuse I have EVER heard, and I've been nursing almost 17 years. TOO
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    Caught stealing drugs

    sissiesmama replied to vonxojn's topic in General Nursing

    nerdtonurse - I had worked with a nurse at our charity hospital that did that, and it just gives me the willies just the thought of doing that to myself. She wore socks that covered it, and she was...
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    You know it's a full moon when.....

    sissiesmama posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, I got up this mornning to run some errands before it got too hot outside. My a/c in my jeep isn't the best, so I thought I'd do it early. So I finish my errands and decide to stop at the dollar...
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    Well, it finally happened after 2.5 years...

    sissiesmama replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, just thought I'd add more thing that Shelly brought up. That family member that acted totally out of line to you probably does that to almost everybody. Someone that horrible doesn't just shut it...
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    Well, it finally happened after 2.5 years...

    sissiesmama replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    Sue - Oh my dear!!! I am SO sorry to hear about what happened. That was HORRIBLE! I can not even imagine how I would react in that situation. I've had "that kind" of patient with "that kind" of...
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    Caught stealing drugs

    sissiesmama replied to vonxojn's topic in General Nursing

    finn - You are right!!! In the perfect world, maybe one day, some more of the nursing culture will understand "us" and maybe even understand some of what we are about. (Ha!ha!) Anne,
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    Prayer at work??

    sissiesmama replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly!! That is the point I have been trying to get across! You said it much better than me. I went into nursing to help patients meet all their needs, not just meds and assessments, ect. In my...
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    You know it's a full moon when.....

    sissiesmama replied to sissiesmama's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly!!! And to top it all off, the guy started hollering at me after he got shot, "You white _____________ ______________, if you ran over my phone, I'll sue you!!" I think he had bigger fish to...
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    You know it's a full moon when.....

    sissiesmama replied to sissiesmama's topic in General Nursing

    I know!!! And my ex dh is a police officer and he was going to teach me to shoot, but we never got around to it. And the punk worried about me almost running over the cell phone, that was the least...
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    Prayer at work??

    sissiesmama replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I guess I'm in the minority here, but I did think I was doing the right thing in staying with the patient during the prayer. Like I said in an earlier post, This was a religious facility but...
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    Staff nurse dating manager

    sissiesmama replied to dks54's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You hit the nail on the head! That's why as soon as we started dating, I transferred to the ER. We were friends and then when it progressed to more, I left. Anne,
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    Have you ever...

    sissiesmama replied to alcrab01's topic in Nursing Humor

    I got pulled to endo from my regular unit, and was recovering patients s/p colonoscory.. This was my first time to recover patients, and I knew you got air in during the procedure, but I was still...
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    Prayer at work??

    sissiesmama replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    Sunny - that was the way I was looking at it. I was there as a nurse to provide comfort to the patient, and if I remained in the room quietly, that may make the patient feel a little more at ease....
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    Prayer at work??

    sissiesmama replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    Well, we weren't in a circle, per say, but the MD did hold our hands. I was working in a Catholic facility, but I am not Catholic. I felt at the time, that I would have felt like I was being rude...
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    Prayer at work??

    sissiesmama replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    I did not feel as though I was "faking it". I simply thought "if I were the patient and going to have surgery, how would I feel?" Instead of faking it, I just felt like it was giving the patient a...
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    Staff nurse dating manager

    sissiesmama replied to dks54's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hello - I was working on an LTAC vent unit as a staff nurse and my nurse manager and I had been friends before I started working there, just casual friends. He and I had just gone through a divorce,...
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    Prayer at work??

    sissiesmama replied to ski4life's topic in General Nursing

    At my place of employment, one of our general surgeons does this also. I do have religious beliefs, it was a different religion, but I just don't hold most of the same beliefs that his religion does....
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    tracking nursing movements

    sissiesmama replied to candycane267's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure if this is the same thing, but hospitals where I have worked assign little "clip on things" that show up on the station computer and shows where you are, whether you are walking the hall, in...