BULLYDAWGRN

BULLYDAWGRN RN

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  1. What do you think of JCAHO?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Can't stand them. I still think they think up silly stuff so they can't keep their bean counting

  2. attracted to one of your patients?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to pisces_girl18's topic in General Nursing

    Well I've taken care of many gorgous women while working in the er's around here, and some were very pleasent to talk to. Have been asked out while working? Only once. Did I accept? Heck yes, had a...

  3. Vent

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to b eyes's topic in Emergency

    Bring them all a big bottle of gerrital, and tell them "I hope you all are hungry, cause I got a lunch fool of whoop ass for

  4. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hell

  5. I need advice..RN or not..What to do

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to 2bnurseguy_2005's topic in Men in Nursing

    If I had to do it all over again, I would've skip the lpn thing and go into the asn program spend about 3 semesters and pass boards, then start making a paycheck. And all the while you're working do a...

  6. EC/RN/Paramedics and my Rant

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to NurseEllis's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I feel your pain. But if you ever become an RN, you'll see there are plenty of Med/Surge RN's that can handle more than their share of muti-tasking and pt

  7. slave labor

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    All you nurses with unions, do you typically have to put up with not being able to have 30min for lunch unless there is an emergency going on? Here in Mississippi there is no hospital with a nsg...

  8. Calling doctors

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to TigerGalLE's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Use to feel the same way when I started. But now I really love calling them like at 0300 and putting them on speakerphone so the whole unit or er can hear them and enjoy their half awake half asleep...

  9. What do you think of JCAHO?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, not the jacho nazis. They'er to concerned about crocks with holes in them and making sure you use black

  10. Ummmm..are they ALLOWED to do that?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    We've had similar situations in the past. Pt on the floor goes sour or needs more acute care, the units full and all the pt's to critical to move out for a bed. they have sent them to the er in the...

  11. Sleeping during nightshift!!

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to helpinghands's topic in General Nursing

    Man sleeping at night... By gosh if I thought I could do it without getting canned, killing my pt's, losing my license or getting a bad rep. I'd curl up in the looker room and put myself in a self...

  12. What do you think of JCAHO?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Can't stand them, never have. Bunch of burnt out academic nurses. Only a handfool of the ones that I've ever had meetings with had real good nursing exp. But most of them stated that they worked for...

  13. Direct Discharges from ICU/CCU

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to BELCJ's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Heck our rinky-dinky icu has "same day d/c's", the doc's will amit a pt to use just for 12hrs of serial cardiac markers and then d/c if

  14. VIP Triage

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to mannurse65's topic in Emergency

    Tell the hospital manegment you'll contact the local newspapers.... threaten them. A similar situation happened at our hospital, but it was our CFO, he had some minor illness with nausea. Lord, the...

  15. Thrifty Facilities?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    suessquatch i'm tending to agree with you on the 87 yo thing. we get terminal ill full dnr pt's admitted to our icu every day. now these pt's could easily be managed on a less skilled or less...

  16. higher pay for BSN grads?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to evans_c1's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There is no pay difference between adn or bsn. I know some hospitals may pay any where from $.50-1.00/hr more for bsn. As a ASN rn I can see some would think a bsn should earn a little more, ie.. the...

  17. Rough shift!

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to NJNursing's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Glod bless you. It looks like you did what you could've

  18. ICU Nurses with OCD!!!

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to nursern20's topic in MICU, SICU

    I think it's sort of silly making open statements like that. Please all icu nurses have ocd.... give me a break...You might as well say having Geico.com make me less of a

  19. have you ever lost it at work?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to lannisz's topic in General Nursing

    About a yr ago we had just admitted a 14yr boy with a severe head injury from a mva right outside the hospital. we were waiting to find a neuro center that wasnt on "by pass"... needless to say it was...

  20. air force nursing

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to harmon642's topic in Government, Military

    First Harmon 642 let me say Thank You For Your Service and Sacrifice. I tell you I think Airforce Nursing would be great. I have a 2nd cousin that is 1lt flight rn for them. I get a post from her time...

  21. How do you deal with ICU superiority complex?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    It's all the same everywhere, whether you're pulled to med/surge, to l&d, pulled to any dept. thats not your own. You are still going to get the "Look" from time to time. I think it depends on the...

  22. Anyone ever travel to an Indian reservation?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Travel

    Had a recruiter almost talk me into going to Ft. Defiance Az. a few years ago. Of course being a novice to the traveler thing I chickend out. But a traveler friend of mine told me I should've went, he...

  23. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I was a army medic and around alot of fine nurses both military and civilian. Just being around them and watching what and how they did it made me want to be like them. And plus I wanted to expand on...

  24. Whats so bad abour Med/surg.

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to paulaking1978's topic in General Nursing

    some of the best nurses i know work med/surge. but i see how the get overwhelmed and pull their hair out everyday. here at my rinkiedink hospital you may come in to work and have 10 bloodsuckin pts....

  25. Er

    BULLYDAWGRN replied to vonxojn's topic in Emergency

    i think you should send a anonymous letter to the board chairman that this wacko is starting to cause disharmoney amoung the staff with his frequent "pop in's". i work in a middlesized hospital in...