VivaLasViejas ASN, RN

LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych

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    I cringed on the inside

    VivaLasViejas replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    Please, please, PLEASE---if you do not want your daughter to weigh 300 lbs someday, you MUST let go of the need to control every bite she puts in her mouth!! I speak from experience: My mother, who...
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    whats up with the crop top scrub shirts?

    VivaLasViejas replied to LyndseyER's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Heck, most plus-size tops are too short these days---whatever gave the designers the idea that anyone wants to see OUR jelly bellies?! And it's not just scrubs........seems to me the majority of...
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    Good nursing Supervisors

    VivaLasViejas replied to emsboss's topic in General Nursing

    The best advice I can give a new manager is: Never make your staff do anything you yourself wouldn't. Whether it's dealing with a crazed family member, confronting a nasty physician, or telling the...
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    "Why are you proud of that ??!!"

    VivaLasViejas replied to sissiesmama's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You deserve nothing but KUDOS for your 9th sobriety anniversary!!! Don't worry about what that thoughtless former co-worker said. She doesn't get it, and she ought to be thanking her lucky stars that...
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    cheap scrubs

    VivaLasViejas replied to SpudID's topic in Oregon Nursing

    WalMart has cheap scrubs as
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    Unfair orientation discipline?

    VivaLasViejas replied to RosieD's topic in General Nursing

    Rosie, for your sake, I hope your optimism is rewarded. But years of nursing experience have proven to many of us, time and time again, that we are bound to be disappointed if we expect...
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    What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    VivaLasViejas replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Some profound truths about health care today, expressed in words anyone---even those CEOs who sit up nights thinking up new ways to justify their phoney-baloney jobs and fat paychecks---can...
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    What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    VivaLasViejas replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    *snort*
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    What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    VivaLasViejas replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Folks, I'm a nurse manager, and I can tell you, it's not nurse managers who came up with this stuff. In fact, if my company were ever to initiate scripting for the floor staff, I would hang up my...
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    Have you ever seen this?

    VivaLasViejas replied to Turd.Ferguson's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl::rotfl::hehe::fnypst: My son and I are only now picking ourselves up off the floor.........we've been laughing so hard, our ribs hurt!!! What gets me is, the site appears to be legit---it even...
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    Nurses with asthma, i have a question...

    VivaLasViejas replied to nurse0607's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I've had asthma most of my life, and the only times it's really affected me at work was when they shampooed the carpets at this one hospital where I worked. They used some chemical that went straight...
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    Unfair orientation discipline?

    VivaLasViejas replied to RosieD's topic in General Nursing

    Essays?! Written apologies?! I know this is not what you want to hear, but in the interest of the rest of your nursing life, RUN---do not walk---away from that place. Any facility that treats a fully...
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    Your boss insists on employees taking flu vaccine

    VivaLasViejas replied to seenitallERnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a huge proponent of the flu vaccine, and I always strongly encourage my staff to get theirs to help protect our residents, as well as being first in line to get my own (I have asthma and now...
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    crocs

    VivaLasViejas replied to k_r_ah's topic in General Nursing

    They can have my Crocs when they pry them off of my cold, dead
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    Staff as Patients

    VivaLasViejas replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know.........anytime I've been a patient in the hospital where I worked, I did everything I could not /I] to be a PITA. Unfortunately, I ended up being a different sort of PITA, because I...
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    I cringed on the inside

    VivaLasViejas replied to beachbum3's topic in General Nursing

    As a Baby Boomer, I find the obesity epidemic among American children and teens both terrifying and fascinating. It's a multifaceted problem with multiple causes, hence there is no simple solution....
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    Suesquatch, GN

    VivaLasViejas replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    CONGRATULATIONS, SUE!!!!!!!:yeah: I knew you'd do
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    Credit checks for employment

    VivaLasViejas replied to fsaav's topic in General Nursing

    My current place of employment does credit checks. I was really afraid my history would cost me a great opportunity, but they hired me in spite of it.........guess they decided the fact that I don't...
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    Ready to Puke

    VivaLasViejas replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Whew, this brings back some baaaaaaaad memories of my own bedside nursing days. It also reminds me of how grateful I am to have changed jobs recently......my husband still works at our old ALF and is...
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    last day

    VivaLasViejas replied to calliesue's topic in General Nursing

    I too share your joy in leaving behind a toxic workplace!!! Good luck in the future, whatever you may
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    Who made the mistake (if anyone) and what should be done?

    VivaLasViejas replied to -MNC_RN-'s topic in General Nursing

    I don't blame that nurse for being angry. Something she told in confidence to a third party should never have been passed on the way it was. Human nature being what it is, though, I can understand how...
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    Is the pay really that bad??

    VivaLasViejas replied to myty23's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's all a matter of perspective. For me, making almost $60K a year is HUGE. Considering the fact that the average hourly wage in my part of the country is somewhere in the neighborhood of $12...
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    Sticky removal from skin! aka Today I was the patient

    VivaLasViejas replied to cherubhipster's topic in General Nursing

    You might not want to do that..........he may need antibiotics, as well as a funnel to keep him from ripping at it and getting it infected. Just my
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    UHC thread CLOSED Whaaaa! It was a great thread!

    VivaLasViejas replied to I love my cat!'s topic in General Nursing

    I've used "snark" and "snarky" for YEARS. I even call my youngest son The Snarkmeister sometimes because he has this quick sarcastic wit, of course I can't figure out where that came
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    I think I'm being punished.

    VivaLasViejas replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    'Pulling up the meds'? I hope this doesn't mean that you are popping pills and then giving them to the orientee to