GadgetRN71 ASN, RN

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    Spin Off: Nurse abuse?

    GadgetRN71 replied to MIcrunchyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was always trained in nursing school that if you have a mentally stable patient and they refuse a treatment etc that the nurse needs to document this and not do the procedure etc. I always...
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    Good side job for RN?

    GadgetRN71 replied to neatnurse30's topic in General Nursing

    I think I'd like to apprentice to a tattoo artist or a body piercer..I've known some nurses and techs that did this...the money is very good. I'd have the sterile technique aspect down pat
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    Do surgeons intimidate nurses?

    GadgetRN71 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    Surgeons do not intimidate this nurse. I take my job as advocate extremely seriously. Counts are not something we should be messing with...The surgeon can jump up and down, turn blue in the face and...
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    Terrified in the OR

    GadgetRN71 replied to laneyRN's topic in Operating Room

    When I worked in a smaller community hospital OR as a tech..We did not have the code team show up to our codes and we did not have an OR code team either. One night, we had a cysto pt code on the...
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    Terrified in the OR

    GadgetRN71 replied to laneyRN's topic in Operating Room

    Patients crash in the OR for any number of reasons, losing lots of blood and fluids, previous heart conditions etc. The anesthesiologist usually takes over when there is a code in the OR...not sure...
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    New Grad to OR?

    GadgetRN71 replied to nursing student 101's topic in Operating Room

    In my area(New England) they hire new grads directly into the OR..It's usually a 6 to 9 month orientation regardless if you've had floor experience or not, because the environment is a whole different...
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    Fired, need advice.

    GadgetRN71 replied to JohnBearPA's topic in General Nursing

    John, so happy that you've got a new, better job..I've been following this thread with disbelief, that some employers are so ignorant and heartless. Let's just say that I'm a huge believer in Karma......
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    Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    GadgetRN71 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    While in PA, a friend of mine mentioned that he was out of milk, I said why didn't he just stop at the milk store on the way home? :confused:Apparently, this was the funniest thing he'd heard in ages....
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    Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    GadgetRN71 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think soda is a New England thing too. I worked in PA for a while and they didn't call it soda, they called it "pop".Both my parents were raised here and everyone I know calls it soda
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    Grades don't matter!

    GadgetRN71 replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    Nobody is disputing that some C students work hard-I think most people's issues arise from the C students that very obviously DON'T try hard. They came into class late everyday, goofed off instead of...
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    Grades don't matter!

    GadgetRN71 replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed, and the discussion is going nowhere since people aren't grasping a very simple concept..:banghead:Do grades matter all of the time? Nope. But, they do matter in certain circumstances. If...
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    You know your pt is a jerk if........

    GadgetRN71 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

    Call it a Code
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    Grades don't matter!

    GadgetRN71 replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't take the OP as being angry with the C students...But, many of us who had good grades and did well in clinical caught grief and snarky comments from those who weren't doing as well. I never...
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    You know your pt is a jerk if........

    GadgetRN71 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

    LOL!!!:chuckle
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    Grades don't matter!

    GadgetRN71 replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    And that's why you'll be successful and will be able to take pride in your achievements, because you worked for them. Like you said, these days mediocrity is rewarded and everyone is a victim. The...
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    Grades don't matter!

    GadgetRN71 replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    But this is the argument that gets me, you've mentioned one A student that isn't doing well. Grades do matter to an extent..in most cases,not all certainly, A's pretty much say that you understand the...
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    Grades don't matter!

    GadgetRN71 replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    I was one of those students that had straight A's in pre-reqs and pulled solid B's in my nursing classes. Yes, I could have gotten A's in those too, but I worked almost full-time(32 hours a week) and...
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    You know your pt is a jerk if........

    GadgetRN71 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

    OHHH, be careful, I've seen people get in trouble on this board for using the "T-word" Apparently, it's even more controversial than the word
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    You know your pt is a jerk if........

    GadgetRN71 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

    Really, I doubt they'd want the male nurse, seeing how when they expose their member purposefully like that, they are doing it 1)either to make their female nurse uncomfortable with the sight of their...
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    Unfair orientation discipline?

    GadgetRN71 replied to RosieD's topic in General Nursing

    You need to run, not walk, away from this hospital. You are too early in your career to be feeling this beaten down
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    All nurses hate their job

    GadgetRN71 replied to iamhere's topic in General Nursing

    I am glad I became a nurse. It's not perfect, but no job is. But, I am also one of these people that will pick up and go elsewhere if I'm not happy, seniority be damned. You have these people that say...
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    You know your pt is a jerk if........

    GadgetRN71 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

    I'll leave it out when the male patients stop "leaving it out":D. And, nothing wrong with the word "member". I think the fact that most people here haven't used some of the other less polite words is...
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    OR pay vs. other RN pay.

    GadgetRN71 replied to MCR_RN's topic in Operating Room

    I have worked at 3 hospitals thus far and none of them offered higher pay to OR nurses. They went by seniority so a floor nurse with 5 years experience would make the same as an OR nurse with 5 years...
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    Suesquatch, GN

    GadgetRN71 replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Congrats!!!
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    "No self- respecting nurse"

    GadgetRN71 replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    Try not to let it get to you...I look at this way, nurses are supposed to be advocates for their patients. Especially in the OR-he may have something against circulators because one(or two) have put...