Baloney Amputation

Baloney Amputation BSN, LPN, RN

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  1. nurses and spelling

    Baloney Amputation replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

    Yup! I much prefer people give me the street names and

  2. nurses and spelling

    Baloney Amputation replied to Bormio's topic in General Nursing

    I am normally a stickler for grammar and spelling. When I worked as a nurse, it drove me nuts to see some of the charting from other nurses. I charted meticulously; some of my colleagues seemed to...

  3. I'm a pregnant postpartum nurse . . .

    Baloney Amputation replied to Rhee's topic in General Nursing

    There are some pregnancy boards that are full of really intelligent people, but some are filled with lots of dillweeds. Years ago I used to go on the Taking Charge of Your Fertility message boards,...

  4. Outside of your work environment......

    Baloney Amputation replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'd leave her alone without confrontation. What would be the point? You've already left. I know, you want to deal with your feelings and make her see the error of her ways, but she just may not ever...

  5. Stress, Anxiety, depression, want to venture out where less stress is

    Baloney Amputation replied to frailatheart's topic in General Nursing

    My suggestion is that you get out of this job yesterday. No job should put you in the mindset that you want to kill yourself. It doesn't matter that they paid your way through school. There has to be...

  6. Iwas fired for failure to provide care how do I answer at interview

    Baloney Amputation replied to stephensr's topic in General Nursing

    The employers around here know that the LTCs routinely fire people for bull reasons and getting fired is not a big blemish on the job seeker's record to the employers. Heck, LTCs in the same...

  7. Iwas fired for failure to provide care how do I answer at interview

    Baloney Amputation replied to stephensr's topic in General Nursing

    No, missing a dressing change shouldn't cause a person to lose his or her job, but it may be the excuse used on the termination paper if they want to get rid of that person for whatever

  8. Iwas fired for failure to provide care how do I answer at interview

    Baloney Amputation replied to stephensr's topic in General Nursing

    You may also want to consider filing for unemployment benefits, if your state allows. Interestingly, this situation hits really close to home, and in that case, unemployment benefits were

  9. Iwas fired for failure to provide care how do I answer at interview

    Baloney Amputation replied to stephensr's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't lie, OP. If they catch you in a lie, then it is definitely game over for you. I was asking what I did to determine the magnitude of your infraction. Really, when LTC nurses are swamped,...

  10. Iwas fired for failure to provide care how do I answer at interview

    Baloney Amputation replied to stephensr's topic in General Nursing

    Was it a really, really important dressing change, like it would have the potential to adversely affect the resident if it wasn't done when it was assigned? Or was it like a Band-Aid

  11. Iwas fired for failure to provide care how do I answer at interview

    Baloney Amputation replied to stephensr's topic in General Nursing

    That was the only reason they fired you? Did you actually do the dressing

  12. The ROPE method will get you in trouble at the wound station during the CPNE!

    Baloney Amputation replied to NC Girl BSN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    What happened? I thought about appealing and had my appeal ready to mail, but decided against it in the

  13. Hostile work environment

    Baloney Amputation replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes when you're not playing on a fair playing field, you have to fight fire with a little bit of fire. She could take the high road and continue to get bullied by this person, or she could...

  14. Home "butt-enhancing" surgeries gone wrong ...

    Baloney Amputation replied to helikias's topic in General Nursing

    You can enhance your butt very effectively at home. It's hard and takes work, but it's damned effective and will make you feel like a rockstar, for those tough enough to try it. You simply get a...

  15. Hostile work environment

    Baloney Amputation replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    You tell her off. That is a good way to fix it. She does this to you because she can, and she derives some sick power trip from it. You just tell her off once, and she will probably

  16. Do Not Rehire?

    Baloney Amputation replied to Nidgma's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's because there are so many openings and she has a lot of experience that most employers would find desirable, and she's wondering why she received such an immediate rejection. I imagine...

  17. Would You Call Out of Work for Mild or "Walking" Pneumonia

    Baloney Amputation replied to skittlebear's topic in General Nursing

    I would call off in a heartbeat, especially because my underlying asthma is severe (I'm quite healthy otherwise). I did have bilateral pneumonia last year but worked through it, but my situation is...

  18. Do Not Rehire?

    Baloney Amputation replied to Nidgma's topic in General Nursing

    Yup. I know for sure that this happens around

  19. Do Not Rehire?

    Baloney Amputation replied to Nidgma's topic in General Nursing

    One thought that came to my head was that you might cost the facility more than a less experienced nurse (because you'd get a higher pay for experience), but I could be totally off my rocker. I'd...

  20. Paraplegia and nursing

    Baloney Amputation replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    If my memory serves me correctly, her MVA causing the paralysis happened when she was a

  21. Ok.. so.... what state PAYS the best for an RN in your opinion?

    Baloney Amputation replied to Airbrushguy's topic in General Nursing

    NOT IOWA. However, we have a lot of other positives in this state going for

  22. Paraplegia and nursing

    Baloney Amputation replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I worked in a SNF where the night nurse was paralyzed from the waist down and used only a manual wheelchair. There was only 1 nurse on that shift, but the shift also had a couple of aides. She was an...

  23. Are you able to put away money for your retirement?

    Baloney Amputation replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    Not so much when he was a nurse, but definitely now that my RN husband has gone back to truck driving (in our town, not over the road)....I'm serious. We both have 401Ks through our jobs and take...

  24. HELP: anaphylactic attack

    Baloney Amputation replied to nursetracy4444's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Option D gives the epi option as subcutaneously, which should be available in a clinic giving allergy

  25. HELP: anaphylactic attack

    Baloney Amputation replied to nursetracy4444's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well, you'd want to stop the reaction immediately (or buy some time until the patient is in the ER) and you'd also want to protect the airway, so I'd go from there for picking