arelle68

arelle68

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  1. Are we experiencing mass burnout in healthcare?

    arelle68 replied to SheaTab's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I would have to agree with him. They are piecing our skills out to other professions one at a time. I'll have an individual with 40 hours of training passing my meds by this time next year...for...

  2. Are we experiencing mass burnout in healthcare?

    arelle68 replied to SheaTab's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I couldn't begin to tell you. I don't know if I could unite the nurses at my facility. For one thing, it would have to be done on the sneak. The first problem is just what you mentioned, nurses...

  3. Are we experiencing mass burnout in healthcare?

    arelle68 replied to SheaTab's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We are powerless ONLY because we are not united. We think that we can't do anything about any of this because the corporations have all the resources. Nurses have forgotten that we ARE the resource....

  4. Medication Aids; What will this mean?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    So what you are saying is that the one Medication Aide replaced two licensed nurses. They hired the med aide, and laid off to LVNs. With nursing jobs already so hard to come by, are we just going to...

  5. Medication Aids; What will this mean?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    This is what I'm asking: When you have a medication aide, do you have more patients? Do you have fewer nurses? Do the nurses have fewer hours? What does this mean for our

  6. What would you do in this situation?

    arelle68 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    What would YOU do if: The day shift left you a chemstrip to do on a resident with no additional information other than to get it. You are finally able to get chemstrip results at 2130. They show...

  7. House Dr. doesn't allow hospice in facility

    arelle68 replied to KY RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That is really quite an astonishing attitude that doctor has, I must say. It sounds like he cares more about getting reimbursed than about his patients suffering. At my LTC, us nurses are trained to...

  8. Orientation losing it's flavor

    arelle68 replied to NewNurseAlert's topic in General Nursing

    Keep filling out applications, but keep this job until you get another one. It's a bad economy for jobs. You don't want to be without one. Try to make the best of it. And, who knows? You may have...

  9. I made a doctor mad at me.

    arelle68 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new nurse. I had a resident tonight who I assessed to have swollen, red eyes with red, angry sclera. There was yellow material matted around them. (Really bad, ok, with an eye swollen half...

  10. What would you do in this situation?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Whew! I hope my manager sees it your

  11. What would you do in this situation?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yeah. That was my thought process. I hate being yelled at by doctors. I thought it could probably wait. I thought maybe the chemstrip wasn't even reliable with no other symptoms presenting. I'm a...

  12. What would you do in this situation?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You would want to know about other symptoms the resident was having? Would the chemstrip itself be enough to make you call the on-call? Do you trust a chemstrip that much? I'm trying to find out...

  13. What would you do in this situation?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    They left it on the 24 hour report. It was hard to read. It said that it had been requested, but I couldn't tell who it had been requested

  14. What would you do in this situation?

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Would you immediately call the

  15. Go find your patient

    arelle68 replied to irmaRN's topic in Emergency

    I think the complaint was that the child was suspected of being

  16. Horrible delivery the other day

    arelle68 replied to mugwump's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That is all really very, very

  17. I'm about to lose my MIND!!

    arelle68 replied to kemkem's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I think you're ready. You have to calm down, though, or you won't remember what you've learned at test time. You should take some time and relax before the

  18. I failed Nclex today

    arelle68 replied to 2bR_Nswag's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That's right. Use the Lippincott. Get the Saunder's too, and work at answering 100 questions a day. By using two different CD-ROMS, you get a feel for how questions could be styled. Read the...

  19. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I discovered a pretty serious medication error last week, (Signed, but not given. Involving blood pressure.) and had to file an incident report. I called the resident's family per protocol. The...

  20. Who HATES the term MURSE?

    arelle68 replied to LuxCalidaNP's topic in Men in Nursing

    Have murse-y!!! Oh, you KNEW that was coming, didn't

  21. Mollie Was an Angel

    arelle68 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Mollie Was an Angel Mollie was an angel Too good for this world She belongs in heaven Up there with the Lord And I am happy for her That she was there at last But I did not feel happy...

  22. Another nurse got fired because of me.

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Well Diane, I have to say that I have been shocked at how many people were interested in talking about this, and how intense the feeling was. I feel like I've explained myself over and over again....

  23. Who HATES the term MURSE?

    arelle68 replied to LuxCalidaNP's topic in Men in Nursing

    "Murse" is really quite a lovely term, if you just consider the possibilites. Allow me to illucidate you: E-Murse: It's how you get into baptised into the Baptist Church. Sub-Murse-d: Now your deep...

  24. Mollie Was an Angel

    arelle68 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your kind words. It took some of the pain out of my heart to write it out, and share it like this. Thank you for reading

  25. Mollie Was an Angel

    arelle68 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Mollie Was an Angel Mollie was an angel Too good for this world She belongs in heaven Up there with the Lord And I am happy for her That she was there at last But I did not feel happy...