FireStarterRN BSN, RN

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    Shut up when I am giving you report...

    FireStarterRN replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Today I had the daughter from hades, and I pretty much spent my whole report talking about the difficult daughter of the patient, instead of the patient... That daughter just wasn't going to let me...
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    Agencies

    FireStarterRN replied to gabriella86's topic in General Nursing

    That sums it up
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    Venting about classmates with families...

    FireStarterRN replied to moncj66's topic in General Students

    They were probably just trying to break the ice and get to know you. Maybe you should give them the benefit of the doubt and try not to read too much into what was most likely small
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    Venting about classmates with families...

    FireStarterRN replied to moncj66's topic in General Students

    If you knew what they meant by their question, why were you still
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    Venting about classmates with families...

    FireStarterRN replied to moncj66's topic in General Students

    Wow, lots of resentments about others going on, isn't there? It's an interesting sociological phenomenon I
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    Scary Story

    FireStarterRN replied to BlueEyedRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Rapid Assessment Team
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    Student aggravated with Nursing Staff

    FireStarterRN replied to Nnifer75's topic in General Students

    Eight patients is a totally unreasonable amount to care for, how could she possibly have time to incorporate the needs of a nursing student into her day? I'm sorry for the patients, the nurses and the...
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    Shut up when I am giving you report...

    FireStarterRN replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Report can be a tense time, with one shift going off and exhausted and the other shift has just woken up and adjusting to the waking world. Then, there is the fact that day and night shift people live...
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    US economic crisis and Nurses???

    FireStarterRN replied to fudgeremedy's topic in General Nursing

    When jobs get tight, then foreign nurses will add to the problem for nurses already here. They will increase the leverage of hospitals and nursing homes in contract negotiations and undercut the...
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    Getting a job at a hospital that you owe money to

    FireStarterRN replied to Shannon82's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked for 5 different employers as an RN and I've never been asked once to give any type of credit reference. Probably HR doesn't know what's going on in the billing dept, they are too busy with...
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    US economic crisis and Nurses???

    FireStarterRN replied to fudgeremedy's topic in General Nursing

    It didn't work that way for me. I was able to make the transition
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    Student nurse gave IV pot, patient died.

    FireStarterRN replied to cheshirecat's topic in United Kingdom

    I was thinkin' that the UK is way ahead of us in medical marijuana
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    Student nurse gave IV pot, patient died.

    FireStarterRN replied to cheshirecat's topic in United Kingdom

    You and me
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    i bite my fingers, and yes...i said FINGERS!

    FireStarterRN replied to BethT's topic in General Nursing

    I have always been a picker and a knuckle cracker, so I can relate. It doesn't mean you are crazy, but that your nervousness expresses itself by biting your fingers, this became a well established...
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    US economic crisis and Nurses???

    FireStarterRN replied to fudgeremedy's topic in General Nursing

    I've said many times here, there are jobs in LTC. You can get your start there then make the switch when prospects improve. Or relocate if possible. These things go in cycles. The same thing happened...
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    My son wants to test to donate his kidney, what do I advise him?

    FireStarterRN replied to notthereyet0's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Here is another resource. I personally took care of a dialysis patient who had donated a kidney years before.
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    Venting about classmates with families...

    FireStarterRN replied to moncj66's topic in General Students

    I doubt if many of us considering cooking for & cleaning up after our children as recreational activities whereby we recharge our
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    Venting about classmates with families...

    FireStarterRN replied to moncj66's topic in General Students

    Because children have powerful emotional and physical needs for care giving that MUST be met, and by working a job and attending a demanding nursing program simultaneously, their needs can be...
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    Pt signed out AMA then died! what do you think?

    FireStarterRN replied to jenrn6282's topic in General Nursing

    This is a good reminder to all of us to do good documentation when someone goes
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    Dealing With Negative Feelings

    FireStarterRN replied to ladybug0427's topic in General Nursing

    This sums it up
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    EPIC Computer Program

    FireStarterRN replied to al7139's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Hi, just wanted to revive this thread. I'm going to be working as an agency nurse for a hospital system that is currently making the change over to epic and I went to the agency nurse orientation for...
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    Two-faced coworkers

    FireStarterRN replied to chenoaspirit's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They're less likely to invite you to their church up North
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    Patient demands fall precaution sign be taken down

    FireStarterRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a really nice patient today, who naturally was on fall precautions, since if you score 6 or more on the checklist, you get a yellow bracelet, yellow rectangle on the chart, yellow fall...
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    Nursing is not always recession-proof

    FireStarterRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated in '93 and the shortage had dried up. Had no trouble finding a job in LTC however. Commuter is right on with her post. We all need to tighten our belts and prepare for leaner
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    Venting about classmates with families...

    FireStarterRN replied to moncj66's topic in General Students

    It IS harder to go to nursing school when you have kids and have to work, you have to admit that is usually the