AngelfireRN

AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP

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  1. Retail Clinic salaries

    AngelfireRN replied to aggie313's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In my area, it hangs around thye $50/hr range. My clinic offers an incentive if we see more than a certain number in one day as

  2. Baffled

    AngelfireRN replied to GitanoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sweetheart, I'm pretty sure they were kidding. It was in fun. Calm down.And be careful going

  3. weight and feelings

    AngelfireRN replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I, too have been underweight pretty much my whole life. I did suffer from anorexia in junior high and high school. It wasn't fun. Then I went through a period of gain. I never passed 160 lbs, but...

  4. Baffled

    AngelfireRN replied to GitanoRN's topic in General Nursing

    My favorites are the ones that come solo, but then hold up a finger, say "Hold up." and proceed to CALL the SO on the cell phone and either play telephone relay or just hand me the phone and say "Ask...

  5. Is there a happy medium here?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I must be missing something. At the clinic where I work, the NP owners work and see patients just like the rest of the staff NPs. This works out great, with the exception of one. This particular...

  6. Is there a happy medium here?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    More than likely. Worst case, my DH wants me to stay home anyway,

  7. Is there a happy medium here?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    That was her, yes. Said that she was back in something like 2 days from a C-section. I thought we had all the time established when I hired in, but

  8. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Fine, then you just go home and die. Just LEAVE! And, the next time you feel like being a time suck and a colossal waste of my time, how about you do my clinic a grand favor and LEAVE US OUT OF...

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "WHY the Sam Hill did you think it was a good idea to come to an urgent care to be seen for dyspnea so severe you're blue? WE ARE NOT THE ER!" Moving no air, blue, blue, blue, and her idiot daughter...

  10. There's nothing like...

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Having a hellacious day, having to eat your lunch in 3 shifts (because no one can follow instruction and you have a dinklepuss patient stagger in moving no air and turning blue), making it through all...

  11. What's your weird quirk?

    AngelfireRN replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    I can not stand the sound a tooth makes when you pull it. But I will knock people out of the way to sew somebody up. Or start an IV. Or draw blood. If others can't get it and I can, for some goofy...

  12. Nurse with migraine?

    AngelfireRN replied to mochamonster's topic in General Nursing

    I have debilitating migraines, have since I was 17, though , knock on wood, NONE the whole time I've been pregnant. I make very sure that any job I have knows this particular facet of my medical...

  13. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "You're enough to make me want to lobby for birth control in the water

  14. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Yessir, I believe you when you say that that silly codeine allergy you have listed is wrong, that codeine 'just makes your stomach hurt'. However, since this is your first visit here, I have no...

  15. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm going to preface this by saying that I had a very bad day, a very difficult patient, and a very hard time keeping myself from running my fist through her face. And no, I didn't say any of what...

  16. Patient Surveys..vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    I started to respond to that one myself, but I couldn't come up with anything sufficiently un-snarky,

  17. Patient Surveys..vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    Oh. My. Freaking. LORD! Ruby? Did you tell them that if they wanted to go dig her up, be your guest? What's the rap for desecration of a grave now,

  18. Sometimes it's hard to tell a drug seeker from a patient in pain.

    AngelfireRN replied to tiroka03's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes it's very, very easy to tell a drug seeker. *Youngish female, multiple visits in a few months to the clinic, always for pain. Last time, was seen by me, c/o pain. I took xrays (negative)...

  19. Patient Surveys..vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    See, that right there would have just made me ask

  20. Trying to make small changes from the way it's "always been done"

    AngelfireRN replied to 100kids's topic in School

    I ran into that with my first assignment...they had NEVER had a school nurse, and the principal, who was a family friend, was not supportive. They'd always done it that way and they were 'real laid...

  21. Rules of the Dr.office

    AngelfireRN replied to prowlingMA's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    We have this happen a lot. Our approach is to 1) leave them in the lobby and call back others ahead of them until they hang up, or 2) if they are on the phone when we walk in the room to examine...

  22. So many chiefs....

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you, Crunch. We both thought so as

  23. So many chiefs....

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Well, got to test theory the other day... Complaint of severe, sudden onset abd pain, light palpation to a certain area caused the patient to almost come off the exam table. No injury reported, nada....

  24. Patient Surveys..vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    I'm curious, did she have a pretty face to offset that brown nose? Sorry, couldn't

  25. Patient Surveys..vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    I distinctly remember a patient complaining while in hospital that she had not been bathed. The aides on the day shift after the complaint were diligent about bathing her after that. Her survey came...