AngelfireRN

AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

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

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  1. Migraines....Anyone else have 'em?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I kinda agree with you, he kept coming in there and laying ON me ( he thinks loving on me will help, but he outweighs me by about 30 pounds, so then I have a migraine and no air), and the...

  2. Migraines....Anyone else have 'em?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Had a horrible one yesterday, woke up with it. My hubby was outside, had the stereo blasting, and could not hear me when I yelled at him to turn it off. I called his cell, and instead of answering it,...

  3. Ever have a "V8" moment?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Where you just wanted to do that V8 commercial forehead pop to a patient or family member? I had one the other evening that was a lulu. I'm in grad school, going towards a NP certificate, and am...

  4. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    AngelfireRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, for the love of Heaven!!! What is it on here lately? We've had the one on here that will remain nameless trying to shame everyone while regaling us with a trip down memory lane, telling us that...

  5. 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

    OK, first let me say, before you flame me, I have no problem with obese people who have a medical condition that causes them to be that way. I knwo that they can not help it. And when I worked...

  6. Disturbance During Lunch/Break

    AngelfireRN replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone else having deja vu from the splenda packet thread? Maybe we should have a vent thread for the purpose of explaining what the purpose of a vent thread is. This just fries

  7. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    AngelfireRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    As the title states, this thread is a vent about patients, not the nurses who, in your exalted opinion, don't know how to deal with them. No one is saying you do not have the right to vent, but you...

  8. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    AngelfireRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I HAVE worked in a dialysis center, and it is much like the floor, such as staffing goes, at least in my area. There is the "expected" or so-called "usual" staffing, then there's reality. I am...

  9. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    AngelfireRN replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    When you have one who is known to be mean as a snake, not doing well, and all of a sudden he starts clawing and kicking, "Get it away from me!!!", all the while never taking his eyes off the corner of...

  10. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    AngelfireRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know that, I was being sarcastic. It just steams my clams when someone comes in one of these threads to tell us how horrible we all are and what we should do to better ourselves, as if we are the...

  11. 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 doing occupational health now, and the stuff people pull to try to get to go home amazes me. In medical, unless it's dire straits, we do not clear to go home, the employee takes it up with the...

  12. Sex Discrimination or not?

    AngelfireRN replied to VAC's topic in General Nursing

    As long as I am cared for properly, I could care less if they are male, female, black, white, green, purple, or blue. As long as they are clean, neat, and professional, that's all that matters. To...

  13. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    AngelfireRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I never said that I felt victimized. You also don't know me from Adam's housecat, so your opinion of my suitability to a profession that I have held for several years makes no nevermind to me....

  14. Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    AngelfireRN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    And here we go again with the "Bend over and take it. Examine yourself. The patient is having a bad day." This is a VENT THREAD! Face it, there are patients in this world who think that they are...

  15. Can't even get in the door before it starts!

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    OK, maybe I was not too clear...I have been a nurse six years, Have been here since September. When I said grad student, I meant grad school, I'll be an NP in December. Sorry about the confusion. I...

  16. Can't even get in the door before it starts!

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    As many of you know I have had some issues with my job, really since it started. Things like no training, management without a clue, and co-workers who were jumping ship were main points of...

  17. Miss pronounciations of medications and medical terms!Way to Funny!!!!!!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to rgroyer1RNBSN's topic in Emergency

    HEY! I resemble those Alabama remarks! LOL. Seriously, those home remedies are as alive and well as they ever were, and they did not kill anyone in my family. Although I did get accused of "being...

  18. 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 am sorry for your experience, but this IS a vent thread. Please don't misconstrue it as a personal attack. If you explain your child's condition, no one will think ill of him, I am sure. I know I...

  19. Disturbance During Lunch/Break

    AngelfireRN replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I rarely left the floor for lunch when I worked agency, and I usually worked nights. One day, I happened to work days, and went to the cafeteria for lunch, had a nurse covering for me. My phone...

  20. 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 am so glad someone revived this post! I am doing occupational health now, and I have a few more. *I am so sorry you have not slept in 4 days, but medical is not going to be able to help you. This...

  21. Migraines....Anyone else have 'em?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Topamax, I could write a book. I am on 25mg po at hs (bedtime). My Mountain Dews taste like mud now , I get little tinglys in the tips of my fingers, and I have lost 15 pounds:yeah:. All of this is...

  22. Migraines....Anyone else have 'em?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Cast iron skillet.....down here we call those "husband trainers", LOL. Seriously, I do think he gets it, just sometimes he gets aggravated. I'm hurting, he can't do anything, he's the man, he's...

  23. racist comment

    AngelfireRN replied to XXl-cool's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is such a hot button issue right now, but that does not make it right. I take a lot, and a mean LOT of flack for my stand on this. I am Caucasian, I speak Spanish, and I translate for those who...

  24. Ever have a "V8" moment?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, we had not given him anything at that point! That was what made me wonder if he had self medicated before his

  25. Have you expierenced this?

    AngelfireRN replied to missnurse1's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Alabama, and everyone is either Sweet, Peaches, Honey, or Love to me (when I used to work floor, that is). Never had a complaint yet. I think the drawl seems to help (it only takes one...