AngelfireRN

AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

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

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  1. Does anyone else have a family member like this? (LONG)

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    :bugeyes:One that makes you physically ill, even just the thought of having to be around them? A bit of background, my DH and I have been married 5 years. The person in question is his mother....

  2. Does anyone else have a family member like this? (LONG)

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks ,guys. I do appreciate the feedback, and knowing I am not alone. DH vacillates on the matter, either agrees with me or gets ill at me. He knows I think she's nuts. I seriously look like...

  3. Do psych patients ever stalk their nurse?

    AngelfireRN replied to linda2097's topic in Psychiatric

    While I have never been stalked, I did cover my last name on my badge when I worked in-house psych. One day, a patient got upset and wanted my last name, and I refused to tell her (for obvious...

  4. "Insulted" a family member.....sigh...

    AngelfireRN replied to 1993RNGrad's topic in General Nursing

    Execution?!?!?!?! Did the baby die? Is she in prison? Or am I reading this completely

  5. ever bring your dog to work?

    AngelfireRN replied to melisgood's topic in General Nursing

    Just as an aside, when I used to work LTC, we had a very unreasonable old woman there for a time who made everyone miserable. Yelled nonstop. She had o be monitored in the hall in a Geri-chair and a...

  6. Anyone take the MAT lately?

    AngelfireRN replied to TexasPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    I knew a lot about art and history and lit, just because I read a lot. I used the Kaplan study guide, studied for one day and made a 446, which was in the 96th percentile. It is not bad at all. If...

  7. Ready to pinch her head off!!!

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, I am in grad school, working toward a NP certificate. One of my classes requires that we write papers in APA format, which is a huge pain. We have research groups of 5 members, and everyone has...

  8. Ready to pinch her head off!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, get this. We have a little project due the 2nd, just read an article and answer som questions. Now, this dingbat who did not see fit to get her paper done had time to post the questions and...

  9. Ready to pinch her head off!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, believe me, I explained to her about the article being from a journal and not having to cite the webpage she pulled it up from. Her response was "Well, how much APA have you DONE?" Grrrrrrrr....

  10. Ready to pinch her head off!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Leslie, Leslie, surely you know me better than that. I have talked with her, several times. She never mentioned it. And after I got the call from the girl she DID talk about it to, she won't answer...

  11. I have never been nasty to a student until now!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll admit it, I kept my phone, on vibrate, of course, in my pocket when I worked agency at a local hospital. My hubby worked nights, too, could only call at odd times, and the desk clerk was...

  12. Classic Patient Statements

    AngelfireRN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    My poor Daddy. When Grandmother fell out of bed and banged herself up, he came home (this is when I was still in undergrad) and proudly told me she had a "hemoglobin" on her arm. My own DH, several...

  13. Nursing hypochondriasis

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    OK, you ever have one of those days where you think the absolute worst? I'm at work, we're slow, so we did EKGs on each other for fun. My luck, mine shows "nonspecific T waveabnormality" and...

  14. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    AngelfireRN replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with leslie....I give up, too. Been a CNA, now an RN, soon to be an NP. I do know of which I speak. I do not, however, wish to converse in a post that goes nowhere. Good night and good

  15. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    AngelfireRN replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    Um, I actually HAVE worked in an LTC, and I can tell you that what the OP is describing would not be tolerated. I can be called all the names in the book, but I can not be told I have not been there....

  16. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    AngelfireRN replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    What you are not getting is the resounding theme here: Me, me, me. It was hard on me, it made it easier for me. I can guaran-dang-tee you Mamaw was bothered when you got her dressed at 3 in the...

  17. Nursing hypochondriasis

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I loved psych. I had no idea I was so bad off until I got there!

  18. Nursing hypochondriasis

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, Leslie, I can rest easy till August now! I'm fine, like I said, I feel great. It's just that niggling little thing in the back of my mind. Did the same thing in undergrad. Reminds me of...

  19. Being a patient, your opinions

    AngelfireRN replied to BeachBayNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Had this nurse NOT made me so mad, I would not have told her that I was a nurse. However, this was the hospital I worked at, so she would have found out eventually, anyway. I can not BELIEVE that...

  20. Being a patient, your opinions

    AngelfireRN replied to BeachBayNurse's topic in General Nursing

    When my father had a cardiac cath and a stent placement, I arrived at the hospital right as he was being wheeled back to his room. I'm in grad school and had come straight from all day on campus,...

  21. sick as a dog

    AngelfireRN replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    We've seen a rash of it in the ER, my preceptor does not give abx, he read this study that says it is caused by strep and that abx won't help. Something about Strep being self-limiting. I am...

  22. Does this scare anyone but me?!?!?!?!?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am an RN in grad school for my ACNP. One of my clinical rotations this semester is in the ER of a local hospital. The other day, I was there, assessing a car wreck with the doc, whiny, crying...

  23. Does this scare anyone but me?!?!?!?!?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, I can not believe I left this out....I was reading over and it dawned on me...not only did we give him the Toardol shot, but Vicodin and Robaxin scripts to take with him on d/c. Guess who still...

  24. Does this scare anyone but me?!?!?!?!?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    And by true junkie, I mean the ones that go through the trash, gather all the used Fentanyl patches they can find, CHEW them, and then pass out in a crumpled heap at the bottom of a stairwell in the...

  25. Does this scare anyone but me?!?!?!?!?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Scuba, If I came across as sounding like I do hate drug seekers, I did not mean to. The true junkies are the bane of my existence, but that is neither here nor there. My point about the weapon and...