AngelfireRN

AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

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

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  1. What's the dumbest thing you ever got called on the carpet for?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Did you ask if the patient was supposed to adapt to being in agony as

  2. Funniest Complaint on Press Ganey Scores

    AngelfireRN replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    OK, here's a good one: *My mother did not get a bath for two days. When they did bathe her, they used soap and water and bathed her like a hog. OK, not having been threre, and having never given a...

  3. Contagious CNA showing up for work!!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    Happened to me. I worked ICU, called my supervisor and told her that I had a fever of 102 and was coughing, dizzy, and wheezing. She said, "You're all we've got, you have to come in." I drove 45...

  4. New Job Blues, Any Input?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all! Just wanted to get some advice about a new job situation. I interviewed at the hospital I now work at back in the first part of August. I was set to start nurse practitioner classes, and...

  5. New Job Blues, Any Input?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    :balloons:Update!!! I turned in my notice Tuesday. The floor was so bad that day, I called my new job to ask when I could start, and they gave me the high sign to turn in my 2 weeks. Good Lord, what...

  6. Phantom vibrations

    AngelfireRN replied to Sassybottom's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work nights on med-surg. My hubby told me one day after getting me back to bed (I walk in my sleep, anyway), that I jumped up and started to run out of the room. He asked me where I was...

  7. What is the nicest thing a patient has ever said to you?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    How about a happy thread? What are some nice things patients have said? The three nicest I have heard are: "Every time you walk in, you're like a ray of sunshine." (I choose to think she meant my...

  8. New Job Blues, Any Input?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all for the replies. I go back Tuesday, and Lord knows wht I'll be walking in to. A nurse (new grad) that I am in practitioner's school with has given notice and starts her new job...

  9. New Job Blues, Any Input?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I have spoken with her, and nothing is resolved. I do have another job on the line, so I am biding my time till I can start. My job status is PRN. I have this in writing. However, in...

  10. Patients on Medicaid

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

    I'll go ahead and jump on the WIC bandwagon. I used to work at Wal-Mart, and we took WIC coupons. Not only would the approved items be typed on the voucher, the store had neon yellow tags by ALL...

  11. Someone gave me a knuckle SW and I'm NPO!!!

    AngelfireRN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfireUsed to work at a psych facility, was fortunate enough not to be seriously hurt (I'm pretty little, about 5' 3" and 125#), but my charge nurse was thrown to the ground and kicked in the head...

  12. Ever tell a doctor like it is, with surprising results?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    :balloons:Anyone have an incident like this happen? Worked a code from 0700 till 0930 (she coded 3 times), then came out to find a doctor waiting for me at the nurses station. He had a chart in his...

  13. Ever tell a doctor like it is, with surprising results?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    " which one of the old farts is this and i'll let you know who i am" He laughed and i never had trouble with him ever again That is

  14. Funniest thing that happened to you in your first days on the job?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just wondering about what funny experiences y'all have had during your first days on the job. I'll share 2: 1)On my first week in a psychiatric hospital where they took children and teens, I was...

  15. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    For a while, I worked as an agency nurse at a certain hospital. Before they fired all the LPNs, they liked to do "team nursing", with an RN and an LPN. The idea being that the RN would do the...

  16. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I can appreciate the fact that this nurse might have been tired, however, there was no reason to name-call because I refused to take a dangerous patient load. This was not being "dumped on", in the...

  17. Professional appearance

    AngelfireRN replied to fergus51's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Of course, if I'm covered in goop, I'll change. I think th ewhole white scrub dislike for me is because I hated nursing school so badly, and white scrubs remind me of it. Don't get me wrong, I love...

  18. "I don't want to clean up dirt!"

    AngelfireRN replied to narcissistic's topic in General Nursing

    If I had a dollar for every time I have been referred to as a "Bedpan Annie", I could retire. Wait till smarty-pants PT has someone have an "accident" in the whirlpool tank. I bet he changes his...

  19. Professional appearance

    AngelfireRN replied to fergus51's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Just my 2 cents here, the day after I graduated nursing school, I burned my white scrubs, and never again will I wear all white to work. It may be traditional, but it is classically impractical. I...

  20. Does anyone else find this disturbing?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just wanted to run this instance by a few other RNs and see if I am the only one who thinks that it could be a problem in the future. I am an agency nurse, and as such I work in different...

  21. Guess the mispronounced medical term

    AngelfireRN replied to EricJRN's topic in General Nursing

    My aunt (a ding-dong of the first order) has some good ones, and they drive me up the wall! Phenergan= Finnegran Macrodantin= Microdentin Sulfa=Sulphur Haldol=Haldon Dilaudid= Dillauda and my...

  22. Does anyone else find this disturbing?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital, on that day, did not have enough staff nurses to orient, so I was left to do it. As I said, I had worked there for a while, and I did not mind training this nurse, but her actions were...

  23. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    AngelfireRN replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen a good many things in the hospital during my 6 years as a nurse. Most memorable was one night in the ICU when I was working by myself, with one patient and his wife in bed 6. Bed 3's...

  24. Does anyone else find this disturbing?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, congrats on your new career. May yours be far easier than mine! I do not work at that facility any longer, by my choice, and feel that they will not be in operations years from now...

  25. Does anyone else find this disturbing?

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did tell the nurse manager and I informed my agency liason, just in case the hospital tried to conveniently omit the other nurse and say that it was all on me. (Hospitals do not like agency nurses,...