AngelfireRN

AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

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

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  1. Advice or Ideas Regarding Patient Compliance...

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

    We considered that... that and shock

  2. Advice or Ideas Regarding Patient Compliance...

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

    I'll pass this along to my OM and see if she thinks it'd fly. Thank you ,

  3. I'm Not Overthinking This, Am I?

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

    Yes, I had reference to aid already established. As in currently collecting. The letter she requested was so that it would not be

  4. Need to vent...being volunteered by someone else to do overtime...WHAT?!

    AngelfireRN replied to uRNmyway's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I

  5. Breastfeeding and 12 hour shifts...

    AngelfireRN replied to 3KittiesRN's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats!! I have a soon-to-be 7 month old baby boy, who I still nurse. When I did 12s, I pumped before work and twice to three times while I was there. It was usually pretty easy to find a place,...

  6. I'm Not Overthinking This, Am I?

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

    True here as well. Doc does not do disability determination, and the person has not been examined by DDS. So, in no way COULD we say he was disabled. And we won't. Thank you,

  7. I'm Not Overthinking This, Am I?

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

    Thank you, Siri. Very much

  8. Nursing In My Blue Jeans

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've had several jobs over the years, in various fields of nursing and eventually in medicine, as an NP. I've worn a variety of getups in my career and I'd like to pose a question. Does it really...

  9. Nursing In My Blue Jeans

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting to see all the different viewpoints. I do wear blue jeans. Most of my patients come to the clinic in pajamas. Lower socioeconomic demographic where I am, and dressy stuff makes them...

  10. Reducing visits to the nurse

    AngelfireRN replied to alexis98's topic in School

    I once had a 6th grader come shoving past the line outside my door, claiming it was an emergency. The water fountain splattered her shorts and she was wet. Oh, the

  11. Banning food products in school due to student allergies

    AngelfireRN replied to Alibaba's topic in School

    As someone with a severe and very weird food allergy, who has lived to the ripe old age of 30-through...let me just say that, at a certain point, there has to be responsibility taken by the child and...

  12. General Practice to Pain Management, How?

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hi, all. My current practice is a general medicine clinic, with a strong emphasis on pain management. The doctor I work for is leaning towards becoming a pain clinic. The location could not be...

  13. General Practice to Pain Management, How?

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

    The cash cow thing, I knew. We do a version of the 'vetting' thing as well, when we accept new patients. Part of that vetting includes a visit to our state's controlled script database. We do...

  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

    "Oh, my dear sweet LORD. Are you really that stupid, or are you just putting on for my benefit? How on Earth do you even find your way out of your house in the morning?" That was what I WANTED to...

  15. This just ticks me off.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still PRN at the clinic. To the best of my knowledge, they still don't have any better tools. Morale has tanked and they've had a few leave. Just glad I don't deal with it regularly

  16. This just ticks me off.

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Recently, we had several new policy changes at my current full-time job, which I am leaving in a few weeks. These policy changes were phoned in, ie: no discussion, no meeting, not even a face-to-face...

  17. This just ticks me off.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    No, it tells me you didn't read the opening post. I saw him and tried to treat because the OM called and threw her weight around, made us stay late, and DEMANDED that we treat. Never mind that we...

  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

    The next time you try to sneak in the back door (because we've already locked up for the day and we are CLOSED!) to ask an asinine question (after signing an agreement to NOT ask that very question),...

  19. Well, now I've heard it all!

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work in a clinic with a strong emphasis on pain management. We currently have a waiting list over 300 people long. We get the usual calls, complaints, haranguing, etc. But what happened this...

  20. Well, now I've heard it all!

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

    I know...believe me. It was just so danged macabre. Heck, I have my own coffin and I don't think like

  21. What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    And the second you made a move to 'finish with me' after I asked you to put your phone away, you'd have me, my staff, and probably a few waiting patients playing "Dog Pile on the Rabbit". The rabbit...

  22. What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    AngelfireRN replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As an NP, my phone stays in my pocket at all times. I have it for the calculation of dosage, for my drug software app, in case another provider needs to reach me, for contact with whomever has my...

  23. 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

    "If you ever, EVER pull a stunt like that again, you will be dismissed from this facility and banned from the premises." To the hooskerdoo who ran out of a exam room and stopped our doc as he was...

  24. Great moments in bad judgement

    AngelfireRN replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    SMH...Oh,

  25. "Organ donor" on driver's license

    AngelfireRN replied to psu_213's topic in General Nursing

    In some cases, I have seen families refuse consent for organ transplant simply because they thought that, if they consented, the hospital staff would either not try to aid the patient or even hasten...