AngelfireRN

AngelfireRN MSN, RN, APRN

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

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  1. 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

    "Um....say WHAT?" This, after a new patient gave us 2 urine samples: the first a clean (for drugs) sample that looked like Mountain Dew, and then gave us a second sample that was + for opiates and...

  2. 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 wanted to wig out, believe me, I KNEW how bad it was. But I also knew if I lost it, they'd all have had a communal come-apart, and there I'd have been. Fighting to stay calm (and when you're in...

  3. 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

    And the most ignorant amongst us seem to be the most prolific

  4. 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 warned my DH when I went in to have our son that if he make some asinine remark like that, I'd come out of the stirrups and strangle him. As it was, I had to continually calm him (and my parents)...

  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

    That's why I love my clinic. We don't have an HR

  6. 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

    "No, Sir. Medication X does not stay in your system for 90 days. No, the fact that 'your bladder doesn't empty' will not affect the fact that you've been positive for Med. X 4 times. No, you can't...

  7. 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

    "Yes, honey, this is what I deal with EVERY DAY." To my DH, who came to pick up our son at lunch yesterday, and got to witness a dismissal and a refusal, for medication abuse and for demanding 'the...

  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

    I'm down in Alabama, working in a general practice/pain management practice. If you're anywhere in the area, PM me and let's

  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

    Don't tone it down! Come work with me, we'd get along famously, I

  10. Hospital Beep Syndrome

    AngelfireRN replied to hypatiafaerie's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a sleepwalker by nature anyway, but back in the day when I worked the floor, I had the same issue. I worked nights, as did my DH. Several times I woke up to find him leading me back to our bed....

  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

    "No, ma'am, the way to request a medication change is NOT to 'wean' yourself off of one, start taking your son's OTHER med, and tell us how much better it works. Not only is it a violation of your...

  12. 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

    Heron, I just love

  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

    Shock, initially. Then I was looking for the camera. I was sure she (or someone) was shining me. By the time I realized she was serious (ANY infection in your body will show up in your urine,...

  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

    "No, ma'am. Yes, I'm quite sure." To the craniorectal inversion who asked if I could do a UA on her to see if she had an ear infection. No, I'm not making it up. I was proud of me. I held it...

  15. SO mad...and not sure I should be.

    AngelfireRN posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Please forgive the length...it's been a bad day. I work in a clinic that dispenses controlled substances. As such, we have various and sundry very stringent rules in place so as to prescribe as...

  16. SO mad...and not sure I should be.

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

    It was not my decision to have that conversation amongst all and sundry present. The initial interview took place with myself and another staff member present as witness. Then the patient went back...

  17. SO mad...and not sure I should be.

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

    I'm so very sorry. Prayers for peace and calm going your

  18. SO mad...and not sure I should be.

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

    To those that say we don't know for sure...we do. She said it flat-out. It was an inconvenience and she didn't need an inconvenience, she needed her meds.

  19. SO mad...and not sure I should be.

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

    You're right, I know. I just can't get my head around

  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

    "Sir, this is not a game show, this is your son. Yes, I realize divorce must suck. Yes, I'm sure your ex-wife DOES make Mephisto bear a striking resemblance to the archangel Gabriel. No, I'm not...

  21. This just ticks me off.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    He should have been. That's the issue that we struggle with daily, WE ARE NOT AN ER! But without strident education about what is and is not appropriate to be treated at an urgent care, it'll never...

  22. This just ticks me off.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, it helped. Grrrrr! And I fixed the typo, too, lol.. As fast as I was typing, I'm amazed that I didn't do worse than

  23. This just ticks me off.

    AngelfireRN replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, cali. Oh, no worries, I'm not going to say anything unless it's brought up. It would never occur to me to call and ask that a clinic stay late for an hours-old injury, and then complain when...

  24. Share your tips please

    AngelfireRN replied to Gem0607's topic in General Nursing

    I took Mother's Milk Plus (Google it) with ok results. My coworkers are great about my pumping. They call me the Jersey Cow and I joke that I'm headed to the barn. Kudos to you for doing what's...

  25. 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, I'll confess, I've done that, too. This one guy, who had had so many IV's by the time I ever walked in that he looked like a pincushion (Phenergan will do a NUMBER on veins), muat have been...