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  1. Do patients/families that are hostile, rude affect your morale?

    busy-bee replied to smartynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I do believe this is becoming steady worse for nurses. Families and patients such as this have the ability to make you wish you never met them. When I come across these people, which is often, I do...

  2. order

    busy-bee replied to busy-bee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I asked the nurse to write a clarification she really was upset with me. Not to mention she is my superior, it really made me nervouse to ask her to do this. I would of not caught it, but the...

  3. percocet

    busy-bee posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know why a patient taking bentyl and or atrovent may not be able to be administered percocet? And if percocet is administer with dosage adjustment related to the bentyl/atrovent what labs...

  4. Medicare Question

    busy-bee posted a topic in General Nursing

    When an order is placed through the company pharmacy........does medicare pay the pharmacy directly? And as well as private pay individual with their own insurance company that do not qualify for...

  5. Medicare Question

    busy-bee replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone.........I think this thread now should

  6. Stressed and Depressed

    busy-bee replied to antidote's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry.....as a former EMT-A, I know where you're coming from. Terrible, Terrible. I will pray for you for all of

  7. boards need to regulate MA's

    busy-bee replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    In my state we have QMAs..............I do believe it is a six to eight week corse, then so many clinincal hours..........then the state test. I work with QMA's daily. Some are pretty good while...

  8. Firing Spree

    busy-bee posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a long term facility that has been pretty layed back until recently. In the past two week they have fired nine staff member in nursing. I can't say these staff members did not have a...

  9. Medicare Question

    busy-bee replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    I know how tangled medicare can get, so you guys it's okay. Just don't drop off the deep end. Someone did answer my question,it is a LTC facilitly. So the facility pays the contracted pharmacy by...

  10. Nybody else can deal with anything except vomit?

    busy-bee replied to 1jazzynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Can hardly do vomit..............and at times oral care really can bother

  11. Learn from mistakes

    busy-bee replied to LisaJanae's topic in General Nursing

    If something doesn't look right, it probably isn't. So keep looking and/or ask for a second pair of eyes from a fellow nurse. Never assume because you already know what they say about assuming....

  12. Firing Spree

    busy-bee replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Yes indeed Angus...point well taken and very

  13. Firing Spree

    busy-bee replied to busy-bee's topic in General Nursing

    Okay fins now you really have me thinking and worrying. I guess I am naive to say, I don't think they would manufactor a reason to fire someone. Does that really

  14. Witnessed a terrible death last night--pls help me...

    busy-bee replied to Annebug's topic in General Nursing

    Working in a long term facility, I work with this a lot. I see these patients daily and they are like a second family to me. I also get to know the families very well, some rather personally. When...

  15. Terminated or dismissed from Job by a letter or E-mail

    busy-bee replied to WhiteStockings's topic in General Nursing

    One of the nurses on my unit was fired over the phone. I think that is so unprofessional. Then they backed it up with a formal letter. What really gets me is that it stated she was not allowed in...

  16. Playing secretary and receptionis during med pass??

    busy-bee replied to SoCalif1979's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It is the same way in the facility I work at. Answer phones, run down residents, toileting, call lights, personal alarms.....you name it, it's sounding. It's constant. And it seems the nurses are...

  17. Lost Temper -- Yelled/Swore at Patient

    busy-bee replied to UhOh's topic in General Nursing

    A fellow nurse had near the same situation and our facility did report it to the BON. She received three days off and was removed from the unit until the resident was discharged. However, she just...

  18. called me a maid

    busy-bee replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    Indeed, we wear many

  19. What would cause a nurse to lose his/her license?

    busy-bee replied to centralflorida's topic in General Nursing

    How does this apply to long term care? I have twenty or better residents at a

  20. Please share something GOOD that happened at work!

    busy-bee replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    One of my patients moved to a different unit related to he did not like the resident whom he shared his room with. He really did not want to move because he liked me so well. He always says "You're...