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    What do RN's want out of CNA's

    Hygiene Queen replied to forbidden2know's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    In the beginning, I know you are not going to be perfect. I want to see you BE SAFE while you are trying your best. Please, ask me about or tell me about any concerns you have about the patients......
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    How To Properly Clean Your Stethoscope

    Hygiene Queen replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I refuse to call my COW a WOW... In fact, I've named my COW "Bessie". It's political correctness gone to far and it drives me
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    Cna scrub crazy!

    Hygiene Queen replied to Kimcan38's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Oh, Katie... those look so uncomfortable and they are terribly ugly. My condolences from across the sea! Kimcam: As far as professionalism, it does not matter if you are an aide up to your elbows in...
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    How To Properly Clean Your Stethoscope

    Hygiene Queen replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a pt who "worked in a hospital" and she went on and on how glad she was to see me wipe down my COW and stethoscope. She was rather obnoxious about it, but I just shrugged my shoulders and said,...
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    The "Q" Word and Other Mysteries

    Hygiene Queen replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Nursing Humor

    I call it "bad juju" and I have been known to search frantically for some wood to knock on to make the bad juju go away! Good luck finding real wood in my hospital! Several months ago, we were having...
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    Has Nursing Made You a Homebody?

    Hygiene Queen replied to nicurn84's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I am so thoroughly sick of people that I have to be alone after work. Last weekend, I had a rough shift and I was really irritated to find out my husband's family had spontaneously descended on us...
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    When did nursing caps go extinct in the wild?

    Hygiene Queen replied to RNperdiem's topic in General Nursing

    1999 when I left my nursing home job. I remember the nurses put them on at work and took them off before they drove home. I like
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    How many shifts to work in order to prevent Burnout.

    Hygiene Queen replied to everyday6/12's topic in Psychiatric

    I was given a full time position when I started but changed to part time. I never wanted to be a nurse full time and working full time convinced me of why I didn't want to! I like what I do but I...
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    psychiatric nursing - clothing

    Hygiene Queen replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

    Where I am at, it doesn't seem to be a problem. However, when someone sees a staff in scrubs, most will assume they work geri, though that is not always the case. It's just the quirkiness of the psych...
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    Time frame for documentation of safety checks

    Hygiene Queen replied to superpsychnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    We do the q15min checks. Technically, we would have a person responsible for keeping up the rounds, but it's not realistic 100% of the time. Safety is #1, but sometimes that means that the person with...
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    Nurses' perceptions of patients with borderline personality disorder - lit review

    Hygiene Queen replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Psychiatric

    Seems to me, what you are saying would be the same thing as saying, "For every person diagnosed with a cancer/diabetes/hypothyroidism, etc., there are untold numbers more who are not yet (and perhaps...
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    psychiatric nursing - clothing

    Hygiene Queen replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

    LOL! I mentioned elsewhere about a student who showed up in spangly glitzy heels My favorite was the MHA who floated from our nice and clean adult unit to our geri unit. This girl comes over with a...
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    Honest advise needed

    Hygiene Queen replied to lynds80's topic in Psychiatric

    Sometimes, if you really want to get into a specific area, you kinda have to work your way into it, to get the hours and bennies you want in the end. So, if I really wanted a psych position, but I was...
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    Honest advise needed

    Hygiene Queen replied to lynds80's topic in Psychiatric

    Go with Psych. If that's what you like and that's where you want to stay... embrace
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    Celebrating Nurses: What Happened to the Cap?

    Hygiene Queen replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think they're cool. I do remember one particular nurse that looked stupid in hers. She was shaped like a ball with an itty bitty head and wore a tiny little pointy cap. She looked like one of those...
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    psychiatric nursing - clothing

    Hygiene Queen replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

    Most of our staff wear street clothes... and I do wonder how the heck some of them could run in heels. A new young nurse showed up in a little skirt... well, it wasn't my unit and I wasn't charge, so...
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    If a patient wants something but an RN says don't do it, whom do you follow?

    Hygiene Queen replied to Naturally Brilliant's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Now, that's getting to the
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    If a patient wants something but an RN says don't do it, whom do you follow?

    Hygiene Queen replied to Naturally Brilliant's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    If you call the parents before the nurse can be informed of the situation, then nurse would not have been given an opportunity to possibly address it. If you call the parents first, then all the...
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    Emergency Psychiatric Medications

    Hygiene Queen replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

    Often times, you will have a choice of a PO emergency med and an IM of the same med. So, the goal is to attempt to have the pt take the PO first, then if that fails, you go with the IM. Better to try...
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    Losing respect for nursing students

    Hygiene Queen replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    Our butt would have been toast if we were caught sitting. We have had both a med student and a nurse student fall asleep in our day room... yes, they got reported. We know they are tired-- we've all...
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    How to protect self from needles?

    Hygiene Queen replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Considering needles have safety lock-caps after you inject, I'm not sure why you would recap it? Did the needle not have a safety? If it did, that's kinda on you... but maybe if you were really really...
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    Comic relief...

    Hygiene Queen replied to SGroRN87's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No... Because the point of the story was that OP said, "What's up?" to a pt who had an
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    Bombed my second shift on my own

    Hygiene Queen replied to venousr3tuRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yep, that's a jinx! It's probably more realistic to say, "I'm going to get through whatever comes my way!". Ah, yes...the paperwork. Sometimes, I notice we all get slightly peeved when a patient...
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    Saying no when work calls

    Hygiene Queen replied to TerpGal02's topic in General Nursing

    I am not owned by my hospital. They have no right to my time when I am not scheduled to work and I am under no obligation to answer my phone. It's not about being rude, it's about my personal free...
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    Peer Evaluations- Venting

    Hygiene Queen replied to Rose_Queen's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't care for them. Sometimes I get someone I never even work with... so that's a bit challenging. One time I got a guy who I worked with often. Well, he was a bit of a... erm... sociopath, I...