Scrubby

Scrubby

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  1. I'm a new care nurse

    Scrubby replied to fatima ezzahrae's topic in General Nursing

    You're right, I overreacted it's just a sensitive issue with me. To the OP: I can answer part of your query- how to talk to a patient. I speak to patients respectfully. Ask yourself how would you...

  2. I'm a new care nurse

    Scrubby replied to fatima ezzahrae's topic in General Nursing

    Surely you were taught something about talking to and caring for patients at nursing school? Hang on-you're not a nurse at all. May I suggest to you that you stop calling yourself a nurse right...

  3. Sick and tired of the AAS BSN debate

    Scrubby replied to Natingale's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    This whole BSN, ADN thing you have going on over there is so confusing, what's the point? We now have a graduate entry master in nursing science degree in Australia. I hope we're not going to end up...

  4. Please tell me I am not wrong!

    Scrubby replied to GMSinCA's topic in Operating Room

    You might think it would be time for everyone to break scrub but the surgeons may disagree with you there, are you going to demand that they break scrub? Most of the surgeons I work with just want to...

  5. RN's asking Dr.'s for medical advice

    Scrubby replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    For starters, what is a CRNA? We don't have them in my country or at least in my state. If it's a nurse giving anaesthesia well it doesn't happen here, we have one anaesthetist per patient in the OR....

  6. RN's asking Dr.'s for medical advice

    Scrubby replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I think there's more important things to worry about and I don't see how it's any of your business. I couldn't care less if someone wants to ask a doctor for some personal advice as long as...

  7. Ever write up an attending for yelling?

    Scrubby replied to mskate's topic in General Nursing

    I just walk away or hang up until the doctor can speak to me with respect. I do not put up with it. Those nurses should be ashamed of themselves for allowing their patients to be compromised because...

  8. Experienced nurses: What do student nurses do that drives you nuts?

    Scrubby replied to aem31's topic in General Nursing

    Students on their last clinical placement should NOT assume they know everything. I had one last year when asked if they have any questions about OR nursing reply with 'I learned everything when I did...

  9. Something a nurse said to me at clinicals...

    Scrubby replied to ohcomeon's topic in General Nursing

    The patient may not have heard it this time but who knows what she's said around this patient and others before? Patients come pick up a lot about our body language as well and it sounds like this...

  10. Arriving early and not clocking in

    Scrubby replied to soxfan80's topic in General Nursing

    There's a bunch of us who always get to work early but we sit in the tea room which is upstairs from the OR department. We eat our breakfast, chat and go downstairs when it hits 0800. Someone on this...

  11. q's- end of shift relief, meal/break relief timing, inservice relief

    Scrubby replied to scrubs12's topic in Operating Room

    Our new EB agreement has now been changed that if you haven't had your half hour uninterrupted meal break you automatically go on overtime rates until you get your meal

  12. Something a nurse said to me at clinicals...

    Scrubby replied to ohcomeon's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that this nurse needs to be reported. Someone who can make comments like that shouldn't be working in the healthcare industry. I once witnessed a nurse say something in the OR that had me...

  13. Vent: The one thing I don't like about my job

    Scrubby replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Operating Room

    I get the same thing, other nurses don't seem to have any understanding of what we do in the OR. They think we do no patient care whatsoever and we just hand instruments all day! A couple of years ago...

  14. Please tell me I am not wrong!

    Scrubby replied to GMSinCA's topic in Operating Room

    I would be happy to be relieved and scrub out. Unfortunately, the powers that be really frown upon scrubbing out, especially during laparotomy's (my speciality is general surg) unless you're going to...

  15. Please tell me I am not wrong!

    Scrubby replied to GMSinCA's topic in Operating Room

    Well as an OR nurse I wouldn't be giving someone food if they are just doing short day surgery cases and they could eat and drink between patients. However when I've been scrubbed for looooong...

  16. To drink or not to drink

    Scrubby replied to ArmyMomJo's topic in General Nursing

    I saw an order for beer once when I worked as an AIN in oncology. I thought the doctor put it there as a joke or something but the RN's told me it was

  17. How come people portray nursing so negatively on here?

    Scrubby replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't pay much attention to that particular post given that they have only got 1 year of nursing

  18. Annoyed- Surgical Tech does NOT equal Nurse!

    Scrubby replied to Sue Damones's topic in General Nursing

    Just glad that surgical techs are still a foreign concept to

  19. Mean Nurses

    Scrubby replied to ttpurtee's topic in General Nursing

    My approach is to identify what the behaviour is with them right away. For example, 'would you care to explain what the rolling of the eyes was about?', or 'do you really think it's necessary to speak...

  20. Mean Nurses

    Scrubby replied to ttpurtee's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to go off topic but that's simply not the case. More soldiers died in her hospital in Scutari than others in the region and Florence believed it was nutrition, not poor sanitation that...

  21. Mean Nurses

    Scrubby replied to ttpurtee's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is a caring profession, but who cares for the nurses? We're constantly being short changed with staffing, resources and expected to do more and more on less. I've noticed a lot of people tend...

  22. LVNs training RNs???

    Scrubby replied to JStollRN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that if a mistake was to occur with the LPN training the RN, the grad nurse would be first in the firing line because they are an RN. If it's an RN...

  23. ER job- new grad

    Scrubby replied to RN-Ella's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't think that errn911susan was being disrespectful at all, unlike your post. Personally, it makes me sick when people use derogatory terms like 'old and wrinkled'. I can't speak for ER, but in...

  24. Nursing and critical thinking

    Scrubby replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

    It really sucks when you have to do the work of two nurses because the other nurse doesn't have a clue. If things are as bad as you say and this nurse is making medication errors all the time then I...

  25. Any UQ Master or Nursing Studies students here?

    Scrubby replied to DrBlaze's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks for that, I was just a bit confused about it all. Good luck with it all