Rapheal

Rapheal

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  1. What is your least favorite.....

    Rapheal replied to New CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    Dealing with active conscious patients with tubes. Chest tubes, NG tubes. These people get up and ambulate to do whatever and I get a nervous sweaty feeling just waiting for them to pull them out....

  2. Anyone resign due to hostile work environment?

    Rapheal replied to ceecel.dee's topic in General Nursing

    Heh heh.... I have to laugh. I now work one day a week at my hospital. In the last 6 months we have had 2 nurses and one aide have to leave the floor and go down to ER for chest pain. DX-anxiety....

  3. HIPAA/HIPPA infraction or not ?!

    Rapheal replied to dachweiler's topic in General Nursing

    Honest to goodness, these hippa rules seem to be used by some individuals to justify their job. Are they going to be turned into mindless buruocracy (sp?) just to keep some pencil pushers employed?...

  4. After a long hard day do you...............

    Rapheal replied to orca1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Lisa, I think the fact that you review your performance at the end of the day shows that you really care and are looking for ways to improve. Nobody is perfect and no situation is perfect. I have...

  5. Renerian's thread "Worksheets from your shift..." uppdated w/ a poll

    Rapheal replied to renerian's topic in General Nursing

    renarian, I just read this thread today. How awful! I am so sorry this happened to you. I have the luxury of 2 lockers. One I keep my tools in, the other my worksheets. I am only working one day a...

  6. Psych Nurse Recently Diagnosed Bipolar

    Rapheal replied to Nutty RN's topic in Psychiatric

    As long as you are capable and feel comfortable doing psych nursing then nothing should stop you. I have never been dx for depression but know that I have suffered from it during very difficult...

  7. New Grad Blues - May be lengthy

    Rapheal replied to Stitchie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Stitchie, Are you getting into trouble such as having her write disciplinary reports on you or is she just telling you how she wants you to do things? I suspect she is trying to train you to do...

  8. How Rude!!!

    Rapheal replied to stella123 rn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think in this bad economy some people are jealous of nurses. In my city the biggest section of the help wanted is jobs for nurses. When I started school some of my friends commented that I would...

  9. False Charting

    Rapheal replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Oh angelbear I know exactly what you mean. It is so hard to get everything done and charted. I think I could get so much more done if not for the IMHO unnecessary charting. Also there are so many...

  10. False Charting

    Rapheal replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Trying to chart everything is downright impossible on some days. Got report last week from nurse "Her heart rhythm is sinus rhythm with PAC's" .............Really I asked? Because she is not on...

  11. Does anyone recommend working as a patient care technician?

    Rapheal replied to LPN-n-2005's topic in General Nursing

    I love working with a tech. Sometimes we get one for a couple hours when we are really insanely busy. It is so much fun to teach someone a technique or help them practice one that they have recently...

  12. 2 nurses arrested in CA.....

    Rapheal replied to sarahr5's topic in General Nursing

    Another reason I haven't followed the advice to give a med and "get the order later". What were they

  13. Teacher and Student Intimate Relationship: Is it ok?

    Rapheal replied to nardongputik2's topic in General Nursing

    No. Two careers are at stake. I bet the bloom would be off the rose when the instructor lost his/her job and the student lost his/her position in school. That would seriously dampen the future of...

  14. nasty patients who whine too much

    Rapheal replied to nadia562002's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You will get better at this and will learn communication techniques that will get your patient to be more cooperative. Every nurse has had to learn these and I remember feeling pretty lousy when...

  15. Foley Position

    Rapheal replied to QUEENIERN's topic in Operating Room

    Under the leg with checks for patency. Here's why I like it this way: A little more difficult for confused, unrestrained patients to pull out. A little more difficult for staff and family members to...

  16. Impaired Nursing

    Rapheal replied to ERNURSE67's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't mind a policy that requires 2 mandatory, random drug tests a year. We had two nurses caught taking patient meds. They are both gone but it seems that the nurses are suspicious of each...

  17. Elderly patients: First name or Mr/Mrs?

    Rapheal replied to laurasc's topic in General Nursing

    Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. X. I sometimes will address a female as Miss "Helen" or whatever their first name is if they request to be called by their first name. It is something I picked up from my youth as...

  18. The Shift from Hell

    Rapheal replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Your point is so valid. But in some hospitals if you choose to go that route you will be punished in one way or another. Definately not right but still a reality of what many of us face daily....

  19. bed making class?

    Rapheal replied to twarlik's topic in General Students

    Todd, When you are an RN you will be responsible for all the care of your patients. Some times you will work without an aide. There are incontinent patients and not all of them will be wearing...

  20. Fluid Chase/ Challenge

    Rapheal replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Is this where the Dr. orders 1-2 liters of IV fluids on a suspected dehydrated patient with an elevated BUN to rule out renal insufficiency vs

  21. Rude Relative, advise please

    Rapheal replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    I hate it when a family member has issues and interferes with the care of a patient. Honest to goodness, it sometimes seems like they believe they are on TV and are the star of the

  22. Subjective or Objective?

    Rapheal replied to bedpan's topic in General Students

    This thread was fun. Give us another question.

  23. Typical drop/fail rates for RN programs?

    Rapheal replied to jjbaby's topic in General Students

    Less than 40% made it through in my class. Some of the most compassionate, bright people did not make it and incurred thousands of dollars of debt. It is a shame because I can think of a few that...

  24. standard of how many IV attempts

    Rapheal replied to megpwh's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    2 by me, 2 by another RN, then I am calling ER with an SOS. After that it's a call to the house doctor to let them know that we cannot get an IV in. Sometimes they decide to forgo the IV fluids, or...

  25. Tests during Orientation???

    Rapheal replied to rosemadder's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was supposed to take an IV test but they never offered it to me. Staffing was short so off to nursing I went. I think testing is a great way to see what weaknesses you have so that you can improve...