Chaya ASN, RN

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    Nurses not responding fast enough-VENT

    Chaya replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    I don't blame my patients for buying into the image Admin wants to project but I refuse to support it. I am usually able to tell them I'll send the next available helper in, or grab something quick...
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    Should I be THIS freaked out over vomit????

    Chaya replied to Tysmommy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I used to be seriously vomit-challenged. Didn't like seeing/ hearing/ smelling it in others but was morbidly afraid of vomiting myself. Now, it's still unpleasant to me when someone vomits but I've...
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    Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    Chaya replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    Thing is, there's no guarantee the new place won't be as bad as or worse than the first. Then where are you? I'm not sure it's possible for one lone employee to change their work atmosphere alone but...
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    Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    Chaya replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    One technique I read about was being promoted as a solution to kids being bullied in schools. It was recommended that witnesses to a bullying episode gather round the victem in support as a show of...
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    Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    Chaya replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    In these situations I have initially blamed my personal weaknesses for allowing co-workers to treat me this way-until I have seen them mobbing others as well. Then I get angry, realizing that it is...
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    Patient or Client??? Which do you say?

    Chaya replied to Olive Oyl's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. Another one of those discrepancies between nursing school and real life. I used the word "client" until my last day of nursing school. Now I don't have to. I don't view nursing as a primarily...
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    Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    Chaya replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a similar situation many years ago (in healthcare but not in nursing). I was totally demoralized; the only thing that prevented me from leaving was I was sure I couldn't get a good...
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    What Diagnosis Did your First Patient in Clinicals Have?

    Chaya replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    MS exacerbation. I remember being surprised at the extent to which this can affect so many different systems of the
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    Why. Why, oh Why?

    Chaya replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

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    Don't you just love the stereotype?

    Chaya replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    Although they would penetrate quite deep into the posterior of all the fools you run into in the course of the day that get on your last nerve... Sigh. Just fantasizing. See? I'm
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    Dressing for Halloween?

    Chaya replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    I like to acknowledge the seaon but keep it simple. Since I work eves I usually wear the teeny sized disposable glow-in-the-dark earrings; you don't even notice them until I walk into a darkened
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    Nursing theory-Do you use it at work?

    Chaya replied to grdstdnt's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Gee, there's another two-syllable phrase that comes to MY mind but the mods would censor
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    Anyone doing Curves?

    Chaya replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in Health, Stress Management

    The owner/ manager of our local Curves says that there is a lot of leeway in what the individual franchise older can contribute to. She organizes a food drive about once a year, collecting about a...
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    Fired from longtime job, too much LOA r/t cancer, deaths in family. Not Fair.....

    Chaya replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is the number one type situation I would like to see addressed by a nationalized health insurance or other means. It's pretty common for a person in almost any field to have to work through chemo...
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    Is your facility warning staff for overtime, for missing lunch breaks or other?

    Chaya replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I had no idea this practice was so widespread. Nearly3/4 of all respondents say this is happening at their
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    Nursing theory-Do you use it at work?

    Chaya replied to grdstdnt's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Barely. If you dig deep enough the theorist our hospital bases care on is listed in the mission statement. I find theory marginally interesting and marginally useful. A two hour class on the subject...
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    Does anyone here actually like or "not mind" cleaning poop???

    Chaya replied to MrsNursey2006's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have a little different perspective on cleaning poop. I don't like it but don't really mind it-cleaning up a patient isn't really that much more unpleasant than wiping my own butt. Plus, as other...
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    What Would You Love to Find in the Break Room?

    Chaya replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Nursing

    Chocolate! Any form! Kisses or the one-bite mini-chocolate bars so you don't go overboard. Or brownies, cut into bite-size pieces for just a taste of chocolate. (You can even buy what they call a...
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    Anyone doing Curves?

    Chaya replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Curves has worked out really well for me in general. I started 3 years ago after finishing radiation for breast cancer. I wanted a good general workout to build back some strength and endurance, to...
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    Professional courtesy from police at traffic stops

    Chaya replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know many Sweet Young Things that seem to have been let off with warnings in our out of uniform. Maybe because I am not much to look at, I have NEVER gotten off, with the exception of one of the 2...
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    Anxiety before work

    Chaya replied to tinderbox's topic in General Nursing

    Yes big problem with this my first few months as a nurse, first few times doing charge and again first few weeks in new job until I nailed my routine for the first hour or so meeting/ assessing my new...
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    What motivates you....

    Chaya replied to cheripa's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, knowing the HUGE difference really good nursing care made in our lives when both our parents were in and out of hospitals, rehab and hospice during their last
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    How many females are "peeking" in this forum?

    Chaya replied to caliber's topic in Men in Nursing

    Guilty as charged. Actually I'm just trying to ba a more sensitive co-worker to my co-workers of the male persuasion by trying to become aware of and more sensitive to those issues unique to them....
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    WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Chaya replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    OK after I finished gnashing my teeth i thought "Hmmm... potential Teachable Moment..." (ever the optomist, right?). Only things I have to add to the list you are developing would be: -first and...
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    interview from hell

    Chaya replied to grv68's topic in General Nursing

    Wow- from your description I could picture the scene as if I was in the room! Kind of ironic, isn't it? With all the emphasis hospitals are putting on improving their public image you'd think they...