Rabid Response

Rabid Response

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  1. I've had a revelation...

    Rabid Response replied to MamaT's topic in General Nursing

    Although, I get the sense that you are venting more than asking for advice, I will offer some anyway: Try not to disparage your co-workers to your manager. Calling them all "immature" will only make...

  2. Oh no she didn't!

    Rabid Response replied to misslo's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I would love to work with a CNA like you. That nurse sounds horrible. Even if the your interventions did nothing to help the patient (although I'm sure they helped), they went a long way toward...

  3. I am stuck in a job i hate!!

    Rabid Response replied to cadillac123's topic in General Nursing

    Did your manager put you on probation because you said that you felt unsafe working nights? That doesn't seem right to me. Not everyone can work nights. You've been doing it long enough to know that...

  4. Did you study for your NCLEX...?

    Rabid Response replied to DanielleJ_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I took the test one week after graduating. I had been preparing for it almost from the first day of nursing school so I didn't feel I needed any time to study. I only studied pharm for about an hour a...

  5. Med or documentation error?

    Rabid Response replied to Ms Mischief's topic in General Nursing

    On my unit, whether or not the flush was done would have been secondary to the fact that you *charted* something as done when, in fact, you hadn't done it. It's considered falsifying documentation,...

  6. What is the best thing to put on diaper rash?

    Rabid Response replied to mondkmondk's topic in General Nursing

    Calendula cream. I've used several different brands, always with excellent results. It also helped with cradle cap and a rash my baby used to get sometimes on her

  7. how do/did you study in RN school?

    Rabid Response replied to mashamontago's topic in General Nursing

    I studied alone for the most part. I taped classes and played them back while driving. I studied the test questions on the cds that came with each of my text books. I bought an NCLEX study guide...

  8. what u don't like about nursing?

    Rabid Response replied to harlequin_chadwick's topic in General Nursing

    All the documentation. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time documenting the care I've given than I do actually providing that care. Also, the physical exhaustion of working night shifts. We don't...

  9. Accelerated Nursing Programs

    Rabid Response replied to courtenia's topic in General Students

    I know exactly how you feel. I graduated from an ABSN program in May of 07. I also felt like "a fish out of water" in my first couple of clinical rotations, although I did have a nursing fundamentals...

  10. Guilt over other nurse's med error

    Rabid Response posted a topic in General Nursing

    yesterday there was a huge med error made on my unit. i didn't make the error; in fact i was the person who caught it. my patient almost died during my shift. i had last night off, so i don't even...

  11. Guilt over other nurse's med error

    Rabid Response replied to Rabid Response's topic in General Nursing

    My situation was very similar to that, except that the medication had been running for longer. The concentration of the bag was entered incorrectly into the pump. Were the spinal cord hematomas in...

  12. Report interruption

    Rabid Response replied to vernRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mind questions when I'm giving report, but I know that others do, so I try to save them for the end unless it can't wait. Sometimes, though, I forget what I was going to ask and then remember...

  13. Functioning on Halodol

    Rabid Response replied to camille217's topic in General Nursing

    What's the problem then? My advice--MYOB and leave the poor guy

  14. Grades don't matter!

    Rabid Response replied to MissKitty21's topic in General Nursing

    I used to feel the same way! I used to resent the fact that graduating from nursing school with mediocre grades and merely PASSING the NCLEX (I didn't find the exam at all difficult) was enough for...

  15. what do nurses hate about doctors?

    Rabid Response replied to futureMD's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe my hospital is the exception, but I really enjoy working with the doctors who staff my unit. Of course there are occasional moments of friction when I get kind of PO'd, but I'd rather let you...

  16. Discharging a patient...to the streets

    Rabid Response replied to ChocoholicRN's topic in General Nursing

    No, NurseWannabe1129, it was not a typo. There is no "cure" for someone who is truly addicted. They must learn to live with and to manage the disease of addiction. They will always have urges, and...

  17. Discharging a patient...to the streets

    Rabid Response replied to ChocoholicRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I was youngster and new to San Francisco, I saw a man panhandling for change outside of a fast food restaurant that I was entering. He was asking everyone for "money for food." I felt so guilty...

  18. Tips to survive nursing school... I need your help!

    Rabid Response replied to AggieQT's topic in General Students

    Start studying for the NCLEX from day one. Someone else mentioned this, but the advice is so good that it bears repeating. My friend and I took the NCLEX one week after graduation and both passed with...

  19. Would you hire me back if you were them?

    Rabid Response replied to 2klkds's topic in General Nursing

    Based only on this statement and your past history with the company, I would not rehire you. The statement was rambling, ungrammatical, and unprofessional in its emphasis on your personal life and...

  20. Nightmares about work?

    Rabid Response posted a topic in General Nursing

    I think it's the heat, but lately I have been having terrible nightmares about work, the after-effects of which hang on my mind all day. Last night I dreamt that I was assigned patients in two...

  21. What do you wish someone would have told you on your first nursing job?

    Rabid Response replied to KourtneiNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh boy. I'm sure I'll think of more later, but here goes: 1. Do not assume that, just because the nurse you are following has way more experience than you, she will not have made mistakes (maybe even...

  22. Sharps Container at Kaiser

    Rabid Response replied to GM1987's topic in General Nursing

    I only know that those are the types of wall-mounted sharps containers used by the Kaiser facilities in my

  23. Sharps Container at Kaiser

    Rabid Response replied to GM1987's topic in General Nursing

    The opening to the sharps container contains a barrel. When the lid to the container is opened, you can only access the barrel itself. When the lid is closed, the barrel rolls over so that its opening...

  24. "And it's all going to be your fault"

    Rabid Response replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ha. Oh don't I know it! I had a patient who was NPO except for ice chips. D/t AMS and a recent extubation, the written orders were that he was under strict aspiration precautions. Of course the...

  25. BSN vs MSN

    Rabid Response replied to biltz's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Sorry, elkpark. I did not mean to imply that "pettiness" was the only reason one could have for trepidation. When I chose that word I was recalling certain personal interactions (with people who were...