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    Rural Hospital Vs. City Hospital ERS

    TazziRN replied to traumajunkiegirl's topic in General Nursing

    I have. I started out in an 18-bed ER and went to a rural setting where it was the doc, me, and a tech for 12 hours. There are advantages to going in either direction. Rural ERs drool over nurses with...
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    what field in nursing are you into?

    TazziRN replied to tam-tam's topic in General Nursing

    I started out in ER, fresh out of nursing school, and was there for 19 years. I loved the adrenaline rush, and being part of a crucial team that makes differences in a matter of seconds. Recently I...
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    Is it my fault???

    TazziRN replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    Something tells me that, as an end-stage CA pt, she is not
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    Why don't med staff follow advanced directives?

    TazziRN replied to RNnewgrad's topic in General Nursing

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    Thoughts/Experiences working in a V.A. hospital?

    TazziRN replied to teenycar's topic in General Nursing

    I have never worked VA but I take my dad to the one in Palo Alto every few months. I'm very impressed with what I see, and the people who work there seem happy. So happy that when I looked into...
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    Is it my fault???

    TazziRN replied to Cmariehart's topic in General Nursing

    If it was ordered for pain and she was in pain that was not relieved by anything else, then you did the right thing. I get so sick of dying pts having more pain than they need to because THE FAMILY...
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    Why don't med staff follow advanced directives?

    TazziRN replied to RNnewgrad's topic in General Nursing

    It is not a legal document to the point where it has to be followed. It is simply a document that lists the pt's wishes. They used to have to be notarized, that was just to say that the person filling...
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    GLBT nurses

    TazziRN replied to fascinoma's topic in General Nursing

    I am not gay but have worked with many gay nurses. I don't ever recall them being treated any differently than straight nurses. In my experience it was always "Do your job and I don't care who you...
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    stable/unstable fractures

    TazziRN replied to GingerSue's topic in General Students

    Never mind, I'll PM
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    Can a patient be a full code and a Hospice patient in NY?

    TazziRN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow....okay, I need to do some research. All my Hospice pts have always been DNRs so I assumed it was part of the criteria.
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    Been in home health for nearly 2 months now

    TazziRN replied to TazziRN's topic in Home Health

    That's what I thought I was doing, but where I run into problems is when there are multiple disciplines in......even though I'm opening the case, who's the primary discipline going to be? I had been...
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    Can a patient be a full code and a Hospice patient in NY?

    TazziRN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hospice is end of life care. In order to be a hospice pt, the pt is determined to have a certain length of time to live, length of time may be different in each state. In CA I believe it's 6 months....
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    THANK YOU!!!! I wuz beginning to think I studied nursing on Mars or
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    Why is nobody reading the words I type????? "Theory" is an unproven statement, belief, whatever you want to call it. It has not been proven. It does not mean that it's been accepted as fact. I did...
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    again, i never said that it is a fact that mrsa is definitely a normal skin flora. i said that there is a theory about this. is it something that we grow naturally? no. is it something that 99.9% of...
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    Nurses with relatives in the hospital....

    TazziRN replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    Let the nurses do their jobs. Whatever you do, watch but don't hover unless you find a blatant problem. Do not, if they find out you're a nurse, let them push off her care on you. You are there as her...
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    Foul Smelling Urine

    TazziRN replied to RN BSN 2009's topic in General Nursing

    In the elderly fevers are often a late sign of a problem. The foul smell when there was none before indicates a UTI. I have a HH pt that, a few weeks ago, had foul-smelling urine. We did a straight...
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    You're right, the question itself is valid. However, I have a problem with someone with experience asking a question that a new grad should know the answer to. Bala has asked questions before that he...
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    I never said that MRSA is on the skin, I said that a current theory says it is. It makes sense.....staph aureus is normal flora, and MRSA is methicillic-resistant staph aureus. And there's this:...
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    Vent..."sedation"

    TazziRN replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm.....in my experience DPH was Demerol, Phenergan, and Haldol cocktail. No matter what DPH is, no matter if it sedated her or not, TREAT THE *(&%^%#!! PAIN!!!!! Geez, what IS it with the baby...
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    To the new grads/students: tell me again that he's not freaked out. Asking "Is wearing gloves really all you need to care for MRSA pts?" is learning. Asking "What would you do in my place?"...
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    California gold rush

    TazziRN replied to bawlermore's topic in General Nursing

    I knew a nurse from Colorado who took one to two month assignments to our facility for over a year. He would work almost every day (waived the overtime) and then would go home for a month or two, come...
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    Do you have the right to look at your child's chart?

    TazziRN replied to CrazyFLBean's topic in General Nursing

    As far as the issue that you've made your decision on, you can tell the staff, "We have made our decision and I would appreciate it if you didn't ask me everytime we come in. You may not agree with...
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    HELP! advice please

    TazziRN replied to pedinurse05's topic in General Nursing

    Agency nurses need to be flexible in terms of where they're sent, unless they've let it be known they will not work at a certain facility for whatever reason, but flexibility has nothing to do with...
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    How to deal with MRSA patients?

    TazziRN replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    There's a difference between being cautious....what most nurses are....and totally freaked out, which is what the OP is. Bala, did you know that the current theory is that MRSA is possibly a normal...