Oedgar

Oedgar

peds, allergy-asthma, ob/gyn office

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  1. Getting needed clerical support

    Oedgar posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    So here is a developing situation. I spend my days running like mad, literally working so fast and hard I am sweating. I stay late every evening anywhere from 30 mins to an hour after the front office...

  2. Changing to a non-nursing career?

    Oedgar replied to Eleven011's topic in Retired Nurses

    I am leaving my high stress position in one month!! It is in a clinic, but a very, very dysfunctional one. Around here, mainly it's LTC, corrections, Dr. Offices, or a handful of LPN clinic jobs that...

  3. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I think my coworkers are just used it it. Other nurse has worked in physician offices for 40 years... one nasty tempered surgeon and several ob docs. I explained to her I am NOT used to it. Job on...

  4. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    removing

  5. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    My coworker...other nurse... called it a 3 ring circus as we were staying late ... again... making phone calls. Yup. All of this is soon to be behind me... it is even sweeter because I just got an...

  6. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I had to laugh. Other nurse and I were talking about this incident. She said dealing with a male physician/boss is "like having a husband, " that you yell and move on. I told her I already have a...

  7. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Yikes!! If the sexual thing was happening.. I would have been outta here long ago. What is WRONG with

  8. Getting needed clerical support

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I do feel for them. They are overworked and understaffed as well. But, they all get to leave on time every day. One gal is the first one out the door every day. After the day I had yesterday, I fear...

  9. Pros and cons of nursing insurance

    Oedgar replied to dragonfire123's topic in General Nursing

    I bought a policy throught NSO the moment I went to work in an OB office. Also, and RN acquaintance of mine had been accused of being impaired, got fired, and needed a lawyer. She was the primary...

  10. Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

    Oedgar replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    That is so sad. That poor

  11. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    removing

  12. Com'on, you got one...What is your heart wrenching moment?

    Oedgar replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    Oh... wow.. It was 1992, and I was in my first and only hospital job on Pedi/Pulmonary floor. I was all of 21 years old, and taking care of a lot of end-stage CF patients who were of similiar age....

  13. Our birth control initiative was written up in the NYTimes!

    Oedgar replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. They are sometimes told by doc prior to take ibuprofen. If I get them back and find our they haven't I give it. They also get a topical anesthetic gel applied to

  14. Our birth control initiative was written up in the NYTimes!

    Oedgar replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    We do some skyla. .. but even those cause a fair amount of

  15. Our birth control initiative was written up in the NYTimes!

    Oedgar replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    This is awesome!! We do more Nexplanons than IUD's in the young girls who have not yet had

  16. RN Starbucks side job?

    Oedgar replied to borninaugust30's topic in General Nursing

    My coworker (LVN) also worked a side job at a national drug store chain. She had been there many years and had accumulated some retirement so she kept at

  17. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    removing

  18. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Oh and I do plan to speak w him. He has been excited at the idea I will be their prn nurse. The next time it comes up I will tell him his temper has made that impossible. I have heard stories of him...

  19. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Finally... finally have a date I can walk away.... my torture should end by August 31st. It will likely be winding down the week prior. My replacement has been hired and soon I will be training

  20. Doctors yelling

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Not much on the job front. I however did just apply for a remote nurse/insurance appeal position. I doubt I hear anything. Never do. We have definitely made a new policy that those slips of paper pts...

  21. For ob/gyn clinic nurses.. a question

    Oedgar posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    If you have multiple exam rooms, do you have a doppler for each room? We have 3 rooms, two dopplers, and of course each doc has their own preference for which one they like. So in the middle of my...

  22. For ob/gyn clinic nurses.. a question

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Because of the fact that we share an office with another doc... only three exam rooms and one lab/vitals area, the place is a zoo... the amount of footwork and shenanigans other nurse and I go through...

  23. For ob/gyn clinic nurses.. a question

    Oedgar replied to Oedgar's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Yes, boss doc wants them brought out of the rooms because he is afraid people will steal them. But to me not having one in each room makes no sense. It would be like not having gloves or pap smear...

  24. Nursing student with questions about ob/gyn clinic?

    Oedgar replied to jead1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If you know you will never be interested in working in the hospital, then why not go into clinic nursing? But, if you go straight to clinic you will not keep the skills you worked so hard in school to...

  25. Almost made a very bad med error today

    Oedgar replied to klone's topic in Patient Medications

    Thank you for posting this. It will serve as a reminder for me the next time I give a Rocephin. I think perhaps you should write a report, so everyone can be diligent about having the current allergy...