BradleyRN

BradleyRN has 33 years experience and specializes in Med Surg, LTC, Home Health.

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   Can I Refuse to Work If My Facility Does Not Have Proper Personal Protective Equipment?

   BradleyRN replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I would say the best move would be for all nurses to drop to PRN status. Then when they are begging you to work, you can give them stipulations, like either give me PPE or no coronavirus patient. I...
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   New Grad Worried I Forgot Everything I Learned in School

   BradleyRN replied to natclark28's topic in General Nursing

   School barely prepares you for the real world. It takes a year, and everybody did it. So regardless of how others act, they were once like you are now. Ask questions. Don't do procedures you haven't...
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   I don’t fit in, and my coworkers think I’m an idiot

   BradleyRN replied to Newbie4567's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses stab each other in the back all the time. They will talk about the girl who isn't there, but when she's back, she will be in the circle talking about someone else who isn't there. Bored,...
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   I really want to quit..any advice?

   BradleyRN replied to Sunny Diem's topic in General Nursing

   Come on now. Half your post is blaming mean patients. Is that really the main reason you want to
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   Terminated the third week into my orientation

   BradleyRN replied to HippyHappyRN's topic in General Nursing

   You seem to try to exonerate yourself for being late just because they hadn't started report. "That was considered late", like you don't know that. And then the "unfortunate mistake of oversleeping"....
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   Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

   BradleyRN replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Companies just sent 280 million masks overseas. Those shipments should have been stopped and redirected to our facilities. Trump still hasn't released the supplies promised by the Pentagon. 1000s of...
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   Covid-19 and PPE

   BradleyRN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

   Nurses have the right to refuse any assignment they feel to be
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   Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

   BradleyRN replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

   That is ridiculous. "Equipment is never guaranteed"? Ludicrous! You would willingly spread the virus to your grocery store clerk, your family, other patients and your fellow workers, trying to be a...
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   Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

   BradleyRN replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

   If you take care of a patient without appropriate PPE, you risk contracting the virus and taking it to the rest of your patients for 2-14 days until you realize you are sick, as well as family...
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    I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    BradleyRN replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    The title of the thread is "I don't get the "anxiety" part of nursing"? You're telling people not to cry? You seem a little flippant about the things you "occasionally miss", and perhaps that gives...
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    Cussed out and disprespected by CNA

    BradleyRN replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    It is the lack of true disciplinary action in LTC that gives CNA's this "untouchable" attitude. It is due to such apathy from the DON and administration, that i would recommend to any floor nurse to...
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    Attitudes towards LPN's

    BradleyRN replied to emt... rn student's topic in Canada

    Do you have a little bit of disrespect for CNA's as well? Pompous!
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    How do you deal with staff members that don't seem to care?

    BradleyRN replied to jmejo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All you need to do is write them up...If you ask them to perform their duties and they refuse, then that is insubordination. After you write people up a few times, word will spread like a ripple in a...
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    This site never ceases to amaze me!

    BradleyRN replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Happy Birthday Tait!
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    Should medication aides exist?

    BradleyRN replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That was a beautiful post Mentos. A few med aides have told similar stories to yours, and they all seem to paint the same frightening picture. If you ever need any help in any subject while working...