BradleyRN

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  1. BradleyRN

    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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    Should medication aides exist?

    BradleyRN posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Medication aides should not exist. Nurses must band together to fight against taking our skills and giving them to under-qualified persons. Sure we are overloaded with work, but they should hire more...
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    Do you recommend becoming a nurse?

    BradleyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is not an easy career path to choose. It is certainly one of the most difficult. When friends or prospective students ask, do you recommend becoming a
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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...
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    Should medication aides exist?

    BradleyRN replied to BradleyRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Med Aides are not allowed in hospitals. They are only allowed in long term care. Therein demonstrates the fact that their capacity so so limited, that only defenseless vulnerable people who can barely...
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    What would you have said to this CNA

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

    There was absolutely nothing valid about the CNA's concerns. Getting water and a temp is her job. If she thinks someone else should do that for her, she is right. And that someone is her...
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    Situation about PRN lorazepam

    BradleyRN replied to nminodob's topic in General Nursing

    Diverting. She has probably been exposed for giving so many PRN doses in the past and now realizes she needs to keep as many as possible out of her
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    What would you have said to this CNA

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

    I wouldnt rest til i had this idiot's job. She has obviously lost track of her
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    Medication Aide

    BradleyRN replied to ohiocleveland's topic in General Nursing

    Should Medication Aides
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    Past job ruining chance of new job

    BradleyRN replied to northern_RN's topic in General Nursing

    They can legally say that you are not eligible for rehire. Likely that is what they are saying, so if you have an opportunity to check NO about contacting them, you should do so. That way you can at...
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    Union facilities vs non-union

    BradleyRN replied to Nrskiwi's topic in General Nursing

    Id rather management look at me as the "enemy" than as their "whipping boy". They are made up of businessmen or sold out nurses, and their profit-driven points of view will never align with my...
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    Why do nurses take the fall?

    BradleyRN replied to Ploppers's topic in General Nursing

    I was just debating with a tech the other day why despite the fact that techs give each other report, the nurse will give them one too. The tech thought it to be a waste of her time. She resented...