redhead_NURSE98! ADN, BSN

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    Develop a Thick Skin - How?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to *4!#6's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A zoologist? "So you want me to treat your mother like you would treat a zebra?
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    Dropped pills

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to mandaaRN's topic in Patient Medications

    I have a nurse who documents whether the television was on or off and for how many hours of the day, and what channel the television was on....so I suppose if you want to write a note that your...
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    how many calories do you think nursing burns up?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to SNB1014's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Well no kidding, if your heart rate is higher you burn more calories, I got that. However, if someone's burning calories they're burning calories! If they burn more calories than they eat they lose...
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    how many calories do you think nursing burns up?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to SNB1014's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Calories burned are calories burned. You may be referring to cardio health
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    how many calories do you think nursing burns up?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to SNB1014's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Lost 25 pounds first year of
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    Calling in sick, staffing issues

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to staffing24's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I do enjoy when people call off and come back the next day with new hair
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    Coffee Is My Medicine

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    With so many replies I came here expecting a debate. I'm not disappointed though, you all are hilarious! I love coffee, but it makes me even more overheated than I already am so I don't get to drink...
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    Leave you family for nursing??

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to litebrightgirl's topic in Nursing Career

    Oh yeah, I knew a girl who did that so she could go to law school. She came home every weekend to spend time with her daughter, even. As soon as she graduated he divorced her and got custody of the...
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    How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I did read your post. "Nurses giving patients IV while standing up" does not specify whether the NURSE was standing, or is the PATIENT standing? I'm asking because I give patients IV's while I am...
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    How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "You don't, owwwwwwn meeeeeee..... I'm not just one of your many toyysssss..... You don't owwwwwwn meeeeeee, don't say I can't go with other boyyyyys "And don't tell me what to doooooo And don't tell...
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    Question about marijuana use as a nurse

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to sasha_t's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yeah, if you watch Judge Judy she gets on these people all the time. It's positively
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    I feel like everybody hates being a nurse!!!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to hershdawg's topic in General Nursing

    It's possibly a personality trait common in people who are drawn to nursing, to kvetch a lot. But the pp is correct, it's just like complaint websites. If you have a bad experience you tell EVERYONE...
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    How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm sorry if you didn't notice, but it was not only "YOUR" posts in the reply!
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    What can nurses do to be more happy in their career?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Yoga keeps me from killing
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    How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sorry? I don't get this. Are you saying starting IV's while standing causes
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    Calling in sick, staffing issues

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to staffing24's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I feel like once a month is excessive for 12's....I only work 12 days a month for heaven's sake! But if you're sick you're sick. I am one of those that has to be vomiting or bleeding out the eyeballs...
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    Just a Floor Nurse

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to LTCNS's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am an attorney who went to nursing school, so I'm "just a nurse" to some people now. Generally these folks hate their job and hate that you went and did something that you wanted to do, rather than...
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    How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And some of them don't seem to understand this. I don't know if they are not taught this in school or what. An RN has to prioritize and delegate. If that makes them feel like the RN is passing "lesser...
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    I'm tired of looking like a zombie

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    Yes, it's some of the better stuff I've used. Only thing is that it settles in small lines a little more than a lighter concealer. But it does
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    I'm tired of looking like a zombie

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    Erase Paste by
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    The soul crushing part about nursing

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is that legal for you to not do a code? I think you need to find someone else to code them and not just stand there, frankly. I mean, I do wish people wouldn't do the whole "do everything" to their...
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    So...you've had a bad day?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Been there,done that's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    LOL I know, I feel awful when I haven't been back to someone in what feels like a long time to me...you KNOW it's been a long time to them! And you can't explain anything you've been doing with...
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    Total Disregard for Visiting Hours

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to DYLANB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't recall making reference to you or suggesting in any way that everyone has to be the same as anyone. That was my point, really. Be as professional as you feel like being. Have
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    Total Disregard for Visiting Hours

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to DYLANB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Agreed. "The customer is always right" simply doesn't work in healthcare. They're NOT right, or they might not be in the hospital in the first place. As someone else said, God forbid you tell them...
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    Total Disregard for Visiting Hours

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to DYLANB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And catering to patients' visitors' war stories isn't in there anywhere. Apparently you enjoy condemning other nurses in person as well as online, because you're actually suggesting that acting all...