redhead_NURSE98! ADN, BSN

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  1. redhead_NURSE98!

    Stopping patient care for another patient

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

    Fascinating. Were they patients in the same
  2. redhead_NURSE98!

    Stopping patient care for another patient

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

    agreed...her personal experience is coloring everything in the universe, exhibit x y and z are that she thinks pain is a nurse's "number one
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sad...
  4. redhead_NURSE98!

    Regret Leaving Nursing Too Soon

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Omibashu's topic in Nursing Career

    I guess I just don't see how this response is
  5. redhead_NURSE98!

    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is all great, Rosie the Riveter. I'll be sitting over here employed. And when I get tired of what I signed up for, I'll be employed somewhere
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Not every plan works all the time, but it does get tiring to hear people using their kids as an excuse to be less of an employee day in, day out. Just today one of our techs didn't get her way this...
  7. redhead_NURSE98!

    Stopping patient care for another patient

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

    Sorry? BREATHING is my number one nursing
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Before I worked at my first hospital, I was told that we had someone that would always call in and say she couldn't get down off her driveway to get to work when it snowed. Someone google-mapped her...
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The terms appear to the be the terms in place when the OP signed on to work. If she didn't like the terms she should have negotiated different ones, or picked a different employer. She WAS in the...
  10. redhead_NURSE98!

    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i know, right? i mean, i get kind of tired of the people here who want to dictate the exact way in which they receive the opinions that they solicited. i'm sorry that "if you don't like it leave" is...
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    Common nicknames for hospital items.

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had to stop calling our computers on wheels "COWS" because some visitor got offended and complained because she heard "Get that COW out of the hallway" LMAO....now they're WOWs, workstations on...
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our house supervisor was there and then came to work the next day talking about it so I was glad that I actually have good work ethic. I understand it's rare these days, but I keep thinking that one...
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm upset I missed the local Beerfest this weekend because there were patients at the hospital and I was scheduled to work...is this
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Aaaaaaaaaand 3...2...1....butthurt! Where am I??? I'M IN ANOTHER CLIMATE
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I create Mediaography regularly at home...I just don't memorialize
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    Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i think you need to relocate to a better
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    Attention Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and other hospital assistive personnel!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Well then, I guess you could ask NCLEX, nursing boards, legislatures and authoritative textbooks to stop using that
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    Be polite, I don't have superpowers!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to EmmaZ06's topic in General Nursing

    I know this isn't what you were doing, but... I will say that I do interrupt personal conversations, without saying excuse me. My work is more important than what your baby's poop looked like this...
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    Hospital bullying?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Phlebandcma2rn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I LOVE when people tell me these sidewalk stories about getting stuck and "OMG SHE PUT THIS HUGE BRUISE ON MY ARM." I always say "OH MY GOSH, DID IT GO AWAY IN A FEW DAYS?" lol seriously shut up...
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    Dear Hospital Administration...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to aboucherrn's topic in General Nursing

    I stayed in a semi-private room for 5 days before I was a nurse, with a woman who was bedbound and had constant diarrhea...her family was there alllll day long yappity yapping and I had to sit there...
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    Patient education on medications

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to rich2008's topic in Patient Education

    If it's a really generic reason, like "blood pressure pills," I don't see the harm in
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    Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Just following the site's
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    Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is a problem. I have a FB friend who makes jokes about texting and driving to be funny i.e. "Can't these people see I'm trying to text here? All the horn honking isn't necessary" and I pray she...
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    Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Because it wasn't ON his Facebook. That guy made it EVERYONE'S business when he commented on a local newspaper article as his name, "Registered Pharmacist at Yickety Yak Yak Medical Center in Pueblo,...
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    Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    When they're paying me for the hours I sit at home, or the hours I go out to eat, drink, dance, etc., then they can tell me what to put on my Facebook. I try not to get too crazy with it, but if...