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    Wiping off IV ports

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I learned too, it's the drying that kills the germs. However, standing there holding the hub like a dope, staring at it, waiting for it to dry so I can push....the patients think I'm a...
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    Wiping off IV ports

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    See what I mean? Or you have a nurse who never learned to scrub it before looping it, even!! I am super embarrassed about that one, wondering what else they may not know in my old neck of the woods....
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    Socializing after work in your scrubs

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

    LMAO I know, and the fact that it was at the bottom of the page...I was in suspense!! "I wear...... I wear..... I WEAR WHAT?"
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    Wiping off IV ports

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    I always scrubbed the hubs when doing pushes, but at the hospital where I went to school no one ever scrubbed the hub before "looping" the iv when unplugging it. My new hospital they all do, and I was...
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    Stopping IV infusions

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Ciale's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It is an ER thing where I work. Then they get up to the floor and get mad I won't do
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    Socializing after work in your scrubs

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

    LMAO, I was going to ask you if your bodies collided and created a new superbug and/or released botulins into the air and killed everyone around you, until you specified that you took the necessary...
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    Socializing after work in your scrubs

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

    "Change back"???? Uhhh I wear my scrubs out of the house. I don't get dressed so I can go to work and get undressed and vice versa. If you're grossed out by scrubs stay away, all the better for my...
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    Would you feel ok as a patient at your own hospital?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to SNB1014's topic in General Nursing

    All of my coworkers who are admitted request to come to our floor - even a woman who had knee replacements came to our GI floor when we have a perfectly fine ortho floor, lol. I don't understand it....
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    Socializing after work in your scrubs

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

    I don't let my patients poop or pee on me, as a general
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    Socializing after work in your scrubs

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

    I do this. My desire for a margarita and to socialize with friends is greater than my desire to a) make you feel better about your paranoia, b) drive 15 miles home to change and come back, probably...
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    You know its a seeker when . . .

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Emergency

    I like when they tell me they're allergic to the generic but not the brand... "I can't have hydromorphone, I'm allergic to it. They usually use Dilaudid." "Cool ma'am, hydromorphone "IS...
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    You know its a seeker when . . .

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Emergency

    She assumed you were seeking...after rolling up in an ambulance from an MVA on a backboard, huh? Someone needs their attitude
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    You know its a seeker when . . .

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Emergency

    Seriously, I do hear that "_____ doesn't work" is a hallmark of a seeker, but.... Lortab doesn't work!!!! Don't give me a script for it, I will rip it up in front of you and go home and take ibuprofen...
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    What kind of pre-employment drug screen do most employers do?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to northw3's topic in Nursing Career

    Whaaaaaa???? As an employee? Or are you referring to discharging patients for not taking the narcotics they're being prescribed, since either a) they don't need them or b) they're selling them?...
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    Just put an end my misery if...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to R!XTER's topic in General Nursing

    All of that should be up to you though, and people should be expressing these feelings via advanced directives. The problem lies in the fact that not enough people have these things spelled out for...
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    What NOT to say during an interview

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Teacher Sue's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Holly crap! LOL she must have seen that episode of Grey's where the woman is going into surgery and her two friends are there, and she is very tearful and hesitant, and George says "If you have...
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    Think Twice Before Becoming a "NURSE"

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to mcrutRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    OMG....clearly you want the managers to consider suicide!
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    I'm sorry sir, I cannot call the neurosurgeon at 3AM for that...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know that anyone said he couldn't operate. Point was, I wouldn't want him operating on me after being woken up, possibly multiple times in a night, for short order OTC requests on a patient's...
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    I'm sorry sir, I cannot call the neurosurgeon at 3AM for that...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    LMAO I want to tell a doc this next time I get lip for calling them at
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    I'm sorry sir, I cannot call the neurosurgeon at 3AM for that...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah I prefer my neurosurgeons to have gotten plenty of sleep the night before surgery and not woken up 10 times for tums, sorry kids
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    I'm sorry sir, I cannot call the neurosurgeon at 3AM for that...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to EJBNeuroRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have started asking pts that I admit, "What do you take when you have heartburn? What do you take if you can't sleep? What do you take if you have a sore throat? What do you take if you're...
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    Think Twice Before Becoming a "NURSE"

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to mcrutRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've been an RN for only a year. I disagree with your little picture. Guess everyone's experience is
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    She might have put it in the closest port...some people are stupid like that, and make it harder for the rest of us to do our jobs properly. I had a nurse reporting off that Phenergan "burnt the...
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    We don't hire new nurses.

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to rrich1084's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I agree with this, except to the extent that God don't pay the
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    Getting an associates degree when you already have a Bachelors Degree in another fiel

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to DawnMP3's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Wait a minute....they have a bachelor's in an unrelated field and can get an MSN straightaway? I sure hope that program requires a lot of credits. I also hope they award them a BSN before the MSN,...