StNeotser ASN, RN

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    I guess I'm too HOT to be a nurse.

    StNeotser replied to KY RN's topic in General Nursing

    But were you interviewed by an old
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    What's The Meanest Thing A Dr. or Co-worker Ever Said To You?

    StNeotser replied to tishirajan's topic in General Nursing

    I got a nasty eval last year because I am "unkind" to patients. I was "unkind" to an entitled family once, and only once because I would not fetch drinks for some overentitled fifty something ape and...
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    Abandonment?

    StNeotser replied to HollyBeans's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Do you have children? Once I was put in this situation and said, OK, so do I get charged with patient abandonment or child neglect? Shall I call state and find out? They stumped up for an agency...
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    I made a doctor mad at me.

    StNeotser replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    As others have posted, this won't be the last time, but if we as nurses report each incident like this, hopefully they will become fewer and far
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    help, I have burnout bad!!

    StNeotser replied to jrbl77's topic in General Nursing

    To the OP, It's not your fault. To do a job that is as demanding as ours, to have to think critically through all the stupidity, and to get no thanks at the end of the day from anyone, the patient,...
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    Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

    StNeotser replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    No I haven't. And judging by the only two times I really needed A My health insurance and B my homeowners insurance I sincerely hope I never ever need
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    NP discusses MJ on national TV ????

    StNeotser replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    I was watching Larry King and someone kept twittering on the ticker below the screen "Why is this nurse violating HIPAA" The only thing I did wonder is if he was not receiving care from this nurse...
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    Public Apology

    StNeotser replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    We told you
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    "If you sit down and chart for more than 15 minutes, that's considered a break"

    StNeotser replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I guess office workers spend their whole working lives on break then. Wonder why anyone needs them. Your management is scum. Are they going to have snoops doing surveillance to determine who...
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    How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    StNeotser replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    All I can really tell is this after wading through this very long debate On personal experience: As a UK citizen and an American naturalized citizen who moved here for a marriage (now defunct) and am...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    StNeotser replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    NO, just because I am some random person in scrubs walking in the entrance to the hospital to the time clock do not try to palm off on me your family member with IV pole that you have snuck out for a...
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    Seriously, the apothecary system?

    StNeotser replied to krenee's topic in General Nursing

    I've never seen it since graduating in
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    Whats in YOUR lunchbox???

    StNeotser replied to SweetLemon's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, we have that too and I'm glad I work on an off shift when those vendors aren't open all the
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    Whats in YOUR lunchbox???

    StNeotser replied to SweetLemon's topic in General Nursing

    You can make a good cold pasta salad to go with veggies. If I don't have time to make anything I like those tuna fish and crackers packages you can buy. I've heard they're unhealthy, you know full...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    StNeotser replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    We already do deal with family round the clock. Had someone complain that the cafeteria was not open at 10pm. Then visit at a normal time
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    Feeling sick/nausea/panic attacks before my shift...please help!!

    StNeotser replied to ljb2584's topic in General Nursing

    Before you go running to your doctor for prescriptions, please ask to be referred to a therapist first that specializes in anxiety. Your insurance should cover most of the
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    Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    StNeotser replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    If you want to write like a first grader, ignore me while you are sitting next to me at the desk and leave without telling me, DO NOT be surprised when I call you to ask you what you meant by that...
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    Challenging Residents

    StNeotser replied to Neats's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    "The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain, for they merely make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy and the narrow more narrow"-Florence Nightengale People can...
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    Vacation - We need to find our own replacements

    StNeotser posted a topic in General Nursing

    We have been told if we want to schedule vacation we will have to find our own replacements without the use of pool or the replacement nurse going into overtime. It's apparently been pretty difficult...
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    Vacation - We need to find our own replacements

    StNeotser replied to StNeotser's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for your responses everybody. Apparently the staffing office will still attempt to find coverage for our vacations - I just called them. However, if they find it too difficult, then the onus...
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    Med Errors

    StNeotser replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    If it's a hole in the MAR I normally can speak to the nurse who should have signed it off and say By the by, I noticed you didn't sign off so and so's coumadin. Then the balls in their
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    Another Outrageous Visitor Thread

    StNeotser replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What a great aide you have. I'm going to be using that line
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    Another Outrageous Visitor Thread

    StNeotser replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think I mentioned this before but I am still fuming at the family who wanted to take mother out in the gardens as everything looked so pretty, but wanted a nurse to push her while they walked along....
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    Crazy Family Member!

    StNeotser replied to scooby72's topic in General Nursing

    Really does any other profession have to go through this? Does a retail employee have to consult the store manager before calling
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    Why do you believe what you believe, concerning your position on health care?

    StNeotser replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I was born in the UK in 1972, had little to do with health care beyond general examinations and childhood shots right up until I was pregnant at age 23. We had the NHS, so along with a police force...