puggy232

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1. Smelly co-worker

   puggy232 replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Your floor manager should really be the one to talk to her, in private her being the brunt of jokes is hardly appropriate. On a floor that I use work on we had a US who smelled like cat urine, as if her cats were not altered-ugh, no one told her, ju...

2. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   puggy232 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   Oh you want me to put in a 22g IV-its smaller yes but you have IV VANC it will burn-but that might feel good to you seeing that mural of a tatoo on the right side of chest that you have. Oh stop having your mama, grandmama, and daddy call the floor ...

3. Nurses eat anybody young old and indifferent

   puggy232 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   I agree 100% I hate nursing! Just for all of the above, I could deal with the stress taking care of pts, the hateful family members, and lousy pay, if coworkers back you up, helped out when they see someone struggling vs watching and wanting to see ...

4. Multiple Sclerosis

   puggy232 replied to kmrmom42's topic in Disabilities

   It is not my intention to dx- MS affects everyone differently. My intent is only to convey my experience as many in the medical community have little or no understanding of the disease ie doctots-and when going through such an experience and random ...

5. Multiple Sclerosis

   puggy232 replied to kmrmom42's topic in Disabilities

   What you are describing with your vision sounds very much like optic neuritist-you need to call your PCP and let him/her know and get a referral to a neuro opthalamologist(sp). ON was my first sx, my eye doctor told me that lesions can be too small ...

6. Is it too much to ask for your coworkers to be considerate?

   puggy232 replied to NurseBrittney's topic in New Nurse

   This LPN has a problem alright-her low self esteem! The fact that she considers herself just an lpn a stupid one, says volumes, she obviously feels inadequate, again her problem. The fact that you stood up to her good for you-the fact that she corn...

7. Need Advice, please help! (HIPAA)

   puggy232 replied to StarNurse2006's topic in General Nursing

   Some of these NM get As for passing the buck don't they? If you were speaking in generalities I can't see the problem-but its your word against that of a family member-since you were in your home, and then that of the NM since she talked to family a...

8. NM and respect issues - need advice!

   puggy232 replied to NellieP73's topic in General Nursing

   I learned the hard way not to expect validation/appreciation from charge and nurse managers, it sounds like you are ready to move on save your energy, do your job knowing what you are worth and offer it to your patients, when you leave it is their l...

9. Why do some CNAs make our jobs so hard?

   puggy232 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

   I think some are just miserable in their jobs, spiteful, hateful. Some are truely wonderful I worked on a floor where unfortunately the bad out numbered the good, and management was oblivious, or just wanted everyone to likle her and did nothing to ...

10. Requesting to not have a certain patient

    puggy232 replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Let your charge nurse know, I have only done it twice once in the middle of shift, the patient was cussing yelling at me in the hallway wanting to know why I was helping another pt before him-mind you this man was a CHFer, 90 years old and trying to ...

11. Where is the money at?

    puggy232 replied to xstalkrx's topic in General Nursing

    That's pretty good, here in st.louis they start at 18.00 I think, with bonuses every quarter, which are almost impossible sometimes to get with pts complaining about everything under creation.

12. Child Vaccinations

    puggy232 replied to pwg1219's topic in General Nursing

    As a former peds clinic nurse expense is probably one reason, newborn to early childhood vaccinations are very expensive, and not covered by alot of insurance policies. About ten years ago state immunization programs covered all children for vaccina...

13. New job now vs. move soon

    puggy232 replied to Ilovefruit's topic in General Nursing

    With the economy the way it is now-take the job. Keep your mouth closed about the move-since it sounds like it is not for sure anyway, and it's easier to look for a job while you have one then to be stressed trying to find one, and having to settle ...

14. Most memorable thing patient has said to me...

    puggy232 replied to Nurse Salt's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt, a young woman with scleroderma (sp?) in who was a sweet as she could be, her family was really nice, had family portraits in her room which were hard to look at because you could see how disfiguring the disease had been for her-it had onl...

15. Does your supervisor give a crap?

    puggy232 replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    Nope. I’ve worked a few jobs in my time, and some not so glamorous. Never have I felt as disposable as I do in my new profession (that is by management … not by my co-workers or my patients). I felt far more valued and had greater autonomy when I wa...