Wishinonastar

Wishinonastar BSN

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  1. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like another name for case manager to me. Ah "a rose by any other name"... I am glad that someone out there can use care plans to make a living. All is not lost. I do remember a time when I...

  2. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm. Deny the difference? Embrace the difference? Maybe it is the era that you were brought up in? Me, I never give up. I never give in. I am woman, hear me roar (LOL). I am a product of the 60s and...

  3. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Still stereotyping. Not true. I don't think it is healthy to "nurse" (LOL) this kind of thinking. "According to our research, gender is not a reliable predictor of negotiation performance; neither...

  4. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Rob72 it was directed at Nursel56 who deleted the portion of her comment that I was responding to- essentially how we need more men in nursing because of the femaleness resulting in these issues....

  5. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    A better way to put it, but I think that in general it is not the gender that matters, but the attributes of the people who are drawn to certain professions. Male nurses most likely have similar...

  6. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    WHOA wait a minute. Let's not go down that path. Please. Men can do everything right and will fix us and rescue us from our nursing diagnosis? Right. That is why all the strictly male-run nations are...

  7. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Outcome Based is well entrenched in Home Health. Nursing care plans are fading away into Best Practices. Much better. Much more user friendly. I agree that this is the way of the future, along with...

  8. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    You are putting down your own specialty by posting things like that. A CNA might notice something like Impaired Skin Intergrity while giving a bath. A CNA cannot write the care plans, but can...

  9. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Cooperation only in time of need, such as disasters. In general we are a very self-serving society- the "what's in it for me?" model. That of course is human nature. It is only cultural values that...

  10. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    I think this discussion is affecting my energy field! Oh we do bear a terrible burden in trying to prove ourselves useful and important. So sad. It should be self evident that we are needed and...

  11. Nurses with depression

    Wishinonastar replied to grandmawrinkle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    If that were so, which it is not, the anti-anxiety drugs would not be primary drugs of abuse. They are depressants like alcohol, and they certainly do NOT make you think more clearly. If you make a...

  12. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Once we have been through nursing school and have a little experience under our belts we KNOW what to do. We are trained. We see someone with a feeding tube and we raise the head of the bed. We see...

  13. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    Wishinonastar replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    They always seemed to me like a learning tool for students. A total waste of time for working nurses. They make us look like we are trying to make something self-evident sound professional. Dyspnea,...

  14. A Pre-nursing Student who believes...

    Wishinonastar replied to digoe74's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    We as RNs are expected to clean up after our own patients and assist with cleaning up other patients as needed. We are a team. Everyone gets dirty. In a doctor's office you get dirty. I am a school...

  15. What's the scariest thing you've ever seen as a nurse?

    Wishinonastar replied to Nurse0621's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of scary things over the years, but I will never forget the time I walked in and a patient's sheets were on fire! I scooped them up and threw them in the shower. He was smoking in the bed and...

  16. Why don't I have a job right now?

    Wishinonastar replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in General Nursing

    Taking time off used to be normal with kids, but now it is difficult to get back in as you are seeing. Many people stay on as casual just to keep a foot in the door. I would hardly call 22 months...

  17. Question for Nurses who are MOMS

    Wishinonastar replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    YES!!! Most place will willingly take weekend people because covering weekends is the hardest thing to do. No one wants to work weekends unless you have little ones. Look around- long term care, home...

  18. Question for Nurses who are MOMS

    Wishinonastar replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The great thing about nursing is that you have flexibility as to work life. I have always been able to find jobs that work around my family needs. It is never perfect, but neither is 9-5 Mon. through...

  19. Ritalin at work

    Wishinonastar replied to Spika RN's topic in General Nursing

    That is why I said a LABEL- as in a pharmacy label. And yes, the controversy is with adult ADHD, but it is very controversial. What we are seeing now is the many kids raised on ritalin moving up...

  20. Ritalin at work

    Wishinonastar replied to Spika RN's topic in General Nursing

    If I were her I would ask that you keep only a single dose in a secure location. It is still too tempting for someone who wants to abuse it. She could not say anything about it because it could be...

  21. Ritalin at work

    Wishinonastar replied to Spika RN's topic in General Nursing

    I understand needing to use the med- if it is prescribed. But keeping a bottle of it at work? Risky. I would never keep a bottle of ritalin or any other controlled substance at work. If I needed a...

  22. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Wishinonastar replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Gosh I miss that

  23. Merry Christmas Mr. J

    Wishinonastar posted a topic in General Nursing

    He was a proud war veteran, this man who changed my life. He lived alone in a tiny apartment and had no family left alive, at least none that he knew of. He was alone, yet he was fiercely independent,...

  24. Why Do Nursing Instructors Rely So Heavily On PowerPoints To Teach?

    Wishinonastar replied to SarahMaria's topic in General Students

    Others who already have achieved the degree and who are actively involved with research and publishing making them leaders in their fields. Postdoctoral students are working on research in a...

  25. For those a BSN or MSN acquired online, did you face discrimination when job hunting

    Wishinonastar replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in General Nursing

    wow. talk about stereotyping. i got a ged and i now have a graduate degree with high honors from a major university. my father was a teacher, my mother a nurse. we are a middle class suburb family-...