Sparrowhawk

Sparrowhawk

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  1. Switching to the ER after 20 yrs of floor nursing.

    Sparrowhawk replied to JDougRN's topic in Emergency

    Why would you be

  2. Do you answer your phone on your day off?

    Sparrowhawk replied to Leelee2's topic in General Nursing

    I always answer...and I usually say no. Once I say yes they've got me and expect it and then the guilt trips start and the burnout...been there donet here ain't going back. My days off are

  3. Help! I'm frustrated with the people I work with.

    Sparrowhawk replied to RoseCity's topic in General Nursing

    I will say it's worst in a nursing

  4. Help! I'm frustrated with the people I work with.

    Sparrowhawk replied to RoseCity's topic in General Nursing

    In one ear, out the other. Get in, get done, go home, take care of your patients. Pfft the gossip, it's

  5. Can You Ask for More?

    Sparrowhawk replied to Sl1011's topic in General Nursing

    Not to be ******, but as a new grad, I'd take the 15 and run with it. In this economy that is dang good money for either RN or LPN Especially in a dr's

  6. Silly question ??

    Sparrowhawk replied to Elleveein's topic in General Nursing

    I've always heard it as a young inexperienced nurse was a baby

  7. Need help remembering...

    Sparrowhawk replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    I don't remember..it's been awhile...*thinks

  8. what's it like to be a LVN in LTC?

    Sparrowhawk replied to Kellyma's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You get more contact then you think you do by observing the nurses...Nurses get plenty of contact with the

  9. what's it like to be a LVN in LTC?

    Sparrowhawk replied to Kellyma's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Most places the nurses chart 75% or more of their day....the rest is assessments, dressing changes, meds and other things based on the acuity of your

  10. When everything could go wrong...it did

    Sparrowhawk replied to blessedmomma247's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Good job...good way to keep your head and keep cool. You get a big gold star..or you

  11. HELP!

    Sparrowhawk replied to BAMARN09's topic in General Nursing

    Ain't that medical ad-vice? Can't do

  12. Pregnant, Nursing School, and Full time LPN

    Sparrowhawk replied to maui12886's topic in General Nursing

    I agree...especially with the early May part. You'd have to have JUST gotten pregnant.

  13. I'm done!...Vent!

    Sparrowhawk replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    How can you have 3 1/2 nurses? How do you have 1/2 a nurse? Not being funny..it just..looks

  14. Not enough money?

    Sparrowhawk replied to NurseMegh's topic in General Nursing

    That's GOOD for a clinic around

  15. JOB iDEAS WHiLE iN FULL TiME SCHOOL.

    Sparrowhawk replied to miidgett411's topic in General Nursing

    Not to be ******...but please stop typing in bold and caps and small i's...hurts my eyes. And yeah, any foot in is a good foot

  16. I think cutsey scrub tops look ridiculous on adult units

    Sparrowhawk replied to AZO49008's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Glad you figured out all that! LOL...and I know. I'm not whining..I'm just saying perspective in this rather silly thread that shoul dhave died a long time ago.

  17. I think cutsey scrub tops look ridiculous on adult units

    Sparrowhawk replied to AZO49008's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I find it doesn't matter what type of scrubs I wear...my professionalism is based soley on how old I look....people don't think I'm a nurse..not because I wear prints two days of the week but because...

  18. Time Off Requests

    Sparrowhawk replied to syrlisa's topic in General Nursing

    NExt time I'd remind them a month or so after you put it in. A lot of times it gets lost if you put it in too early. You could still ask, reminding them you'd requested it off months

  19. just yapping

    Sparrowhawk replied to marielina85's topic in General Nursing

    Happy

  20. What are the worst call in excuses you've heard?

    Sparrowhawk replied to sasha2lady's topic in General Nursing

    Faking a car

  21. tricks played on new JR doctors!

    Sparrowhawk replied to scaryclairy's topic in Nursing Humor

    That is pretty funny in a nasty gross

  22. Lonely new nurse/ do you have nurse friends?

    Sparrowhawk replied to BFLORES's topic in General Nursing

    NEver make friends at work. They're never true, don't last and end up being on the bad

  23. Tidbits, facts, save-your-butts...for new nurses in LTC

    Sparrowhawk replied to CharleeJo.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If your gut tells you to document something...document it. Document everything you can...especially resident behaviours and what they say and do and what you did. If you think it'll CYA...do

  24. After the nurse-patient relationship has been terminated...

    Sparrowhawk replied to Eirene's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Depends on the type of "personal relationship" I'd think...course I think intimate relations when I hear personal

  25. I finally made it!!!!

    Sparrowhawk replied to shandsburnRN-CRNA's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Congratulations!