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    discovered and reported falsification of VS

    VICEDRN replied to traumaRNdrama's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Was about to tell you the same thing, girl! Your example will lead others. Though I go bleak from time to time, I'll remember you next time I decide to gloss over wrong doings on the
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    CRNA and ICU Nurses Please Help!!!!

    VICEDRN replied to vanasd's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I am not an ICU nurse. (I am however married to one. lol.) Take the smaller hospital's offer. Based on the experiences each of us and our friends have had over the last two years, I would guess...
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    Ethical (?) Dilemma?

    VICEDRN replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    I appreciate the thoughtfulness of jolie's response but business is business especially in modern America. If you compromise, so to speak, and a few months go by and you have to be on days, expect...
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    Pct refused delegation

    VICEDRN replied to Manatee111's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with the assessment that she just tried to get her story to the unit manager first. I would respond in writing. The manager might be looking for both sides of the story. I would do anything...
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    New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't about critically thinking. I see the same behavior here as I do on the unit. Saying someone should critically think is like saying there was no thinking in deciding to report the cna....
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    New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    1. I agree that's it's likely because he is new. It's a whole nother sorority sister bullying thing in nursing. You have to be jumped in, for sure. Again, not what I would choose to do but that...
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    Feeling Burned Out & Unappreciated!- What else is new?

    VICEDRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't ever take report on 14 patients ever again.
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    Feeling Burned Out & Unappreciated!- What else is new?

    VICEDRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, get a new job. I left a job that I really actually liked because the nurse to patient ratio was ridiculous. I had 6 or 7 at a minimum and as many as 11 or 12 at a time. My new job also...
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    Are LPNs being phased out?

    VICEDRN replied to zandile2011's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I think it really depends on where you live and what your version of making money is. Here, in Atlanta, lpns are not being actively hired in hospitals. You might be able to find a job at a nursing...
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    New Orientee Ticking Me Off

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to be the devils advocate here and for the record, I have only ever written someone up one time and talked to the person first but a lot of what you guys are saying on this thread amounts to...
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    Do you need a license to practice as a RN or can you just how proof of passing NCLEX?

    VICEDRN replied to ilove's topic in General Nursing

    In Georgia, you need a license. Passing nclex is not the same thing as having a license and there is a slight lag between passing and obtaining a license. Being able to look at the license online is...
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    Advice to the LTC nurse...

    VICEDRN replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Emergency

    1. Please do not return patients to us so that we can discontinue the iv nobody discontinued. Grab some tape and gauze and have at it. Please don't send me a febrile patient that is 100.4. That's not...
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    How many of you have to pay for parking for your work?

    VICEDRN replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Me and this dude might work at the same place...my story is the same as his and I feel exactly the same as him. Don't care about cost as long as it's covered deck and close to
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    What supplies do you carry on you?

    VICEDRN replied to Nire83's topic in Emergency

    left pocket: tape, trauma shears, hemostats, lip balm, car keys (in case the s--t hits the fan) right pocket: a couple of dollars, a pocket protector with three pens, all black, one sharpie, alcohol...
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    Doc have right to get upset with me?

    VICEDRN replied to Jenni811's topic in General Nursing

    I just started at a teaching hospital but I have already figured what the op probably already knows...don't listen to the residents. They turn every mole hill into a mountain. You couldn't even get...
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    Scope of Practice

    VICEDRN replied to RFRN's topic in General Nursing

    Learned pelvic Exam in nursing school. Truthfully, it involves the collection of a culture which all of us do all the time already. Docs are protective of it because it reimburses well, not because...
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    Here's something you don't see every day

    VICEDRN replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    Had a patient with one embedded in her ear drum. Oh my gosh, The poor little thing. Of course we thought
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    Something wrong with this picture.

    VICEDRN replied to Mimi2RN's topic in General Nursing

    Some of y'all need to understand these resources liberal states have are not available to patients in conservative cash conscious states like Georgia. We studied the phenomena in nursing school....
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    Is anyone else annoyed by the expectations of male nurses in transferring patients?

    VICEDRN replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    My husband is male and a nurse and YES, it annoys me both when on my unit and when I realize my husband's assignments often involved heavy patients or requests to move heavy patients. I have told him...
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    He// to the NO!

    VICEDRN replied to FLmomof5's topic in General Nursing

    Not tying to hijack your thread, but I too, have had a lot of different jobs and I find you are exactly right. Nurses allow themselves to be abused way more than other groups of workers do. I am...
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    20 Things Nurses Wish They Never Had to Say

    VICEDRN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    "I'm sorry. I have no idea how you are going to get home. No, we dont give people cab vouchers anymore because people abused them. How did you get here? You don't know a single person who can come...
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    Medical Screening Exam at triage by RN

    VICEDRN replied to RNinED's topic in Emergency

    At my last job, we did Mse in triage. It was done by an rn. I agree that it is allowed by emtala and it is within the scope of practice of an rn in my state. We used a drop down assessment tool that...
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    ER and strange phenomena

    VICEDRN replied to EmergencyNrse's topic in Emergency

    My last shift was Monday night and my patients were all out of the blue types and colorful personalities. A headache but wait! It's from an aneurysm! A hypertensive crisis and then... Sudden onset of...
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    ER and strange phenomena

    VICEDRN replied to EmergencyNrse's topic in Emergency

    This is the very description of viral illness. Temps go up as cortisol levels drop in the
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    Advice for dealing with manipulative patients who are frequent flyers?

    VICEDRN replied to baby.nurse123's topic in General Nursing

    I think you know what to do but i think you really are asking us how to deal with the feelings you have about it. You know to set limits and call security if they threaten. You know you will not...