cherrybreeze

cherrybreeze ADN, RN

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  1. What is your routine to clean-up and decompress after your shift?

    cherrybreeze replied to kelsn's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I'll shower when I get home (I work 11am-1130pm), sometimes not....some nights, I'm just too tired! I shower when I feel like I'm sweaty/gross from running around all night, not because of...

  2. Do you LIKE every patient that walks through your door?

    cherrybreeze replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    Of course not. Do you like everyone you encounter in any OTHER situation? No. Therefore it wouldn't be reasonable to expect to like every patient that comes your way, either. Luckily, it's not our...

  3. Trying to understand difference between LPN and RN practice....

    cherrybreeze replied to lovesunsets's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Discussing the fact that you have more education and therefore deserve more pay by using the phrases "Like duh" and "TRUE DAT!" completely undermines the point you're trying to

  4. How do you wear your hair for work?

    cherrybreeze replied to ChasingRain's topic in General Nursing

    There is nothing worse than realizing shortly in to my 12-hour shift that I've secured my hair too tight, or that part of the clip it's in is crooked and digging in to my scalp. I *set* my style...

  5. How do you wear your hair for work?

    cherrybreeze replied to ChasingRain's topic in General Nursing

    I like the look of those bands, but they don't stay on my head well...probably because I have an abnormally large melon (one-size-fits-all hats? Don't fit. All of the kids got that from my dad

  6. Can never be to safe...

    cherrybreeze replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    I would, if it were legal to do so in my state. It isn't,

  7. Being a patient advocate.

    cherrybreeze replied to tookalongtime's topic in General Nursing

    You don't know, however, what they were taking before they came in. They may not have been on narcs regularly, making withdrawals a non-issue (they aren't going to have that severe of withdrawals...

  8. Being a patient advocate.

    cherrybreeze replied to tookalongtime's topic in General Nursing

    I think you did fine, and agree that trying to obtain a narc script would not have been "advocating," it would have been "enabling" (kudos to the above poster who put that so simply and truthfully!)....

  9. I Need Yur Advice Please

    cherrybreeze replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    Since you say you don't know which you'd rather do, being that you've done neither, there IS a chance that you'll get in to nursing and decide it isn't right for you, period. Doing the ADN first...

  10. UPS Drivers make HOW much????

    cherrybreeze replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in General Nursing

    That is not the norm, though, and I know you know that, right? At any rate, plenty of jobs pay a lot of money that doesn't seem justifiable (pro athletes and actors, anyone?) and I don't really think...

  11. How do you wear your hair for work?

    cherrybreeze replied to ChasingRain's topic in General Nursing

    I like my hair long, I wouldn't cut it for a job (it's been 15 years since it's been above my shoulders). It's easy enough to pull up. I'd still have my hands in it constantly if I wore it...

  12. Trying to understand difference between LPN and RN practice....

    cherrybreeze replied to lovesunsets's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    It really must vary from state-to-state. The only thing LPN's can do with IV's here is hang fluids (as in changing a bag) and a very limited number of IV antibiotics. No blood and NO central lines...

  13. How Can You Tell if a Pt. Is Addicted???

    cherrybreeze replied to Pretty in Ink's topic in Addictions

    Can't say this enough! Anyone on chronic pain meds becomes physically dependent, that's part and parcel with chronic opioid therapy. That doesn't equate being "addicted." I know the OP is old, but...

  14. Vent:Unfair Shift Rotation

    cherrybreeze replied to saber_rider's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Yea, you get a day off, I can see THAT point (made by previous posters), but our schedulers avoid only one day between rotating nights to days...when are you supposed to sleep? You get done Saturday...

  15. New CNA worried might have caught HIV working with HIV positive resident

    cherrybreeze replied to MarellaMagdalene's topic in General Nursing

    OP stated that the resident is known HIV

  16. Eye drops

    cherrybreeze replied to stephanie brooks's topic in General Nursing

    Normally, at least a few minutes. The only exception to this that I know of is when we send patients for eye surgery...we do four drops, five minutes apart, so you give each one in succession, wait...

  17. New CNA worried might have caught HIV working with HIV positive resident

    cherrybreeze replied to MarellaMagdalene's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the other posters, the situation you describe is very, very low risk (in fact, even being poked with a needle contaminated by a known, HIV-infected person carries transmission rates in...

  18. Random music with nursing

    cherrybreeze replied to leekun2010's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, sometimes *tone* gets totally lost in the typed word. Happens to me all the

  19. Is it legal to call yourself "Nurse" when you in fact are not?

    cherrybreeze replied to LoveMyDaughters's topic in General Nursing

    You're stating the difference, but calling it the same thing. The patient may get the impression that anyone in a uniform is a nurse, and call them a nurse; that is completely different than that...

  20. Is it legal to call yourself "Nurse" when you in fact are not?

    cherrybreeze replied to LoveMyDaughters's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, the whole point is that this IS illegal to do. She isn't the "nurse" looking after you if she isn't a nurse (RN or LPN). She is the "person," "patient care tech," or "CNA," etc, looking...

  21. Please help with case study for Nursing School

    cherrybreeze replied to Ireynolds87's topic in General Students

    If people still have something to say, and to respond with, they're welcome to do so. I don't see any "bashing"? Why is it always considered that when someone doesn't share the same opinion as...

  22. Random music with nursing

    cherrybreeze replied to leekun2010's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing wrong with finding/making the time to do something you enjoy, especially with the every day stress of medical school! I say kudos to

  23. Random music with nursing

    cherrybreeze replied to leekun2010's topic in General Nursing

    A local band here is made up exclusively of physicians. A couple of them I see regularly on the floor, some of the others work with different medical groups and are associated with other area...

  24. Whyyyyy? Rant from a Lab Tech

    cherrybreeze replied to raianne's topic in General Nursing

    That is good to know, thank you. :) I don't think I've ever heard that (that a patient is "clotted,") but it's a good piece of info to store in the old brain. I know what you mean about labs being...

  25. Please help with case study for Nursing School

    cherrybreeze replied to Ireynolds87's topic in General Students

    This isn't Google. It also isn't an issue of "plagiarism." The people on the scholarship committee want to know how this person thinks, not how we think. If the OP looks up issues regarding end of...