cherrybreeze

cherrybreeze ADN, RN

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  1. Mandated Reporter

    cherrybreeze replied to Wife of Spinner's topic in General Nursing

    Technically speaking, I do not feel that the requirement would reach this far. It's not something you've learned about in a professional capacity, you have not witnessed anything, and in fact, you've...

  2. Being a Caregiver considered to be Healthcare profession?

    cherrybreeze replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    I would agree, I feel that only personnel providing actual healthcare, with some type of licensure or certification to back that up, doing DIRECT patient care, should wear

  3. Question about getting that 1st RN job

    cherrybreeze replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think volunteering would help, but I don't see how working as a CNA or something similar WOULDN'T help. It gives the new RN real experience in working with patients beyond the school-clinical...

  4. Being a Caregiver considered to be Healthcare profession?

    cherrybreeze replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    I would consider that misleading, yes, but certainly not unusual. Brings me back to the debate about how some of the HUC's on our floor wear scrubs, even though they do not do any direct patient care...

  5. Experienced Nurses please need advice for a GN RN on Job Choice

    cherrybreeze replied to NEWGRADNURSE75's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think it could possibly be a bad career move to take a job at all, rather than not? I would be inclined to think that the surgical care center is going to give you more "hospital-similar"...

  6. Being a Caregiver considered to be Healthcare profession?

    cherrybreeze replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    I would lean towards "no" then, not a healthcare profession. Companion care can include cleaning, running errands such as grocery shopping, helping cook, and only basic things such as helping wash...

  7. help with a cheater please!!!!

    cherrybreeze replied to hollyandsky's topic in General Nursing

    Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are some people's 'things.' I know it's one of my things, nothing turns me off more than reading something that blatantly disregards one of them (or all three). I...

  8. Getting called off

    cherrybreeze replied to pottie's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have to say, not necessarily. I've been seeing periods come and go of getting called off a lot for the eight years I've been in my position. What's happening now, at least in my area, is nothing...

  9. Being a Caregiver considered to be Healthcare profession?

    cherrybreeze replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

    No one else did, either? You seem a little defensive about being a nursing assistant? (I noticed you changed your username) I think you need to define "caregiver," by just those words, I don't know...

  10. administering blood products

    cherrybreeze replied to ello7's topic in General Nursing

    We use our tube system now as well. There is a form that goes along with it that you sign after inspecting the blood you receive, both to make sure the patient information matches, and that the bag...

  11. Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    cherrybreeze replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    If you're going to throw in your own example, then that negates all of your posts here telling us how wrong it is to vent. So just stop. You're not saying anything that anyone here doesn't already...

  12. What would you have said to this CNA

    cherrybreeze replied to zofran's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh, I totally hear you there. But I'm pretty sure in the post that I quoted, the poster was completely serious, and not meaning what you are saying. I think they truly were offering 'insight', and...

  13. What would you have said to this CNA

    cherrybreeze replied to zofran's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This entire thread has so much to comment on, but it's gone on so long I'll bite my tongue (or sit on my hands?) on the vast majority of it. I will ask about this though: First, you say paying...

  14. Question: Why don't hospitals color code the scrubs?

    cherrybreeze replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    Our ER went to color coding to give it a try; RN's are in Navy blue, LPN's are in burgundy, techs are in hunter green (something like that, anyway). I wouldn't mind that, but unless it's spelled out...

  15. Scandal...I may have my license revoked? help

    cherrybreeze replied to enmack's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not seeing where you are getting the "I may lose my license" thought, either....IMO, your actions were the most RIGHT amongst all of the nursing staff involved. It seems you were the FIRST one to...

  16. Changing Shifts

    cherrybreeze replied to SweetLemon's topic in General Nursing

    Every facility is obviously different, in the hospital I work in, changing shifts wouldn't be feasible unless there actually was a position open on another shift. As much as they might WANT to...

  17. Need advice,Problem CNA

    cherrybreeze replied to stillwant2banurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am lost on what input a CNA should have about the meds in the first place....if what you mean by "the meds are incorrect" is that you think she should be on different meds/dosages or none at all,...

  18. Nursing School: Did you GAIN or LOSE weight?

    cherrybreeze replied to Di Deanna's topic in General Nursing

    I don't remember how much, but I know I gained...I was BUSY as can be, I went *almost* full time and also worked as a CNA 32 hours/week, but I ate crap, since I was needing to find quick things and...

  19. Feeling sick/nausea/panic attacks before my shift...please help!!

    cherrybreeze replied to ljb2584's topic in General Nursing

    You've gotten great advice and suggestions already, so I guess I'm just posting to add my agreement. I think it's not a bad idea to look in to both the counseling AND the medication possibility with...

  20. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    cherrybreeze replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    LOL! Pot, meet

  21. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    cherrybreeze replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    I absolutely love that you are explaining how things work to the people that do it everyday, when you yourself do not. Who does those things? I do. Again, you're speaking in absolutes.....that...

  22. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    cherrybreeze replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    agreed!! to the op: no one ever said the family wasn't an integral part of patient care, for crying out loud.....but that doesn't mean they do my job for me. your interpretation of that statement...

  23. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    cherrybreeze replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    I respectfully disagree. I've worked on a med/surg floor for 8 years. Just because it's not an ICU doesn't mean that "oh the patient voided" is good enough, not by far. The majority of our surgeons...

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

    cherrybreeze replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    THANK YOU!! Very few people TRULY understand this. On the flipside, that can also backfire. I checked on a patient of someone else's the other night, as they were in report at 7p (I work until 11p)....

  25. What's the reason for a RN to be snippy to a new post op pt. ?

    cherrybreeze replied to momofqc's topic in General Nursing

    DO NOT make ANY assumptions about my attitude or my patient care. You are crossing the