cherrybreeze

cherrybreeze ADN, RN

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  1. Got fire because manager said I need some critical thinking

    cherrybreeze replied to HNursing's topic in General Nursing

    How can I put this delicately....... IMO it's pretty bad if anyone reading what you write doesn't think English is your first language. As someone said, there are countless errors in your wording in...

  2. Got fire because manager said I need some critical thinking

    cherrybreeze replied to HNursing's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry for what you're going through. As a previous poster said, it is pretty obvious that English isn't your first language (and I don't say that to be mean, but it isn't difficult to ascertain)....

  3. Experineced nurses...you're best organizing tips

    cherrybreeze replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure if this will help, but here are some of the things I do.... On my actual patient profiles, I put certain information in the same place on all my profiles (ie, lower right hand corner, PRN...

  4. Range insulin dosage versus sliding scale

    cherrybreeze replied to michael79's topic in General Nursing

    Mistakes happen; you have to forgive yourself. I do wonder, though, do you have a policy for having another nurse double check the calculation and

  5. Range insulin dosage versus sliding scale

    cherrybreeze replied to michael79's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, this IS a sliding scale. I forgot the term for using the equation, but it was something different. Either way, the equation is pretty much the same thing....each blood sugar level will...

  6. My Room Mate tried to commit suicide tonight.

    cherrybreeze replied to Idaho Murse's topic in General Nursing

    Lack of imagination...I'm not sure if those are quite the words I'd use, but I know what you're getting at. That person really doesn't see things improving or changing, that part is definitely true....

  7. My Room Mate tried to commit suicide tonight.

    cherrybreeze replied to Idaho Murse's topic in General Nursing

    OK you said it much better than I could. Your explanation is much more what I was trying to say. And until someone knows the feeling, they can't understand it (and that's not their fault,...

  8. Worksheets--do you keep?

    cherrybreeze replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    Our computer system works so that if you're charting on a later day, you have to go in under "late entry" to be able to chart it at all, so it knows it's being charted late. If it's a narc, the times...

  9. My Room Mate tried to commit suicide tonight.

    cherrybreeze replied to Idaho Murse's topic in General Nursing

    On the BP issue.......the first thing I thought was, OP may be a nursing student and offering help, but in this case was not there in a professional capacity, so has no role to do the "professional...

  10. Worksheets--do you keep?

    cherrybreeze replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    That's just scary. I don't write about anything about work in my journal, and that thing'd be in a bonfire before I'd let them take it from me and read it in court!

  11. Worksheets--do you keep?

    cherrybreeze replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    I don't believe in keeping them in the case of a lawsuit or anything like that (no way could I even store them, anway). I keep my profiles for a couple of days, in my locker. I only do this so that...

  12. How far can a patient go?

    cherrybreeze replied to junebride's topic in General Nursing

    I hope the sentence I bolded is a joke (I can't tell by reading the post, and I know that since inflection doesn't come across in the typed word, things can be misinterpreted). I also haven't been...

  13. Unit Secretary....Answer the call light for pete's sake!!!

    cherrybreeze replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Having read several pages, in a lot of the posts, I'm still not entirely clear on what some people mean by "answering the call light." (I know that makes me sound stupid, so I'll explain ). Call...

  14. Mini Rant

    cherrybreeze replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly the problem.......I always forget what the initials stand for, therefore I often accidentally use two P's instead of two A's. I won't tell you what I mistake it for, but it's a...

  15. Nclex 75 questions: Passed or failed?

    cherrybreeze replied to I RN A's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I left the building after taking my boards absolutely ready to throw up, I was *convinced* that I failed. I shut off at 75 also, but I wasn't watching the number most of the time, so I got there...

  16. Give me your view now plz!!

    cherrybreeze replied to KPNL's topic in General Nursing

    Yup yup. I think people are paranoid. Your average person carries around more pathogens than my scrubs do,

  17. My preceptor is driving me nuts!!

    cherrybreeze replied to CABG patch kid's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yea.........and as far as the pay/incentive to precept, I don't think I've ever remembered to even claim it, LOL! *whoops* Precepting is generally *supposed* to be something that's "volunteered"...

  18. My preceptor is driving me nuts!!

    cherrybreeze replied to CABG patch kid's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry you had a bad experience with your preceptor. Hearing things like this bugs the heck out of me; I can remember being on orientation (almost 8 years ago now) like it was yesterday....most...

  19. Give me your view now plz!!

    cherrybreeze replied to KPNL's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not really sure what "members of the public" think, being a nurse. I know I can stop somewhere after work (my mom's house, my sister's house) and no cares if I have my scrubs

  20. Does regional prejudice exist in nursing?

    cherrybreeze replied to rpmccoy1986's topic in General Nursing

    HEY now, no picking on us cheeseheads. :) I haven't the slightest idea as far as whether the training is considered "better." I HAVE heard in passing that there are some states that it's considered...

  21. "will continue to monitor"

    cherrybreeze replied to rnto?'s topic in General Nursing

    No LESS than every two hours? In what type of unit?? I work on a med/surg floor, and the nurses' notes differ from the assessment charting (obviously). We chart by exception, with a minimum of one...

  22. alot of questions about how to handle the death of a resident

    cherrybreeze replied to owenlevi2's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in LTC as a CNA from the time I was 16 until I became an RN, so for 5 years. It is definitely hard to deal with the death, especially at first (not saying it gets "easy," but you learn how...

  23. FMLA

    cherrybreeze replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure I'm understanding exactly what you're asking....... Do you mean the time from when you file to when the doctor submits the paper work? It's kind of hard to control how fast the doc's...

  24. Pt.'s partner asked to have intercourse with a stoma !

    cherrybreeze replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Hm. I've got a few thoughts on this whole topic and thread, and I'm not sure how to go about expressing it all, so forgive me. I have absolutely no idea if this is an old wive's tale, or used for...

  25. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    cherrybreeze replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    Forgot about this one......as a nursing student, I watched a mastectomy....on a 19 year old male patient. Doesn't happen very