cherrybreeze

cherrybreeze ADN, RN

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  1. 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. 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

    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

    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

    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.

    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.

    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?

    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.

    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?

    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?

    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?

    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. 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

    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?

    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!!

    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!!

    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!!

    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!!

    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?

    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"

    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. 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

    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 !

    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?

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