TennNurse

TennNurse

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  1. Why dont we get respect as LTC nurses?

    TennNurse replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I will say this, I do not think for one second that I could handle working LTC. There is such a tremendous need for good nurses in this area, and my hat is off to the ones who've devoted themselves...

  2. What is with the crazy parents?? --vent--

    TennNurse replied to analee23's topic in Emergency

    :yeahthat: This is absolutely what we need. When pts sign their consent for treatment, I think they also need to sign a form stating that they understand their responsibility to treat the staff...

  3. Worried that I'm to much of an airhead.....

    TennNurse replied to luvmy3kids's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, that is so me! That is exactly why I left floor nursing and went back to ER, where the brain's ability to leave one thing and leap to another in the space of a second is actually considered an...

  4. Southern Nurses Please Help!

    TennNurse replied to AngelicLady's topic in General Nursing

    As much as I love the ER where I work, I just cannot with a clear conscience recommend moving to Memphis. If my DH was not a fixture at FedEx, I would have gone straight back to Nashville. It has...

  5. Another Five Star Visitor Thread

    TennNurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I like it when they come and ask you to go to Paeds and get a fresh diaper for L'ill Kaitluyn - or maybe a bottle of formula because she is hungry. And while I am there, perhaps I could bring back the...

  6. Another Five Star Visitor Thread

    TennNurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    :yeah: :yeah: This drives me NUTS!!!! I cannot understand for the life of me why a person would approach a perfect stranger they have never before seen, and assume that that person will know if...

  7. anyone from Jackson TN

    TennNurse replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    From what I learned at both hospitals there, starting salary is not great. $16 and change at both, though Regional had a $3 differential for nights/evenings, and I knew nurses at JMCGH who worked...

  8. If you have to go to the ER...

    TennNurse replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

    I always like knowing if my patients are healthcare professionals. It means I don't have to say things in lay terms and explain everything I do as simply as possible. And, that way when I draw blood...

  9. If you have to go to the ER...

    TennNurse replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

  10. If you have to go to the ER...

    TennNurse replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

    Oh, God, do I hear you!!! I know that I am not the only nurse in the world, that there are also MDs and NPs and CNMs that occasionally need medical help, and if you are one of these, just say so...

  11. Patients always needing something no matter what.

    TennNurse replied to OliveVinesRN's topic in General Nursing

    So much of what I love about my job is my ability to do things for my patients, like take the time to explain cholecystitis, or educate a person who has just been devastated by a positive herpes...

  12. Carotid's ER Stats (Unofficial of Course)

    TennNurse replied to Carotid's topic in Emergency

    i have never met the driver of the car that rear-ended someone else and was at fault. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: this is so true! i have never,...

  13. lost my baby

    TennNurse replied to K205's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, sweetie, I am so sorry. Have been there and my heart aches for you. Please, please take care of yourself,

  14. Evil People

    TennNurse replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    Amen. Maybe they can sign an agreement to such when they sign the "Consent to be treated" form at the front

  15. Evil People

    TennNurse replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    Feeling your pain!!! If I had the solution to this, believe me, I would tell everyone!!! My last several shifts in the ER have revolved around sick infants and/or toddlers who are brought to me by...

  16. Sick, sick sick of IBS

    TennNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    The very first thing I need to say is that I have scheduled an appointment with a GI about this, and they were so pleased to inform me that they had a new patient opening "really soon!". It is on...

  17. Sick, sick sick of IBS

    TennNurse replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    So I went to Walmart and there is some OTC stuff for IBS ,it is in the laxative area and it completly relieved all symptoms within a couple of hours. Maybe you could try that. Oh, please, please tell...

  18. Abnormal PAP: I'm scared!

    TennNurse replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Nursing

    It's been a little while since I worked in gyn, but here's what I remember about helping with colpos. For the most part, it is a lot like a Pap. Stirrups and speculum, then the gyns I worked with...

  19. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    TennNurse replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Some recent lessons, for which I am profoudly grateful: Following a delicious dinner of Wendy's spicy chicken sandwiches, should you and your honey decide to copulate, you might ask that he wash his...

  20. Public Breastfeeding

    TennNurse replied to MarySunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Try and cover up just out of respect for those who we acknowlege as being uncomfortable or having wandering eyes, but if something pops out and someone is staring enough to catch that little glimpse,...

  21. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

    TennNurse replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    Why, thank you, Tory!

  22. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

    TennNurse replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

  23. Nursing Against the Odds -- Who's reading it, or has read it?

    TennNurse replied to Stitchie's topic in General Nursing

    Please, someone tell me that this book picks up eventually! I'm only about to page 30-I keep falling asleep reading about how doctors are "taught" never to listen to us, how we aren't recognized by...

  24. ER Pet Peeves

    TennNurse replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    I have had this!! :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire It requires all my restraint to keep from looking her in the eye and marveling, "Why, how very responsible of you." Also, people who drive...

  25. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    TennNurse replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Pt showed up the other night c/o eye discharge. No pain, no itching, no vision changes. D/c thin and clear, sclera the lightest shade of pink detectable to the human eye, sort of like when I'm...