eriksoln BSN, RN

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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Funny thing. It dawned on me that I began this thread after a night of work. Maybe I shouldn't speak my mind after working since I work nights and have a little bit of fog in the head (:pFrom lack...
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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    isn't there talk now (well, maybe its old, idk) about a new diagnosis/condition called "sleep anxiety"? where a person is so anxious about sleeping........they can't sleep. i can understand that. i...
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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    yes, it is a pun. don't you get it? >_> it was a bad spelling
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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh, BTW............"she"......................is a
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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    gee, and i thought the guy who told us he'd overcharge us for gas at his station because his mom was going home on insulin was nuts. thats a true story too..........his mom never used insulin before,...
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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Now come on...........do I have to explain the difference between insomnia and someone missing one nights sleep here? Please, before I lose A LOT of respect for you, tell me you are kidding and don't...
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    Is it just me or............?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I may sound unimpassioned, but I just think there are some things not worth treating with medications. Especially with meds that are so well known for being addictive and................in the end...
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    Is this what I should expect in the nursing field...?

    eriksoln replied to frostcross's topic in General Nursing

    The greater the job dissatisfaction, the greater the gossip. Nursing is stressful and can be emotionally draining, hence the gossip gets a little out of control. The lesson is: Be selective in...
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    LTC vs. Hospital, good move or not?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    After much consideration, I am going to be taking a job at a local nursing home. Its just too right to pass up. I get off nights, don't take a cut in pay and liked the facility. Only con is...
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    Customer Service...........yay or nay?

    eriksoln posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Remember going to school and learning the older, crazy approaches to medicine that people used to practice: Drilling holes in the head to relieve sickness, letting spirits out. The belief that...
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    Looking for guidance from a few HH vets.

    eriksoln posted a topic in Home Health

    I am moving forward with my efforts to secure a position outside of the hospital setting. I think home healthcare will provide me with the stable employment I desire. After doing my research to see...
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    Do you think we are over regulated?

    eriksoln replied to StNeotser's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yes. A lot of what we do has taken the wrong turn and ended up being a shadow of its prior intention: Documentation was meant to be a way for nurses to communicate with nurses and other care team...
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    Looking for guidance from a few HH vets.

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Home Health

    I think thats why wage never came up.............they knew it'd be a tough
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    Looking for guidance from a few HH vets.

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Home Health

    After giving the first company I interviewed with a lot of consideration, I decided not to take the job. When they called me to tell me to fill out an application, they claimed there were lots of...
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    Looking for guidance from a few HH vets.

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Home Health

    LOL. This will make you the...hmmm.......second person from this site who has met me in RL. I've always wondered, how many fellow allnurses people do I run into and not even know
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    How important is amount of PAY to you?

    eriksoln replied to violet_violet's topic in General Nursing

    I've never been in a situation where I've had two RN jobs offering such a diffent payscale. When I was a landscape laborer I ran into this a lot though. My experience: One job told me I'd basically...
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    "I am sorry - I refuse to float to Peds!"

    eriksoln replied to abbaking's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You didn't do anything
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    Looking for guidance from a few HH vets.

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Home Health

    I have an interview with an HH company wed. morning. I'm extremely sceptical though. They pretty much said full time can not always be gauranteed. After reading the posts here and hearing about lay...
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    What so you think is the biggest problem in Health Care?

    eriksoln replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    I believe the same thing I thought when I was a student, new nurse, travel nurse and staff nurse. I've carried this idea (of what is wrong with healthcare) with me through many different hospitals,...
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    Gift ideas for nursing staff?

    eriksoln replied to KB24's topic in General Nursing

    Our manager gives little gift baskets to everyone each Christmas and my fav. thing in the basket is the little pocket
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    Days you are glad you are a Nurse

    eriksoln replied to Getreal2011's topic in General Nursing

    More than any other time I am glad to be a nurse is when it is snowing out. Avoiding snow removal days as a landscape supervisor was one of the big reasons I changed careers (which ended up being...
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    What would you say???

    eriksoln replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll have to try it next time. For some reason, I don't think I'll pull it off very well but...........we'll
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    My RANT on the state of Nursing in my neck of the woods

    eriksoln replied to anRNinICU's topic in General Nursing

    The options are endless. An associates in accounting is my first thought. I wont make the same as a nurse, but being a book keeper has a certain......advantage in sanity lol. I've considered bus...
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    My RANT on the state of Nursing in my neck of the woods

    eriksoln replied to anRNinICU's topic in General Nursing

    I imagine it is universal, but thats just my opinion. My manger too loves to throw the "I have a line of applicants for every position. The line goes out the door and down the street to the next...
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    What would you say???

    eriksoln replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, you are much like the doctors who mistake kindness for weakness. They too assumed being ignored or me " falling silent" meant I was intimidated, hence they persisted. It only happens once. I've...