eriksoln BSN, RN

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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Nursecraft. I like that. Hey, my day ended with...............a family member up my behind because they didn't understand why their mother was on Ultram, a colostomy exploding on me and a pt....
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yeah. I had a friend who studied...........wait for this one.......... Chimney Sweeping and I recall him saying something about "There are chapters in this housing codes book that make no sense,...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Thats not candy you have in your hand there. Unless denial is chocolate flavored all of a sudden. LOL at the state/nurses get to choose who is licensed and who is not. Sooooo.........as they...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh nooo. LOL:yeah: I have to tell you guys this. I brought up this whole debate up to a nurse I LOVE last night. Now, this nurse can put all the pieces together. She is able to pinpoint process...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Forgot to say, RetRN77's definition of autonomy is correct. I do take it a step farther and take it to mean, since we act on our own, function without our hands being held........we should be the...
  6. eriksoln

    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think too, maybe because I was sickly when I wrote the article, I may have come off strong or unhappy. This lead a few people to believe I was slamming nursing or its importance to our cultural...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    ah, you said it better and more efficiently than i did. thats my problem with nursing theory........a lot of posturing and bantering for credit that isn't due. naming things people do on their own...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Which, thankfully, brings us back to topic and........... Nah, I understand what you mean when you say I am performing nursing diagnosis on the job, but perhaps subcontiously. But, it just isn't the...
  9. eriksoln

    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    O-B-1 can do the energy field assessment. "I feel a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices cried out at once and then were suddenly
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Most definitely Yoda there. Any ideas for Han Solo? :oHave I lost all credibility with this? Not that I had any to begin
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Therapeutic communication now is: Jedi Mind
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is an idea here. Yes. I propose we make all nursing diagnosis Star Wars related. Activity intolerance is now: Jabba the Hut movement. Impaired communication is now: Chewbacca speaking....
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have an idea. We could make the nursing diagnosis easy to learn. Sorta..........use a mnemonic for them. That'd make them fun to learn too. Like...................for breathing issues we could...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    :eek:You mean that really is a diagnosis? Eh? Oh my. :oMe not pay enough attention to that part in school maybe?
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Makes good sense. Actually, you brought something to mind that I recall an instructor telling me. This instructor was THE LONE teacher I ever shared my true feelings with.......my disdain for...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I see where you're coming from. IDK, its a good point and I'm certainly not going to completely dismiss it. But I do have to say, when a pt. says "I can't breath", nursing diagnosis don't start...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Eh, yeah. My point with Satyr was that............if we don't have (insert any of the qualifications of being a professional here) then we don't have it. Why we don't have (autonomy etc) is not...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    What line of thought? Profession vs. Skilled trade or the "God Calling" nurses
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    what now?

    eriksoln replied to mskelr's topic in General Nursing

    You have to realize too, many many of the interviews that are conducted in facilities are done to fulfill a quota. The manager (or other nurses) must perform at least X amt. of interviews before...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh no. Here we go. You are on a "quest"? Eh? Its just finding a job and applying yourself to it, millions of people do it on a daily basis. Its not uncommon, really it isn't. Oh my, another nurse...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I do believe in the bigger picture and fully support the argument that we simply can not sleep walk through our work without seeing it. Problem is, I see so many nurses patting themselves on the back...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I will borrow from one of my favorite philosophers, Satyr, here. "We are defined by what we do, not the reasons for what we do." In other words, even if your assertion that nursing is where it is...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    By abandoning this donkey carrot chase for the title and instead focusing on the task at hand, we could achieve the heights we so
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The fact that intellectual labor is a part of what we do does not make us a profession. Honestly, I really don't know of a single job out there beyond grocery bagging or the like that doesn't require...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    eriksoln replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    To be honest, I think every aspect of nursing separately could be taught to a 15 year old. It is in putting the pieces together that we apply skill to it and prove why not anyone can do it. Yes,...