NurseDirtyBird

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  1. Mental Health Awareness Month

    NurseDirtyBird replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    This is

  2. Charting...what to say?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to chrisrn24's topic in General Nursing

    @Janey496: Interesting point of view. Maybe also something to do with the fact nursing has traditionally been a female profession? Nobody's cared what women think until fairly recently in the grand...

  3. Charting...what to say?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to chrisrn24's topic in General Nursing

    I just discussed this with my husband - he's a police officer, and his narrative reports end up in courtrooms far more often than ours - and he uses "I" in all of his narratives. He was trained to do...

  4. Charting...what to say?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to chrisrn24's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to expand on Esme's post a bit and add that I always write the exact curse words yelled at me, in quotes of course, in the chart. Mostly to provide a complete and accurate account of events...

  5. Losing respect for nursing students

    NurseDirtyBird replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    Every generation berates the next for being lazy, disrespectful, and generally disappointing. There are lazy, disrespectful and disappointing people in every generation. Doesn't mean the world is...

  6. Do I tell my manager?

    NurseDirtyBird posted a topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I was diagnosed late last year with Bipolar2, after over a decade of misdiagnoses of unipolar major depression + GAD, postpartum depression, etc. BP2 makes so much sense now, and I feel some relief...

  7. Do I tell my manager?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to NurseDirtyBird's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I'm sorry I haven't replied, I just now figured out how to find my own post (yeah, not my brightest moment). Thank you all for your advice. I ended up not telling her and after reading this, it...

  8. Does nursing change you into an angry person?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to DesireeBeyerGreen's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    When you see all the crappy things that happen to people, the crappy things people do to others, and how helpless you are in many of those situations every day, yeah, anger and bitterness can be a...

  9. Bio Patch with PICC line dressing changes?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Our facility policy is actually different. We are not to use a biopatch unless there are s/s infection because of visualization issues. Sounds too late to me, but that's our

  10. First write up as an RN

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Leesha's topic in General Nursing

    "Advocating for our patients" does not necessarily mean reporting and recording every complaint made by the patients. People in sub acute/long term care, are very rarely happy to be there. There's...

  11. Dr Oz's show on antidepressants...your thoughts?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Marshall1's topic in Health, Stress Management

    The social stigma of mental illness is bad enough, it's even worse when someone from the medical community contributes to it. It just validates the stigma in the minds of those who hold that...

  12. I don't hear much about Liability Insurance anymore...

    NurseDirtyBird replied to ilmbg's topic in General Nursing

    I don't talk to my coworkers about carrying insurance on the off chance that a lawsuit comes up and someone lets it slip that "NDB has insurance, you could probably get some money out of her." Not...

  13. How does your facility confirm you are giving all your meds?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to fairyluv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    A facility I worked in dated every first pill popped out of the card. If say, seven days later, there were only 5 pills popped out, somebody wasn't giving them. We also dated and timed every single...

  14. do you tell your co workers ???

    NurseDirtyBird replied to fairyluv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If I share something (usually funny) with a coworker I saw on this site, I usually just say I saw it on a "nursing blog." Nobody ever asks for clarification. If they're on here too, they don't want...

  15. Venting and seeking advice

    NurseDirtyBird replied to tnguy31's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It sounds like you got a crummy job with no support. There are a lot of those, but the main issue is you are alone doing your job. You have no backup when you don't know something. My advice is to...

  16. Putting in my letter of resignation today

    NurseDirtyBird replied to MomRN0913's topic in Home Health

    I knew someone in a similar position. Working all the time, never got to see her kids. She finally put in her resignation, and her manager was livid. The manager actually said, "You can't leave!...

  17. Has this ever happened to you?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to jchilds's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Consider it your engine: occasionally, I propel myself down the hallway. I like to think it helps me move

  18. Forced out of job as MA

    NurseDirtyBird replied to PaulKrumrei's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Please consult a lawyer for legal advice regarding retaliation in the

  19. Nursing Diagnosis

    NurseDirtyBird replied to paratroopa's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In very few, overly simplified words: We cannot diagnose disease or prescribe treatments, that is the MD's job. But we can "diagnose" (recognize) responses to disease processes and treatments and...

  20. NURSING JUDGEMENT.

    NurseDirtyBird replied to fairyluv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    To echo CrunchRN and maybe make you feel a little better toward your coworker, I've had a pt act totally normal at the beginning of my shift and showing clear signs of sepsis by the end. It's...

  21. Do you talk about work at home?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

    My husband is a police officer and we both understand we need to talk about traumatic things in order to process them. We never use identifying characteristics, and we both are comfortable enough to...

  22. Better living--and working--through chemistry.

    NurseDirtyBird replied to dudette10's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm struggling with finding effective treatment for my Bipolar II myself, and totally get the feeling of having all the joy sucked out of your life (half the time, haha!). I'm glad you found a...

  23. OMG Say it correctly!

    NurseDirtyBird replied to seanynjboy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Haha! I saw the first part of that and could have sworn you were going to mention the pronunciation: "arthur-itis." I hear that one a

  24. OMG Say it correctly!

    NurseDirtyBird replied to seanynjboy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A little funny story: when I was an LTC CNA and got an inevitable back injury, they sent me to an occupational health clinic. They didn't call it occupational health, of course, they used the...

  25. Is it illegal to say you're a med student if you are not in medical school?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to psu_213's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I love it when patients tell me "I'm a nurse too, so I know!" Then I catch a CNA doing something wrong to cut corners, but the "nurse" never says boo. However, I really love it when I have an actual...