NurseDirtyBird

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  1. Advice for a prospective Nursing Student

    NurseDirtyBird replied to AnnaRuthBeckel's topic in General Students

    It depends on where you want to work. If you get work as a CNA, you will gain valuable work experience, and get an idea of how bedside nursing is. You will be providing very basic care to people in...

  2. Cops and Nurses

    NurseDirtyBird replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

    It really depends on the cop. I've been pulled over in scrubs and let go because "you do good things for people and I appreciate that," said the cop who was unaware I was married to one. However my...

  3. Reading for pleasure

    NurseDirtyBird replied to remotefuse's topic in General Students

    I wasn't able to read as much as I usually do (2-3 books a week) while I was in school, but I made sure I got some reading done. I figured out the most effective way for me to study and I would...

  4. I feel like I am learning to be a nurse on my own.

    NurseDirtyBird replied to MzSS's topic in General Students

    Lecture was a major part of my program, but the instructors never really went beyond the what was in the Powerpoints. They just kind of connected the dots and made sure we understood what was up....

  5. What do you do to relax?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Music! Playing, listening, enjoying live shows. I'm also an avid escapist reader, so reading some light smutty novel is a great stress reliever. And you just reminded me, I've got to catch up on...

  6. What to do in this situation?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to missmollie's topic in General Students

    This is the first thing that popped into my head: "Hiiiiiggghhhh-wayyyy to the DANGER ZONE! Good for you for avoiding that! And it's awesome you're meeting with your instructor, so everything can...

  7. Fired from my first nursing job, before one year

    NurseDirtyBird replied to mightynurse1's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, somewhat related question: How do you even cut a pill with scissors without crushing

  8. Ethical question

    NurseDirtyBird replied to achelle06's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, so you have documented the refusals of crushed meds on the MAR. Now, you call the MD and tell them the patient is refusing to comply. The patient can refuse any aspect of care, including taking...

  9. Patients mom wants me to get in bed with her

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    When I first read the post, I thought it said the patient's mom wanted you to get in bed with HER, the mom. Haha, that would be very very

  10. what would you do in this situation

    NurseDirtyBird replied to d00d00butter's topic in General Nursing

    Do everything exactly as you would like it to be presented on the incident report. Because you're gonna do

  11. Stupid, I know, but more bad representations of NURSES on tv!

    NurseDirtyBird replied to uRNmyway's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Every time I watch some police procedural, my husband's always chiming in: "That's illegal! I've never seen a prosecutor anywhere near a crime scene! You can't break their face before taking them to...

  12. Questioning the nurse during clinical

    NurseDirtyBird replied to motay68's topic in General Students

    Any decent nurse knows they don't know everything. They also know they're humans with very busy workdays and miss things sometimes. While nobody likes having their judgement questioned, in the end...

  13. My clinical instructor...

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Orizza's topic in General Students

    Haha, I was totally expecting a complaint! I was prepared to say, "Yeah, everybody had at least one crappy nursing instructor who blah blah blah," and was pleasantly surprised. I'm glad you've had a...

  14. Giving Morphine

    NurseDirtyBird replied to jg24's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I think it's more of a nursing judgement issue. There are people who die without pain and don't need anything, there are people who do need it but rarely. I think it also depends on what part of the...

  15. Does your DON want you to do skin checks on night shift?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I worked in a facility once where the DON ordered skin checks on NOCs. That ended pretty quickly when there was a lot of charting along the lines of "Resident refused skin assessment, stated "I'm...

  16. What sorts of Nursing Students should drop Nursing School? Am I one of them?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to Vysection's topic in General Students

    The level of insight you demonstrated in your original post leads me to believe you are not dumb. I am not particularly ambitious myself, I have no desire to have more responsibility than I do, or to...

  17. I Feel Done

    NurseDirtyBird replied to i♥words's topic in General Students

    Nursing school sucks. For everybody. There are pretty much no exceptions. It's a couple years of your life, and then you're a nurse and you're done. Just suck it up, leave the politics and crap...

  18. Dilemma: miss class before exam due to illness?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to SopranoKris's topic in General Students

    Drugstores sell masks. Get some. You can go to class and still keep it to yourself. The nice thing is, if you wear a mask, everyone will go out of their way to stay away from you. If you're just...

  19. What is the worst hardship/story you have ever seen/heard in your nursing career?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to succinate's topic in General Nursing

    I hate "liking" these posts, as I do not enjoy the stories. They are heart wrenching and I'm "liking" the posters for

  20. What is the worst hardship/story you have ever seen/heard in your nursing career?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to succinate's topic in General Nursing

    Mine wasn't the patient's story, it was the family's story. I was working in LTC, and the patient was actively dying. We'd notified the family of his decline, and many showed up. We gave the family...

  21. Prayer Before Surgery

    NurseDirtyBird replied to orscrubcutie1's topic in Operating Room

    I'm an atheist. I don't care who prays when as long as I'm not forced to participate. If a surgeon feels more confident about their abilities when they pray before operating on me, then by all...

  22. Being bullied at school (I thought we were all adults here!)

    NurseDirtyBird replied to granolatrees's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Just don't threaten anybody! "I'll kick your @$$" works in the schoolyard, but in the grownup world, it's how you go to jail. Definitely stand up for yourself though. You always hear, "ignore them,...

  23. Charting things done by others...

    NurseDirtyBird replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    You supervise your aides, if they're not doing their job, that's kinda your problem. If you don't trust them to record their observations correctly, make the observations yourself. Otherwise, "CNA...

  24. Are these true or false rumors about LPN

    NurseDirtyBird replied to mcclot1993's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Depends on what you want to do. If you want to work in acute care - anything in a hospital, then you might as well skip LPN. If you want to work in home health, LTC/SNF, hospice, clinics, etc., then...

  25. How do I get over this?

    NurseDirtyBird replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    I've had similar issues with family members. Some said depression is "just selfishness," like I had control over it. Who the hell would choose to feel that way?!? Mental illness is poorly...