Looking4Seaglass

Yes, it is frustrating when you try your very best and go above and beyond to care for your patient's needs. I think it might be a part of the entitlement mentality patient's have these days. I have to tell myself frequently when my best is just not good enough. (I can only do so much, I am only one person)....it helps!

Yes, this frustrates me as well. Another one is the families who attempt to bring food back to the room even though a sign with a big cross bar slashed thru it states no food or drink. Thy get huffy with you when you try to enforce the rule. I always suggest they eat it down in the vending lounge down the hall. We've sent people out of the ER arena when they bring food back. It can be quite a problem. Why do people think it's okay to bring food in anyway.....if you haven't eaten, go eat and come back. As far as the patient's go. We do have a refrigerator with prepared lunch meat sandwhiches, pretzels or jello/cookies packaged for patients waiting long periods of time in the ER. What gets us are the frequent visitors who just go to the frig themselves as they know where it's at.....The nerve!

Where I work, we are required to work the Eve and the Day of either Christmas or new years holiday....anyone else have that same policy?

I would think your job in the jail system would be hard, I couldn't do it. Goodluck to you though!

I've actually only been to this site for a few weeks.

Where did I say that? You must be referring to someone else as I never said anything remotely close to what you are accusing me of saying.

Oh I agree this site has more than just All nurses. In order not to make anyone angry with me:D let's just say when I said nurses...I meant all nurses....okay.....

I said those things? I think not.....

We've used Versed ....no propofol yet.

agree:D

I'm not here to banter this topic any longer as the band wagon has a few already loading up the cart. I am looking for a site where RNs are free to discuss their experiences without non-nursing mudding the water so to speak. I guess there is an ignore button....I'll just use that, thanks,

Tippy...I was not yelling at you. What I was pointing out as your observation was wrong, as far as what I said....Nurses....whether lpn, rn are the same....so your statement to me was confusing....I said there was no difference to me...

this is what i said.... rses, rn, lpns......we are all nurses......however, patients are patients, medics are medics and students are students....see the difference, realize the difference.... now...go from there!

hmmmm.....no...actually our conversation was based on a comment I made and you referenced.... Lurkers or paid members blah blah never was a part of the conversation??? never came out of my mouth...or keyboard....lol

originally posted by stanley-rn2b we went from a nurse's only forum suggestion to a rn forum suggestion. what's next? only rn's that work at a certain hospital? you guys can make a specialized site or use a list serv or make an internet news group. on the other hand, you will find that extremely specialized boards get less traffic and quite frankly tend to be boing. also, due to lower numbers, the costs will be higher because who wants to run a board for free...

I'll say this one more time.....Nurses's only forum suggestion to RN forum suggestion is the same thing........!!

stanley.....stan....stanerator.....lol...back away from the felt tip dry erase pens.....take a big inhale of 21% o2. nurses, rn, lpns......we are all nurses......however, patients are patients, medics are medics and students are students....see the difference, realize the difference.... just had tio jump ya on this one....ewwwww scarey that there is another site other than allnurses.com on the world wide web.....oh the thought:smokin:

Yes, I think this site should not be an OPEN forum

Sweetsounds......reading your question and then visiting this site for a month I too would like an exclusive site for RNs. I will have to talk to my son to set me up with one. (the geek) The need and availability for this venue in which RNs and only RNs can chat, vent, research etc......sounds awesome...I will investigate this further. hmmmmm

Are you unable to ambulate yourself to the bathroom, why would you need a bedpan? Don't "flag" me down please as that is what the call light is for. Yelling to me as I pass your room irritates me to no end.....Hello...I walked passed because I had something more important to do at the time....again put your call light on. We do not give you something to drink while you are actively vomiting, as that would be a no no......If you "give up" and leave...normally means you shouldn't have come anyway. So, next time you have a migraine, perhaps staying home in your own comfy cozy bed, and take the meds your primary doctor gave you to treat your migraines instead of coming to the ER is a better idea. Vomiting for 5 hours is not an emergency nor is it excessive. I've had the flu before and vomited for a couple of days....that's many more hours than your 5 hours......Seriously, I could go on and on here but what really got me was the please, please, please bedpan comment...hahhahahahaa...are you paralyzed too with that migraine?

I think it's really unfair for you to place judgement on a nurse's post or vent in this thread. Unless you have walked in our shoes, see what obviously all of us see throughout ERs across the WORLD....and see that we tend to agree with the venting posts here and even add our own....what makes you think it's appropriate to comment at all? (Even though I know this is an open forum)...Seriously.....why do you think you righteous indignation towards us is appropriate?

We recently had that decision to start an IV and draw labs taken away from us as well. This really ticked the nurses off as we know when one is needed, just as the docs do. One thing we do now........since we can trust our docs is say....... "Hey, I went ahead and started the IV and drew labs, cultures, they had to pee too, dipped that, and checked a BS since they are diabetic, etc....., can I write that as a verbal order?" Each and everytime they role their eyes and say....of course, thanks"

too funny!!!!!

Tweety, If the medics are working as RNs, doing the same things as RNs, I would think there might be some RNs looking for that particular job that was filled already by a medic is all I am saying. I am not saying we do not work as a team or that medics don't compliment the team, thankfully my state requires your RN to practice as an RN. I am specifically talking of medics allowed to practice as if they are an RN and ERs hiring them.

lol......I guess it'll be like men going into a women's health site. (Never understood that either) We'll just have to deal with it accordingly.