JacknSweetpea

JacknSweetpea

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  1. How do you deal with explosive customers?

    JacknSweetpea replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm with all the posts that illustrate the difference between patient care and customer service. However the "powers that be" do not see it that way. I work in a geri-psych facility with 88 residents...

  2. Healthcare professionals using insulting language

    JacknSweetpea replied to cayenne06's topic in General Nursing

    That's about how I feel myself, but I do try to be careful at work.....'cause you never know who's best-buddies with the

  3. Bullying

    JacknSweetpea replied to Sensibility's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  4. for those in LTC..what songs do your residents like?

    JacknSweetpea replied to AshleyinSTL's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Uh, let's see...working in a geri-psych LTC, it ranges from the music they make themselves to "Ain't Nothin' But a G

  5. Anyone run into this....??

    JacknSweetpea posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Not trying to start an LPN vs. RN argument here, but just want to inquire if any LPNs have run into nurse managers who make it clear they don't like to have LPNs on staff? The home health agency I...

  6. Any nurses understand how isolating infertility is....

    JacknSweetpea posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm in need of some comfort, I guess.... any of you ob/gyn nurses come across women who cannot have children? If so, have you any interesting stories? Thank

  7. "You'll be hearing from my lawyer."

    JacknSweetpea replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've had it said to me before. I even had a lady tell me her attorney's name was J. Edgar Hoover! Then again, I work in a gero-psych facility. I'm more worried about what our management might do to us...

  8. what do you think?fired for a comment

    JacknSweetpea replied to yajaira21's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm...this is a strange story, but with some of the terminations I've witnessed personally, I can believe it. At my place of employment.....a gero-psych facility, I have seen a lot of people come and...

  9. What are your credentials and what's your IQ?

    JacknSweetpea replied to Weber's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an LPN finishing RN....uh, hmm...when I took an IQ test at 15 it was 96. Below

  10. gyn prob. in the ER??? GUESS THE DIAGNOSIS

    JacknSweetpea replied to yankee nurse09's topic in Emergency

    It is the flying gout. Has to be. No other diagnosis makes

  11. what percentage of your job involves poop?

    JacknSweetpea replied to onedayitllbeme's topic in General Nursing

    Plenty of it at my job. Management is good at throwing ****at the

  12. WHAT were they thinking at that Nursing Home???

    JacknSweetpea replied to JDougRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It's shoddy, not "shotty". I have to disagree with the posts stating one has to be on their "A-Game" to be working in the hospital. There are shoddy nurses everywhere because nurses are people and...

  13. Lifecare (LTC) anyone have experience with?

    JacknSweetpea replied to nola1202's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    We have a LifeCare in my community and I work with a few people who have worked for them. It seems to be like any other LTC; high patient load, a lot of staff turnover, and a skeleton crew for...

  14. Press Ganey Parody

    JacknSweetpea replied to MarkonCRT's topic in General Nursing

    That was hilarious, but have a care....the powers that be who watch this might be taking

  15. Opinions ? RN who reads at grade 5 level ?

    JacknSweetpea replied to gilberra's topic in General Nursing

    It's interesting that someone made a thread about this because we had a nurse at our facility before she moved, whom I believed was a "functioning illiterate". Or she had bad eyesight...I'm not sure....

  16. Mother Hen

    JacknSweetpea replied to Kooky Korky's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't know about ya'll but if you were to work in the facility I work for....all you get is what you're entitled to by law...your paycheck! Okay, they do offer health & dental, 401K, and flex...

  17. What money can get you.

    JacknSweetpea replied to Jenni811's topic in General Nursing

    Money buys way too much in this country, even things that shouldn't be for sale. This is likely a small example of similar things that go on in our government, justice system, etc.. This country is of...

  18. How do nurses really feel about CNA/PCTs?

    JacknSweetpea replied to barbamatt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Behind every good nurse is an even better CNA

  19. HCAHPS Scores = hospital pay

    JacknSweetpea replied to A&OxNone's topic in Nursing News

    We are all in big trouble. I can just hear management's flexing of "executive

  20. What is your de-stress?

    JacknSweetpea replied to AngelicDarkness's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Booze and nookie with my hot

  21. As a nurse, how do you perceive that physicians feel toward you?

    JacknSweetpea replied to jaimeandjules's topic in General Nursing

    I treat everyone the same. I don't care what others, including MDs, think of me. It's not so much high self-esteem as it is just having more important matters on my

  22. I hate what's happening to nursing...

    JacknSweetpea replied to nyteshade's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Alaine, I'm certain you mean well, but Puh-lease dump the rest of the Kool-Aid down the

  23. Appalled at LTC standards of nursing care

    JacknSweetpea replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Nightengale....sounds like that facility has a lot of problems, but have a care as to how you talk about LPNs. I personally don't give a rat's patoot about what other LPNs or RNs think about me, but...

  24. Any nurses out there willing to be interviewed?

    JacknSweetpea replied to ChooSoul's topic in General Nursing

    Lady Voldemort, LPN staff nurse, nurse for 3 yrs., duties out in the workforce a lot better as a nurse than student nurse, salary approx. $35,000 per annum, my advice for someone pursuing this field...

  25. Supplies You Can't Live Without

    JacknSweetpea replied to felineRN's topic in Emergency

    Zoloft and Lortab....for me, of