canigraduate

canigraduate

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  1. Career Advice, please?

    canigraduate replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting concept. I thought you were talking to the voices in your head for a minute, Farawyn. LOL!! That is a hard question to answer, though, Friend of Farawyn. I think it really depends on your...

  2. How do you leave it at work?

    canigraduate replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Izzydame, I understand that you love yourself a bunch and have a powerful need to show off your writing skills, but would you please start your own posts and stop hijacking this one? I feel that you...

  3. What I learned this week (6/27)...

    canigraduate replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Pouting for you. And LOLing.

  4. Notes in 3rd person style

    canigraduate replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's good to know. I don't use "this nurse" personally, because I think it sounds stupid, but I never would have thought that a lawyer would use that as a way to imply the nurse was incompetent. I...

  5. What I learned this week (6/27)...

    canigraduate replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    The current state of healthcare is an effing joke. Have you tried to find a PCP lately? The insurance website sent me to a frigging drug rehab. Then to the best frigging PCP that ever lived, who...

  6. Notes in 3rd person style

    canigraduate replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it's an APA

  7. Notes in 3rd person style

    canigraduate replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, you wouldn't see "This nurse" in a doc's notes. In the doc notes I've seen, they're in third person. "Patient is a well nourished 63-year old male who presents with complaints of chest pain and...

  8. Notes in 3rd person style

    canigraduate replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was taught that it is common practice and industry standard to use third person. The rationale I was given is that it is formal and necessary for legal language, in case of a suit. I find it ironic...

  9. Why don't you just read the chart?

    canigraduate replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I like the SBAR format, personally. One of the hospitals I worked at had the ER fax an SBAR to the floor with the nurse's phone number to call for questions. I liked that process. If any of you use...

  10. You should know better

    canigraduate replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    **snerk** snort bread **double snerk**

  11. Why don't you just read the chart?

    canigraduate replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am currently working in OBS and I get crappy ED report. It's so bad, I don't even bother half the time. It does save time to look stuff up because the ER nurse is reporting on stuff that isn't...

  12. Scripting sounds patronizing

    canigraduate replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I think it was supposed

  13. Any advice - Neuro ICU Clinical

    canigraduate replied to brit.pz's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    If you are interested and can afford it, go on Amazon and get the Neuro Notes flip book. It has a wealth of relevant info. In the Neuro ICU, you will be seeing mostly CVA/head trauma, strokes,...

  14. Reasons patients turn on their call light

    canigraduate replied to diamondp17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thanks. I don't keep track of moon phases. I am inside at

  15. You should know better

    canigraduate replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Not enough time or space, but I'll hit the highlights. Cookies. Pasta. Soda. Fat. Sugar. I avoid PCPs, psychs, GYNs, dentists, etc. It's too hard to find one that doesn't suck at their job. Self...

  16. What does a Kidney Infection feel like?

    canigraduate replied to swellnurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    "I am dying." Those are the three words I thought when I had a kidney infection. I was a little dramatic at 15. Seriously, it felt like sharp pain just over my left buttock, plus a band of severe...

  17. How do you leave it at work?

    canigraduate replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You are so hostile and prickly on this site that I want to just hug you and make it go away for you, but I know that isn't the answer. I wish that hadn't happened to you. I am sorry that it did. I...

  18. How do you leave it at work?

    canigraduate replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think words can affect you violently. I know they have affected me that way, sometimes. Minimizing and scoffing at "mere words" does a disservice to those who are verbally abused. I am NOT Saying...

  19. Reasons patients turn on their call light

    canigraduate replied to diamondp17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Am I missing something? Random posts, the incredible shrinking post, non-quoted replies? What the heck is going on? It must be a full moon. Or the rainbow armageddon made it all the way over here. I'm...

  20. What I learned this week (6/27)...

    canigraduate replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that if a unicorn is constipated and farts, the rainbow armageddon will

  21. How do you leave it at work?

    canigraduate replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Dranger: NETO, NETO, NETO!!!! Now I feel better. I'm all mad on your behalf. izzydame, you came in guns blazing and have made a terrible impression on here. You may want to consider changing your...

  22. Scripting sounds patronizing

    canigraduate replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    What I took away from the OP was that the preceptee was using scripted responses when she thought she was using therapeutic communication. She was just using the phrases she was taught to shut the OP...

  23. How do you leave it at work?

    canigraduate replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have problems with letting things go. (See some of my posts, LOL.) I think a PP said it well when guilt was referenced. If I feel like I didn't know enough, didn't act fast enough, trusted the doc's...

  24. Nurses, how do you view your job?

    canigraduate replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    If I had a gazillion dollars, I wouldn't be a nurse. I would be a volunteer helping the elderly and homeless pets. So, I am definitely not "called." I do like nursing as a career, but I wouldn't do it...

  25. Nurses, how do you view your job?

    canigraduate replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is not a calling. It is a career choice. For most, it is based on practicality. I don't think most people know what a calling is. It is not some nebulous concept that means you are passionate...