canigraduate

canigraduate

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  1. Needle Stick injury

    canigraduate replied to Sweetxangel16's topic in Nurse Management

    Your employee is coming across as very underhanded and sketchy. I would go to your "powers that be" with the situation and advise them to engage counsel and then go from there with whatever counsel...

  2. Workplace Cowardice

    canigraduate replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am confused, too. The post you quoted seems to be coming from somewhere out in left field. "Snitches take out stitches?" After they've been beat up? I don't get it. I think you are right and people...

  3. medication delivery!!!!

    canigraduate replied to correctionsLPN1's topic in Correctional

    I'm confused as to why it's only written on the second lid and not on the cup. I understand the lid is quicker to read, but the cup is safer. Why not do both? When I pull meds for multiple people, I...

  4. Problems with IV starts/blood draws

    canigraduate replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in Medical-Surgical

    This sounds kind of harsh, but it works for me. I imagine I am the last nurse in the world and my patient will die if I don't get his blood. I go into a tunnel vision kind of mode and can get it 9...

  5. Workplace Cowardice

    canigraduate replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Did you just threaten the

  6. Regarding chronic tardiness

    canigraduate replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand your purpose on this thread, which is about finding out WHY people are late. It has already been said that chronic tardiness affects others, no one is denying that. Stop beating...

  7. Workplace Cowardice

    canigraduate replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sometimes it is a cultural thing, too. Where I come from, direct confrontation is a complete no-no, especially between genders. I had to be taught to speak to people directly about problems, and I...

  8. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    canigraduate replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    My husband says oh-MEZ-a-prole instead of oh-MEP-ra-zole. I think it's cute when he does it, but it drives me nuts when other nurses say

  9. Bedside Report

    canigraduate replied to nynursey_'s topic in General Nursing

    You have to have your &hit together to be able to give good, quick, bedside report. I usually do it with SBAR in hand. I can do six patients in less than thirty minutes if the oncoming RNs are...

  10. Backing out of a Contract

    canigraduate replied to happymedium's topic in Travel

    It sounds like you are doing everything possible to secure housing by networking and monitoring websites. It also sounds like you have a solution already in your traveler contact who will share. I say...

  11. I LIED to a professor

    canigraduate replied to Peonies n posie's topic in General Students

    Dude, calm down. You've got yourself so keyed up that you're going to continue to do things out of character. Take a chill break. Relax. Have a beer or something. Do some self-hypnosis, if you're...

  12. Outcast in school

    canigraduate replied to Newnurse65's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Firstly, the same people who went to high school go to nursing school, so what you are feeling is real. It is sad that these social situations carry on into nursing school, but it is what these people...

  13. Regarding chronic tardiness

    canigraduate replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I agree that some people are passive aggressive jerks. I have run into far fewer of these than the people who can't help it, though. Some of the behaviors you have described are also symptoms that...

  14. Regarding chronic tardiness

    canigraduate replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    This is not necessarily true. Some of the nicest, most caring people I know, who definitely respect other people, are frequently late. Even with interventions such as alarms, reminders from...

  15. Would you quit over white uniforms?

    canigraduate replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    I'm on the fence. I think this would be a symptom of the administration's basic disregard of nurses, and I would probably leave. However, I am agency/travel, so I wouldn't have to put up with it long...

  16. Regarding chronic tardiness

    canigraduate replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Sigh. The OP wants to know WHY people are chronically late. There have been plenty of posts already castigating the perpetrators. We all know that being late is hard on other

  17. Anyone with experience caring for elderly holocaust survivors?

    canigraduate replied to alivera's topic in Psychiatric

    Too true. My husband watches a lot of documentaries, and Hitler's Final Solution did away with anyone who was not part of his ideal. The mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, homosexuals, all...

  18. Anyone with experience caring for elderly holocaust survivors?

    canigraduate replied to alivera's topic in Psychiatric

    You have received some excellent advice. I would break down your survivor's biggest issues and work down the list. Obviously, there is some PTSD - so keep a stable environment, try to have the same...

  19. Regarding chronic tardiness

    canigraduate replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Here you go.

  20. Pain Scales

    canigraduate replied to GPSteiner's topic in General Nursing

    https://allnurses.com/nurse-colleague-patient/pain-seekers-973476.html Here's a recent thread on pain management that I

  21. Pain Scales

    canigraduate replied to GPSteiner's topic in General Nursing

    There are a ton of threads on pain treatment on this site. If you truly want to know what some of us do when a patient is calm, eating, and states their pain is 10/10, then use the search function....

  22. Fellow nurses...does this make sense?

    canigraduate replied to desert_MP's topic in General Nursing

    Another point to consider is that permission to have clinical at a site is easily revoked. If there had been an adverse event due to the student's involvement without the instructor there, it could...

  23. Bedside Report

    canigraduate replied to nynursey_'s topic in General Nursing

    I've done it both ways and I like bedside report. Pros: 1) Accountability between shifts 2) Patient involvement and increased compliance (HUGE benefit) 3) Catching small problems before they become...

  24. Fellow nurses...does this make sense?

    canigraduate replied to desert_MP's topic in General Nursing

    As a clinical instructor, I make it very clear in the beginning that students are not allowed to do anything, ANYTHING, without me seeing them do it the first time. I don't let them change a brief...

  25. patient abandonment

    canigraduate replied to conway1's topic in General Nursing

    I have no advice for you that hasn't already been stated. I am so sorry you had to go through this and I hope everything resolves OK.