TonyaM73 ASN, RN

MED/SURG STROKE UNIT, LTC SUPER., IMU

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    Fired By Patient Family

    TonyaM73 replied to SolaireSolstice's topic in General Nursing

    I was fired once due to the fact that the pt wanted his insulin given HIS way and not the doctor's order. He would want more or less at alternate times from what was ordered and I would tell him that...
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    Has anyone had a pt's family member take pictures of you during care?

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Okay, the weirdest thing happend yesterday at work. (Why do I always get the nuts???) The doctor was examining the pt and the pt's wife was holding up her phone. I thought she was looking at...
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    How do you make potassium tolerable?

    TonyaM73 replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

    Juice is the trick I usually use. I take 1/2 a cup of whatever juice they like and mix it with the K, then I have the other 1/2 and another juice cup to chase it down. I always tell them that it is...
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    heartless DON or reality check?

    TonyaM73 replied to sarafina's topic in General Nursing

    WOW! Just WOW! I think that was hard hearted and if I was her boss, I would make every effort to find converage for her shift for her to be able to grieve with her family. It is the career of...
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    When was the last time higher management gave you a sincere Thank you.

    TonyaM73 replied to tobesmartt's topic in General Nursing

    I got a wonderful "Thank you" from our CEO of the hospital and the DON on Monday, when they were passing out bags of candy bars to each unit.( At 8:30pm at that!) I got lucky with the hospital that I...
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    Has anyone had a pt's family member take pictures of you during care?

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    After my supervisor confrunted the pt's family, she told the pt and the family that I would be reassigned effective immediately due to this incident and then called security into the situation. My...
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    Has anyone had a pt's family member take pictures of you during care?

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No one quite knew what to do in this situation other than talk to the family involved. We all know that no one can take a picture of the patient except in routine pt care such as pressure ulcers and...
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    Has anyone had a pt's family member take pictures of you during care?

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you both. I did bring it to my manager's attention. They went to talk with the family member with me and the family member denied it completely and told us we needed a court order to see her...
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    Anyone else miss nail polish?

    TonyaM73 replied to BettyBoop01's topic in General Nursing

    The reason nail polish or fake nails are not allowd is becauses of bacterial that can hide in/under the nails or the chips in the nail polish. If you are going from room to room all day long (even...
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    "She will not die. She does not have that permission from me."

    TonyaM73 replied to pockunit's topic in General Nursing

    I don't really like that quote either. So many pts think the nurses and doctors have full control of the way their illness will go. If it doesn't go well.....it is the doctor's or nurse's fault....
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    Admission orders

    TonyaM73 replied to fsaav's topic in General Nursing

    k/mag protocal, basic labs BMP and CBC. Bowel program for the
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    Do you actually like your unit?

    TonyaM73 replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing

    1. Med/Surg 2. 1:6-7 3. It is busy as all get out, but the patients are interesting with a wide variety of diagnosis and age. My co-workers are awsome exept for just a couple. Great support from CN...
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    Who else loves their job

    TonyaM73 replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    i do!! even the most stressfull days, when i wish i could get done all of the things that i want to get done for my pt and can't. the other day was just hell. i could have fit 2 days worth of work...
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    Vent on noncommunication

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Why is it that the doctors, pharmacy and anyone else can't communicate with each other, but instead call the nurse to call so and so doctor? I had a day from hell yesterday. Very busy group, doctors...
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    Vent on noncommunication

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for your comments. Being new, I didn't know how things were run at this hospital and on this floor. After talking with some of the other nurses at work, they all agree with you that MD...
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    Vent on noncommunication

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in General Nursing

    That is what I don't get. If they have time to call you and then have you call them back several times concerning the same issue because you have to clarify for the person they have had you...
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    Vent on noncommunication

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you both for letting me vent. I really felt like telling them that I didn't have time to play secretary....I was too busy playing nurse!!!
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    Best online RN to BSN program....CHEAP?

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Thank you all for your replies. I knew it wouldn't be really cheap to go back, but I didn't want to pay any extra to go to some Ivy League school. (No one ever asks you where you graduated unless it...
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    To digitally disempact or not?

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in General Nursing

    What is your hospital's policy on digital disempaction? Do you need a MD order or is there any policy at all? We have no policy, according to the charge nurse and so I did disempact a pt yesterday...
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    WHY!!!!

    TonyaM73 replied to 0hnoes85's topic in General Nursing

    I had to do the same thing after I graduated. I could not find work in any of the hospitals in my area, so I went to LTC with Rehab. It was the most stressful and hard on my self esteem job I have...
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    To digitally disempact or not?

    TonyaM73 replied to TonyaM73's topic in General Nursing

    I know the joys!! I worked in LTC before I moved to the hospital and we would occationally have a pt that was just really stuck. I disempacted one time and then was told "we could not do that". So,...
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    *Easy* things I just hate doing

    TonyaM73 replied to SolaireSolstice's topic in General Nursing

    Talking to pt's families because they keep calling for an update. Every time they call I am in another pt's room and try to get off the phone quickly, but they just keep asking questions. I really...
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    To digitally disempact or not

    TonyaM73 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    What is your hospital's policy on digital disempaction? Do you need a MD order or is there any policy at all? We have no policy, according to the charge nurse and so I did disempact a pt yesterday...
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    Another Vent...About a Frequent Faller!

    TonyaM73 replied to king_of_the_hill_fan's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Do you guys have low beds and fall pads? In the facility that I used to work for, if you had the bed low and the fall pads in place and a pt fell out of bed without an injury, it was not considered...
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    Pet Peeve: Poor Grammar by Nurses

    TonyaM73 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I got one, and I even said it myself the other morning when I didn't have enough coffee. Me: Is the Nephrostomy doctor coming in today. Generalist: Don't you mean the Nephrologist? OOPS! He...