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    Where does my responsibility lie? MD at crisis ignores request for orders!!!

    NurseCard replied to GalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow!!!!!!! I am at a loss.... you are right, that is definately a nightmare situation for a psych nurse, to be sure. At every place that I have worked, it was perfectly okay, in a dire emergency...
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    I need some Advice please

    NurseCard replied to babypoo's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah... and they will get downright ANGRY with you if you try to come to work without absolute clearance from the doctor! See, I hurt my back close to two years ago. Unfortunately I was never able to...
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    Adventures in the McDonald's drive-through...

    NurseCard replied to Bumashes's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good job!!!!! I'd be interested to know how the girl is and what happened to her! Hope she's okay!
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    I need some Advice please

    NurseCard replied to babypoo's topic in General Nursing

    Eeek. The only thing that I can tell you is that I myself have worked twice while pregnant, in two different hospitals, and in neither case was I given a lighter load due to pregnancy. Now, you...
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    love my job hate the hours

    NurseCard replied to futurenicunurse2008's topic in General Nursing

    What in the world is it about psych units and 8 hour shifts? =) Seriously, I work psych and I also work in a facility that offers 8's only, except if you are able to get a Baylor position, then it's...
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    Home Health on a Motorcycle

    NurseCard replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

    With all the miles you might have to ride doing home health, I think it's a fine idea, especially if your agency doesn't reimburse for mileage. Like others, I say check with your agency to make sure...
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    Day/Night with young children at home

    NurseCard replied to jesshopper12's topic in General Nursing

    casi: It's strange though... for me, I can come home and I kid you not, sleep ALL day, and when I wake up I still feel awful, like i just want to go back to bed and just keep sleeping until time to...
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    Day/Night with young children at home

    NurseCard replied to jesshopper12's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't do it. I seriously would not do it. Unless you have a LOT of help set up, I wouldn't do it. I currently work straight NIGHT shifts with a 7 year old and a 3 year old, and a husband that...
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    Any good Psych nurse units near Dayton, OH?

    NurseCard replied to babblingbrook's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmmm... about the only thing that I can advise is to ask on the Ohio Nursing board. Go up to the top of your screen where it says "Region", click and scroll down to "United States", and then scroll...
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    Ever Killed Someone?

    NurseCard replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    Wow... you really do bring up an interesting topic. Honestly though, I think it's a lot like saying "Have you ever killed someone by... oh I don't know, your best friend asked you which movie they...
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    Ever take care of a patient for a while to later find out...

    NurseCard replied to wanderingRound's topic in General Nursing

    One unique thing that you learn in child psych, and probably on any pediatric unit, is that lice aren't THAT easy to catch unless your head comes in contact with the patient's head, or in contact with...
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    Unit Manger Presence

    NurseCard replied to GreentigerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse managers at my place of business are actually scheduled to work as a unit nurse rather regularly. =) Not on off-shifts though, just on day shift when they would normally be there. Guess maybe...
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    Am I Being Unreasonable?

    NurseCard replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    OH my gosh, I wonder where you live? This patient you describe sounds an awful lot like my husband's
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    letter to manager appropriate, regarding transfer?

    NurseCard posted a topic in General Nursing

    So there is a job... well actually a couple of jobs... at the hospital where I work, that I am pretty interested in. I picked up a transfer form at the HR office to fill out. On it, you have to...
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    Termination

    NurseCard replied to FutureERDoc's topic in General Nursing

    Something rather similar happened at the last hospital where I worked. A nurse allowed her CNA to start an IV on a patient; the CNA was a nursing student, whom I believe was in her last semester of...
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    what is the shortest amount of time you've lasted at a nursing job?

    NurseCard replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    A year and one month, and that was a job that I actually liked pretty well and probably could have stayed with indefinately, but it was too far to drive from my house, the benefits weren't great, and...
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    Adoptive mom brings in pumped breastmilk to feed baby: what are your thoughts?

    NurseCard replied to redbeads's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Please, I wish you all weren't making this into a breastfeeding vs. formula issue. Hospitals, in my opinion, tend to go overboard sometimes with the whole infection control issue. If the OP is from...
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    slow code?

    NurseCard replied to pbmnms2's topic in General Nursing

    THAT'S a messed up situation right there that I would NEVER want to be in. Wow, I wouldn't want to be there when this man stops breathing and no one seems to know or agree if he is to be coded or...
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    I don't know if I want to be a nurse and I can't really...

    NurseCard replied to WayneKerr's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I pretty much went into nursing because my best friend was about to graduate nursing school and get a job making MUCH MUCH more money than we were currently making, working at the same place! I...
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    Company not paying for mandatory inservices

    NurseCard replied to erinp88's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a company that started doing something similar to this; however they were doing this in ADDITION to still having a mandatory inservice; also, I believe they were letting people come in to...
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    non-bedside position with bedside hours?

    NurseCard replied to HurricaneRN's topic in General Nursing

    Find a job at a psychiatric hospital, working with children or adolescents, that offers 12 hour shifts. If you work nighttime 12 hour shifts, you may have to spend 2-3 hours a night actually working...
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    Is this abandonment?

    NurseCard replied to ra3583's topic in General Nursing

    I need to get this straight... how far in advance did you let your employer know before you were scheduled to go see this patient? Like, were you supposed to go see the patient THAT DAY, and on that...
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    I've been bullied all my life, and it continues...

    NurseCard replied to asdjkl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow. Yes, it does seem like the nursing profession is full of "bullies"... it's a hard profession and it can be a mentally draining profession. It can be a profession that can really tear up a...
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    Just curious as to what you would do in this situation.

    NurseCard posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I was looking for the "joker" icon to stick to this thread, but there isn't one so I used the comedy/tragedy masks instead. Okay, so what would YOU do if this happened to you? You are working...
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    Just curious as to what you would do in this situation.

    NurseCard replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    to the last poster... *chuckle* that song came to my mind too. Anyway, thanks for the replies... my answer was, I would have shooed them out and probably said exactly as I quoted in my post. I'm...