tewdles RN

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    Do hospice nurse visit the patient who passed away at night?

    tewdles replied to 50kn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I agree that we should attend the deaths. We make the on call nurses document that they offered a visit with the name and credentials of the person who declined...just to make sure they are not...
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    Preceptorship in Hospice

    tewdles replied to Mandy's_Mom's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Welcome. Your experience will depend upon where geographically you are practicing, whether or not you are visiting patients in the hospice inpatient unit or in the field. You may travel with...
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    Should I stay or should I go?

    tewdles replied to Heart for Nursing's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Take the job... I never worked Med Surg... I started in NICU and have never looked back x 30+ years. You can do the same. Good
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    Anyone read the new book by Ira Byock?

    tewdles replied to Vtachy1's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Family members, at the end of life for their loved one, are not necessarily "thinking" about money or reality or common sense...they are grieving and hurting and doing the best that they can. They...
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    Do hospice nurse visit the patient who passed away at night?

    tewdles replied to 50kn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    yup...depends upon the situation. Generally we ask if the facility needs or wants us to visit...especially if the family is NOT coming to the bedside. The only reason that we don't attend the death of...
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    How would you comfort a dying atheist?

    tewdles replied to stripbubbles's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Good point, Patty. It is NOT part of our profession to preach, proselytize, or promote one belief over another. We must learn how to set aside our PERSONAL beliefs in order to fully hear what the...
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    Why Is It That Everyone Thinks They're A Good Nurse?

    tewdles replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Any of us who want to be reminded of the way that people lie to themselves and to those near and dear to them...just watch some of the early auditions for American Idol. Now translate that into a...
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    Why is unionization a subject of taboo??

    tewdles replied to wanderlustRN24's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Yeah, we got that... ...satire in an angry, "let me show you how ridiculous the lefties are" sort of fashion. I get that some "conservatives" despise what they perceive as "extreme left" politics....
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    The Mockery of Nursing

    tewdles replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not sure what the topic was, but I was certain the purpose was to find excuses to
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    Health care a right or privilege

    tewdles replied to jcasablanca's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If we dismantled public education we run the very real risk that only those who could afford it would learn to read, write, and cipher. It would, in no way, benefit our country if the masses were...
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    Health care a right or privilege

    tewdles replied to jcasablanca's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We don't have health care rationing now??? Really? Does anyone really think that the indigent in heart failure needing a new heart gets the same care as a former elected official? Do we really think...
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    Nobody likes "Obamacare", so what should we replace it with?

    tewdles replied to MunoRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree that tort reform is not the answer. There is something about minimizing the damages that a person can receive when they have suffered malpractice that does not sit right with me. Perhaps...
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    The Mockery of Nursing

    tewdles replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There's scabies in my armpit, and in my underwear. There's scabies on my clothing and now you're in my
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    The Mockery of Nursing

    tewdles replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Scotch or wine... wodka or rum and pepsi... if we didn't drink we might not respond with unpleasant words to ignorant questions, we might just pull the trigger... Old nurses are so MEAN they just...
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    Creepy Patient

    tewdles replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in General Nursing

    The picture taking would creep me out too. I agree that you have to have consequences for broken rules, you were likely too lenient with the smoking issue. These are things that we learn along the...
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    The Mockery of Nursing

    tewdles replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh...and since there has been a multi-page lapse in reminding folks how MEAN nurses are, I want to point out that nurses who frown on flirting with the OB resident instead of checking FHTs or get...
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    The Mockery of Nursing

    tewdles replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have to remind everyone that nurses are MEAN. Now that I've said that I am switching to Scotch because the wine was gone...and that makes me even
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    Why Is It That Everyone Thinks They're A Good Nurse?

    tewdles replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I can honestly say that in more than 30 years of nursing I have been both good and bad at my jobs. It is difficult to start a new nursing position and be "good" at what you are doing, because we often...
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    Is turning dying patients comfort care or not?

    tewdles replied to C0252786's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Opioids can provide wonderful pain relief and may or may not affect a persons response to the pain. I have been bedridden with significant pain issues, morphine worked but made me sick. Dilaudid...
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    Nobody likes "Obamacare", so what should we replace it with?

    tewdles replied to MunoRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I would have thought it true that no one wants that indigent or un-insured patient to die on the street...until I watched the debate during which the audience actually applauded that idea and shouted...
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    Drug testing a RN while a patient in the er

    tewdles replied to lori4367's topic in General Nursing

    i completely agree that it could have ended poorly. but there is nothing to suggest that this guy was under the influence of anything or that he was an abuser of anything. it is entirely possible...
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    Why is unionization a subject of taboo??

    tewdles replied to wanderlustRN24's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Wow...are you often this extreme? Is there no acknowledgement, on your part, that not everyone who lives in and loves this country resides in either the extreme right or the extreme left political...
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    How to make a big change at my hospital

    tewdles replied to skinny_murse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Like the others have said, know your work culture. If you are working for a hospital that does not empower their staff nurses to participate in processes of change, you might as well save yourself...
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    Ypsilanti neighborhoods

    tewdles replied to OnlyByHisGrace's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Dependent upon where you are working there are many nice communities in the greater AA area. So if you don't mind a commute look north, west, and south. If you prefer to live in the "country" you...
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    Work in Alaska?

    tewdles replied to thatchergirl's topic in General Nursing

    I was told when I moved to Fairbanks that Fairbanksans don't want their community to get too big. So I am supposed to tell everyone that it is too dark, too cold, and there is too much snow so they...