DavidFR BSN, MSN, RN

Oncology, ID, Hepatology, Occy Health

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    Nurse and Bipolar

    DavidFR replied to Domosuki's topic in General Nursing

    I had a bi-polar colleague who was an excellent nurse in oncology. She was observant with her meds and most people didn't know she had a problem. When she felt the strain she sought help and took...
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    Advice Needed - Denied Promotion

    DavidFR replied to Hellebore's topic in United Kingdom

    A similar thing happened to me way back in the days of the old clinical grading system. I was an F grade, desperately applying for G grade posts and being rejected time and again. I had a colleague in...
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    MEN, dont come into nursing

    DavidFR replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Men in Nursing

    I realise anything I say about the situation of nursing here in France will not apply to the vast majority of people on these boards who are in the US. However my more global point is that once in a...
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    MEN, dont come into nursing

    DavidFR replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Men in Nursing

    Nobody enjoys vaccines, but I didn't mind having them because touch wood, they've so far kept me Covid-free, and once the fourth dose is available to us I'll be first in the queue. I did appreciate...
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    Feeling Like An Idiot

    DavidFR replied to LPNBC99's topic in General Nursing

    This is the curse of nursing at night. I've long since got over apologising for calling people who are on call. They're there for a reason. If they're happy to take the money, they should expect...
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    Student professionalism

    DavidFR replied to dumbnurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If I had behaved like that as a student I would have been discontinued. That was in the 1980s. Some things have changed for the better, the petty rules for example, however the basic courtesy that was...
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    Colonoscopy Post Vital Signs

    DavidFR replied to Firewood's topic in General Nursing

    Always be suspicious when you get a BP reading totally identical to the previous one. It does happen, but not often. Check your machinery. If the patient was actively bleeding gallons you'd have...
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    There's A Bright Side To Night Shift

    DavidFR replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Nights for 13 years now and not going to change until I retire. Agree with all that's been said above. On my small oncology clinical trials unit we're just two nurses at night so the mutual help and...
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    Doing PRN while working in a different profession?

    DavidFR replied to happyhippo's topic in General Nursing

    I switched from nursing to TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). I kept up my license and did agency shifts some weekends all the while I was teaching in a language school during the...
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    Care plans are stupid.

    DavidFR replied to maestrotee's topic in General Nursing

    Having moved from a country where they were compulsory to a country where they don't exist, my personal opinion is that they are a waste of the nurse's time and totally unnecessary. I know how to...
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    Allergic to tegaderm?

    DavidFR replied to stunner127's topic in Patient Medications

    We have an alternative dressing to Tegaderm called IV Hand. It's transparent but evidently not the same material as Tegaderm since some patients who are allergic to Tegaderm are OK with IV Hand....
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    Do you ever blame yourself for things that you had no control of, or wasn't your fault?

    DavidFR replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    That's a great one and I share your backround. My other label is born again atheist. Scottish comedian Billy Connoly once said he went to a catholic school and the only qualification he left with...
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    Can you tell me what days are considered weekend where you work?

    DavidFR replied to johnnymoney99's topic in General Nursing

    Here in France midnght Saturday to midnight Sunday, so essentially just Sunday. Saturday does not attract enhanced pay. The enhancement varies accrding to your length of service. If I work my 2...
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    Treatment of Nursing Students

    DavidFR replied to KrisNicoleE's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It's a two way street. I love having a student and I am always welcoming, friendly and do my best to share the knowledge and experience I have. I will demonstrate whatever procedure and let them...
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    When answering the call... light, that is.

    DavidFR replied to ladedah1's topic in General Nursing

    A young man I was possibly too kind to when he broke down in tears took a shine to me and started calling for the slightest thing when I was on. He called in the middle of a super-busy shift when...
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    Have you ever given a ride to and from work for your colleagues?

    DavidFR replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure what the issue is here, provided your colleagues don't get stroppy when you say no. The gender/age issue is certainly not an issue. These people are you colleagues. For three years I...
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    1 nurse 1 patient on a floor?

    DavidFR replied to rnsteph87's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I've been in this situation more than once. In a good hospital with one patient on an entire floor we were two nurses AND the night supervisor came to relieve us for meal breaks. Perfecto....
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    ...Was I being insensitive??

    DavidFR replied to Delia37's topic in General Nursing

    You did the right thing. In nursing you cannot avoid looking after patients with infections in whatever specialities. I used to work in infectious diseases and got really annoyed with the agency...
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    Okay to wear traditional nurse uniform to work?

    DavidFR replied to Elliebeanlovesmisterbubbles's topic in General Nursing

    I feel I'm being transported back in time. I trained in the UK in the 1980s when female nurses looked like Victorian parlour maids with frilly hats, belts, buckles, the lot. The idea of a female...
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    Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    DavidFR replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Health care is not a business. Good hospitals can never make a profit. Yet another thread that makes me grateful I work in a socialised health system. Not perfect, of course we have our problems,...
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    Pump vs Gravity for vesicants

    DavidFR replied to gcs1211's topic in Oncology

    All chemo, vesicant or otherwise, passes by pump where I work. Our protocole is to check the reflux and permeability with a saline flush immediately before all chemo in both peripheral and...
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    My Job Hopping & Bipolar Disorder

    DavidFR replied to starmickey03's topic in General Nursing

    I have known people without mental health problems change jobs frequently because they just don't like getting stuck in a rut in one place. Have you considered just doing agency nursing? Would it suit...
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    Giving Report and IV Access

    DavidFR replied to thehipbonesconnected's topic in General Nursing

    Spot on. I know my right from my left and I can tell straight away if my line is on the right or the left. It's not as if I'm going to try and get a flush into the wrong arm if the preceding...
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    Bill Approved to Limit Treatment for Transgender Youth

    DavidFR replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    Again you rant on about surgery. Nobody is advocating surgery for minors. Surgery for grown adults who have been medically and psychologically assessed is another matter. Now let me fix you on...
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    Bill Approved to Limit Treatment for Transgender Youth

    DavidFR replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    So why do it? When you say, and I quote: ", but because the homosexual and transgendered seem to feel they have a monopoly on being abused by teenaged peers." ..that is a very bullying,...