KC,RN

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1. When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in General Nursing

   That’s awful. As I got more experienced as a nurse I learned to say “I am a nurse and I am a professional, you are not allowed to touch me. I expect to be spoken to the same way I am speaking to...

2. When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in General Nursing

   I love this! Always my go

3. When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in General Nursing

   OMG that might be the only thing

4. When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in General Nursing

   I love this! Perfect way to handle it! I’m going to use this,

5. When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

   KC,RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I guess this could apply to any part of life, but just curious how everyone handles it when your patient wants to talk about politics. I typically try to redirect the subject back to the care I am...

6. Bachelor's vs Associates in Nursing

   KC,RN replied to WCSU1987's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   Where I live most of the prestigious hospitals and more of the local hospital want a BSN. I have my ADN and I am working on my BSN now. If you have the time I would go for your BSN because you will...

7. Hostile families

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I don't know if I expressed this clearly, but I truely do not think this son had any intention of causing trouble in the hospital. I think he felt helpless seeing his mother in that much pain and he...

8. Hostile families

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thank

9. Hostile families

   KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thank you everyone. Some really good advice here that I will use in my bag of tricks to prevent this from happening again. It's tough as a nurse when you understand that someone is in real pain and...

10. Hostile families

    KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know I spelled that wrong. As I said in the other posts I typed that quickly in the middle of the night without check. Thanks for correcting me. I will double check next

11. Hostile families

    KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thanks I'll double check next

12. Hostile families

    KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I need to use spell check when posting in the middle of the

13. Hostile families

    KC,RN replied to KC,RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know I was very vague in my post because I didn't want to give out to much information. The incident that happened last night was this. Pt came to the floor right at change of shift after a hellish...

14. Hostile families

    KC,RN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My last two shifts I have had issues with very hostel family members who felt that my hospital and me were not doing enough to prevent a patients pain. I had medicated both of these patients and...

15. Interested in earning a BSN degree

    KC,RN replied to hiii's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Ok point taken. My point was that you need to ask about your credits, and in my experience most schools will take credits already earned for an RN to bsn