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  1. Best Hallucinations Thread

    blueheaven replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing

    There was the elderly lady who kept talking about boxes. She would ask us to "put that maple box over there. Or that blue box looks nice". This conversation about boxes went on regularly. We had...

  2. sooo tired of staff without ANY compassion or empathy!!!

    blueheaven replied to nervousnurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And NO I do not feel superior to anyone else. I'm too tired for all that pat myself on the back and "me wonderful me" crap. We all have our days and we all have families and patients and visitors...

  3. sooo tired of staff without ANY compassion or empathy!!!

    blueheaven replied to nervousnurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  4. sooo tired of staff without ANY compassion or empathy!!!

    blueheaven replied to nervousnurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My husband was a patient in a large university hospital's MICU waiting for a liver. For the most part, the nurses were merely OK or totally apathetic Very, very few nurses paid attention to the...

  5. "I'm too young for a living will"

    blueheaven replied to somenurse's topic in General Nursing

    You are never too young to have a MPOA and a living will. Those nurses who think they are too young need to go work Trauma for a while. A real eye opener for sure. My husband and I discussed on...

  6. Interest in hospice

    blueheaven replied to KBICU's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I am wanting to work in hospice/palliative care at my hospital. I've wanted to make this switch from critical for quite a while but my husband became ill with liver cancer and he died 4 months ago....

  7. Providgil for stroke pts

    blueheaven replied to hodgieRN's topic in Neurological

    Ritalin is often given because it is MUCH cheaper than Provigil or it's sister med Nuvigil. Both of these meds are used for (off label) ADD, also for daytime sleepiness in those who have OSA, and...

  8. To any and all footcare nurse business owners

    blueheaven replied to dixiesnurse's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Where I work, our pods are so overworked in clinic etc. that they are unable to come to nursing units to deal with toenails etc. This sounds like something we could use. I'm sure our pods would be...

  9. Does anybody have any patient near-death experience stories?

    blueheaven replied to SMAC92's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I posted this a long time ago on another forum here at AN. This was in the early 80's and cardiac care was much different than it is now. Mr. V was a 59yr old who was admitted to the ICU with a...

  10. Would YOU recommend to a friend/family member, etc..

    blueheaven replied to digoe74's topic in Nursing Career

    I love what I do on most days. What I don't love and actually hate is the fact that I feel like I have to cover my @ss all the time and chart defensively. This is primarily because I work in a...

  11. "working" when you're off...

    blueheaven replied to blamejoe's topic in General Nursing

    No is a complete sentence. How ever you want to say it nicely is up to you. Only you can set a boundary and keep it. Why get resentful when you have allowed these behaviors to go on?? Examine...

  12. "Organ donor" on driver's license

    blueheaven replied to psu_213's topic in General Nursing

    I can't tell you how many times I've seen what you have described! One problem that I have personal experience with is that many MDs don't have the &^lls to give a straight out answer to the...

  13. "Organ donor" on driver's license

    blueheaven replied to psu_213's topic in General Nursing

    I seriously think that the family can override. I did have one patient who explicitly had his wishes placed in his medical record and he also told his family so that they would follow through....

  14. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

    blueheaven replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a MICU. If we are not full, we are assigned a patient and an empty bed. We also determine who will get the first patient admission by looking at the acuity of the patients that the...

  15. Saying 'NO' to overtime

    blueheaven replied to suzbeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did what you are doing. Was it worth it? NO. The more you work, the more Uncle Sam gets. Look at your checks carefully and you will see what I mean. Your body will eventually wear down and then...

  16. Hospital Won't Hire Obese Workers

    blueheaven replied to chevyv's topic in General Nursing

    This very argument was given to a very well qualified and loved nurse who applied for nurse manager. This was 30 years ago. They told her that "she didn't project the image that the hospital wanted...

  17. Oxygen levels possibly hurt pt?!

    blueheaven replied to samiam4's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't make him sicker. He was dying. If you can't get through this, please talk with someone about it. A friend of mine with PH was on 100% non rebreather and talking to me and in a manner of...

  18. The Mockery of Nursing

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

    No, back in the day you could count on nursing programs being able to "weed" out some of these folks from the beginning. Now, "I have a right to be here even though I scored a 2 on my SATs and if...

  19. Sleep bundle

    blueheaven replied to sethmctenn's topic in MICU, SICU

    I would be interested in this also. As seth has requested, also PM me. This is a major problem in the MICU where I

  20. Nurse -Patient Staffing Ratio

    blueheaven replied to fawnsternurse's topic in Addictions

    When I worked detox/rehab we stopped sending patients out to AA/NA due to an incident (I can't go into for privacy reasons) but HAI (hospitals and institutions committe) would have members come into...

  21. "Alphabet Soup" After Nurses' Name?

    blueheaven replied to Arianna727's topic in General Nursing

    LOL I guess I earned that one too!!!!

  22. Why are some nurses not grateful for my job?

    blueheaven replied to leogirl8's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think my previous post sounded a little harsh, but I also wanted to give the flip side of possible reasons for the attitude. Not justifying it by ANY means, just possible reasons. I can't tell you...

  23. Why are some nurses not grateful for my job?

    blueheaven replied to leogirl8's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Unfortunately some of us have had sitters that we have had to watch closer than the patients that they are supposed to be watching!!! Having sitters who fall asleep (on dayshift) repeatedly is not...

  24. "Alphabet Soup" After Nurses' Name?

    blueheaven replied to Arianna727's topic in General Nursing

    I'm justa plain OLD diploma graduate, RN working on BSN and occasionally full of just plain

  25. Deathbed visions **UPDATED**

    blueheaven replied to ag_man's topic in General Nursing

    Reese 2012 One of my coworkers had suffered a massive MI. Over the course of the next 2 years, she would be in the hospital frequently in our ICU. I worked nights and we would talk about...