imintrouble BSN, RN

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    Newbies Who Want to Pay ZERO Dues Schedule-Wise

    imintrouble replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree. But working nights, everybody wants Christmas Eve off. It's everybody's first choice. Who gets
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    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    imintrouble replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The second nurse has contracted Ebola and was diagnosed on Tues. She was on an airplane on Monday. I faulted Duncan, patient zero, for flying from Africa to the US without disclosing his proximity to...
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    Newbies Who Want to Pay ZERO Dues Schedule-Wise

    imintrouble replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The holidays are around the corner. That schedule is particularly painful where I work. The senior nurses feel they should get their choice, the new nurses think it should be "fair". Since the...
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    Media a bit too invasive of nurse's personal info following her catching Ebola?

    imintrouble replied to Blue Roses's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't believe for one minute Nurse Pham was not competent to care for her critically ill patient. I was as outraged as anybody when she was blamed for her own illness. My extended family, who are...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    imintrouble replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Maybe they're fools, but they also have no skin in the game. It's not their life they're risking when they step in an Ebola hospital
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    Monitoring nurse rounds??

    imintrouble replied to TeneshaO'Neal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We don't have them, but some of the bigger hospitals do. There's a way to cheat the system. A nurse tried to explain it to me, but I didn't understand
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    imintrouble replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We don't stock impermeable gowns. We have the yellow paper ones because they're cheaper. Limited face shields. Noncompliant staff. We're
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    imintrouble replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might suspect that's exactly why the nurse job market was promoted to over
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    imintrouble replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We don't have haz-mat suits. The only areas that stock face shields, is OR and ED. We are so non-compliant with PPE, it's amazing we've not all contracted something. We've definitely become lazy...
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    Saw an angry clinical instructor...

    imintrouble replied to Bortaz's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Whatever you decide to do, please don't ignore the instructor brow beating her students in public. Students are at the mercy of those nurses who teach them. You may someday find yourself working with...
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    What an awesome feeling!

    imintrouble replied to NurseQT's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Sometimes the biggest joys, come from the most unexpected places. You must have been important to your resident, for your memory to span a year, and the fog of dementia. I think that's what I miss the...
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    My Apology

    imintrouble replied to NotMyProblem MSN's topic in General Nursing

    You've done nothing to warrant my forgiveness, but I'll give it because it'll make you feel better. Please forgive yourself. Whatever you posted, and I don't know what it is, is not worth feeling...
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    Nursing and the Ebola Virus

    imintrouble replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm sorry that this man has died. But I can't help but wonder if he might have lived, if he'd told the ER staff on the first visit, that he'd had close contact with a dying Ebola patient in Africa....
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    imintrouble replied to HappyWife77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You risk ridicule from your fellow AN posters when you post the above. But I believe you're correct. I guess we'll see. I just won't take any pleasure in being
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    Ebola here in Dallas USA

    imintrouble replied to HappyWife77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think this is going to get as bad as anyone can imagine. Even if Ebola is contained, can you imagine the ERs in Texas? There will be waves of people with the flu, convinced they've contracted the...
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    Nurse Staffing Costs

    imintrouble replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    IF the OP is a consultant, he knows exactly what's happening in our hospitals. Then he wants to know how that's working out for us. I find those questions insulting, from somebody who already knows...
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    Nurse Staffing Costs

    imintrouble replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    On a previous thread the OP asked about nurses being placed on call, and how often they were called in. I think as one AN poster suggested, we are doing the OPs job by telling him what cuts our...
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    Nurse Staffing Costs

    imintrouble replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Does the consulting firm ever suggest the "C suite" take a cut? Does it ever suggest cutting nursing management? Or are the cuts all at the bottom? I'm just
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    My best friend is now a patient on the floor I work on

    imintrouble replied to EmergencyChocolate's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You know it's a complication situation. You've received excellent advice. You can't provide anybody any information about your friend because of HIPAA. After all the above, you're still asking for...
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    Goodbye...

    imintrouble replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Song in my heart gets my vote. There's a song, "With a song in my heart". Very old. I always think of that song when I see the OPs
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    The culture of AN

    imintrouble replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    I understand why the OP would suggest an "against the AN culture" option. I just don't like the idea of a third party "sanitizing" the threads to make them less
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    Some of Us Are Trying to Help You...

    imintrouble replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It's a shame, that what the OP allowed the student to do is controversial. That rules have inhibited learning and growth. That we're afraid to let our newbies learn how to be nurses when the...
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    My Reflections on Nursing

    imintrouble replied to sjalv's topic in General Nursing

    It's been 20 years, but I still remember feeling bitter and betrayed, when I stepped out into the world of nursing as a new grad. What I was taught, was NOT what I was faced with in the real world....
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    So dietitians can now write orders: Denial of rights.

    imintrouble replied to puravidaLV's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This thread makes me smile. Twenty seven responses to sketchy information. We don't even know what the question or the concern is. I've seen perfectly worded and thought out threads die after 6 posts....
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    LTC Nursing gets a bad rap!

    imintrouble replied to Gchr's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When I worked LTC we used to dread the holidays, because that's the only time most of our residents had visitors. So on that day family members we'd never seen, took the opportunity to tell us how...