imintrouble BSN, RN

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    The Docs Who've Got Your Back

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

    I've been a nurse for almost 20 years and had never encountered an MD as described in the OP. Never. I'd heard of them, like an urban legend, but had never experienced their kindness. Until last...
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    Disabled seems to have some new meaning!

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

    You beat me to it. The truly tragic part of this prediction, is those people who simply cannot work. I'm thinking more of the DD population and their families. The young people who live with their...
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    Interment cath and trach suction per pt request limit

    imintrouble replied to Rvanurse2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    GrannyRRT, Are you a nurse? Your name would indicate otherwise. I thought maybe you're both an RRT AND a nurse. You certainly have the RRT knowledge. It would go a long way in explaining the...
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    Needing advice or any help with this

    imintrouble replied to SusanJackson's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I guess it just comes down to the individual. Ten year old info about my life is just plain old news. I live in a small town where everybody would know about my past anyway. Your post did make me...
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    Interment cath and trach suction per pt request limit

    imintrouble replied to Rvanurse2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you for your clarification, but I still don't recognize most of what you've posted. I imagine there are more like me, than you. That's too bad, because I think I would've stayed in LTC if I'd...
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    Interment cath and trach suction per pt request limit

    imintrouble replied to Rvanurse2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "You don't have to rush like in acute care" simply rolled over me like a mack truck. You don't have to rush in LTC? The above post bears absolutely no resemblence to any LTC I've ever
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    Interment cath and trach suction per pt request limit

    imintrouble replied to Rvanurse2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. We could suppose for a dozen more pages, but it just looks to me like a case of control freakitis. The worst case I ever cared for was a...
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    Needing advice or any help with this

    imintrouble replied to SusanJackson's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    At the risk of sounding unfeeling, I just can't figure out what difference it makes after 11 years. I tried to put myself in the OPs shoes. I might feel betrayed that my daughter would do such a...
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    Out of control visitors

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

    My sister, who's not a nurse, frequently reminds me that our grandchildren's generation will take care of us when we're old. She also reminds me they'll be running the country. We both shudder in...
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    I. Just. Can't....

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

    I think it should be part of an ethical intervention that family members view what's going to be done during a code. There should be a short video of what it looks like when a 150 lb nurse with...
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    The ethics of cost for cure vs noncompliance.

    imintrouble replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    I don't agree with your "stupid" theory. Patients are noncompliant for a variety of reasons, with stupid being way down on that list. If you want to think noncompliance automatically = stupid, that's...
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    The ethics of cost for cure vs noncompliance.

    imintrouble replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    I've taken care of transplant patients, but have never worked in a facility where they were performed. The patients where I work are rigid about taking their transplant meds. Your post was an eye...
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    Love working in an area that needs nurses

    imintrouble replied to englishgeek's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What agency would hire a new grad for home
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    The ethics of cost for cure vs noncompliance.

    imintrouble replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    Don't those receiving organ transplants have to demonstrate a willingness to comply with treatment before a transplant can procede? Is that because the transplant is costly? Or is it because there...
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    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

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

    I also find the A and B concept insulting. What happens when we've accomplished every single thing imaginable for our patient? Eventually that happens, because available options to answer wants and...
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    To float or not to float

    imintrouble replied to paramedic-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Floating occurs about once a week where I work. That's one shift out of three. Nobody likes it, but with staffing cuts, we're injected into positions like pegs in a hole. I don't see an end until...
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    Soma or Enclosure Beds... Cruel or not?

    imintrouble replied to Paws2people's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We could have used a couple of those last week. Paint it pink, add some tulle and sequins and my granddaughter would think it was a princess
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    What Keeps Nurses Up at Night?

    imintrouble replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    The old ones. The ones who look at me with eyes without hope. The ones who just want to die, and we won't let
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    On Negative Feedback

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

    I always say, if you want to hurt my feelings you have to hit me with a brick. Nothing short of that really gets through. I don't interpret nuance and subtlety well. Sugar coating just leaves me...
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    Should Nurses Bill Separately from Hospitals and Physicians?

    imintrouble replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Reality. Darn. I was having such nice thoughts of charging that nasty patient for fluffing the pillows, and topping off that cup of
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    Still Reeling From This

    imintrouble replied to MECO28's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't read all the posts. I just went with my first thought when reading the OP. Dead people don't fill out satisfaction surveys. Nurses don't fill out satisfaction surveys. FAMILIES, survivors,...
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    Babies in hospital rooms. ..ugh!! *twitch*

    imintrouble replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We should stock the rooms with tiny isolation gowns and
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    Nurses Med error..How can we help?

    imintrouble replied to McLewis83's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Give the copies to the nurse. Absolutely. When she's feeling lower than a snake, she can pull those letters out and find comfort in the support of her fellow nurses. The worst part of being fired is...
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    Starting to find some aspects degrading

    imintrouble replied to QuarterLife88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Nursing has become a service industry job. Several of my siblings also have those kind of jobs, even though they're not nurses. They tell the same kind of stories. We could put paper bags on our...
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    How do you handle inappropriate touching from patients?

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

    What irritates me is, if this guy tried to grab visitors' body parts, he'd be out on the street. If he groped the female residents, he'd be out on the street. Employees on the other hand, are expected...