imintrouble BSN, RN

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    Doc Mad At You?

    imintrouble replied to Kooky Korky's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes I've had them mad at me. I can say one thing for certain. Doctors hold grudges longer than any other group of people I've ever seen. Childlike. That's what I think of when I'm getting flattened...
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    Do you have a nickname at work?

    imintrouble replied to Rhi007's topic in General Nursing

    I know that I do, I just don't know what it is. One of our nurses has nicknames for all of us. Some of them unkind, but all of them very
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    I am trying to get out of nursing. My parents will feel terrible if I do.

    imintrouble replied to NursingBro's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Not having enough money to pay the bills is stressfull too. A week of nursing (similar to the week I just had) VS a month of not enough money and too many bills. As far as the stress-o-meter goes,...
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    Making a complaint about a doctor?

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

    I trusted my memory instead of reading your posts. I assumed your admissions to the hospital for resp problems was because of ER visits. I stand
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    Making a complaint about a doctor?

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

    This is the second thread concerning ER visit/asthma complaints the OP has posted. Are you simply not communicating well with the ER staff? I'm not suggesting that your visit wasn't an emergency. I'm...
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    Termination, reflection, and moving forward

    imintrouble replied to TrixieRN1's topic in General Nursing

    Trixie, I liked your post. I'd bet you've already moved through the anger and denial phases, resulting in a post full of acceptance. What happened to you wasn't right, or fair. As we all know, life...
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    "I don't want him as my nurse"

    imintrouble replied to libran1984's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I agree. It's just that sometimes the pain scale feels like a dance the nurse and pt have to have when neither one wants to. I know the pts who just want the drugs, and GUY is right, they're going to...
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    didn't start school til age 50

    imintrouble replied to Whit'sBetterHalf's topic in General Students

    For me, going back to school as an older student was easier than I ever would have imagined. You absorb knowledge over the course of those 20-30- yrs your younger classmates haven't had time to...
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    Math rage

    imintrouble replied to tayloramaRN2be's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Back in the day, no math was required in the program I attended. I had to pass a placement test, but that was it. I'll admit that was part of the attraction to the nursing program. When I had to...
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    At what point do you send to the hospital?

    imintrouble replied to jamd11's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I haven't working in LTC for awhile. When I did, I called the MD when a resident's condition required medical attention. Unquestionably, what you describe should have been called to a doc. It's not...
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    Just tired

    imintrouble replied to lauriepat's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Leave now. It's just that simple. A really bad place to work. Usually I advocate for quitting with notice and not burning bridges. Not with what you describe. I've been where you are. Some places...
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    PATIENT posting pictures on Facebook

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

    I've vacationed in places where snapping a picture, and accidentally including a local, will have that local loudly demanding compensation. Demand
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    Need a pick me up & to vent

    imintrouble replied to RaleighNurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    It has been my experience, that the LPNs I've work with, consider themselves less than the RNs who work with them. I have never considered any LPN to be less than me. Never. I've wondered how I'd...
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    New Grad and Patient's Who Hit Close to Home

    imintrouble replied to canadianjess's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a brand new nurse, my first job was working in a nursing home. There were several Down Syndrome residents nearing 60 yrs old, all with Alzheimers. I saw my daughter in their faces. The...
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    Extremely Overweight Nurses

    imintrouble replied to WonderousIvy's topic in Nursing Career

    This is the overweight nurse thread, so naturally I though we were discussing overweight nurses. If you didn't say being overweight makes you unfit, what ARE you
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    Extremely Overweight Nurses

    imintrouble replied to WonderousIvy's topic in Nursing Career

    Saying fat/unfit = incompetent/incapable does not = UBERMENSCH? I think if I just called 3/4 of the nursing population incompetent/incapable, I'd be darn glad that's all I was
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    Older workers that are new grad nurses, please explain.

    imintrouble replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    After 195 responses and counting, the original question has been answered. Repeatedly. It's just not the answer the OP wants to
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    Older workers that are new grad nurses, please explain.

    imintrouble replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    The question was rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway. You loan the money to the person with the track record. You hire the person with the
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    I need the advice of a Hospice nurse

    imintrouble posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Extended family member went from ER visit to hospice in about 10 days. Obstruction > surgery>colon resection > CA. Mets. No BM in .... ??? No chemo. Surgeon couldn't get all the tumors....
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    Should I get a nice car as a new LPN/LVN?

    imintrouble replied to NursingBro's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Methinks someone is tooting his own horn.:) Perfectly ok in my
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    Not feeling the love.

    imintrouble replied to texasmum's topic in General Nursing

    I guess you can look at this situation two ways. The OP has quit. Somebody is going to get called off for low census, maybe several somebodys. Those somebodys still want to work at the facility...
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    What was the HARDEST PART OF NURSING SCHOOL for you?

    imintrouble replied to J.O.Y.'s topic in General Students

    Graduating. Then getting a job. The first months as a new nurse makes nursing school look like
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    Policy on pain medications and patients leaving the floor?

    imintrouble replied to Billy_Ruben's topic in General Nursing

    About 90% of our docs do not allow pts to leave the floor. Period. It has nothing to do with pain meds. None of the MDs have shared their reasoning with me, but I suspect it's along the lines of "If...
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    Best Way to Let Management I'm Going PRN?

    imintrouble replied to granimals's topic in General Nursing

    There has to be a PRN opening where I work. You can say you want less hrs. You want part time. Or as you are doing, taking another full time job. If there isn't an opening, they'll just let you
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    Working with colleagues diagnosed with mental illness

    imintrouble replied to resilientnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm a picture thinker. I imagine normal mental health as a square room with a very few people in the center. Most of us hug the walls. A few are standing in the doorway looking in. A very few don't...