mehitabela

mehitabela

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  1. Unhappy Hospital

    mehitabela replied to lilbitgeeky's topic in General Nursing

    What a cranky thread! I'm an RN Unit Manager and I keep a small supply of ten dollar gift cards to various food places and an even smaller supply of twenty dollar gift cards of the same sort. I give...

  2. How many residents is too many for one nurse?

    mehitabela replied to arabstarRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Oh, I didn't mention. I work nights, 7-7. Our patients are the normal/ ridiculous mixture of inappropriate for this snf/high acuity- should be in a hospital types. I have worked there for a month. The...

  3. How many residents is too many for one nurse?

    mehitabela replied to arabstarRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    How about this? My snf has about 120 beds. We have an accountant, a secretary, a social worker, a dietician, an activities director. Then we have the DON. We have three RNACS and I'm not sure what it...

  4. Shadowing in the ED

    mehitabela posted a topic in Emergency

    Hello, Tomorrow I will be shadowing at an ED that might hire me as an RN. Any suggestions? Pet peeves when being shadowed? Tips to ingratiate myself to the loverly person I will be following around...

  5. How to Handle Student Incivility

    mehitabela replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    About the laptop issue...I have to admit that while I lived for clinical and the experience that it afforded me, lecture in the nursing courses left me wanting. I had very good, consistent grades and...

  6. What do you do if you are assigned a patient you know outside of work?

    mehitabela replied to cogath's topic in General Nursing

    I had my middle school principle on my unit...the one that flunked me! I went in at the beginning of the shift and surprise...she/he remembered me! I laughed at the look on her/his face (kindly) and...

  7. How to Handle Student Incivility

    mehitabela replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Meriwhen, my psych clinical instructor had the perfect solution to inappropriate dress. She warned us at the beginning of the semester that she kept a big baggy ugly but professional outfit in her...

  8. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    mehitabela replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Incidentally, I happen to agree with a lot of what you've posted but like I said...the flavor is c

  9. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    mehitabela replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Mindlor, I can only comment on how I perceive the tone of your posts. It has nothing to do with the title for me. It was more the typed repitition "Leslie Leslie,Leslie" and " be advised" and" yes,...

  10. Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    mehitabela replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If you speak in the same overbearing and condescending manner at clinicals that you come across in print it may be that the old and crusty nurses have very good reason to be having a bad...

  11. Breaking out of LTC

    mehitabela posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone. As a new grad in the current economy I took the first (and only) position available as an RN on a TCU in a hospital. I have stuck it out for a year on a unit with a truly awful culture,...

  12. Breaking out of LTC

    mehitabela replied to mehitabela's topic in General Nursing

    It has been two months since my last post on this topic. Last month I was fired after a bizzarely rapid succession of write ups...two regarding issues that I rectified quickly as they were brought to...

  13. April fools day is coming

    mehitabela posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    O.K. Everyone, let's come up with the grossest tricks we can play at work (and still keep our jobs)! I'll start with an oldie but always goodie....the apple juice in the urine container or the peanut...

  14. Disappointing news, what can I do?

    mehitabela replied to WannabeNurse(:'s topic in General Nursing

    My daughter is fifteen and volunteers through the junior volunteer program at my hospital actually on my unit. See if you have something like that where you live. With parental consent, of course....

  15. Breaking out of LTC

    mehitabela replied to mehitabela's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everybody, I am willing to go anywhere in terms of med surg, icu, ortho, and will definitely be reworking my resume. I'll let you know how it goes! Agency is an option...I figured at least I...

  16. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    mehitabela replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I have severe ADHD and I have always been open about it. When you go to the drug test, take your script with you. The test results are not evaluated for the employer. I was told that they just say...

  17. Best way to lift a sagging breast for apical pulse

    mehitabela replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    Holy hanging baskets, batman!! Yes but the flesh might obstruct their breathing...and we all know how important the A in ABC

  18. Getting into a nursing program with a L.D.

    mehitabela replied to hlr2752's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I had some trouble in school. I have pretty severe ADHD. Class was really tough and I had to convince each new clinical instructor that on the floor my LD translated into multitasker extrodinaire!...

  19. Best way to lift a sagging breast for apical pulse

    mehitabela replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    I have had bladder scanning be a three person job...two to hold stuff out of the way and one to work the

  20. Best way to lift a sagging breast for apical pulse

    mehitabela replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    :lol2::lol2: OMG I think you made me pee a little!! In the nursing news section of all nurses there is an article called "Manual Lifting Led to Paraplegia"...would this apply?

  21. Best way to lift a sagging breast for apical pulse

    mehitabela replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    Just whatever you do...the nipple is not there for your convenience! Yeah, silly, I know...this thread just called to mind the physician in ICU that, instead of sternal rubs...you guess what he...

  22. New Grad Co-worker driving me NUTS!!!!

    mehitabela replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget to set a good example. Most often, if we treat a person the way we would want to be treated, it works in our favor. Ask yourself...if you made a mistake, would you rather one of your...

  23. New Grad Co-worker driving me NUTS!!!!

    mehitabela replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    Now was that truly necessary?

  24. New Grad Co-worker driving me NUTS!!!!

    mehitabela replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain...we actually have a new hire that sits and KNITS as the rest of us scurry around answering lights that she apparently does not hear! All of us started out new, overzealous and...

  25. Sigh. Is this really how we are graded?

    mehitabela replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    {{{eriksoln}}} Wow, that must have been so exasperating! Sounds like you did what you were supposed to do with a game face on. I wouldn't worry about it. There is always that ONE patient or family...