dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. When you are the patient. Do you get nervous about it?

    dudette10 posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The title says it all. We know what nursing is like, and we know about the mistakes that even the best nurses can make. Do you get nervous as a patient? If so, what do you do to make yourself settle...

  2. Paramedics rank higher than LPNs?

    dudette10 replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oops. It's already been said.

  3. Paramedics rank higher than LPNs?

    dudette10 replied to downsouthlaff's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's not a ranking. It's each role in the continuum of care and a scope of practice based on the

  4. When you are the patient. Do you get nervous about it?

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I might not be commenting, but I'm reading all of your replies. Keep 'em

  5. How do you get over your new RN boo boos (mistakes)

    dudette10 replied to love-d-OR's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm a year in now, and I put my mistakes in perspective or reframe or figure out a way to prevent it from happening again, if it is reasonable to do so. This isn't giving myself excuses, but I do it...

  6. How do you get over your new RN boo boos (mistakes)

    dudette10 replied to love-d-OR's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This really chaps my hide. You mean the charge nurse knew you thought it was a tube into the stomach from the way it was described to you, she knew that you would probably push the meds through the...

  7. Stopping patient care for another patient

    dudette10 replied to sAssy_NurSe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's considered "blaming someone else" for the delay. I know...I don't get it either, which is the reason why I've ignored that particular

  8. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

    dudette10 replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    After reading applewhitern's experience during a disaster, I think it's completely appropriate to provide 1) free food, 2) adequate sleeping arrangements for all who are staying (cots laid out in...

  9. Stopping patient care for another patient

    dudette10 replied to sAssy_NurSe's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, you were not wrong. You should not feel bad. You cannot be two places at once, although management seems to think you can be. One thing that I do that seems to work for reasonable patients,...

  10. Im curious and want to see absolute honesty

    dudette10 replied to miabia's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Hrmmm...I'm not in it for the money. I don't need to work. If I get fired or laid off, it's not that big of a deal to me financially. That sounds a bit scary, too, doesn't it? I went into nursing...

  11. ANA, State, and Specialty Associations

    dudette10 replied to Melissa0181's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an ANA member (national, state, and district) and a member of a specialty organization. Right now, I don't do much with them, but I do get a lot of publications that I read as soon as they...

  12. Nursing is not what I thought it would be!

    dudette10 replied to loheRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think MN-Nurse's response missed the point of the OP's post entirely. The OP is simply stating what so many other nurses on this forum have stated: patient care has become a list of tasks and...

  13. Things that make it all worth it

    dudette10 replied to kimmie4476's topic in General Nursing

    You're right. I'm very sorry for starting the wave of negative

  14. Indiscriminate Empathy?

    dudette10 replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this, for another reason, too. The past couple nights I have had some very irritable patients. The kind that while you are in the middle of the act of trying to make them comfortable,...

  15. How do you check a pulse? Nope I'm not a student

    dudette10 replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    Counting a pulse? Radial, all four of my fingers wrapped around the radius into the groove where the artery is, pushing down gently as to not occlude the vessel and lose the pulse all together....

  16. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We're not talking about language superiority here. (Your post has a tit-for-tat quality about it.) We're talking about the ability to speak the predominant language of the country where you intend to...

  17. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This belongs in the "I wouldn't want you as my nurse!" thread. It's thataway

  18. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, it's not. People who don't know English are immersed in the language. I live in a household where my husband speaks a second language fluently. He hasn't spoken it on a regular basis in ages, so...

  19. Things that make it all worth it

    dudette10 replied to kimmie4476's topic in General Nursing

    You are a better person than I. Here's why: I get those types of comments a lot. However, I must be a very good actress because even though I have the smile on my face and the right lilt in my voice...

  20. Indiscriminate Empathy?

    dudette10 replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in General Nursing

    My internet sarcasm detector is broken right now, so I will admit to missing her irony when she responds and tells me I

  21. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Paco69, part of the reason you don't get bent out of shape about it is because you already hit the goldmine on being bilingual. You speak Spanish. When people say "bilingual" that's the ONLY...

  22. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think you are talking about this, which I just pulled from the Department of Health and Human Services website: I found the exact same language I quoted above on two other "org" sites, aside...

  23. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This got me to thinking back to my marketing days in the 90's. We had a management position created for "special audiences," i.e. those that didn't speak English. She did a lot of research on the...

  24. Indiscriminate Empathy?

    dudette10 replied to tothepointeLVN's topic in General Nursing

    Huh? I really don't see how the original post is so unprofessional. BTW, you forgot to say, "I wouldn't want you as my

  25. Not even a word of English

    dudette10 replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Probably a good 25% (probably more) of the patients where I work can't speak English fluently enough to make their needs known on a consistent basis. Where I live, it's mostly Spanish and Polish,...