dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. I'm tired of it!

    dudette10 replied to sunnyskies9's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    About silencing alarms: One CNA I was working with to clean up a patient went over to the ventilator to look for something on the machine. I said, "What are you doing?" She replied, "I want to...

  2. What are the reasons?

    dudette10 replied to CinDRnyc's topic in General Students

    I've been a working nurse for almost a year now. What I like about my job: --Every shift, there is at least one thing that takes creative thinking to work out. I need to be intellectually...

  3. Liability Insurance after retirement

    dudette10 replied to onetiredmomma's topic in Retired Nurses

    GrnTea: Are you aware of any insurance policies that require you to be currently covered by the company in order to have protection for events that happened in the past, even if you were covered by...

  4. Wiping off IV ports

    dudette10 replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so... In micro four years ago, we did culturing of our fingertips and anything else we wanted to culture. Nasty stuff. Anyhoo, we used alcohol wipes on...

  5. She got fired...

    dudette10 replied to StL_Momma27's topic in General Nursing

    A little off-topic, but since the original topic was BS anyway... Why can't you bleed out from a vein? I've seen a femoral vein quinton cath site bleed excessively. That's where angios start, too....

  6. I'm tired of it!

    dudette10 replied to sunnyskies9's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One thing really drives me crazy: An alert and oriented patient who requests one thing, which I start to do, then requests another thing and another thing and another thing even before the first task...

  7. Things I noticed as a patient...

    dudette10 replied to theantichick's topic in General Nursing

    About PetsToPeople's hand hygiene comments: The only thing I really take issue with is calling it the habits of "lazy" people. We're not lazy, but we do acquire not-so-good habits in the rush of our...

  8. Post Mortem Care

    dudette10 replied to mochamonster's topic in General Nursing

    I've done it only once, and I volunteered to do it. I treated the body with the same respect I would a living patient, and it didn't bother me one bit. Why? I don't have a clue. There was no...

  9. How to break into wound care nursing.

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Thank you all for your comments. I'm getting from the posts that it's a combination of education and some networking to break into the field. My hospital has an onsite outpatient wound clinic where...

  10. Things I noticed as a patient...

    dudette10 replied to theantichick's topic in General Nursing

    Regardless of how many posts you will receive that minimize effects of the practices you describe, yes, they are violations of infection control. Many healthcare workers don't follow all infection...

  11. fear of calling docs

    dudette10 replied to SimplisticRnx's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I can't add a single thing to CheesePotato's wonderful post; however, I can say this: everything the previous poster wrote will become second nature as you gain more experience, and you'll be...

  12. Stretching the truth...

    dudette10 replied to FaithGurl93's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    To add to everything that's been said: There is no "stretching the truth." The truth is found out as soon as they see your graduation date. On the other hand, to hide the grad date and present...

  13. A question to nurses with children

    dudette10 replied to taramade's topic in General Nursing

    As someone else has said, there is no "always having certain holidays off" when it comes to acute care nursing. As a parent myself, I do think it's more difficult to explain being away at work to...

  14. is 0.4 FTE worth it?

    dudette10 replied to esunada's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 0.5 FTE, but my husband is primary breadwinner and carries the health insurance. I still pick up shifts equivalent to 0.7 or 0.8 each week. I never get overtime, but it also makes me the first...

  15. How many Hours per Week do you work

    dudette10 replied to pat8585's topic in General Nursing

    Five 8-hour shifts every two weeks, but I pick up 1-2 shifts per week if I want

  16. Taking nursing care away from nurses. . .

    dudette10 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    i think you misunderstood me. i used the word skills; knowledge is

  17. Did you learn IV in NS?!

    dudette10 replied to tammy_zeidan09's topic in General Students

    In my state, it's against regulation for a nursing student to do venipuncture, so no, I didn't do IV starts on a real person while in school. Your friend's reason for not including it in the...

  18. New Grad- I feel lost and I am scared!

    dudette10 replied to NewRN12's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It will get easier. I guarantee it. A story: Last night, I had to go to another floor where I transferred a patient to include in the chart orders on my transfer. (The doc said a bunch of things to...

  19. Taking nursing care away from nurses. . .

    dudette10 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

    If you feel that nursing is nothing more than a list of skills, then you will feel limited in a facility that has others do all those skills. But, yes, the mountain of paperwork is a pain in the butt....

  20. Failing classes & discouraged..3rd year. Need honest advice

    dudette10 replied to Nurse_Sherlock's topic in General Students

    As a person who has a BA in English, this made me laugh so hard at the sheer

  21. Failing classes & discouraged..3rd year. Need honest advice

    dudette10 replied to Nurse_Sherlock's topic in General Students

    Here's my impression, and I'll tell you why: You want the end result, but you don't want to do the work to get there. And, there are always excuses to the reasons why you can't get 'er done. One of...

  22. Nurses Week/Hospital Week

    dudette10 replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    I don't care either way. I got free **** after my shift last night.

  23. Single person check in blood transfusion

    dudette10 replied to uniquenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Is it "protocol," as in a written document on blood transfusions that states only one check is required, or is there a lack of a written protocol? There's a difference. My facility recently...

  24. What makes a bad nurse?

    dudette10 replied to cpo_one's topic in General Students

    IME, a nurse who is not a team player, a nurse who is lazy, a nurse that dismisses a patient's subjective symptoms without further investigation. These three characteristics are often exhibited by a...

  25. What I have learned to HATE about Nursing

    dudette10 replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A nine-page thread that went off-topic with post #2! A new