dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. nervous and terrified

    dudette10 replied to fritzness87's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Can I ask why you left a specialty that you

  2. Nursing Board troubles

    dudette10 replied to pwNPstudent's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Totally agree. Read about Jonah Odim in Winnipeg. Then see where he is now! Not saying that career trajectory would necessarily be a good thing for patients...great for the practitioner,

  3. Should I quit if the job doesn't fit??

    dudette10 replied to RoadRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    yeah, after THREE YEARS of training in practice. Good lord, most NP educational programs are less than that full

  4. Should I quit if the job doesn't fit??

    dudette10 replied to RoadRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    Then why, every July, do my calls to the interns --for about six months--usually end with, "Let me check with my

  5. Doctors rip VA plan that would give some nurses more authority

    dudette10 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    If NP education was as rigorous as CRNA education, no problem. Yes, there are good and bad MDs and there are good and bad NPs; however, I think the percentage of bad NPs far exceeds bad MDs when first...

  6. I want to cry - new grad

    dudette10 replied to Maryam1616's topic in Medical-Surgical

    You are a new grad; of course your time management is poor. So, to your genius preceptor: "No ****." After your shifts, think for 15 minutes on how you could have improved your delegation,...

  7. That nagging feeling...

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is an old thread, but I'm hoping additional stories get

  8. That nagging feeling...

    dudette10 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ever walk into a room and think, "Something isn't quite right?" I'm sure you have, and I personally hate that feeling. I want to know WHY I feel that way, and sometimes, I don't! There isn't enough...

  9. Taking a year off after Graduation

    dudette10 replied to Nursestudent103.2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Your wish to do other things for a year after NCLEX is straight up avoidance behavior. If you don't immediately start looking for nursing jobs, and you take a non-nursing job, I'm pretty sure you will...

  10. Delegation question

    dudette10 replied to blueskyy's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You are being written up for

  11. Delegation question

    dudette10 replied to blueskyy's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You didn't delegate...you asked another nurse to help out and she did. Delegation involves an RN task being given to someone with a narrower scope of practice but for which you are still ultimately...

  12. Patient Information Access Outside of the Facility?

    dudette10 replied to Klindse's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I think it would depend on the role. Straight bedside nurses...no. Nurse managers and others who may need access to the EMR while not in the

  13. Noncomplience and uninvolved management

    dudette10 replied to AbigailJo's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh, good lord. You weren't stimulating critical thinking...you were being an *******. And now, you're being needlessly pedantic. BTW, the conversation ended two months

  14. what's your pet peeve?

    dudette10 replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    Patients who do not want to leave the hospital. I get fed up with their constant complaining about care and their unreasonable demands, but the fact is, they are incredibly unhappy people who are...

  15. How should this have been handled by facility?

    dudette10 replied to LuckyLibraLPN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Was the narc count after the nurse left correct? That is truly bizarre behavior on the part of the

  16. Hostile families

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

    A big issue that was only tangentially mentioned was that the providers FAILED. Yes, they FAILED to anticipate the patient's needs based on the diagnosis and the level of relief received from ER pain...

  17. Is it okay for RN to ask recovery patients not to swear?

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

    Depending on the anesthesia used and the patients reaction to it, they may not have a lot of control. My son had two procedures within two years of each other, both under general anesthesia. After the...

  18. Staffing issues; call-ins

    dudette10 replied to HLRN814's topic in General Nursing

    You can't fix it if you don't know what is broken. Have you asked the

  19. How do you deal with verbally abusive pts?

    dudette10 replied to Molly.RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Agree with those who say just do your job and get the hell outta that room as fast as you can. I had one EXACTLY like this in acute care for two days this week. She took up a ridiculous amount of...

  20. Questions for an acute care nurse.

    dudette10 posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I and my coworkers get a lot of questions/requests from LTC nurses that I don't understand why it's necessary or needed at that exact moment when it's going to be in the packet sent with the patient....

  21. So I kind of messed up

    dudette10 replied to oopsmybad's topic in General Nursing

    Really?!? Her MOTHER offered her an anti-anxiety pill, and you're comparing it to stealing narcs/benzodiazepines from the hospital or buying it off the street? Good

  22. How often does the CNO address nurses? Why? How?

    dudette10 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    She came around to each unit pushing a cart of goodies a couple times a week for an entire month...right before the RN satisfaction survey deadline...a question on which was "Isyour CNO accessible to...

  23. Best practices: Controlled substance handling

    dudette10 replied to c3poshideout's topic in Patient Medications

    Here's what would be required to follow every step by the book in order to truly prevent diversion. Ready? Open the MAR of the pt you are pulling for. Pull the med from the Pyxis. Have a witness...

  24. Are you jealous of other nurses jobs/abilities?

    dudette10 replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. I'm very jealous of people who love their nursing jobs. I am somewhat limited in where I can go because we've become used to my registry pay. I had to turn down a job that I thought I would...

  25. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    dudette10 replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    As a person who has always achieved high grades, I have to admit that most of this is true. Your C. And D. were the big ones for me when I first started, although on D., I was very efficient, so...