Kooky Korky BSN, RN

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    Anybody else ever experience this? Advice?

    Kooky Korky replied to aspiringrn1987's topic in First Year After Licensure

    No, I have not personally had this experience, but I understand how you must feel. If you have to, get a motel for a while. Don't keep putting off your start date and don't pressure HR or you might...
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    Email to the unit manager

    Kooky Korky replied to Talka_RN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Make sure your grammar and spelling are perfect. Dear ______, This is Talka, RN. You and I interviewed on ___________. First of all, I would like to thank you for the pleasant and informative...
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    Seeking real assistance here

    Kooky Korky replied to EstrellaAzul's topic in Nursing Career

    Maybe you could hire on with an agency. You could work at several places and see if you like it well enough to be hired permanently by one of them. Where are you, OP? What's going on in your life...
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    New to OR -need advice -arrogant rude surgeon

    Kooky Korky replied to ORGeek's topic in Operating Room

    Don't go complaining to your Manager just yet. You've been there a very short time. Just try to stay away from him if possible. If not, just either ignore him as much as you can or just kind of...
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    Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    Kooky Korky replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Please do be one. Protect your patients. If someone says he won't give a local in order to punish the Mom, quietly give him a syringe full of one. Stand in front of him if he tries to touch her...
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    Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    Kooky Korky replied to mamagui's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    All of these monsters need to be reported to the licensure Board and to hospital Admin. No lido as a punishment? I hope the pt finds out and has him arrested for assault, battery,
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    The right to an opinion

    Kooky Korky replied to ElectricCabbage's topic in General Nursing

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    The right to an opinion

    Kooky Korky replied to ElectricCabbage's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's her/his professional opinion. And he/she is first the person, then the nurse. So personnurse gets to have, has to have an opinion and do what's best for the patient. Years ago, pts were...
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    Hospital & The Drug Screen: I thought they had to wait?

    Kooky Korky replied to cassimoo's topic in General Nursing

    Talk to some lawyers. Maybe you can still have this wrong righted. What a bunch of incompetents. OP - you should get a lawyer
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    Hospital & The Drug Screen: I thought they had to wait?

    Kooky Korky replied to cassimoo's topic in General Nursing

    Disembowelment would be more appropriate. Just
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    Possible adult admit with minor child in tow

    Kooky Korky replied to Monkey Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    What cultural rights? What culture condones leaving young kids with a demented woman in a hospital
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    Possible adult admit with minor child in tow

    Kooky Korky replied to Monkey Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you have at least a Social Worker to refer
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    "You're too smart to be a nurse. Be a doctor"

    Kooky Korky replied to Grier's topic in General Nursing

    Most of us work not for emotional experiences but for a living. Keeping the wolf at bay. Survival. Most of us do not have a trust fund and have no silver spoon in our mouths. I have never taken out...
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    Am I a bully?

    Kooky Korky replied to haron54's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Please interpret. JDAM NAM OIF Thanks Good example you
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    Am I a bully?

    Kooky Korky replied to haron54's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Change is not always
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    Am I a bully?

    Kooky Korky replied to haron54's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree. But it doesn't sound like she gave any encouragement or expressed any concern for the other nurse. Maybe it was her lack of any expression of sympathy or lack of exploring the other's...
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    Refusing to float

    Kooky Korky replied to NurseKC123's topic in General Nursing

    When I was floated to CCU from my regular area, the Sup made it clear to the nurses in CCU that I was not expected to watch the monitors or do drips or other distinctly CCU things. I worked more as an...
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    Taking home empty vials

    Kooky Korky replied to johndough's topic in Patient Medications

    Maybe there's no hanky panky and it's just a legitimately empty vial. In that case, I don't see where it's stealing to take home an empty vial. Just to cover yourself, OP, you really should ask a...
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    Disrespectful patients

    Kooky Korky replied to Mrs.in2015's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Needles hurt. You might be a big baby, too, if you had to deal with what some patients deal with. What if your Sammie had to get
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    Disrespectful patients

    Kooky Korky replied to Mrs.in2015's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They don't scream at their doctors, only their nurses. And that has to stop. Nurses deserve even more respect than doctors do because we are with patients a whole lot more. And have to deal more with...
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    Is it legal to work as an aid while you are an RN

    Kooky Korky replied to Rn 1979's topic in General Nursing

    This is touchy. You are certainly able to function in the aide role. As others have pointed out, though, you will be held to the RN standards now that you are an RN. As someone else said, though, you...
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    Help me understand an Ampule

    Kooky Korky replied to Femine91's topic in Patient Medications

    Except when we didn't have either metal or plastic holders for them. These were very hard to come by, as Pharmacy either didn't provide them regularly or nurses would hoard them privately....
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    Help me understand an Ampule

    Kooky Korky replied to Femine91's topic in Patient Medications

    I've inverted many, no ill effects. You can also draw med out of the top of the ampule, not just from the lower part of the
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    Do you think I did something wrong here? Advice?

    Kooky Korky replied to ellebee87's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Where does the matter stand
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    Amber Does the Unthinkable

    Kooky Korky replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It isn't just the secretary's pay. The nurses might not know HOW to do the more technical aspects of the secretary's job, what with all the newfangled equipment and computer programs in use