monkeybug

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  1. monkeybug

    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    Can you walk in a crowded public place and immediately determine that someone in the room has trich? I guarantee you most L&D nurses
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    I worked wtih someone who had worked previously in a large teaching hospital, and they told me that at one point there had been a big stink over residents suggesting names to patients (and patients...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    I actually see a sleep specialist for insomnia and a parasomnia, and he told me that he hates for his patients to be on Reglan. I once got an IM injection of Reglan for a migraine, and that was even...
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    Do you cut corners in your daily nursing practice?

    monkeybug replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Secret shoppers? Are you freakin' kidding me? Once more, some suit trying to turn healthcare into retail. I wash my hands, a lot. Between every patient contact. But often I wash them in the hall...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    monkeybug replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I work in a right-to-work state. Yes, we have wrongful termination laws. But in a right to work state, this is easily gotten around. Nurse assaulted by physician in front of a roomful of witnesses...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    The only thing I clock out to do is GO HOME! If they want me doing something, they can pay me to do
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    My first manager RUINED me. She was as good as it gets, and she spoiled me. I expected all other managers to be as good as her. We were at a tiny rural hospital. As long as we did our jobs and the...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    That's insane! So basically you have to pay a copay just to use PTO. Sometimes you need to be out from work when you don't necessarily need the care of a doctor. Patients don't need your germs if...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    I tried Fenugreek without much results, then Reglan, and it made me want to crawl the walls. Very unpleasant drug! I did research and ended up ordering Motillium from a Canadian pharmacy. I had so...
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    How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

    monkeybug replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Your friend should probably do some serious soul searching and research before heading to law school. It is increasingly hard for lawyers, even those with experience, to find jobs. I am a lawyer,...
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    What is one to do feeling like this?

    monkeybug replied to gloryfied's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I remember feeling the way you do, OP. When I worked nights my life basically came to a standstill. All I did was lay in the bed all day, in hopes that I would eventually get enough naps in to count...
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I could say that I made this all, but I didn't, and I wish I could say that this was 1 person, but it wasn't. It was several very memorable people combined! Most of the days I loved working...
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it's a regional thing, but we heard it a lot. Dook or Dookie for lady parts. I've given up being surprised at the names people will use when they could simply say "lady
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    I have one child, and I nursed him for 15 months. I did stop pumping at 12 months when I could supplement with cow's milk because it was too much trouble to try to get pump breaks on our unit. Even...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    And the all important, not-passing-out-due-to-hypoglycemia! One of our nurses delivered a beautiful baby girl with a suck blister on her hand. Nurse said, "It's because I NEVER got to eat lunch, my...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    That's nuts. Sometimes I wonder if managers realize what they expect from us. I was not issued a crystal ball and surveillance system when I was
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    We never got paid, either, but it was okay (to management) because those that worked the spring forward got paid 8 hours. Never mind that it was not always the same
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    I remembered another nutty thing the same manager said. At a staff meeting we were discussing the fact that 99% of the time we did not get a lunch break. At best, you might get to gulp down a few...
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    RNs wearing gowns to feed newborns

    monkeybug replied to camrn98's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At my last hospital we did this. Large regional hospital, by the way. Each baby has a patient gown changed each shift or if soiled. I guess the idea is that we wear our scrubs in from home, so it...
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    What's the weirdest thing management has said to you?

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

    And how are you to know that? Is their favorite show part of the admission
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, dear patient, for coming to us when you were in labor. Thank you further for choosing the local medical school to provide your obstetrical care rather than the group of private physicians...
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    I recently ran in outpatient lab the other day for some quick blood work. I signed in, waited a few minutes, was called back to the registrar who took a couple of minutes to get me in the computer,...
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    Sitting on the potty? Who in the heck gets to do that at work? I rarely did when I worked in a
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    The math doesn't add up

    monkeybug replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

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    12 hour shifts...dangerous?

    monkeybug replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I worked in a hospital, I worked a combination of 8s and 12s. I had a love hate relationship with the 12s. On one hand they decreased the number of days I had to enter hell, on the other hand...