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    What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    monkeybug replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Those are the patients that always scared me and worried me the most, because years ago one of our patients was killed and her baby was cut from her abdomen. You never know what they are capable of....
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    What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    monkeybug replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Can't blame a guy for
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    What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    monkeybug replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I remember one family of a total abdominal hysterectomy patient years ago. The patient had a lot of gas pain, so I was encouraging her to walk. The family got rather peeved at me, and one of them...
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    What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    monkeybug replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I used to get frustrated when people expected laboring patients to be totally pain free. I finally told someone, "Look, you're basically shoving a St. Bernard through a cat door, OK? It's going to at...
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    What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    monkeybug replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That is
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    Tell me about your unit's general attitude & morale...

    monkeybug replied to sofla98's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the dumps, horrible, awful, and sad. Labor and delivery. When I began working there years ago, it was very good. There was a genuine feeling of family. The nurse manager was firm but fair and...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    monkeybug replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    I honestly would rather do it myself than wait on it to be done somewhere else in the hospital by someone who had no idea how badly I needed it (nor did they usually
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    PT Pulls out their NG tube...boss says I need to fill out an event report?

    monkeybug replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    Hooooly crap, they could have killed a national forest to make enough paper to write me up for this my last year of work in the hospital. Someone needs a good slap upside the head, and it's not the...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    monkeybug replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    I don't mind the idea of pharmacists giving injections, but I seriously mind the idea of MAs doing it. I realize that no one will be getting a flu shot in their GM, but think about how inherently...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    monkeybug replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    I have noticed some changes over the years. When I started, we did not have a 24 hour pharmacy in our hospital, and so the nurses prepared many IV piggybacks. I mixed many bags of magnesium sulfate,...
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    Drug Screen question

    monkeybug replied to Futuresos's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    That seems like such an invasion of privacy. I understand brining in a list of meds in case something pops up on a drug screen, but I don't think it's appropriate for them to ask you about illnesses...
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    Sandy Storm whom do I serve?

    monkeybug replied to echoRNC711's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The last big weather incident we had? Our manager not only didn't show up, but she never called to check on the
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    RNs: How much vacation time do you get?

    monkeybug replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    13 days per year annual leave, 1 day per month sick leave, 1 day per quarter for personal time (29 days total) in addition we get paid holidays. They are very permissive about taking time off. It's...
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    The most ridiculous birth plans you've had the pleasure of reading

    monkeybug replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    An epidural without an IV? Umm, yeah, okay, right. I think people get on the internet, find sample birth plans, and think, "ooh, yeah, that sounds good! I want an 'IV nurse!'" When in truth, most...
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    I need advice!

    monkeybug replied to AryaJames's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    "Where were you when I paged you?" You did the right thing. MD was notified, orders were given and followed, end of
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    Sandy Storm whom do I serve?

    monkeybug replied to echoRNC711's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Don't make such assumptions. I've got 15 years in and I have a 3 year old. People are delaying childbearing these days for many
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    Sandy Storm whom do I serve?

    monkeybug replied to echoRNC711's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Because in the past, the hospital had some small modicum of respect and care for their nurses. Now we are a warm body that can be replaced without a second thought. My first job, I worked for a...
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    young and inexperienced or....?

    monkeybug replied to butterfly134's topic in General Nursing

    It really does come with time and experience. I would worry way more about you if you were at this point in your career and totally unaffected and
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    The gross side of nursing..

    monkeybug replied to Ashley94's topic in General Nursing

    You really do get used to a whole lot. I was very squeamish 15 years ago when I started, now I can get up in the middle of lunch, go check a patient and do pericare, clean up some vomit and poo, and...
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    Sandy Storm whom do I serve?

    monkeybug replied to echoRNC711's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My husband and I both have essential jobs, but I would be absolutely comfortable leaving my little one with my parents or his parents. If I can get out of my neighborhood, I will be there. My big...
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    Favourite Doctor Moments

    monkeybug replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I just recently left the hospital setting. I worked in a labor unit that was sort of a hybrid. Most of our patients came to see a group of private MDs, and the rest were patients of the local...
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    Realizing how lucky I am

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

    Until our new manager came on the scene, the "newest" nurse on day shift had 15 years of experience. Retirement parties were more common than going away parties, and it practically took a retirement...
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    "Not allowed" to perform vaginal exams

    monkeybug replied to Kayla.J.RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    One of the many reasons I would NEVER again work in a teaching hospital! I did work in a teaching hospital very briefly, and the nurses did check, but very rarely. If the doctors are offering to let...
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    how do you push with your patients?

    monkeybug replied to violet_violet's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Labor down if we can, until they are about +3. Then (because about 98% of our patients have epidurals) they get put up in stirrups and we do 3 pushes to the count of 10 with each contraction. If...
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    The most ridiculous birth plans you've had the pleasure of reading

    monkeybug replied to PeepnBiscuitsRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The general consensus at my hospital was this: the longer the birthplan, the quicker you end up in the OR. And if it was laminted, Katy bar the door! that section was usually stat without even time...