monkeybug

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  1. monkeybug

    Bullying like I am back in middle school

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

    Reading your post made my heart hurt. I've been in a similar situation. I had many years of experience in L&D and High Risk Maternity, and I was hired into a different hospital in their NICU. I...
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    tubex vs. syringe

    monkeybug replied to meaganbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    No research, but that was how we did it. Our pharmacy stocked the carpujects, but we didn't have the annoying little Tubex to use with them. And anyway, we gave the drug IV and used needleless...
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    Getting doctors to listen to me

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

    I used to particularly enjoy when the attending would tell the residents to have me check behind them. That really chapped some hides. I respect that they have a medical education, but they should...
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    "Seasoned Nurses will eat their young"

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

    I think it varies widely from person to person and environment to environment to environment. When I precepted as a student, I was thrilled to be walking into labor and delivery, and I was eager and...
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    Getting doctors to listen to me

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

    I've found that once you've proved yourself, they tend to listen. Of course, there's always that one that's got to be a jerk no matter the situation, but usually they want the best for the patients....
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    can an RN be charged with theft based on descrepancy in machine?

    monkeybug replied to tiajuana2rn's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard being a traveler. You are automatically on the outside, sometimes in very hostile territory. Rightly or wrongly, there is often an assumption that travelers are flakes and are out there...
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    How do you feel about mandatory influenza vaccines?

    monkeybug replied to ashleybrooke1208's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I usually choose to get it, but it really riles me up to be told that I have to. For the last 3 years, I've gotten the flu shot and then had an actual diagnosed case of the flu. But at least my...
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    Bullying like I am back in middle school

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

    This^^! Make it about the patients, not about you. Stay cool, calm, and professional. At the end of the day, it's a job. They aren't your friends, they are coworkers. I know it's awful. For a...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    monkeybug replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I had a facebook friend (a new nurse I precepted years ago) who died suddenly not too long ago. Her daughter took over her facebook. I'm sure it's a comfort to the daughter, but it gives me a heck...
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    It's nice to know that it's like that
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely agree that hospitals aren't reimbursed adequately, but I don't believe they are good stewards of the money they do have. The last hospital I worked at paid a couple of people a lot of...
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    JCAHO Requirement

    monkeybug replied to FineAgain's topic in General Nursing

    We had one pill splitter for the entire unit, but it was only to be used for one particular medication
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    What I learned in clincals

    monkeybug replied to snowwhite2002's topic in General Students

    There are many ways to skin a cat, and you might learn something new and interesting that you can use later (even if you can't use it while you are in clinicals and thus required to do it their
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    Sunday night heebeegeebees

    monkeybug replied to wirehead's topic in General Nursing

    I don't now, because I absolutely love my job. I do tend to dread rising at an early hour, but that's it. Now my last job, at Hell Hospital? Yep, I'd literally make myself physically ill thinking...
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    That rarely works, it seems. In our L&D, I was the ONLY nurse who was qualified to float to NICU, so I stayed ticked off for those couple of months every year when NICU was overflowing....
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    Pain Management Nursing

    monkeybug replied to traumaRUs's topic in Pain Management

    This is a GREAT article! I wish so many more nurses were like you! So many of us (the pain patients of the world) delay or avoid seeking help because we fear how we will be treated. In many cases,...
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    Reporting Critical Value..

    monkeybug replied to BlizzAngel's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our lab would take the name of whoever they reported it to, and that nurse (not necessarily the one caring for the patient) was required to document the value and the action taken in the
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I've never had an accident, but I have had to pull over and nap in parking lots before continuing home. The longest shift I've ever worked was 22 hours, and I was ruined for days after that. It took...
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    What is the worst hardship/story you have ever seen/heard in your nursing career?

    monkeybug replied to succinate's topic in General Nursing

    When I first started out as a nurse I worked in a very small country hospital, so we would typically get to know patients really well. You might take care of them for each of their labors, their...
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    Lawsuit Claims Nurse Was 'Worked to Death'

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    It would save your license, but not your job, if you live in a right to work state. I could refuse all I want at the last hospital I worked, and I could also be asked to leave and put on the do not...
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    Dealing with MD vs MD; and being stuck in the middle

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

    Oh my, what a situation. Unfortunately, when docs get in a peeing contest, it's the nurses that get wet. I concur with those that suggest going to your manager. The doctor was terribly...
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    Bedside Shift Reporting in combined Postpartum & Labor Unit

    monkeybug replied to kmcma's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We would ask people to step out, do a "show" report, and then do the real report at the desk. Quite a pain in the posterior, but necessary. You can't discuss herpes, the fact that the significant...
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    Share your turkey / Thanksgiving story...

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Oh yes, every year after lunch the family reenacts the Trail of Tears from the street to the garage. After that we hand out smallpox-riddled blankets at the homeless shelter. Give me a freaking...
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    If you like your health insurance, you can keep it your insurance. Period

    monkeybug replied to tulip5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The "claim" about exemption is that these supreme beings in Congress and their minions are being given subsidies to participate in the great good ACA. Yes, they are down in the trenches with the rest...
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    If you like your health insurance, you can keep it your insurance. Period

    monkeybug replied to tulip5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "Ain't no half of people going to lose insurance"? Interesting (and interestingly worded) assertion. The polices are not being replaced. They are being told that they now have to go to the exchange...