monkeybug

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  1. monkeybug

    Share your turkey / Thanksgiving story...

    monkeybug replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    This was told to me by an older nurse I worked with in L&D, from back in the twilight sleep days of L&D: Patient has had the twilight sleep and has now come to the pushing part of labor. As...
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    Should a person with Essential Tremor pursue a nursing career?

    monkeybug replied to shakyinohio's topic in Nursing Career

    I am a nurse of 16 years with essential tremors. Because I learned to do everything with the tremors, it hasn't help me back. I learned to work around it. The only time it ever really bothered me...
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    To RNs, what are your thoughts about the mandated nurse-patient ratio?

    monkeybug replied to kchilla's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am from the South, where nursing is probably at its worst (as far as how we are treated), but I did several stints as a traveler in California. Let me tell you, working in California seemed like...
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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

    We had a 9 year old once, she colored in coloring books from the peds unit after she got her epidural. One of the saddest things I've ever
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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

    Micro preemie that fought like the dickens to live. "Mother" rarely visited. Would sometimes come in the middle of the night and stay for a few minutes. I desperately needed phone consent for a...
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    Never before have I been so disrespected by co-workers in the workplace

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

    You said it
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    What field are you in??

    monkeybug replied to FieryPsychRN's topic in General Nursing

    I spent 15 years in maternal child (primarily L&D, and one year in NICU). I love working with new parents. And no matter how many deliveries I was in (I stopped counting at around 2,000), they...
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    Nursing specialty that requires minimum patient contact and best hours?

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

    Med/surg made me doubt my decision to go into nursing. And if that were the only way I could be a nurse, I'd be working at Target. But there are so many other things you can do besides med/surg!...
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    Evaluate this situation. What did I miss?

    monkeybug replied to Billy_Ruben's topic in General Nursing

    My favorite doc in the whole world would handle what he perceived as unnecessary phone calls this way, "Okay, you told me, thanks, consider your a** covered." He didn't see a problem, but wasn't...
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    Nursing specialty that requires minimum patient contact and best hours?

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

    I'm just confused about why anyone would bother with the torture of nursing school if they didn't want patient contact. If that's the way you feel, become a librarian, teacher, CPA, lawyer, etc. etc....
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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

    I honestly don't think this is the case. That vile man knew he was lying every time he said that we could keep our policies. And the proof of his knowledge is not coming from Rush Limbaugh and Glen...
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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

    I wish there was an option to like 1,000 times for this
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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

    A family living paycheck to paycheck is going to get a subsidy? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. And quite an assumption. Families making $90,000 can still have huge expenses, and I'm not referring to annual...
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    Do you scrub and/or circulate c-sections?

    monkeybug replied to cosmicmama's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's not hard to learn to scrub. There aren't really that many instruments. I observed another nurse for a couple of sections (also scrubbed and gowned so I could be right up in it), then I acted as...
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    New to Labor and Delivery/Postpartum Nursing - Please help!

    monkeybug replied to michelemrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Congrats, I hope you do get the job! If you're lucky, it will be a unit where teamwork is valued. At my last L&D position, we felt totally ok with asking another nurse for their opinion on fetal...
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    labor

    monkeybug replied to rayea's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Some signs that labor may be approaching: loss of mucus plug or bloody show diarrhea nesting loss of a small amount of weight These can occur anywhere from hours to days before labor. What I tell my...
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    Do you scrub and/or circulate c-sections?

    monkeybug replied to cosmicmama's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've had to circulate everywhere I ever worked (and I did 5 travel assignments on both ends of the country in between permanent jobs.). I didn't scrub at the travel point in my career. The small...
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    How much is too much?

    monkeybug replied to WalterWho's topic in General Students

    Skip the school bookstore. Even used books there are going to be astronomical, and they'll pay you pennies on the dollar when it's buy back time. Go to the internet for your books, and honestly, it...
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    My New Grad RN Experience at a CA SNF- Dealing with unethical boss

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

    I second the poster who said HR is not your friend. You can pretty much bet that a manager will hear about your call to HR about 0.25 milliseconds after you hang
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    Not doing well in nursing school?

    monkeybug replied to succinate's topic in General Students

    I was flabbergasted when I (I! the honor grad and Star Student!) I got my first C in college. College is a whole different world. Don't chuck it all over one grade. I would look at the questions...
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    Nurses that don't work holidays?

    monkeybug replied to kegardne's topic in General Students

    One of the best shifts of my life was a Christmas night shift. Everyone had been discharged except one feeder/grower baby, and all the pregnant women in town politely refrained from laboring. The...
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    Most shocking thing you've seen another nurse do?

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

    I hope they're prepared for a lot more deaths. That is insane. Hmm, a nurse with 20 years of experience, who's taken ACLS 10 times, or some yahoo who graduated Medical School of the Caribbean...
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    Doctors not talking to nurses

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

    It seems to be a trend in many of these posts that teaching hospitals seem to be a bit more collegial. I found the exact opposite. At my last hospital, we have private docs and an academic program....
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    Doctors not talking to nurses

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

    I suppose L&D is a very different world, but in most of the hospitals I've worked, the OBs and RNs had great rapport. They HAVE to talk to us, they leave laboring women in our hands and totally...
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    Travel Nursing

    monkeybug replied to BlackMurse1's topic in Travel

    It's been a few years since I've traveled, but I will tell you about my experiences. You can get cancelled. You can choose to take assignments with guaranteed hours. I did have one assignment that...