enchantmentdis

enchantmentdis BSN, RN

Hospice, ONC, Tele, Med Surg, Endo/Output

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  1. Getting hit on at work?

    enchantmentdis replied to ToughLover's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. There was a very friendly security guard where i worked several years ago. He couldn't get enough of me and this itty bitty Chinese nurse. Well, he would come to the floor and just sit at...

  2. Getting hit on at work?

    enchantmentdis replied to ToughLover's topic in General Nursing

    When i was a charge nurse at a large hospital, i often got hit on by older men, usually medical doctors, though. Once i met a nice looking 70 year old italian man with a thick accent, who came in...

  3. Is their any online ACLS or PALS accredidated classes??

    enchantmentdis replied to lsilva7's topic in General Nursing

    There's no easy way online to do acls/pals, and it is very expensive and might not be accepted by your employer. Your gonna have to take a two day class with other folks, sitting for 6-8 hours a day,...

  4. Stop! I don't want someone like you touching me!

    enchantmentdis replied to Seth O Scope's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Right

  5. What happens on a nursing shift? Starting when you first came in.

    enchantmentdis replied to newbiekenobe's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    First, get report from the surly day shift nurses who are dying to get out asap. If you actually want to get all your work done and not have to suffer catching up on your whole shift, do not ask many...

  6. Do you have to start everyone's IV for them?

    enchantmentdis replied to jimmy the P's topic in General Nursing

    There are a lot of lazy nurses in acute care. They love to pass on some of their work to the charge nurses. When i was in charge during most of my career i felt like a glorified babysitter. Nurses are...

  7. Should smokers be admitted into the nursing program?

    enchantmentdis replied to Elly Aker's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    And nurses shouldn't watch Mediaography, have affairs, have sex, drink alcohol, gossip. Nurses should only behave like Florence Nightingale. In fact, maybe nurses should be recruited from...

  8. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    enchantmentdis replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Your 99 year old mom is on hospice and you are concerned she has a temp of 99 F and has a cough once in awhile, and you tell me not to let mom die. Man, you are a very histrionic relative; i don't...

  9. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    enchantmentdis replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Uh, i am not the doctor, but to hazard a diagnosis i would say that yours is PBBB. What is that you ask? It means pine box by

  10. Why do you like home care? What are the advantages?

    enchantmentdis replied to smartandgrit's topic in Home Health

    Because i work the 2-10:30 pm shift, there are two other nurses who work 4-midnight for overlap cases--so they generally don't call me after 9:15 pm, which prevents overtime, because one of the...

  11. giving report

    enchantmentdis replied to melisgood's topic in General Nursing

    Let him know next time that he is so bright that you needn't patronize him by spoon-feeding him information that he could find out himself. Or you could tell him, "Oh, i'm sorry, but if i told you...

  12. So... how do you deflect family members when you're busy?

    enchantmentdis replied to nenabee's topic in General Nursing

    But it's frustrating when you get no gratitude or understanding. Lol, it ain't gonna happen in nursing. If i had dentures i woulda laughed 'em outta my head. Gratitude or understanding for

  13. So... how do you deflect family members when you're busy?

    enchantmentdis replied to nenabee's topic in General Nursing

    Family members--they are never gonna get it. You may be running around like a chicken with your head cut off, and they will wonder why you can't take care of just their relative. So stupid and...

  14. Why do I let them get under my skin?!

    enchantmentdis replied to Paravell's topic in Emergency

    Even with great documentation, management usually blames the

  15. Why do I let them get under my skin?!

    enchantmentdis replied to Paravell's topic in Emergency

    People in general are not to be trusted, and pt's have way too much power--management ALWAYS sides with the patient. I also had a pt accuse me of being a schizo and he was the one who had bipolar,...

  16. Why do you like home care? What are the advantages?

    enchantmentdis replied to smartandgrit's topic in Home Health

    I hear you. I had the same set-up when i was a case manager in hospice--was a bit too much. Now i am doing hospice on call--much easier, and actually more rewarding and less stressful. Your job must...

  17. Why do you like home care? What are the advantages?

    enchantmentdis replied to smartandgrit's topic in Home Health

    Imagine this: As on on call hospice nurse i work 5 weekdays, no weekends, eight hour shifts--i get paid, guaranteed, for the full eight hours though sometimes i see no patients, and other times see up...

  18. Why do you like home care? What are the advantages?

    enchantmentdis replied to smartandgrit's topic in Home Health

    Home health or hospice are great positions for nurses who have grown weary and burned out by the aggravating and thankless routine of 8, 10, or 12 hour shifts in acute care basically babysitting,...

  19. Prescribing narcotics to drug seekers

    enchantmentdis replied to Djuna's topic in Emergency

    You can blame our flagrantly liberal politics in America for these problems in the ER. Lawyers want to make money and these drug-using bums only grow a brain when they decide to sue a hospital for...

  20. Residents who are constantly on the call bell... help!

    enchantmentdis replied to rainbowsandsunshine's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Attach a thumb tack to her call light--that will stop

  21. Caring for the Chart or the Patient?

    enchantmentdis replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    The only way i could handle all that charting for 16 years in med-surg tele was to go into the room, do a cursory assessment-- listen to lungs the way most MDs do--fast, and hell no, not every...

  22. What's the scariest thing you've ever seen as a nurse?

    enchantmentdis replied to Nurse0621's topic in General Nursing

    I was charge nurse at a large hospital -- 34 bed med-surg floor. A nurse 20 years my senior says, "can you check him with me, something's not right?" Well, the man was a 32 year old, diabetic, past...

  23. Nursing is stupid?

    enchantmentdis replied to AmandaTheNurse's topic in General Students

    Sorry, but i have to agree with your Russian

  24. What do you fear most on the job?

    enchantmentdis replied to tiroka03's topic in General Nursing

    Losing my job because a family member just can't resist the urge to get the nurse

  25. Can you name some of the hospitals in the Bay Area...

    enchantmentdis replied to healthcare4life's topic in California Nursing

    Avoid Alta Bates and Kaiser--any Kaiser and anything in Oakland,