celticgirl

celticgirl has 4 years experience and specializes in Med surg,.

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

   celticgirl replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   back on the subject!!! Just happened the other day!!!! Wake up you're here because you chose to drink a bottle of vodka a day, It's ruined your brain, your liver and your ammonia level is out of this world if you think I enjoy giving you lactulose en...

2. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   celticgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   Also a PA Dutch thing!!!! In reply to the warsh!!!

3. Standards of Behaviour

   celticgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

   I feel extremely insulted and degraded by a situation that has come up at work. On our unit, there appeared a table with a poster on it called "Standards of Behaviour." This poster is right where the elevators are so all people visiting patients an...

4. Is putting 'BSN' on badge snobbish?

   celticgirl replied to funmom's topic in General Nursing

   I feel you worked hard for your degree, flaunt it. I am in pursuit of my BSN. I will flaunt it. As for the BSN study. I work with a nurse with her BSN that had graduated the same time I did. When we first started working, she often said how she ...

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

   celticgirl replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   IMO, I think new parents should go through the scrutiny that adoptive parents go through. But I know thats an impossible dream.

6. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   celticgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   I cannot prounouce that word right to save my life. I have problems with certain words like aluminium, cinnamon and exacerbation. THere's some other words that come out weird too but its not intentional. My tongue gets all tied in knots. I think ...

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

   celticgirl replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   THreating to have my license revoked is not going to get your 9pm oxy at 6pm however threatening me with physical violence is going to get the police called in here and you probably wont be here for you 9pm meds. OK we all know your a quadrapelgic, ...

8. Slander

   celticgirl replied to rotersldr's topic in General Nursing

   Welcome to nursing, It was a culture shock for me too.

9. Did i handle this situation correctly???

   celticgirl replied to marielina85's topic in General Nursing

   We can not hold half an insulin order from a patient at patients request. In order to do so we must first call the MD get an order, then hold it. This is just our hospital policy. There are really strick on insulin orders. The patient sounds like ...

10. I want you to help me, but you will do it my way.....

    celticgirl replied to Daisy Doodle's topic in Emergency

    Reminds me of something that happened where I work. Not my floor but the cardiac tele floor. A patient wanted to leave the floor to smoke. The nurse told him that since the hospital didnt allow smoking on the grounds, she couldnt allow him to leave...

11. Uninterrupted breaks

    celticgirl replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

    Are you my clinical manager. Our clinical manager just had to do the same thing and is getting the same results. I didnt realize how nursing wide this is. Personally I dont like giving up my phone because of calls I may have out to physicians. ...

12. Why are nurses so hard on each other?

    celticgirl replied to Dragonsmack's topic in General Nursing

    I think you have hit the nail on the head. I have also seen it where an incompetant nurse has been the catty one, I think to take the eyes off of her. If that makes any sense.

13. Do you admister oxygen on your floor to a pt complaing of chest pain?

    celticgirl replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    yep slap on the O2 then ask questions

14. Need Help Passing the NCLEX!

    celticgirl replied to Truly_Blessed_RN's topic in NCLEX

    I Did Kaplan and passed with 75 questions. I dont know what advice I could give you. I had a friend that had the same problem and she ended up passing after doing Kaplan. Are you doing the Kaplan program on line or going to the classes>?

15. Finally landed an interview

    celticgirl replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    If you are still in orientation when you are fired isnt that just the probationary period so do you really have to list it on an application?? Oh and btw congrats:-D