celticgirl

celticgirl

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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 Patient, Colleague 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...

  2. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    celticgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

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

  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...

  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...

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

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

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

  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...

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

    celticgirl replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  8. Slander

    celticgirl replied to rotersldr's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to nursing, It was a culture shock for me

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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

  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

  14. Need Help Passing the NCLEX!

    celticgirl replied to Truly_Blessed_RN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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...

  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

  16. Putting on my big girl pants

    celticgirl replied to leonurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like you work on my floor. What I say to one particular CNA is............. if you cant do it, then you need to find someone to do it for you and let me know whos doing it. This CNA claims to...

  17. Having trouble fitting in

    celticgirl replied to new_oldRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a newer old nurse. I love it though and dont let it get to me. Most of the other nurses find it hard to believe I have a daughter their age. I just laugh and keep on working. We have a lot to...

  18. Need some encouragement

    celticgirl replied to prinsessa's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so sorry you are having that problem. We are a teaching hospital and a lot of the gn's are having the same problem. AND no one is hiring unless you have passed the NCLEX. When I was hired you...

  19. Can nurses legally "refuse" to take a new admit?

    celticgirl replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

    Thats an iffy one. If you havent accepted report or care of the patient it may be a job issue more than a legal issue. If you have assumed responsibility and taken report on the patient then its a...

  20. Backbiting

    celticgirl replied to celticgirl's topic in General Nursing

    When you're trying to get report and the report starts off by sorry this is a crappy report but I got report from so and so. I dont want to hear that just give the me report. My ears are there to...

  21. Backbiting

    celticgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have read many posts on here about back biting, cattiness, and bad mouthing nurses. How do you stop this. It is insane on the floor I work on. I hate, absolutely hate to hear a nurse tell...

  22. Where are all the pregnant women?

    celticgirl replied to nitx's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our census is down dramatically through out the hospital including L&D. I dont get it. Its just plain

  23. PEG tube placement checks

    celticgirl replied to IngyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was taught in nursing school to check residual with a peg (aspirate), 30cc of air with an NG and Xray with a

  24. Backbiting

    celticgirl replied to celticgirl's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree!!! LOL choose your battles wisely. I like your advise "what did you do' ect. I'm gonna use it next

  25. Backbiting

    celticgirl replied to celticgirl's topic in General Nursing

    It's all fine and well to have complaints and acknowledge that someone has done something wrong. I'm talking about the type of person that constantly finds fault with his/her peers and does nothing...