celticgirl

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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.

yep slap on the O2 then ask questions

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>?

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

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 be on light duty. UMM I've worked there for almo...

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 offer to the younger set and to nursing. We have ...

I want your job!~!!!! Where can I apply? I have come to the conclusion that many people have such a low self esteem that they have to bring others down to pull themselves up. It seems nursing is full of people like that. It was a culture shock whe...

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 could work as a GN until you took your NCLEX gone a...

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 legal issue. That law is so iffy. That answer is ...

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 hear report not hear why you cant look up things on y...

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 me........."I hate following so and so because of blah bl...

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

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

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