james2309

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  1. They won't stop calling me!

    james2309 replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry but maybe it's because I don't work in the States or understand the term 'special corporate training' - but unless the terms of this person's contract has been changed to include a statement...

  2. They won't stop calling me!

    james2309 replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    ooops - that was DON'T mean to be rude, sorry!

  3. They won't stop calling me!

    james2309 replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry mean to be rude, but sorry - don't really like the dishonesty that this kinda approach demands... I think a previous post is more correct. Just say no. You clearly don't have any feeling that...

  4. Nursing Theory: Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

    james2309 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi fellow nurses. I'm a Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) in Mental Health in a major Australian hospital in Melbourne. For many years now I have felt frustrated by what seems to me to be a loss of...

  5. Visitors chasing you down the hallway....

    james2309 replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

    and then, of course, there's always the other extreme... i would probably have been written up here, too - we're all likely to be a little bit less assertive and more instructive with expletives under...

  6. Visitors chasing you down the hallway....

    james2309 replied to KSU-SN's topic in General Nursing

    sadly, in my experience, it's the patients who have been patient and had the call-light ignored for sometimes hours at a time that then learn that the only way they can get the help they need is to...

  7. Time to call a duck a duck?

    james2309 replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    for me, for us to understand the alleged 'need' for doctors orders it may be beneficial to have a look at the patriarchal history of health care. once upon a time the breed we call 'men' (of which i...

  8. Time to call a duck a duck?

    james2309 replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    i guess i see our practice as collaborative more than by instruction. when my best fried was terminally ill with cancer, had had her catheter removed too early and was backing up with retained urine,...

  9. Not giving PRN's even though they are ordered?

    james2309 replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    not sure how it works where you are but here in our psych ward prn medications can only be given if the prescribing clinician has completed the "indications" section of the med. chart - - in other...

  10. Not giving PRN's even though they are ordered?

    james2309 replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    just a thought here, i understand the rationale behind knowing more about a patients condition and connecting this with our practice, but do you realise that you denied the patient the relief they...

  11. Nursing Theory: Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

    james2309 replied to james2309's topic in General Nursing

  12. Nursing Theory: Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

    james2309 replied to james2309's topic in General Nursing

    quote] i say nursing hates itself because since i have been alive the ana has had as a position that lpn's and adn's should not be considered nurses. and now that there are so many direct entry msn...

  13. Time to call a duck a duck?

    james2309 replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm of the opposing opinion that those of us that see ourselves as professionals and consistently BEHAVE in that manner will be viewed as professionals. Those of us that don't... won't! And ultimately...

  14. Time to call a duck a duck?

    james2309 replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes, I do believe you're wrong and here's why - in very short, succinct sentences. 1. Unique body of knowledge: yes, nursing has this. how else did it get to be a doctorate subject? You're trying to...

  15. Nursing Theory: Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

    james2309 replied to james2309's topic in General Nursing

    @ I'mThatGuy - Maybe it's because I work in mental health that I have such a strong reaction to someone saying the medical model works. It doesn't. It is illness focussed. Good mental health care...

  16. Posting advice: "I can't do this, ...I don't understand you"

    james2309 replied to cmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    As someone who does both, I totally concur with your comments - AND I realise that there are times and situations where I will write as I text! I don't think that's necessarily the reasons for the...

  17. Trying to choose Nursing or Counseling

    james2309 replied to figuringitout09's topic in General Nursing

    Hi figuringitout09 Just my two-halfpenny worth - I have been a nurse for many years in Mental Health. I trained back in the 80's and went straight into psychiatry and have been happily MH nursing for...