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    Ethical Dilemma

    BrandonLPN replied to cjcalimer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And if the OP were to give food or water against doctor's orders, isn't that a breach of the nurse's duty? We cant physically stop the pt from getting food or water themselves or from family giving...
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    Ethical Dilemma

    BrandonLPN replied to cjcalimer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The pt has a right to eat and drink. But in violating doctors orders, I feel the hospital is within their right to discharge his butt and let him seek treatment elsewhere. What's the point of being...
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    ltc desk/treatment nurse newbie

    BrandonLPN replied to malicexmirage's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I can see why some people dislike the med nurse/charge nurse model. But I've worked in facilities where I've had far fewer residents. I've had only 28 or so residents at another facility. And the...
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    ltc desk/treatment nurse newbie

    BrandonLPN replied to malicexmirage's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    When you have 50 residents and two (let's say) nurses, there are a couple different ways you could handle the staffing/assignments. The most common way is to just give each nurse 25 residents and call...
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    Is pain still the "5th Vital Sign"?

    BrandonLPN replied to SuzieF's topic in General Nursing

    The beauty of the 5 traditional vital signs (plus SPO2) is that they're 100% objective data. Pain, on the other hand, is purely subjective. Pain is important, but not a true vital
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    I am about to quit with no notice and no warning

    BrandonLPN replied to okkennk28's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Oh, and I know a lot of people think you could just not list this employer on your resume, especially if you haven't worked there long or if you've had another part time job concurrently or something....
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    I am about to quit with no notice and no warning

    BrandonLPN replied to okkennk28's topic in Health, Stress Management

    It isn't about what's professional or moral. If they've treated you like crap, then you owe them nothing. It's not about what you owe them. It's about what you owe yourself. It's not in your self...
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    nurse rights

    BrandonLPN replied to nursetana's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    True. But we DO need to make our full names available to the public. I guess the real question is, does this translate to us having to display our full names on our ID badge? Is having our names...
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    nurse rights

    BrandonLPN replied to nursetana's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In this day and age, I'd say the general public as a whole exhibits symptoms of irrationality and
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    Can a Nurse do a Respiratory Therapist's job?

    BrandonLPN replied to cumberbachtRNtobe's topic in General Nursing

    In facilities that don't have respiratory therapists RNs can and do perform the functions of a RT. LPNs too, for that matter. I have yet to see a skilled nursing facility that has a RT on staff. I...
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    nurse rights

    BrandonLPN replied to nursetana's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Although I understand why a nurse would be uncomfortable displaying the or full name on a ID badge, it is true that patients have the right to know the full name of any licensed person providing care....
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    Yeah, I'm your nurse. What, I don't look like a nurse?

    BrandonLPN replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Men in Nursing

    I get confused for the doctor by some of my older nursing home residents. From their point of view the only logical explanation is that I'm the doctor and the (female) CNAs are "my nurses". I can't...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    BrandonLPN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    But experience does command greater respect. And not just in nursing. Who do you think gets more respect in a university. The brand new professor or the one who's seen generations of students pass...
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    Would wearing a sexy nursing outfit to a party disrespect the profession?

    BrandonLPN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Right, you can't change things like this. Many men will always have some sort of fantasy about a sexy young nurse giving them a sponge bath. But anyone who's had any interaction with healthcare in...
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    Would wearing a sexy nursing outfit to a party disrespect the profession?

    BrandonLPN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Because we're seen as an expense. The more doctors and specialists and therapists a patient sees, the more they are billed. The more nurses a pt has during his stay has no impact on billing. From an...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    BrandonLPN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think some people are confusing the word "respect" with the word "courtesy". Everyone equally deserves to be treated with courtesy. But respect, by definition, is earned. Does the new grad just off...
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    Please help! Questions I haven't read here yet....so curious!!!

    BrandonLPN replied to nervousnurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    How a resident takes their pills should be written at the top of their MAR. Third shift writes that sort of info at the top during end of month changeover. In most LTC facilities you don't need report...
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    Nurse Calling In Scripts to Pharmacy Illegally

    BrandonLPN replied to nurse42long's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, ok. Wow, the doctor in question would probably kill this nurse if he found out. Normally I advise to stay out of these things, but this nurse has got to be
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    Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

    BrandonLPN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

    So who reuses the basins? They're plastic and
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    Nurse Calling In Scripts to Pharmacy Illegally

    BrandonLPN replied to nurse42long's topic in General Nursing

    Why would a doctor do this? Why would he just fill out random scripts for random people of some nurse friend of his? It doesn't seem like these people are paying him for these illicit prescriptions....
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    Share Your Full Moon Stories

    BrandonLPN replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've always found it a little disturbing that there are some nurses who really, truly, honest to God believe that a full moon will make people
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    Shocked by facial piercings at work

    BrandonLPN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh, in enough time all this talk about piercing and tattoos being "unprofessional" will be seen for the stupidness it is. It wasn't that long ago that a man going outside without a hat or a woman...
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    Would wearing a sexy nursing outfit to a party disrespect the profession?

    BrandonLPN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes, but I'd argue that things have come full circle. When people see a "naughty nurse" costume at a party or a bimbo nurse on TV they recognize it for that caricature that it is. Like I said, when...
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    D.C. Hospitals And Nurses Fight Over Staffing Ratios

    BrandonLPN replied to jrsRN07's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    How can these hospital administrators possibly defend their positions without looking like the monsters they
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    Does your LTC get mad when you send patients do the ER?

    BrandonLPN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If I doctor told me to send a resident to the ER and I tried to convince him to treat the resident here on the basis of financial motives, that would be unbelievably unethical. Of course, it's not...