Alnitak7

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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone ever refused an assignment? - Nursing for
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Most times when someone asks me to take one of theirs, my first concern is about their feelings and making their shift easier and reducing the stress load for everyone. Most times it's a patient who...
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Can nurses refuse to care for angry patient? - Nursing for Nurses "Can a nurse refuse to care for an angry patient?" Here is another thread. It's much
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    Can nurses refuse to care for angry patient?

    Alnitak7 replied to skybirdrising's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    - Page 4- Nursing for Nurses "Can I take one of your patients for this one? No and I resent your asking." Here is another
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    This is not about having all easy patients. This is about trading a difficult one you like and can handle for a difficult one that you can't handle. This makes it easier on everyone including the...
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    Turn every two hours

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Not only that but any patient who can't move and who sometimes is too polite to bother the staff when they start getting uncomfortable deserves the offer to be turned and
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    In some cases I have decided that I am not going to see a co-worker humiliated by a patient who abuses them. I take the patient from them or pair up with them to make it easier. In most of these...
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    As for the lady that was supposed to be checked every two hours, this would never have happened if the two caregivers had communicated with each other like they should in every workplace. As far...
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    Why are some nurses so rude to students?

    Alnitak7 replied to kayty2339's topic in General Nursing

    Here are some guidelines that might help. When you follow the staff around to the patients' rooms, don't just stand and stare at them. Offer to help by doing things inside your own qualifications,...
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    Nudity?

    Alnitak7 replied to tlp514's topic in General Students

    When I was in nurses aide training, we were all girls and I remember one day we learned to do bed baths by taking turns laying in bed. We had all the curtains closed and I had learned to like and...
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    Nudity?

    Alnitak7 replied to tlp514's topic in General Students

    When I was in massage school about twenty years ago, I was in an un-accredited program and they fully expected me to have breasts exposed on a massage table in front of my class mates, some of whom...
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    when i trade patients off my group, this is not about having all easy patients. we used to talk about, "an even trade." it would mean i get a difficult patient i can tolerate instead of one who gets...
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    "Can I take one of your patients for this one?" "No! And I resent your asking!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Most times when I trade someone off, I am giving them to someone who they like more than me. I have taken patients off other nurses groups who they intensely dislike because thinking about their...
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    Mandatory cut-off age for being a bedside nurse?

    Alnitak7 replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    It may be true that some older staff members are more understanding. However, it brings to mind one day when I stayed after hours to finish my charts and my charge nurse was working at the same...
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    "DON'T RUB THEIR LEGS!"

    Alnitak7 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    What was explained to me by one patient's doctor, in no uncertain terms, was that there are tests that need to be done on the patient to show that rubbing the patient's legs is safe. If I had a...
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    "DON'T RUB THEIR LEGS!"

    Alnitak7 posted a topic in General Nursing

    "Dont massage their legs because they can go into cariac arrest." I have gathered this advice from several authorities including my first teacher and one clients own doctor. If a patient is sedentary...
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    Range of motion or patient abuse?

    Alnitak7 posted a topic in General Nursing

    When I was new on the hospital floor, a girl that was orienting me was taking the shirt off a patient with severe arthritis and she was screaming and in pain. This girl was giving me an attitude. Our...