Davey Do

Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years)

Overcome fear by seeing the funny yet ridiculous side of every situation.- Edgar Cayce

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    Hospital Bosses Ignored Months of Doctors' Warnings About Lucy Letby

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    "We often create arenas in order to work out unresolved issues." This quote came to mind as I watched the Dr. Raj video, which goes along with his "God Complex" and "Code Blue Junkie" theories....
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    New Scam Alert

    Davey Do replied to Hoosier_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Some years ago, I received a call from someone identifying themselves as a representative of the IRS informing me that I owed a penalty on back taxes. They threatened me with an arrest by a law...
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    Hospital Bosses Ignored Months of Doctors' Warnings About Lucy Letby

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Attention seekers are fulfilled due to the response of others- they crave that response- whereas a sociopath (an archaic term, replaced by antisocial) are apathetic and often comfortable with their...
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    Hospital Bosses Ignored Months of Doctors' Warnings About Lucy Letby

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Think of the human mammal as an animal, each with their own wired personality. In many species of animals, one or both parents, even the other adult animals for that matter, will eat the young. We say...
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    Enos & Mary Jane

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

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    Self Help Comic Books

    Davey Do posted a topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

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    Self Help Comic Books

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

    VERY COOL, Grumpy! And thoroughly enjoyable, thanks for sharing it with me! I was at the library today and in a Woody Allen mood, so I checked out "The Purple Rose of Cairo". It, also, was from...
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    Has anyone slept through phone calls while on-call?

    Davey Do replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Wrongway Regional Medical Center's Psych Department had a plan when the on-call psychiatrist slept through calls for necessary admission orders. We were to contact the director who had a "back door...
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    Is Every Other Week On-Call Unreasonable?

    Davey Do replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Often times, SilverBells, these staff turnovers cause shortages which are transient and temporary and those left need to take up the slack. However, sometimes they are par for the course. It's...
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    What are the things that make you want to leave nursing?

    Davey Do replied to Red Shirt 6's topic in General Nursing

    Apathetic power drunk pencil-necked bureaucrats who ignore codes of conduct, P&P, JC recommendations, state laws & statutes, put personalities before principles, then terminate me on trumped...
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    Enos & Mary Jane

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

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    Enos & Mary Jane

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

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    Dialogue between nurse and patient in 1944 Agatha Christie book

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Ah! The learned bitterness of some and the faith of a child in another! This is an excellent excerpt you've chosen, Emergent, which makes for a really interesting read on different perspectives...
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    Dialogue between nurse and patient in 1944 Agatha Christie book

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, Emergent, he broke his shoulder when he jumped off the bloody cliff onto the ambulance headed for the state psychiatric hospital but had to be transferred to a (A-HEM!) "normal hospital ward"...
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    Dialogue between nurse and patient in 1944 Agatha Christie book

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    "Why shouldn't I kill myself if. I want to?" "That is a rhetorically phrased passive-aggressive question with a premise of connotating that you have a right to kill yourself, when in fact it goes...
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    Dialogue between nurse and patient in 1944 Agatha Christie book

    Davey Do replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    "Sorry if I was rude." "I accept your apology, because if I said, 'That's alright', I would be enabling your inappropriate behavior." "Damned interference--all this damned interference..."...
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    I am a Psych nurse

    Davey Do replied to Guest1201992's topic in General Nursing

    Although I generally agree with Ashley's post, I do not believe you are the troublemaker, PKM. However, boundaries were crossed. Having experienced similar situations, my actions were similar,...
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    The Irritable Zone

    Davey Do posted a topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

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    New correctional nurse

    Davey Do replied to nadenka's topic in Correctional

    Working in a government run institution has a tendency to make bureaucratic pencil-necked geeks overreact, and a small infraction can be blown way out of proportion. For example, while working at...
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    Patient behaviors

    Davey Do replied to YoungLPN94's topic in General Nursing

    Often times in the geriatric population, explosive behaviors are the result of the brain producing too much of one of the dopamine neurotransmitters. Given this concept, the individual has little...
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    Am I selfish for working overtime?

    Davey Do replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    "You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself." - Ricky Nelson External gratification is a concept by which we feel validation as a result of how others feel and/or act toward us....
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    Deathly Afraid of Critique/Getting in Trouble

    Davey Do replied to Lynker's topic in General Nursing

    TriciaJ gave some great advice on how to handle yourself in a professional situation which may be emotionally stimulating. Some years sgo, my medical nurse wife Belinda had to meet with a higher...
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    Deathly Afraid of Critique/Getting in Trouble

    Davey Do replied to Lynker's topic in General Nursing

    Writing in the written word has helped me in similar circumstances. For example, when I had civil & criminal charges brought against me, had to sit in the room with the plaintiffs before a...
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    Nurse Accused of Gossiping

    Davey Do replied to abu123's topic in General Nursing

    When personalities are put before principles, murky and confusing things can occur. It is a fact that there are those who base their decisions on felt emotions and not objective facts. The...
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    Took on a new job. Unable to complete orientation. Never got paid.

    Davey Do replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    An ample amount of time to give for a response to a request is one week. It would be fitting to remind them and give another week, then if conditions are not met to your satisfaction, the Dept....