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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    Writing “poop” is unprofessional?

    Davey Do replied to guest1143647's topic in General Nursing

    HEY! Since we're discussing some really deep poop here, please allow me to comment on relationships. Once, at a regular psych department meeting, the director requested that we write...
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    Writing “poop” is unprofessional?

    Davey Do replied to guest1143647's topic in General Nursing

    The first time I ever got written up was for defacing hospital property. I was an LPN working on a psych unit and regularly passed meds from a cart in the dayroom. Some of the patients would say...
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    RN Claims to Be An LPN To Avoid Certain Tasks

    Davey Do replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    In my first couple of years of nursing back in the mid 80's, as an LPN working in psych, I actually applied for an ES position and talked with the department's manager. Makes me wonder, "What...
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    Missing Patient Orders Due to Constantly Covering Colleague

    Davey Do replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Communication is one of the biggest pitfalls in our field, SilverBells, so I can really commiserate with you. Off the top of my head, I would examine the communication process between staff and...
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    allnurses and Major Life Events

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, canoehead, on the internet and allnurses since the early 90's. You are a shaker and a mover. I was working at a community mental health facility in pretty much a desk job when the big...
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    Has the staffing clerk ever made you feel guilty of calling in "sick"?

    Davey Do replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    A manipulation ploy and no one can make us feel any way we don't choose to feel. To react otherwise is to give another control over our lives. Also, guilt is a reaction to one of the two basic...
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    Has the staffing clerk ever made you feel guilty of calling in "sick"?

    Davey Do replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Short answer, DK: No one can make us feel any certain way, for we are the one's responsible for how we feel or react, and to some we are merely means to an end or a stumbling block in the path to...
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    Med Error

    Davey Do replied to Rada's topic in General Nursing

    This is a great discussion and I wish to applaud Rada for weathering it through, when most would have tucked their tails and run away, never to be seen on this forum again. Or shouted like a...
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    RN Claims to Be An LPN To Avoid Certain Tasks

    Davey Do replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    Davey Do replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Oh Daisy. You do know what to say to cause me to react like one of Pavlov's dogs. The soul is quite different from the personality, and Edgar Cayce encouraged is to try to imagine what it would...
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    Davey Do replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Back in '02, the community mental health facility where I was NS flew me and another supervisor to a two-day conference on Chicago. The conference was given by experts on how to ready an organization...
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    We're Like Travelers, In Our Own Hospital! $$

    Davey Do replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    I just remembered something else Wrongway did one year. Typically, the employees got a one to two per cent raise after the yearly evaluations in April. There were a couple of years where no...
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    We're Like Travelers, In Our Own Hospital! $$

    Davey Do replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Back in '03, when I started at Wrongway Regional Medical Center, they would pay an RN a $70 bonus, above and beyond overtime pay, just to come in on a weekend shift. There were so very many call offs...
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    Davey Do replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    We are led through our lifetimes by forces which we do not understand, sometimes never, sometimes at the end of our journeys. At the end of our journeys, we can gain a different perspective on...
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    Little did he know...

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

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    Build Confidence and Overcome the Past

    Davey Do replied to Anxiousnurse56's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, anxiousnurse, I admire and respect your honesty, candor, attitude, and perseverance! Having about 4 years of CD TX experience, I share your feelings toward the treatment of that...
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    Resident Thinks I’m A Fake Nurse

    Davey Do replied to Streetnurse42's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, londonflo, your accolade gladdens my heart in a time when I wonder if I'm not casting them to apathetic dogs and
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    Davey Do replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Honeybee, it's always been as Charles Dickens so aptly put it, "...the best of times... the worst of times". From what I've heard from nursing students and my actively employed medical nurse wife...
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    Davey Do replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Because addressing critical safety concerns would open up a whole can of worms and dealing with those real worm issues is too much work, like shoveling sand against the tide. If focus is made on...
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    Davey Do replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Honeybee's post triggered a memory of a situation involving not only JC, but hospital administration, OSHA, and IDPH as well. Some years ago, the geriatric psych unit at Wrongway underwent some...
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    Med Error

    Davey Do replied to Rada's topic in General Nursing

    I chime in with the others in relaying that an error was made and you owned it and did something about it, Rada. To err is human, but to own it, act prudently, and forgive yourself are the earmarks of...
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    Peri-care without gloves?

    Davey Do replied to lightwing's topic in General Nursing

    @Frances LeMay: Are you the same Fran from the Blue Side? If so, ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of a
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    allnurses and Major Life Events

    Davey Do replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I recently started a thread similar to what you're talking about, JBMmom: Clueless People - General Nursing Support, Stories -
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    Resident Thinks I’m A Fake Nurse

    Davey Do replied to Streetnurse42's topic in General Nursing

    Internal validation is stronger than external validation. If we cannot validate ourselves, no amount of validation from others is going to buoy us on through the rough waters to come. And...
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    Resident Thinks I’m A Fake Nurse

    Davey Do replied to Streetnurse42's topic in General Nursing

    Those of us who work in this field with disabilities need not wear them like a thorny crown. Patients, and the general population in fact, will believe they are the King and Queens of their own...