RetRN77

RetRN77

Labor/Delivery, Pediatrics, Peds ER

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  1. I am an American.

    RetRN77 replied to UnionRN2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The eye contact thing is bad enough, as I cannot imagine communicating to anyone without eye contact. How does a person know another is understanding what he/she says and that communication is...

  2. Information on Affordable Health Care Act

    RetRN77 replied to mandyc's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree, something needed to be done about the high costs of insurance. But no one seemed to be able to overcome insurance lobbying and regulate the insurance companies when things began getting out...

  3. Information on Affordable Health Care Act

    RetRN77 replied to mandyc's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes, but she WILL buy health insurance or she will be penalized monetarily. Nice. AHCA. What a

  4. Someone calling themself Nurse when not.Help please?

    RetRN77 replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

    Earlier, the OP said that it was a crime with a $10,000 fine in Australia where she lives. Therefore, this person is breaking the law and duping his patients and their families. Hopefully, someone in...

  5. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    RetRN77 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Just remembered another - this from my student days, so not quite as bad as if an RN had done it, but!!! Around the start of our second year, a fellow student came across one of her patients and was...

  6. Laid off after 38 years

    RetRN77 replied to Ckwil1948's topic in General Nursing

    I'm very sorry to hear this. Sounds to me as though it's partially age discrimination and partially that your salary was probably too high, due to your experience, for them to deal with. Especially...

  7. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    RetRN77 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    Eric, my hair is on end! Appalling incidents. One that comes to mind for me is while I was a student, I used to work PMs as a tech. I often drew a med-surg floor with a substantial population of...

  8. Time to call a duck a duck?

    RetRN77 replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Addendum to the "respect" debate - I feel it's situational. For instance, in social situations, if it comes out that I'm a nurse, people seem to regard that well. While working for the pediatrician, I...

  9. Time to call a duck a duck?

    RetRN77 replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    i think you make some valid points, especially that there is quite a lot of wheel-spinning in the educational arena to make obvious conclusions seem to be results of arcane mental acrobatics, and to...

  10. White Supremacist patients

    RetRN77 replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    You're right. The enormity of the pt's actions pretty much left me speechless to discuss them. It was a horrible thing for her to have to deal with. I do understand the OP's feelings and I'm surprised...

  11. Nurses' Spiritual Lives

    RetRN77 replied to FutureMaleOhioNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I've witnessed many miracles in my time both as a nurse and in my personal life. It's strengthened my faith, yet I recognize that we cannot understand the ways of God in all things, for His ways are...

  12. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    RetRN77 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    We used to have a hand-held ether mask on a chain at a military base L&D, for precipitous deliveries. The patient could hold it to her face, supposedly could not get too much, as if she passed...

  13. Worst shift ever

    RetRN77 posted a topic in General Nursing

    In general venting thread - I'll begin. You'll be sorry - just ignore. :) Long ago, and far away, I had returned to my L&D unit after about three years away, on a PRN basis. Everything was in a...

  14. Worst shift ever

    RetRN77 replied to RetRN77's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all who responded! I'm overwhelmed by your touching remarks - they've made me feel so much better. I also appreciate those who added their stories, as I really intended the thread to be a...

  15. Worst shift ever

    RetRN77 replied to RetRN77's topic in General Nursing

    LOL - thanks - it was a long time ago! Still grates,

  16. White Supremacist patients

    RetRN77 replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    The difference between the two types of patients is that the patient trying to hit on you is likely not going to stop unless dealt with sternly, while the supremacist will most likely drop the "jokes"...

  17. Nurse Vs Daughter! Help Me!!!

    RetRN77 replied to sasha2lady's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who was in the opposite situation - her son was very rebellious and troublesome and hurt his family deeply and apparently deliberately many times. The mom is a very loving person, but...

  18. For all of you Nurses out there...

    RetRN77 replied to aaaa's topic in General Nursing

    I felt very similar during school. I'm a relic from the hospital school days. My mom was a nurse at the hospital whose school I attended. You'd think that would give me confidence, but hearing, "Oh,...

  19. L&D/PP interview tomorrow---help :)

    RetRN77 replied to marilynmom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In the units I worked, the reason the turnover was so low is that everyone who worked there loved it. You couldn't get a day shift to save your life unless you'd been there over 10 years, because...

  20. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    RetRN77 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    lamazeteacher, thank you. :) Perhaps we can take these issues to another thread? I would like to discuss your last two posts, but I'm afraid we'd be going far off

  21. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    RetRN77 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    a close relative has a condition which makes her cortisone dependent. she had a series of falls last year and was in an out of the hospital and rehab. at the end of the series, she needed to go to an...

  22. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

    RetRN77 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Generally, I don't say anything unless I find someone is failing to give me info I need, or is dissing the idea that the family/pt needs info. Then I will politely ask a question that gives me away. I...

  23. Certified RN-Coders are Being Recruited for Code@Home Jobs

    RetRN77 replied to glb1960's topic in General Nursing

    The "American Association of Clinical Coders and Auditors, Inc." sound like they have a scam similar to TransAm Associates. TransAm charges you for their courses in transcription, which certifications...

  24. Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

    RetRN77 replied to girlvet's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm interested in hearing from nurses who've found their union has conquered staffing concerns at their hospital and ameliorated the other issues mentioned in previous posts which affect patient care....

  25. Patient modesty concerns pertaining to surgery

    RetRN77 replied to creinkent's topic in Operating Room

    The first time my hubby suffered a near catastrophic bleed-out and required emergency surgery, I remember walking down the hallway away from the surgical unit after he went in, and I suddenly had a...