RetRN77

RetRN77

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  1. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

    RetRN77 replied to Clubsingr28's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to that! I have heard many times in various places about decisions not to treat UTI's in patients deemed terminal, and I have always been aghast. As you said, they are incredibly painful, and...

  2. Advice please: Withdrawal of feeding tube

    RetRN77 replied to Clubsingr28's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. Incredible. Kudos to you for what you are planning and for your concern. To me, it's unconscionable to let people suffer with UTI's and to not feed them. Most especially since it's obvious this...

  3. Would you be insulted by this?

    RetRN77 replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

    That's pretty funny! Although I am surprised it didn't occur to anyone to stick some old fashioned heavy duty cloth bandage tape on the box and write the name on the tape. We used to label all sorts...

  4. Would you be insulted by this?

    RetRN77 replied to jannjul76's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think I'd feel insulted, but it wouldn't make me feel appreciated, either. I like the sweatpant with logo actual gift idea. I would have appreciated that. Nurses week never happened until...

  5. Would you deliver your baby at your place of employment?

    RetRN77 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    I did, although at the time, I was a student, and had already done my L&D/PP rotation. I didn't know any of the nurses in the L&D unit, because I went to the hospital and delivered during the...

  6. Taking dying patient home with children - what are your thoughts?

    RetRN77 replied to tokebi's topic in Pediatric

    This happened in my family as well. My mom and her siblings shared the care of her mother late in life. At that point, she told me she never wanted to "force" this on us and she wanted to go to a...

  7. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oops - thought I quoted the person who posted the original. This was meant for the nurse who drained her hematoma and needed months of wound care

  8. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Forgive me if I've posted this before. Our very first day of clinicals, another student came to me in distress, telling me she couldn't get the rectal thermometer to stay in place. "It keeps falling...

  9. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, my, I feel so badly for you! Who would have thought it would take that long to

  10. New Nurse to Family Practice Needs Advice!

    RetRN77 replied to HelloNurseLisa's topic in Telephone Triage

    Hopefully, your doctors have an efficient practice, know exactly how they want you to deal with phone calls, and will train you to do what they want. The physician I worked for had very specific...

  11. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    RetRN77 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh - I really needed

  12. How to be excused from clinicals

    RetRN77 replied to CheesePotato's topic in General Students

    Good grief! Except for the faking, crying, denial and swearing, I thought you might have been talking about me! I became ill while scrubbed in during clinicals and had to ask the circulating nurse who...

  13. Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

    RetRN77 replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Totally off topic, VintagePN, but your avatar looks like one of my old supervisors!

  14. Has anyone taken care of a celeb?

    RetRN77 replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the 70's, at the Army hospital I worked at then, we had a princess of a Middle Eastern country as a patient for a few days. She was very polite to us, and was really no trouble as a patient. There...

  15. passive aggressive nurses

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

    I'm a little puzzled, because I wonder why the dividing line between being reasonable and becoming "hostile" is when the incoming nurse goes beyond checking the IV site and goes on to further...

  16. passive aggressive nurses

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

    Our floors would generally refuse to take patients during report time. If the ED would call near report time saying they were coming with a patient, we would ask them to either bring the patient 15...

  17. Just had my first day as a student nurse, advice needed....

    RetRN77 replied to danmyers22's topic in General Students

    That must be pretty far "back in the day!" When I took it, it was 2 6-8 hour days, and that was 40+ years

  18. Just had my first day as a student nurse, advice needed....

    RetRN77 replied to danmyers22's topic in General Students

    Cleaning up after people's daily needs is just part of the job, but it IS part of the job. In some areas and some jobs, there may be others primarily assigned to help the patient with hygiene needs,...

  19. Is this common with teaching hospitals?

    RetRN77 replied to liketheairport's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say that frosts me. There is just no reason for that. I trained at teaching hospitals and I worked at teaching hospitals almost exclusively. I saw a couple of rather borderline "specimen"...

  20. I need advice! please read

    RetRN77 replied to lnle3618's topic in General Nursing

    You're very welcome! I'm sorry that your family has not been very supportive of you. That definitely makes things a good bit more difficult. You will be in my prayers.

  21. I need advice! please read

    RetRN77 replied to lnle3618's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry if I made it sound as though a grandparent was the only option - I didn't intend that. But anyone close to you, IMHO, would be a good thing. I know how it is to not have many options, and...

  22. I need advice! please read

    RetRN77 replied to lnle3618's topic in General Nursing

    I have a lot of regrets about time my child spent with others while I worked, and I was only working 8 hour shifts. We had several bad experiences. We did a lot of moving around during his early years...

  23. I was told "If they won't get out of bed don't hesitate to call rescue."

    RetRN77 replied to Alnitak7's topic in General Nursing

    Really stupid. My mom was in assisted living and often did not feel up to getting up for breakfast. In fact, one of the reasons we decided on assisted living instead of the senior apartments where she...

  24. Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

    RetRN77 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

    Definitely. I was referring to the bottom

  25. Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

    RetRN77 replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

    We had an instructor who told us the bed should be tight enough to bounce a quarter. Yep - ex military, too. I thought she was a wee bit obsessed until she checked the bed I had made (occupied) and...