scribblz

scribblz BSN, CNA, LPN

Med Surg, Tele, Geriatrics, home infusion

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  1. 4 yrs, Low experience, Hospital

    scribblz replied to LexxNervous's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Hello and welcome to our forum @LexxNervous ☺️ Those ratios are fairly consistent across many med surg units in MA. I will say more than four patients on 7:00 to 3:00 and 3:00 to 11:00 is...

  2. How do I fix my attitude?

    scribblz replied to frustratedoldnurse's topic in General Nursing

    LOL this is so true. I have a assistant nurse manager who loves to ask me to work and then complains when I occasionally cost her overtime even though I'm saving her department from running short due...

  3. New Nurse Get Daisy Award?

    scribblz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    To answer your question I'm never mad about being fed ? That being said I do think charm plays a great deal into people winning awards... But I also like to see my colleagues be recognized for...

  4. New to home infusion nursing

    scribblz replied to Mayflower22's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Hi OP, I realize this is a really old post so you may not see this...but on the off chance you do wondering how you like home infusion

  5. Supervisor transitioning to IV RN

    scribblz replied to RNBSC's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Curious if you ever found a position as an IV nurse? There is a big difference between being good at peripheral IVs and being a PICC nurse. I started out by asking the IV nurse to teach me how to...

  6. Rooting out Racial Bias in Nursing: Hope and Grace

    scribblz replied to jeastridge's topic in General Specialties

    That's horrific and unacceptable care. I'm so sorry you had to experience

  7. Trying to switch specialty. Job tips

    scribblz replied to Thenaturalnurse98's topic in General Specialties

    You might want to give a brief explanation as to why you want to work on a mother baby floor. Personal experience or just what about it draws you. Think of experiences you've had on your current floor...

  8. New NP Reported As RN From Previous Employer

    scribblz replied to Gina-destroyed's topic in Advanced Practice

    Hello OP, I feel for you, and how difficult your situation is. If I understood you correctly your RN license has been under investigation with no formal findings for over 2 years? This hasn't...

  9. Nurses Combating the Health Risks of Working Nights

    scribblz replied to Lindsay Montford's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked all the shifts, but for the past 15 years or so it's been 7p-7a 24hrs/ week at my hospital and then home infusions at people's houses the remainder of the week. I love having an acute and...

  10. Can't Find My Calling

    scribblz replied to Genesis_BSN_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You sound like you may be a good fit for an area that does procedures such as cath lab or Endo or Infusion nursing. All generally 9-5 or similar hours Mon through Friday. You perform similar tasks/...

  11. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    scribblz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    This is why palliative consults are necessary. They cut right to the chase of quality over quantity. In fact I've seen some people get both by having their symptoms managed in a non-aggressive manner....

  12. How to Deal with Staff Who Don't Like You?

    scribblz replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. The bigger the place the less likely to be trapped with petty people who succeed off the work of others. Also research culture, non profits are less likely to have these types of people....

  13. How to Deal with Staff Who Don't Like You?

    scribblz replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    This is fantastic @subee

  14. How to Deal with Staff Who Don't Like You?

    scribblz replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    "Presume good will" I like that. Thanks for sharing! To the OP: We all have a default level of expectations for others that we meet. Optimistic people tend to give people the benefit of the...

  15. Nurses are Pushed to the Brink

    scribblz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think we'll run out of nurses who know how to take care of vented patients first ? and if this ship doesn't turn around soon we probably will be rationing ventilators by

  16. Scab nursing?

    scribblz replied to Emergent's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I completely agree the point of the Union/ strike is to put pressure on management to exceed to nursing requests to improve care and quality to patients and make sure that nurses are being given the...

  17. Nurses are Pushed to the Brink

    scribblz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh my goodness. 2021. Not last April. And we're still working like Covid just hit. Blows the

  18. Nurses are Pushed to the Brink

    scribblz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think you are 100% on the money! Given this time of crisis all those nursing students who are being denied their clinical could come be SNAs instead and Gain valuable experience and be a huge help...

  19. Be honest, when do you start working on your CEUs?

    scribblz replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Same

  20. Trump tells supporter to not confront left wing rioters

    scribblz replied to guest416560's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I believe that the government is intentionally terrible at certain things because the industries and corporations who paid for many politicians' campaigns are getting what they paid for. We are a...

  21. Trump tells supporter to not confront left wing rioters

    scribblz replied to guest416560's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Well let's explore this...we both work in healthcare, and I hope we both agree that all people require some form of preventative/maintenance healthcare and emergency healthcare. So when I say it's a...

  22. Trump tells supporter to not confront left wing rioters

    scribblz replied to guest416560's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Plenty of successful social democracies out there...look at quality of life for people in Denmark and Sweden. The whole fear mongering that we'll "end up like Cuba and Venezuela" is an overused...

  23. Struggling with babies

    scribblz posted a topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Full disclosure: new infusion nurse here! I started doing home infusions (IVIG mostly) about 7 months ago. I got a per diem position on the IV team at my hospital a couple months ago. Since then I try...

  24. Struggling with babies

    scribblz replied to scribblz's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Thank you @speedynurse I appreciate all the

  25. Racism and Covid-19: The Unmasking of Two Pandemics

    scribblz replied to Stacy Winters's topic in General Nursing

    Proving discrimination is almost impossible. They don't have to explain why they didn't pick some one. In my opinion people pick applicants who they get a good feeling about, often that means they...