westieluv

westieluv

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  1. What are your views on male nurses

    westieluv replied to jared.butler90's topic in Men in Nursing

    I think nursing stopped being a "female" career about the time that we stopped wearing white caps, white skirts, and white hose. It doesn't even occur to me anymore if a new colleague is male or...

  2. Need help in Checking Water, etc

    westieluv replied to whydoidothisrn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I was going to bring up the safety aspects as well, but I figured that she must not be running patients independently yet if she didn't know how to test water or bleach a machine, or I would at least...

  3. Need help in Checking Water, etc

    westieluv replied to whydoidothisrn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    It sounds like you work acutes. These two procedures are something that you should definitely have been taught in your orientation, and they can vary from company to company and program to program...

  4. Tips for working at home

    westieluv replied to Pedsnurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    It's not as good as actually riding a real bike, and I could never get the resistance as high as I wanted it to be, but it keeps your legs moving, helps your circulation, and burns some calories, so...

  5. Tips for working at home

    westieluv replied to Pedsnurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    I just left a position doing telephone triage from home. I got one of those inexpensive machines that is a set of bike pedals on a base that fits under my desk and I pedaled every chance I got. You...

  6. Question About Returning to Dialysis

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I've been offered a position in a Davita chronic unit about half an hour from where I live. I job shadowed there a few days ago and loved it! I realize this is not reflective of either company...

  7. bullying? racism? or overreacting?

    westieluv replied to beachbum2000's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Every time I've seen something like this in the workplace, it has much more to do with seniority or who is friends with whom than what race they are. It always seems to me that the nurses with the...

  8. when you feel creeped out

    westieluv replied to menot's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if you mean creeped out in the sense that they are inappropriate with you sexually, but I have worked with several male patients over the years who flirted with me or just said downright...

  9. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I agree. Is it really that crazy to expect that if you are hired for forty hours a week you expect to work forty hours a week? I have a life outside of work and I do not live for the...

  10. Dry Skin in Stage IV NHL?

    westieluv posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    As a hospice triage nurse, I recently received a call from a patient's wife. The patient had stage IV NHL, B Cell variety. It was an aggresive type and after he relapsed, according to his wife, he was...

  11. Question for Day Shift Nurses Who Own a Dog

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I must have given some kind of impression that I look at our dog as a burden of sorts, but I really don't. She is a part of our family and we all love her dearly. That is why I am so concerned about...

  12. Question for Day Shift Nurses Who Own a Dog

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, that would be a great solution except that we live in an area where it gets very cold in the winter and she would literally not survive outdoors all day. I'm afraid I would come home and find...

  13. Escorted out of the patients home.........

    westieluv replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    My experience has been that either the patient is in a condition where they lack the capacity to say yea or nay (advanced dementia, difficult to care for and family wants full-time bedside care for...

  14. Question for Day Shift Nurses Who Own a Dog

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    We don't have a fenced in yard, so a doggie door won't work, although it's a good idea. The kids in our immediate area are all pretty young, like early elementary age and I honestly don't like the...

  15. Shadowing on First Day of On-Floor Training

    westieluv replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    I think being able to shadow the first day is very valuable. It would be much more stressful to start out hands on when you don't yet know where anything is, who anyone is, etc. I have had jobs where...

  16. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Well, as I said, I did resign last week. They called the next day and left a message asking me to come in and meet with HR, the DON, and the administrator to discuss my issues with the place and even...

  17. Stethoscope and shadowing

    westieluv replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Showing an interest and wanting to hear abnormal heart sounds would make the nurse that you are shadowing feel like you are actually serious about what you are doing and not just wasting his...

  18. Examples of times you have been bullied in nursing profession

    westieluv replied to luvmyyorkie24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I was a student nurse back in the late '80s, I was in the room with one of my first assigned patients and my instructor was standing behind me. The patient had a G-tube and I was supposed to give...

  19. Would more nurse aides solve the problem of always feeling short-staffed?

    westieluv replied to Lemon Bars's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that more aides would help a lot, but I also think that full-time admissions nurses would be amazing. Admissions really break up a shift and interfere with getting your tasks for the shift...

  20. Considering an on call position

    westieluv replied to SaraLTayRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have been an on call hospice nurse, and here is what my concerns would be: Salary. I have learned the hard way that many times, though not always, salaried RN positions are designed to squeeze the...

  21. Are you jealous of other nurses jobs/abilities?

    westieluv replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, this is me! After almost 26 years as an RN, I would love to be a unit clerk. I actually inquired about it at a hospital that I used to work at but I was told that they can't hire an RN to be a...

  22. can you get into nurse practioner school if you have a reprimand on your nursing license

    westieluv replied to 2012murse's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I agree with the others, you need to right the ship where you are before you try to sail into new waters, so to speak. If you can't get hired as an RN now, that has to be addressed before you attempt...

  23. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    westieluv replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    So what about the big "patient abandonment" issue that some employers like to toss around to force their staff to work overtime, threatening that if they leave they will be charged with abandonment...

  24. Hospice or not?

    westieluv replied to curious nature's topic in General Nursing

    I have done on call after hours hospice nursing, hospice intake and admissions, and hospice triage. My suggestion to you would be to try to find a job in an inpatient hospice unit or possibly work on...

  25. Angry..

    westieluv replied to JellyDonut's topic in Critical Care

    In the city where I've always worked, diploma RNs are probably the most respected of all, because they came through the grueling, clinically intensive, hospital based programs well known in this city,...