nursemike ASN, RN

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    Refusing to change/toilet pts

    nursemike replied to ShockMe's topic in General Nursing

    When my Dad was sick, and then when I was, I saw both sides of this conundrum, but both examples were exceptions. Despite my previous little rant, most of what I saw, and most of what I encounter at...
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    Clients who prefer a specific gender

    nursemike replied to jameshutch's topic in Men in Nursing

    I've only been flatly refused by a patient twice--well, two and a half times. The "half" was the worst--the patient asked for a different nurse after I made a horrendous--but innocent--blunder that I...
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    Spouse vs. MPOA and feeding tubes

    nursemike replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    Susie2310, I've had to give your post some thought, mainly because there's nothing in it with which I disagree. And yet, I still feel I was right, or at least partly right. So I've really had to...
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    Anxious overwhelmed RN

    nursemike replied to bunnyears's topic in General Nursing

    Every great nurse you will ever know has been where you are.
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    Spouse vs. MPOA and feeding tubes

    nursemike replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    Obviously (in hindsight) I wasn't dying. Except, by all logic, I was. I'm here because my surrogate and some of the nurses who cared for me pushed the docs to go beyond what was reasonable (and...
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    Spouse vs. MPOA and feeding tubes

    nursemike replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    I once had a family member ask that their dying loved-one's Dobhoff be withdrawn. At my facility, this has to be done by an MD. So I paged the resident, who gave me my first (of many) experience with,...
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    Not getting accepted into a nursing program.

    nursemike replied to jinxiscool2's topic in General Nursing

    You gave yourself some good suggestions. Also, if you can ace some of the support classes, part time, that would probably
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    What to do? New nurse feels like she's drowning. Please help.

    nursemike replied to texasnurs's topic in General Nursing

    BTW: Newbie nurses dream of marrying a doctor. Experienced nurses dream of marrying an aide. Really experienced nurses can trick doctors into acting as aides, once in
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    What to do? New nurse feels like she's drowning. Please help.

    nursemike replied to texasnurs's topic in General Nursing

    Getting back to work after medical leave has been a vivid reminder of my first year, with the substantial difference of knowing I've done this before. First year is a roller coaster ride, bearing in...
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    Why do we do codes?

    nursemike replied to scrubs0204's topic in General Nursing

    The various sides of "why bother" having been pretty well covered, may I say that the first time I witnessed a code, it was pretty interesting, but as a UAP (unlicensed assistive person) I was hardly...
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    Verbally abusive patient, worried I could have handled the situation better

    nursemike replied to NurseMom2016's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes our patients are having the worst day of their lives. They're frightened, they're frustrated, and acting out may be the one way they have of feeling like they have some sort of control. As...
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    Nursing Director removed my pts restraints

    nursemike replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't believe it's acceptable for a nurse to intervene in a patient's care contrary to the will of the primary nurse, unless the primary nurse is abusing or neglecting that patient. If a superior...
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    Refusing to change/toilet pts

    nursemike replied to ShockMe's topic in General Nursing

    At the end of my most recent shift, I needed help to get a patient off a bedside commode, but the aide didn't come because she was giving report. The nurse I was going to give report to came to help...
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    DNR/DNI: What Age Would You Choose to No Longer Be Full Code?

    nursemike replied to LollaPaupRN's topic in General Nursing

    If I hadn't procrastinated about filling out advanced directives, I might not be writing this. (Might not, because a secret about DNR is that it depends a bit on how hard your family fusses about it)...
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    Why are nurses disrespected so much?

    nursemike replied to fitfabfunnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    OP, as you said yourself, you are new to nursing. You also seem to feel sufficiently invested in the pursuit of a nursing career not to abandon it lightly. Makes sense to me. Some of the responses to...