nursemike ASN, RN

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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    i had 48 years of life-experience and 7 as an unlicensed health care worker when i graduated nursing school. both have been and still are helpful; neither entirely prepared me for being a nurse....
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think I'm still working on figuring out some answers. Won't live long enough, of course, to figure them all out. But I do sometimes feel I think better with a pen in my hand. You know, I think I...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    (emphasis mine, directed at self)You know, I still think the OP could have been more constructive and objective, and I still don't believe it's an old vs young issue. I don't imagine I need to tell...
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    What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    nursemike replied to almost30's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To me, that's one of our strengths, although it certainly does create challenges. The setback, in my eyes, is when the various powers that be try to standardize us to death. Patients with CHF get...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thanks. I am reminding myself that no nurse should make any big decisions when he/she is tired. I wonder if that's why the only meds we pass at 0600 are Nexium. ETA: Well, and synthroid. That's a...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you. I don't know whether to be more flattered by your comment or Viva's, but I do appreciate your understanding that even when I've felt a bit testy, it hasn't been my intention to "tear you a...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Your point of view is mistaken. You've said what's on your mind, and you certainly have that right, but those of us who've found at least some of what you've said obnoxious or offensive, or simply...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Apparently it does take much, because people seem to have a hard time grasping that posting about bitter old nurses vs. eager, young, enthusiastic nurses is pretty insulting to older nurses. That...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In fairness, I do think there's a gray area between appalling and reportable, and it's undoubtedly bigger and grayer to a student than to an experienced nurse. I feel lucky that I've never witnessed...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In my previous post on this thread, I tried to address the idea that some times there just isn't time for the small kindnesses many of us expected to be doing when we entered nursing. Others have...
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    Bitter dried up nurses that need to RETIRE

    nursemike replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's a complicated problem. Sometimes it genuinely is an issue of the nurse's ego. We (all of us) would like to be treated with respect as the healthcare professionals we are. Not many nursing...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think perhaps the gist of this thread has been that perhaps we try to cover too much ground too diligently. Another thread, on nursing diagnoses, raises the question whether efforts to develop a...
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    Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    nursemike replied to Idaho4me's topic in General Nursing

    Working my way through this thread, I have to respond to this with a resounding "Why?" If, as nursing leaders so adamantly declare, a plan of care is crucial, why do we not have time to work on them?...
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    am I that "b" nurse? or am I being an advocate?

    nursemike replied to guestnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think confronting the issue during report was correct, but the OP's account seems to undermine the preceptor with the new nurse. I think it would have been more important just to note objectively...
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    Not "real nurses"

    nursemike replied to reussir1's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked with some nurses who were new to acute care, coming from a background in LTC, and one from a doctor's office. None of them found the transition easy, but compared to my transition from...
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    charge nurse tried to make me go to work with allergic reaction

    nursemike replied to thanx2mj's topic in General Nursing

    I'm surrounded by eco-hippies. Long before the unfortunate disaster in Japan, most of my co-workers were still obsessing over the Three Mile Island accident. Can't hardly have a conversation without...
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    charge nurse tried to make me go to work with allergic reaction

    nursemike replied to thanx2mj's topic in General Nursing

    I think we don't know why the OP almost certainly exaggerated the dosage of antihistamines. I think she was probably just being colloquial. It's entirely possible she was unfit to come to work....
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    Just let me go!

    nursemike replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    I once had an 18 y.o. pt with a DNR order. I cringed, at first, until it occurred to me that her condition would have to deteriorate a lot before it became an issue, but there was some potential to...
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    charge nurse tried to make me go to work with allergic reaction

    nursemike replied to thanx2mj's topic in General Nursing

    I've paged docs that I've given a pt a ton of pain meds. I actually meant "a lot". I doubt the OP meant a literal
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    charge nurse tried to make me go to work with allergic reaction

    nursemike replied to thanx2mj's topic in General Nursing

    At my facility, we have to let PRN staff know by 0500 if they won't be needed. We're semi-rural, so if we waited much later, a lot of people would be en route by the time we tried to call. Or census...
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    charge nurse tried to make me go to work with allergic reaction

    nursemike replied to thanx2mj's topic in General Nursing

    There's a spectrum of symptoms from sniffles to cardiac arrest/respiratory failure that are true allergic reactions, and my understanding is that any allergic reaction can progress down that chain, so...
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    charge nurse tried to make me go to work with allergic reaction

    nursemike replied to thanx2mj's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't mention the type of facility where you work. I work acute care in a hospital, and if one of our aides calls off, it's a pretty big bummer, but not the end of the world. In LTC, it could...
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    Anyone else feel like they don't know anything?

    nursemike replied to ornurse25's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I often feel like they don't know anything. In fairness, I'm sure there must be times when they feel like I don't know
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    Tell us about your Allnurses' experience/Journey

    nursemike replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    I joined during my first year of nursing school when the site came up after a google search. Didn't lurk. Why on Earth would I settle for reading other people's opinions when I could be expressing...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

    nursemike replied to laurasc's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think some of the posters continue to participate because they relate it in some way or another to their own experiences and have become emotionally invested in persuading others to see their point....