nursemike ASN, RN

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    So i'm a Nurse right????

    nursemike replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    But I see OH is different. WV could be, too by now, but I haven't heard of
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    So i'm a Nurse right????

    nursemike replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In my state it's GN, too, and when I introduced myself to my assigned patients, I introduced myself as your nurse. Signed my charts GN. Legal, and in my opinion entirely ethical. Had I failed...
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    So i'm a Nurse right????

    nursemike replied to OhioCCRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Does that mean you had a BA but weren't English until you passed those
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    You are correct, of course, that this is yet another situation where hysteria can be less than helpful, and Ashkins had a good point about grace. We don't know that this wasn't an example of a good...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    The people who brought the patient by ambulance were not, as the OP explained earlier, EMTs or Paramedics. The incident occurred in Montreal. According to the OP, the correct term is Ambulance...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    While I still disagree with several posters on several matters, I am not being forced at gunpoint to participate in this discussion, nor do I imagine many others are. If the horse is dead, he won't...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    Of course, but I still think many posters who have an ED perspective are responding defensively as though their practice was being attacked, rather than the OP's criticism of one particular triage...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    There's nothing especially real about not being able to distinguish between going to the toilet and having ones hair stroked, between to-the-point and that's-not-my-problem. And how are we assuming...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    Thanks. I have to agree, making the other nurse suffer isn't a good way to solve anything. Corrective action should not usually equal public flogging, and as an occasional sufferer from Athlete's...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    There also exists the distinct possibility that this was not an isolated incident, that the triage nurse referred to has a long pattern of indifference and badly needs to be fired. We can all read...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    Yes, the Terms of Service prohibit bad language, even when justified. FYI, some words, like ass, can refer to an animal or a body part. In former times, to refer to someone as an ass meant to...
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    Time to call a duck a duck, part II

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    You wouldn't think it would be hard to define what nursing is, but it is. I'm inclined, as I so often am, to fall back on Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's landmark opinion on defining...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    nursemike replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    All else being equal, I would recommend getting your BSN. I got my ASN with the intention of finishing my BSN after working a year or two. Six years later, haven't started. I can do my present job...
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    Time to call a duck a duck, part II

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    I believe I am right there with you and Erik in my frustration with the sort of "Ivory Tower Nursing" that seems to exalt the profession of nursing but disdains the practice of nursing, and I have to...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Nice post, and even back on topic. I like your point about rapport. I think that's where the respectful, courteous approach comes into play. And I agree, experience helps. I am glad, though, to...
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    Time to call a duck a duck, part II

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    I thought maybe in a dramatic show of support for men in nursing, she got a sex change. Which would be dramatic. I was talking to a friend, an aide, who was contemplating nursing school, but worried...
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    Time to call a duck a duck, part II

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to you and Erik, both. Truth be told, my "marginally" skates pretty close to false modesty. An honest self-eval would pretty much just be "competent." I tend to cling to the marginally to...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of the Rozier scale. I'll study it when I have more time. And since I don't work emergency, most of the possible CVA pts I see are being admitted, usually to...
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    An open letter to the ER triage nurse

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

    CVA was my first thought, too. And I'm not sure how a patient is stable enough for routine triage, much less walking to the restroom, until you've ruled out the lethal stuff. I've been advising...
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    Time to call a duck a duck, part II

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Is there room on your staff for a marginally competent nurse with a strong back and a soft
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    Time to call a duck a duck, part II

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting thread. Like the OP, I've come around a good deal on the "profession" thing. Like the OP, I'm frustrated by the bureaucratic obstacles that impede direst patient care. And I'm deeply...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    1. No argument. 2. Really? I haven't noticed the phenomenon you describe. I don't get asked to do care for a female nurse's male pt very often, or at least not the care we've been discussing. But...
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    IT'S A LAW?!

    nursemike replied to taliax101's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I've always sort of assumed that the original logic in white uniforms was so that they would show if they were soiled. That said, don't guess I'll be practicing in Uruguay. In school, we were...
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    Let's give nurses a break: How do the rest of the staff dress?

    nursemike replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    I once saw my manager and my director--serious, professional women--giggling like schoolgirls when one of our aides bent over and exposed her whale tail. I have no doubt one or both later counselled...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Thanks, Cul2. I appreciate your thoughts, as well, and you've brought me around a bit. I never really meant it was just tough patooties for patients with a gender preference. I did argue on another...