HvnSntRN

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  1. nursing heartbreak :/

    Oh, BTW, here's a little insider tip regarding documenting "ahead". If you have made a plan with a patient regarding how your cares will proceed through the shift, it would be acceptable to chart...
  2. nursing heartbreak :/

    Incident reports are brandished by some instructors and some more "seasoned" nurses as a way to intimidate the n00bs novice practitioners, and sometimes shake the confidence of over confident novice...
  3. Today's Are-You-*Bleep*ing-Kidding-Me? moment was courtesy of a telephone advice call on this lovely Sunday afternoon at 17:00 from a patient who was discharged 4 days ago, to report that her baby had...
  4. i received a long distance call from a patient's relative who claimed to be a nurse in another province. she wanted to know specifics about how the patient was doing, like diagnosis, bloodwork results...
  5. "May I give you a tip?"

    A patient's husband offered me a $20 tip the other day, as I completed her discharge. First time for everything, I guess. Naturally, I declined - it's just not my nature for one thing, and it's...
  6. hostile staff member

    Start documenting the incidents. You can be sure that if she is intent on getting you reprimanded or terminated, she is keeping notes too. Most institutions have policies in place regarding hostile...
  7. "You've been pregnant for 9 months and you didn't have time to make arrangements for your older children to be looked after while you were in the
  8. RN tattoo

    I'm also thinking of getting a nursing tattoo - maybe a nurse's cap with my graduation year. I had my first one done last year. It's on my right clavicle and extends up to the shoulder, it's a...
  9. Becoming an RN just for the paycheck

    As a personal disclaimer here, before I decided to apply for nursing school, I evaluated the potential earnings and job opportunities. I knew I wanted to pursue a nursing career and the potential for...
  10. Becoming an RN just for the paycheck

    The people who go into nursing who have no real desire to be nurses eventually leave the profession. Let's face it, no matter what profession you choose to examine, there will be people going into it...
  11. Atheists? How do you deal with religious people?

    Oddly enough, my alias came from an experience during my nursing training. A stroke patient who by all accounts had been unable to speak since his stroke, gripped my hand and said that I was "heaven...
  12. "Nursing students with C's are still nurses".. ?

    I was one of those nursing students with a 4.0 GPA. I can't answer for other people with a 4.0 GPA, but for me it was because I had something to prove... to nobody but myself. I was a "mature...
  13. alternatives to mother/baby care in hospital

    My mother baby unit does 24-hour rooming in. We have not had a nursery for our postpartum patients for almost a year. The nursery "space" still exists - we use it for patient teaching (baby bath...
  14. You're right - I don't begrudge any nursing mom the need to pump her breasts. Although, in Canada, you can take up to a year for your maternity leave now (it was only 4 months when my oldest was...
  15. I believe that what we are seeing is the clash between people who have a strong personal work ethic and other people who have an indulged/"spoiled"/entitled the-world-owes-me-a-living attitude. I also...
  16. I had 3 children already when I started nursing school, and the realities of working 12-hour shifts in a hospital setting were no secret. I knew going in that daycare and school activities and kids...
  17. Do we ever question a person's decision to become a physician "because the money is good"?? Of course not. Do we question a person's decision to become a police officer or a fire fighter "for the...
  18. mother dies after refusing blood transfusion

    It is only part of my story. I'll get into the rest later. For all you know, my "bitterness" toward the Watch Tower Society is perfectly justifiable. There are some experiences that cannot be made...
  19. mother dies after refusing blood transfusion

    you are comparing apples to oranges, delvenia. assuming my thoughts on war, you call me a hypocrite before you know my answer to your question. i'll let you know right now that i do not intend to...
  20. mother dies after refusing blood transfusion

    i never suggested that this was a decision that was handled in a cavalier manner, that it was not agonizing, or that it was made without weighing the possible outcomes. why do you assume that i feel...
  21. mother dies after refusing blood transfusion

    Each JW is supposed to receive an Advance Medical Directive card from their respective congregation elders, and should review the information therein annually. The version of the card that I most...
  22. mother dies after refusing blood transfusion

    WTS = WatchTower Society = the legal corporation that directs the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses world wide. That's why their website is www.watchtower.org instead of...
  23. mother dies after refusing blood transfusion

    A lot of JWs refuse blood because they do not understand the WTS's convoluted watering-down of their blood transfusion ideology. The WTS currently leaves treatments involving blood fractions up to the...
  24. Admin gave my job back to the person who left it

    If you have a union contract, contact a union rep and find out whether you have grounds for a grievance. The contract that our union has, for example, allows for someone to take a temporary position...
  25. Jehovah Witness RNs

    with all due respect, perhaps you need to review the following watchtower article (w87, 9/1 issue, pp. 12-15) before you post inaccurate information. just in case you don't have your bound volumes...