DaFreak71

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  1. Job Discrimination...despite nursing shortage

    DaFreak71 replied to OliveVinesRN's topic in General Nursing

    I should have put quotes around the phrase "low class trailer park", which perhaps would have served to communicate my intended point more effectively. This phrase was not used to convey bias, it was...

  2. wearing perfume to work

    DaFreak71 replied to acaringnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I'm super late in responding to this, but I just wanted to say that I hope things are going better now. No hard

  3. End stage CHF symptoms?

    DaFreak71 replied to Blackcat99's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Glad to hear your mom is doing better! My husband and I use to take care of his father who has CHF. On average he was hospitalized every two months for a six day stay. His lungs would fill with...

  4. Is this a normal policy?

    DaFreak71 posted a topic in General Nursing

    My husband is an R.N. and he works the night shift (7a-7p). When he earns time off, it is paid at the dayshift rate (minus 4 bucks for shift differential). This kinda chaps my hide because taking...

  5. Is this a normal policy?

    DaFreak71 replied to DaFreak71's topic in General Nursing

    I think what is at the heart of my frustration is that he signed onto permanent nights for the differential. If he works a dayshift in addition to his regularly scheduled shifts, he gets night time...

  6. Am I being underpaid?

    DaFreak71 replied to teresa41's topic in General Nursing

    Your rate of pay depends heavily on where you live. If you live in the south like I do, RN pay is not very impressive when you compare it to say, California. Although it does provide a very decent...

  7. Desire to be a fit nurse...

    DaFreak71 replied to Petite06's topic in General Nursing

    I need to lose weight as well. This may sound childish, but making a menu really helps (helps me anyway). I created a breakfast/lunch/dinner menu using the foods that are on the Sugar Busters and...

  8. How many hours per week do you study?

    DaFreak71 replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Students

    I study about 21 hours each week outside of class. I am not in a BSN program, I'm in an ADN program. I have a 4.0 GPA and I never use study group, although I have studied with one other person once or...

  9. I may just be a nursing student, but I do know a little sumpin' sumpin'

    DaFreak71 replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    Situation: Husband is a nurse, I am in nursing school. Husbands new step-father complained of pain in his shoulder and kept stating that he had no idea what it brought it on, but it might have been...

  10. "but doctors are better than nurses"

    DaFreak71 replied to AussieJack's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not singling you out Mildred, as others have made this fallacious point, it just so happens that I'm responding to this one. I've known plenty of doctors that care about the whole person, and I've...

  11. Breech of ethics

    DaFreak71 replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

  12. Breech of ethics

    DaFreak71 replied to mariedoreen's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that it was most inappropriate for the student to deceive the patient by slipping him the medication he voiced refusal to take. This student needs to understand the concept of a patients...

  13. Will things get better as I get educated?

    DaFreak71 replied to Mirai Kangofu's topic in General Nursing

    Even in the midst of other educated people, there are varying degrees of intellectual ability. The anti-intellectual bias still thrives even in an academic setting, although it's less socially...

  14. To study group of not to study group...

    DaFreak71 replied to Student_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have personally found study groups to be absolutely useless. I think I read somewhere that the best study group is small and comprised of people who are on par with you intellectually. You've gotta...

  15. Judge Judy disses nursing

    DaFreak71 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a daily ritual. I come home from nursing school and before I dive into my homework, I make a sandwich and watch Judge Judy. I've been watching this show for years and I like her no-nonsense...

  16. Very bad clinical evaluation from my instructor

    DaFreak71 replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry you're having such a hard time. I know that school is hard enough without having to worry about how much your classmates like you. With that said, I would suggest that you make a real effort...

  17. Chafing.....?

    DaFreak71 replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

    One thing you can try to alleviate the chafing is to wear spandex bicycle shorts underneath your scrub bottoms. Skin rubbing on skin is very uncomfortable, and in my experience, powders don't really...

  18. What is that smell?

    DaFreak71 replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    Teenage boys smell peculiar due in part to the hormones they secrete in their sweat. Sweat is different smelling once a person hits puberty. They also develop more sweat glands, particularly...

  19. Judge Judy disses nursing

    DaFreak71 replied to DaFreak71's topic in General Nursing

    That was my take on it as well. I think he was trying (unsucessfully) to elevate the status of whatever his educational pursuits were. If he said "medical" he meant nursing, so if he said "nursing",...

  20. Judge Judy disses nursing

    DaFreak71 replied to DaFreak71's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in the process of reading "Nursing Against the Odds", I find I'm extra sensitive these days to slights against nurses. I may have been reading too much into JJ's typical sarcastic comment. That...

  21. How would you handle this and what is your opinion?

    DaFreak71 replied to Nutmeg5575's topic in General Nursing

    To withhold pain control measures because you don't like the patient is disgusting. If a person doesn't like their patient fine, but do your job just the same.

  22. Who am I, the HIPPA police?

    DaFreak71 replied to ICRN2008's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Oh big deal.

  23. Depressed and Torn

    DaFreak71 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    While reading your post, I got the feeling that you seem to think that you should have to take meds if your therapist is prescribing them. I just wanted to say that it is always your choice. You have...

  24. Who am I, the HIPPA police?

    DaFreak71 replied to ICRN2008's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Breaking a hospital policy does not automatically mean that you are violating HIPPA. But violating HIPPA most likely breaks hospital policy. There's a difference. I cannot imagine how it would...

  25. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    DaFreak71 replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    I agree with the poster who said that talking to brain dead or dead patients might not be appropriate to do in front of the family. I think it's a bit presumptuous to assert my belief in an afterlife...