tavalon

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1. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   tavalon replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   Amusing obstetrical note: Infant's head delivered in the usual manner followed rapidly by the body.

2. Most stressful moment as a nurse?

   tavalon replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

   The one I'm going through right now. After 18 years as a nurse, being sued, learning about the meat grinder that is the legal process of malpractice. I'm unsure that anyone survives, except maybe the lawyers taking their 30% off the top. Realizing th...

3. meeting with the hospital attorney next week

   tavalon replied to tavalon's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thanks. I'm currently looking for a lawyer and will bring him/her to the meeting. Do I need to notify the risk manager/hospital attorney that I will be bringing my own attorney, I wonder?

4. meeting with the hospital attorney next week

   tavalon posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Should I bring my own attorney?

5. I'm moving to the Dupont area

   tavalon posted a topic in Washington

   I was a Labor and Delivery nurse for 17 years until I blew out my C5 trying to keep a patient from falling. Now, for the last 9 months, I have been a NICU nurse in a level 3 (really more of a level 2 and they lack the staff to train me on the importa...

6. Funny OB things people say

   tavalon replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I had a patient tell me she was having contraptions in her eucharist. As I knew she was a Catholic and that she was trying very hard to get it, I was able to walk out before I laughed. This was 15 years ago and I still remember it. After she had her ...

7. Does This Place Exist?

   tavalon replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Amen! Magnet is such a joke!

8. L & D nurses routinely deliver babies?

   tavalon replied to midwife sarah's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Nope. Not unless they are risking their licenses. However, every L/D nurse ends up delivering a baby from time to time, when the doctor doesn't make it in time.

9. Abuse support by colleagues

   tavalon replied to Anthony Marc's topic in Safety

   Alas, most of those predicate on physical abuse. The vast majority of us have been verbally abused. Verbal abuse is actually far more prevalent and in some ways, more damaging.

10. should nurses be unionized, if so who should represent them?

    tavalon replied to clint's topic in Safety

    In my opinion, one of the characteristics of a profession (and the professional people that make up the profession) is the ability to come together and identify common issues that are important to the profession as a whole, to unify and take meaningf...

11. Making a difference for our profession

    tavalon replied to healinghand's topic in Safety

    Uh-oh what happened with Laura? Yes, we need a national union. We need to stop acting like the abused wives and we need to join together. They always have us over a barrel because we are so quick to destroy our own.

12. RN call outs, how do you handle them?

    tavalon replied to Carotid's topic in Safety

    I think a fair policy would be the same policy that is implemented for physicians. They are professionals and we as RNs are professionals so we should have the same policies. What, you say the physicians don't have any policy around sick call ins? hm...

13. Toxic Nurse Managers and how to deal...

    tavalon replied to Stitchie's topic in Safety

    Alas, that won't work here because every hospital in Austin has the same sort of BS. I'm moving to the great Northwest and it isn't soon enough. Goodbye to the South. Yeehaw.

14. Toxic Nurse Managers and how to deal...

    tavalon replied to Stitchie's topic in Safety