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weetziebat

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  1. Poll: How many of you have been fired from nursing jobs?

    weetziebat posted a topic in General Nursing

    I can't believe this. I've been working at this awful job now just short of three months. The State is expected any day now, and no kidding, they will be shut down in five minutes flat. The place has...

  2. What about the birds??

    weetziebat posted a topic in General Nursing

    o.k. i have a question that perhaps someone here can answer. i was talking with a friend and she has heard that native americans have a belief about black birds (crows?, ravens? i don't know)...

  3. I want to do something else

    weetziebat replied to smileysenior's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been a nurse for a looong time and it just keeps getting worse. I can understand why you say what you do, but it may have something to do with the hospital or unit you're working on. Before you...

  4. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Yeah, I've been told my notes are very thorough.:rotfl: What I'm finding helpful (when I have time) is to go back and look through other nurses notes and see just what they chart. Wow! can be a real...

  5. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    o.k. guys, i need some advice. we recently went to laptops and for some reason i can't understand, i take forever to do evals. for routine visits it seems i can manage, but evals seem to take me hours...

  6. New hospice house, WHAT A RIDE!!!!

    weetziebat replied to ShayRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I remember reading your posts about the new job and have wondered how it was going. So glad to hear you like it. I don't work inpatient hospice, but I do agree that hospice is the most rewarding field...

  7. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    That's whats so great about this site - you get to see you are not alone with nursing issues and get good advice to boot. Been doing some thinking about why I feel the need to put in so much info....

  8. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thanks for the encouragement. We've been at it about six weeks now and just about everyone is pretty discouraged, and the meds are the worst part. We're having ongoing conversations and some things...

  9. Going Saudi first

    weetziebat replied to Barbie38's topic in Immigration Advice

    I agree that anyone would have much to consider moving half way round the world to any country, but the statistics you read about Filippinos having problems in Saudi are the uneducated folks who take...

  10. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hi River, Don't have a clue what program we're using. Wouldn't be so bad if we could just freely type in information, but using the forms where you have to check the 'almost-correct' answer and...

  11. Going Saudi first

    weetziebat replied to Barbie38's topic in Immigration Advice

    Well, the OP hasn't been back and it now seems to be a battle between the rest of us. I really don't want to fight about it - every country has good and bad. If you search around you can find facts...

  12. Going Saudi first

    weetziebat replied to Barbie38's topic in Immigration Advice

    you might want to make that a camel you ride to work on. have seen many camels in the back of pick-up trucks, and many goats in the passenger seats, but must say you'd be the first woman to ride a...

  13. Happily Addicted to allnurses.com

    weetziebat replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Yep, know the feeling. Love your

  14. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I suspect things will start to tighten up here pretty soon. Think the OT is being O.K'd since we just changed to laptops. Not something I imagine they'll be willing to part with long term. Have talked...

  15. Is it always better to die at home?

    weetziebat replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    llg, sounds like this is a real sore spot for you, and I'm sorry if I added to your grief by my response. In hospice work, I only deal with folks who want to die at home, if at all possible. Of...

  16. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

    weetziebat replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, yeah, that dark, dark horrible path. All alone with a madwoman, and as a child what can you do? :sofahider In my teens, I took myself off to a psychiatrist, thinking everything must be...

  17. Coping skills for dealing with trauma

    weetziebat replied to VivaRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Regarding dealing with burnout. I'm sorry to say, and believe I am in the minority, but once I get burned out, nothing will help it but changing jobs. I've tried all kinds of advice but I just never...

  18. Going Saudi first

    weetziebat replied to Barbie38's topic in Immigration Advice

    Barbie, I worked in Saudi for eight years. Most of that in Riyadh. I absolutely loved it. The last time I was there was in Sept. '05 Taif is a lovely city - much cooler than say Jeddah. True, the...

  19. Coping skills for dealing with trauma

    weetziebat replied to VivaRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I am always so impressed that there are nurses who can work in burn nursing. That is one area (the other would be PICU) that I simply could not handle. With all that you see and do every day at work...

  20. Is it always better to die at home?

    weetziebat replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have to agree that I don't think it is always better to die at home. A lot depends on the family situation and their ability to accept and participate in giving good care. In a home with lots of...

  21. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

    weetziebat replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    R.N. not first born, but my sister was almost 13 when I was born. Wonderful, non-alcoholic father, died when I was 11. Non-alcoholic, but seriously crazy

  22. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thanks guys. Would you believe there are some nurses I work with who type with two fingers? It made me feel better to see that. We don't list all the comorbidities, generally just the diagnosis that...

  23. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Wa! I'm so proud of myself managing to get both your quotes together. Almost as satisfying as managing to get my avatar to animate. Yeah, I was told not to worry about more than a smattering of...

  24. Managing my time :-(

    weetziebat replied to weetziebat's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, lets say they have lung cancer. But they are also diabetic and have 3+ pitting edema to the knees. Do I just keep it to the lung cancer, which is why they're on hospice and just basically ignore...

  25. Career path for hospice nurse?

    weetziebat replied to wonderbee's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I've been in hospice nursing now for less than six months, but I love it. In 35 years of nursing there have been very few areas that I could say that about. My family feel sorry for me, working in...