o3lissao

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1. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   o3lissao replied to DesertRN2's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I refused the flu shot and I intend to keep doing so, my parents never vaccinated my brother or me and we rarely get sick (knock on wood). Maybe we have just been lucky. I haven't gotten the flu or...

2. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   McLennan THANK YOU. I promise I am not a bad person, I am not an ageist, I don't go to work with the intentions of being negative and ruining someone's day. I'm a real person with real limits working...

3. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   It's not the appearance of the advanced age, it's the tons of blue eyeshadow or the area where one tries to fill in their eyebrows but misses the area where the brows are and ends up drawing lines on...

4. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   NO ONE GOES OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE HER CRY. No one sleeps better at night thinking they could have ruined her day. The point was that we have tried helping her but at our wits end dealing with her....

5. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thanks for weighing in nurseladybug. To bring up another subject someone bashed me for related to this post, the more I think about it, it grates on me too that people acted like I shouldn't have...

6. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thanks for your input Decembergrad. I try to be professional in the work place to the best of my skills. I went to nursing school like everyone else, I can step back and look at a situation...

7. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   So, you think it's a legit practice to take a COPD patient out to smoke? Or cardiac patients when smoking is a major contributing factor for their heart disease in the first place? You're right,...

8. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Ok people, I agree I posted this when I was annoyed in the heat of the moment and came off a little more harsh than I meant too. But let me clarify some things. First, the smoking thing. Our campus...

9. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   You can believe what you want but it's all the truth. And idk anything about age baiting, it's just the jokes we make at the hospital where I work and mean til add an anecdotal aspect to the story as...

10. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

    o3lissao posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work on a busy telemetry unit. We have an RN on night shift that is in her 70s and while she is the nicest, sweet old lady, with a great sense of humor, when it comes to nursing, ITS TIME TO RETIRE...

11. Ever have a patient complain about you?

    o3lissao replied to love lilacs's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I feel like most complaints arise out of one single solitary thing that happens or a simple misunderstanding, the patient (or usually the family member) puts a target on your back and a chip on their...

12. What is your Achilles heel?

    o3lissao replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    Poop, puke, sputum, I can handle all that. Ive never had to deal with the eye stuff but I think I would be ok. What really revolts me to the point I hold my breathe and leave the room is skin flakes....

13. Burned out and hate nursing

    o3lissao replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I feel the same way. I keep trying to figure out if its the facility where I work, if its night shift or if its bedside nursing or nursing in general that I hate. There are so many things about this...