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  1. When adults whine....

    nightengalegoddess replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    Demylynated, I DO understand your points. It is amazing how far a little therapeutic listening or even communication can go with a whining patient. MOST of them DO need an ear to bend for a while. I...

  2. Nurses eat their Young

    nightengalegoddess replied to NYLiz's topic in General Nursing

    People in general will eat the weak. All the more when the population in primarily female. It's the female part of our nursing equation that makes it all so

  3. Do you find this article insulting?

    nightengalegoddess replied to cacentralvalley's topic in General Nursing

    I had always thought hospitals were obliged to offer the SNF arrangement for the patient with innability (aka unsafe) to perform ADLs on their own in their own home. I assumed that the reason we have...

  4. Reflections needed on adrenalin junkie nurses

    nightengalegoddess posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay. Code Blue out of nowhere. No s and s, no change in vitals. Night shift. Compressions. Then crap-loads of people, (all getting 'high' off the adrenalin). Then, try to give the leading doc the...

  5. Reflections needed on adrenalin junkie nurses

    nightengalegoddess replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone! Great reflections. And yes; I do plan to speak with the RN at some point sooner than later but I was truly too appalled to do it at the time. Too much of my own anger would've been...

  6. Reflections needed on adrenalin junkie nurses

    nightengalegoddess replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in General Nursing

    Med surg tele. I didn't need a rest. But that is ok. I did need room to tell the doc all the fundamentals. Yes, the RN is new, and he has been known to have 'newnurseitis'. Maybe it all comes down to...

  7. "You are an angel!"

    nightengalegoddess replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    Awsome Brandy! If we actually gave them the play by play during our walking rounds...they might grow to understand what it is we do. Oprah needs to do a show on what RNs REALLY do for their patients....

  8. I'm worried about my job

    nightengalegoddess replied to gammie6's topic in General Nursing

    Little Darling, (not being patronizing, I'm a little darlin too).....there is always agency, PRN, and YOU.......YOU will blow the interviewers away. Just know, YOU CAN MAKE IT EVEN IF THEY FIRE...

  9. Narcotic diversion, but not to self

    nightengalegoddess replied to LowPaidNurse21's topic in General Nursing

    PS Only probably 10% of nurses are lousy. Just want to make that clear. Not slashing my

  10. Narcotic diversion, but not to self

    nightengalegoddess replied to LowPaidNurse21's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I suggest your LPN friend go and take her NCLEX and work somewhere where she does not have to make these awful priority ethical decisions on her own. She may always be able to represent herself...

  11. I'm worried about my job

    nightengalegoddess replied to gammie6's topic in General Nursing

    Is she a charge nurse? Being late as charge is very irresponsible. I had one like that. But the manager and she were thick as thieves. I have no problem saying it that way either. At least it sounds...

  12. Happier at work than at home?

    nightengalegoddess replied to Gratefulprn's topic in General Nursing

    How bout asking a couple of people from work whom you REALLY trust and like out to your land for a weekend "retreat" for them (and you?). You could hike, herb-walk, pick flowers and make dried...

  13. Narcotic diversion, but not to self

    nightengalegoddess replied to LowPaidNurse21's topic in General Nursing

    Don't get too involved with "friend's" business. This may not have been her "first" time with questionable narcotic borrowing. OR, the DON just doesn't like her. Another yucky fact of nursing. Just...

  14. Happier at work than at home?

    nightengalegoddess replied to Gratefulprn's topic in General Nursing

    Men have for eons been able to "forget" their real life while at work. It IS an opportunity not to have to deal with your own life....(IT being work). Personally, I have lived like you without...

  15. Family Members

    nightengalegoddess replied to CBsMommy's topic in General Nursing

    YES! On our documentation now, for at least three years in the hospitals where I have worked; there is a mandate that family education be given re: fall precautions and activated fall risk bundles....

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nightengalegoddess replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Catholic hospitals.........shadows of "penguins"...everywhere....especially all at one time....many have noticed......and then........they set off all the IV pumps to beeping.........just to make sure...

  17. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nightengalegoddess replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    oh, the little black girl with the ribbon would've grown up to be a

  18. Uncomfortable with Batrim order transcription.

    nightengalegoddess replied to AraJZgam's topic in General Nursing

    I think you need to work in a real hospital. We need more of

  19. Can you work more days?

    nightengalegoddess replied to Purple93's topic in General Nursing

    You can get as much work in nursing as your body and mind can take. You can work your 3 12's and also sign on with an agency and work extra. Most hospitals will be glad if you have told them you would...

  20. You really think nurses make alot of money? Let me give you something to think about

    nightengalegoddess replied to diosa78's topic in General Nursing

    PS. If forgot to say that I am very happy with the opportunity for soul growth that nursing provides as well as the opportunity for a good income. As many have said here, I find also the culture of...

  21. You really think nurses make alot of money? Let me give you something to think about

    nightengalegoddess replied to diosa78's topic in General Nursing

    I have been told that the price for the customer per daily admission includes the nursing cost. If the hospital is not magnet, they can understaff and pocket the extra nursing charges for those...

  22. The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    nightengalegoddess replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    You're charge today and we are all doing primary care 5 to 1, including you.....sorry so many call offs. But you are an amazing nurse....I know you can really shine

  23. Potassium question...

    nightengalegoddess replied to Soflo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    The doc was high on potassium and possibly testosterone. He may need to see his PCP right away. It is so fun getting to know the personalities of docs and wielding to their entitled needs. :...

  24. Dream job if you weren't an RN

    nightengalegoddess replied to EDnursetobe's topic in General Nursing

    Geisha for the most intelligent and powerful men in the world.....spiritual consultant to the wealthy......painter of canvas.......palm reader.......surfer on all the greatest beaches of the...

  25. A/O patients throwing things

    nightengalegoddess replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    I LOVE that RESPECT STREET is a TWO WAY STREET! (genius)..... will remember that one with the entiled feeling drug seeking "chest painer" heroine addicts who run out of money or whoes connection goes...