Munch

Munch

Med-Surg/Neuro/Oncology floor nursing.

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  1. Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    Munch replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    ?? "Can you please sign this write up please? You dumped one in the wrong toilet, we've been keeping watch and timing how long each person was in the bathroom." They would have to keep watch at all...

  2. We fail our old people and it's heartbreaking

    Munch replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking the same thing. But a lot of times people just don't have the funds to pay for it and insurance depending on the plan at times only wants to pay the absolute minimum. I actually just...

  3. Getting yelled at by a doctor for the first time....

    Munch replied to NewbieNurse93's topic in General Nursing

    I dont know if I was verbally attacked by a colleague I'm not going to stand around and try to understand that persons anger. I frankly don't care if they are simply a jerk, having a bad day or...

  4. Getting yelled at by a doctor for the first time....

    Munch replied to NewbieNurse93's topic in General Nursing

    THIS. Just because someone can't communicate in a civil and socially acceptable way doesn't mean I am going to stand there and take it. You put up with someones defective social skills one time and...

  5. Need input urgently

    Munch replied to ZayraP's topic in General Nursing

    Everything that was said is great advice. Just wanted to add that a lot of attorneys have free consultations. Trying to talk your way out of it and giving a statement can be used against you. If...

  6. Holidays

    Munch replied to Nursenursingrn's topic in General Nursing

    At my job if a holiday happens to fall on your regularly scheduled working day than you are working that holiday. Lucky for me my friend is Jewish and I work Jewish holidays for her and she works...

  7. Job satisfaction among different departments

    Munch replied to patient_advocate_sb's topic in General Nursing

    As I have said many times on here before my first job which was a med/surg floor job in a very small community hospital was very unsatisfying. I was a new grad and knew I wanted to work in a...

  8. My Body Is Not My Resume: Exploring Nursing Dress Codes

    Munch replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    I get a lot of compliments on my tattoos especially the one on my forearm. Its a heart that says dad in the middle(think the old school mom in heart tattoo bikers had) with a purple ribbon for...

  9. Mistakes, overwhelmed, new grad

    Munch replied to Welshy101's topic in General Nursing

    15 patients in an acute care hospital is tough(you said hospital and working with heart patients usually so I assume you are working acute care). If I could give one piece of advice to a new grad it...

  10. Comes to ER, told to follow up, doesn't, comes back, gets angry

    Munch replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Due to an array of health issues I've suffered over the years(both acute and chronic) I've been to the ED many times. From the patient point of view when you are told to follow up with your GI or...

  11. Fox News calls CNA a nurse

    Munch replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing News

    NY post has their headline as; Nurses death in bungee jumping accident remains a mystery. Like someone else said its possible the woman's family referred to her as a nurse. Regardless of what she is...

  12. Birds of a feather

    Munch replied to AutumnApple's topic in General Nursing

    I understand what the OP is asking. Which came first the chicken or the egg? Does psych nursing cause nurses to become the psych patient OR do psych patients choose to go into psych nursing? I think...

  13. Ambien on second shift

    Munch replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I used to do when I worked the night shift. I work days now so unless I'm covering for someone sleeping pills are moot on my shift. But how I used to do it, If a patient requests a...

  14. Is a level of behavioral health nursing missing?

    Munch replied to Tommyd2's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. Showing a mentally ill person jail is a consequence for their actions it might not click. A mentally healthy person understands what consequences await if they get violent with someone else,...

  15. Is a level of behavioral health nursing missing?

    Munch replied to Tommyd2's topic in General Nursing

    Where I live in NY state and in other states they have mental health courts. Its a problem solving court with the end game of treatment and not incarceration for mentally ill people that commit...

  16. Parent to Nurse advice

    Munch replied to Northsky's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As long as you didn't do anything overtly outrageous(and it sounds like you didn't) you should be fine. Having to agree to disagree happens all the time not only in life but in medicine too. As long...

  17. How many patients do you have on each shift?

    Munch replied to LStgo's topic in General Nursing

    My floor is Neuro/med-surg day shift 7-730pm and my ratio is usually 1:4 or

  18. Is a level of behavioral health nursing missing?

    Munch replied to Tommyd2's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand what you really mean by scared straight kind of psych facility? You can't scare mental illness out of someone. What would be the difference between a regular psych facility and a...

  19. Accidental Pill Pusher

    Munch replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    Just because APAP and IBU work for your chronic pain doesn't mean that it works for everyone. I am absolutely terrified we are going to be going back to the days where bite the bullet was the norm....

  20. Driving While Elderly

    Munch replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    My grandma was the same when she was alive and driving. That's why I said I don't paint every senior with the same brush. If a senior can keep up with the speed limit and knows the difference between...

  21. Is hospital nursing an unbearably dirty job?

    Munch replied to lisaniles's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man I have a foot phobia. I think feet are disgusting. I'm always plundering the hospital sock inventory to give to

  22. Driving While Elderly

    Munch replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with you. Not every senior should be painted with the same brush. That being said they definitely need to put some policies in place so that the seniors who do drive can do so safely. They need to...

  23. Dealing with an oppressive doctor at work.

    Munch replied to tserofw's topic in General Nursing

    I cant believe he was letting a poor patiently suffer like that. 80mgs of oxycodone is a lot an not just for an occasional headache. Unless by some miracle the condition he was taking it for went away...

  24. RN with medical marijuana card

    Munch replied to youenjoymyself's topic in General Nursing

    Each state law is obviously different so I dont know the specific law in PA but I don't see why they would revoke your license. You say you have the card from your doctor so I assume medical marijuana...

  25. Nurse looked at my Facebook-HIPAA violation ?

    Munch replied to PlainB's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Definitely not. Facebook is public information. As others said though it does suggest a lack of boundaries and makes him seem just plain