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    Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    UM Review RN replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my patients had such a great sense of humor! We were talking about dentists while I was taking vitals, so of course I couldn't resist waiting a couple of seconds after he had the thermometer in...
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    Morale Boosting Ideas????

    UM Review RN replied to Colorado1's topic in General Nursing

    1. Hire more people. 2. Pay more money. Yeah, I know, I know. Ain't happenin'. OK, to get serious. We have a monthly birthday party for staff birthdays and we have our potluck combined with that....
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    Nursing trivia or how nursing used to be...

    UM Review RN replied to smiley222's topic in General Nursing

    I recall being told that to use gloves would seem too "impersonal and offensive" to the patients. Yet we were not allowed to sit on beds, hug patients, offer any personal information--and above all,...
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    Nursing trivia or how nursing used to be...

    UM Review RN replied to smiley222's topic in General Nursing

    Clysis for hydration. Heat lamps for full thickness decubs. Seconal or chloral hydrate for sleep. No aggressive medical treatment and absolutely no surgical treatments for "old" people (over age 65),...
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    How do you handle an MA that's out of line?

    UM Review RN replied to Susyq25's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Same here. There's always one in every workplace. If you can identify her and steer clear in the next job, you're golden. But for this job, it's pretty clear that they want to keep her; otherwise,...
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    Am I stepping on senior nurses toes?

    UM Review RN replied to b eyes's topic in Emergency

    Is it possible that she was upset on the belief that making up the packets constituted "more work" for someone, possibly herself, down the road? What would happen if everyone loved the idea of packets...
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    insubordination

    UM Review RN replied to hhrhrn41's topic in General Nursing

    Dang, I just spit my Coke all over the screen and woke my DH up laughing my socks off. So, short answer to your question.... yeah, that'd qualify. (Even if it was
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    This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

    UM Review RN replied to GregRN's topic in General Nursing

    Glad you got that off your chest, Greg. Now about that typo in the last line of your post.... :lol2: JK, this is why we don't focus on spelling and grammar much here. Everyone makes
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    Is this really slander?

    UM Review RN replied to winredsox's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I figure it this way: 1. It's a blog, not a legal document. I am not on the witness stand and I have taken no oath to tell the truth. I do not have to tell the whole truth or any part of it. I may...
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    Ummmm..are they ALLOWED to do that?

    UM Review RN replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    I guess I'm overtired, but I thought we were talking about putting an AMI patient on a Med-Surg unit? Where that patient might need things like Nitro gtt, Integrilin, things like that, because I was...
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    Ummmm..are they ALLOWED to do that?

    UM Review RN replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    You're right; hospital policy does trump this. And IMHO, it should. No one without the proper training or equipment should be pushing certain meds. I could probably also be floated over to OB or...
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    Pick up Malpractice! They went after my license.

    UM Review RN replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Not having insurance nowadays is just plain scary for nurses. Stuff happens and nurses are at the bottom of the licensure totem pole and often scapegoated because we are such easy targets. We...
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    Banning Crocs?

    UM Review RN replied to styRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    So here's the solution for all you holey-Crocs people: Jibbitz! Here's the link: http://www1.jibbitz.com/ PS Not sure I could work without my Crocs. They really fixed my feet when I was having a...
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    Scripting Nurses?

    UM Review RN replied to Cindylufus's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I don't think of patients or families as "idiots." I assess and classify their behaviors like a pain scale: "nice," "mean," "needy," "annoying," "sue-happy," or "psycho." Psycho patients or...
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    Charting Bloopers

    UM Review RN replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh my, wasn't that the night it was dark
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    Scripting Nurses?

    UM Review RN replied to Cindylufus's topic in General Nursing

    Aw gee, Tom, you were doing so well till I got to that
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    Newborn Kidnapped from TX hospital, be on the lookout!

    UM Review RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=50780 Newborn kidnapped from Texas hospital Lubbock, Texas - Police are on the lookout for a woman they say kidnapped a baby from a...
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    Newborn Kidnapped from TX hospital, be on the lookout!

    UM Review RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Update! The baby was found; here's the link:
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    It happened here, RA killed by patient

    UM Review RN replied to Mama Val's topic in General Nursing

    bingo! i forgot the last two, but i know that is
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    It happened here, RA killed by patient

    UM Review RN replied to Mama Val's topic in General Nursing

    Mentally Retarded/Drug
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    It happened here, RA killed by patient

    UM Review RN replied to Mama Val's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a good reason to leave that job. If your admin doesn't get it now, she never will and you should not be the victim of her mistake. Best of luck to you in finding something
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    Newborn Kidnapped from TX hospital, be on the lookout!

    UM Review RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital has to buzz you in and out of any pede unit, and the OB nurses are extremely territorial about who comes and goes on the unit. We have Code Pink drills about once a month, and the entire...
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    I'm About To Walk!

    UM Review RN replied to lorster's topic in Travel

    Lorster, I appreciate your posts on this issue because I always wondered what Agency nurses did when they were asked to take impossible assignments in horrible conditions. I like the way you handled...
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    Ummmm..are they ALLOWED to do that?

    UM Review RN replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

    Only reason I can think that this might be necessary is that typical MS units do not have telemetry equipment or nurses able to read EKGs or push cardiac meds. Our unit once had to have an ICU nurse...
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    My poor co-worker!

    UM Review RN replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

    See, I just get myself in trouble because I'll say, "You want to send me where without any orientation? ICU? CCU? OB? I'm not an ICU/CCU /OB nurse, I haven't the skills or the training. I'll float...