ZZTopRN

ZZTopRN BSN, RN

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  1. If your license is disciplined

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    and you did not know about it and you ask the BON what address the charges against you were sent and they provide an unofficial document that has your signature on it, probably copied, and you were on...

  2. Isn't this a joke?

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Monday I was admitted to surgical outpatient for cautery of bleeders in my stomach. In today's mail there was what looked like an engraved invitation from the hospital. When I opened it up, it had...

  3. CA RN NCLEX result?

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in California Nursing

    If it takes 30 days to get the results of your NCLEX by mail, how soon can you get online? Thanks

  4. NLRB decision could strip rights of RN to be in unions!

    ZZTopRN replied to GypsyOrchid's topic in General Nursing

    Hey guys: Get on this. If you want union representation, which I needed today, and it was very discreetly, and I rightly had my rights returned to me. I know everyone does not agree with joining...

  5. I am older, and would rather not say BUT...

    ZZTopRN replied to ZZTopRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good new!! Met with HR, my union rep and DON. Got what I wanted. Will get the teaching on the things I didn't get, and new preceptorship. I think some of the offenders will be talked to since the...

  6. I am older, and would rather not say BUT...

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    it can happen as it did to me when I couldn't get my clinical instructor to pass me on my clinicals. (98& in classroom). She was an aged woman, hard on the eyes saying "you can't keep up with...

  7. Hearing Loss: Can more be done...

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi: Read your post and sorry say that I can't anything to your question. However, I am hoping other people see this post and can share any information they may have. I have had gradual hearing...

  8. I am older, and would rather not say BUT...

    ZZTopRN replied to ZZTopRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for your encouragement and replies. I couldn't figure out what to say about why I left. But saying it wasn't a good fit sounds good. Thank you for that insight. This is a Tenet...

  9. All nurses into supervisors ?

    ZZTopRN replied to mark hamel's topic in California Nursing

    I plan to attend one of the rallies. But what rights do I have as a per diem at will employee? Even though I belong to the

  10. Conscious sedation and consent

    ZZTopRN replied to kpagett's topic in Gastroenterology

    I have been treated for "watermelon stomach" for over a year with periodic cauterizations of my stomach until the bleeding was under control. Hg went from 6 to 14.1. However, 3 months after the...

  11. Anyone working at Tenet Alvarado Hospital in La Mesa?

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    If so, you know about the impending sale of the hospital. I am a per diem employee and find that I am only a "at will worker." And as you know we are unionized. We do have these meetings that try...

  12. How many nurses who are the "new kid on the block and survive mobbying and bullying?

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Either new grads or

  13. How many nurses who are the "new kid on the block and survive mobbying and bullying?

    ZZTopRN replied to ZZTopRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all of you that chose to care and reply to my post.I feel so much better. I am per diem so I am going to only chose to work 2 days this week and take care of myself. They did get me in a...

  14. How do you deal with lazy nurses??

    ZZTopRN replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What is panadol? Does it help you deal with trying to attend to your patients, doctors, administration and the CNAs telling you to do their work and then report you? This teamwork stinks. It is...

  15. How many nurses who are the "new kid on the block and survive mobbying and bullying?

    ZZTopRN replied to ZZTopRN's topic in General Nursing

    Dear Snowfreeze: Thanks for your reply. It is happening to me after two months for reasons unk nown to me. I am not a young chickadee but I just don't get it. I don't understand hostility,...

  16. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I work part-time in a residential pysch facility. I love my residents, especially the one that told me "I had a good mind, but the Lord took it away." Bless her heart. She is the sweetest patient....

  17. Nurses dating Doctors??

    ZZTopRN replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    So the complaint is inappropriate behavior between nurses and doctors on the job? I haven't seen any of this, and I agree it should not be allowed, but what is wrong with dating outside the hospital...

  18. Cymbalta

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone taking Cymbalta? I took Lexapro for about a month and really liked it but doc took me off it because I couldn't sleep all night for one night and then one day I was tachycardic. I wanted to...

  19. suspended license

    ZZTopRN replied to jmb62's topic in General Nursing

    Update from ZZTOP RN: After all the hassle with the BON that suspended my license I found out that I could appeal to the state I was now living in. It took 3 months of documents to my home state and...

  20. Bad reaction to TB test

    ZZTopRN replied to LearningRN's topic in General Nursing

    I had BCG vaccine as a teen. My father was positive for TB. As an adult, I had a very large induration. In the 80's I had another skin test. Mind you, I was working as an RN in a large hospital....

  21. Background/Credit Check, Bankruptcy

    ZZTopRN replied to markjrn's topic in General Nursing

    UNDECIDED7: I was just hired by a corporate hospital and was surprised that my employers references were not called. However, I had to give them pay stubs of my previous employment. Also, I was...

  22. Personal question: had anyone here had.....

    ZZTopRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hi TazziRN: Just had to reply to your post. I had a breast reduction. I am 5'2 and wore a 32D bra. I always had trouble getting clothes to fit. Large top, smaller bottom. Was wonderful to wear a...

  23. OBOY!....did I date myself today!!!!!

    ZZTopRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    P_RN I love it! Ziplock bag and a telephone receiver. That is too funny, but it works,

  24. I DID notify my doctor but

    ZZTopRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I could only reach the nurse. I went for an endoscopy on Monday and an IV was started in my hand. It was very painful and a large hematoma came up. Ice was put on it and I did this the rest of the...

  25. Hearing Impaired Nurses

    ZZTopRN replied to ark-two's topic in General Nursing

    I also am hearing impaired in my right ear. I did purchase an electronic stethoscope which works wonderfully. It is a Siemens digital, base price, fit in the ear but I find it very frustrating...