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xtxrn ASN, RN

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  1. MD not present for code??

    xtxrn replied to shhhh's topic in General Nursing

    I would have documented the conversation in the chart- just the facts- and covered my own butt just by being in the same city with this jerky doc. I've documented when docs haven't returned my...

  2. wonder how rumors work in a nursing facility

    xtxrn replied to brotherbear's topic in General Nursing

    There are also those people who just love to dream things up and have no clue (or concern) about how it can be hurtful to someone. And, if nothing else, if they have so much time to gossip, maybe...

  3. Trying to Hang In There

    xtxrn replied to jesuslovesme's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Please speak for yourself.... many of us started in LTC and moved on to acute care and other specialties with NO problems just because of starting in LTC. NurseryRN14.... you sound like you'd might...

  4. OK- need some help with ancient nursing history

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    I had taken a friends' newborn boy to my doc for a circumcision (Medicaid doesn't cover tip trims:D). She really wanted it done, but she couldn't watch, so was in the waiting room. I was waiting for...

  5. MORAL DILEMA

    xtxrn replied to TonyaM73's topic in General Nursing

    This nurse has no right to through her beliefs into the care of the patient who is able to act on his own rights. I'd probably get something to help end stage breathing (MS, scopolamine).... but if...

  6. Why the disdain for LTC?

    xtxrn replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    It makes perfect sense why you'd be done with LTC.

  7. The comfort of thinking you're going bonkers

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    Yep

  8. The comfort of thinking you're going bonkers

    xtxrn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I used to run into this a LOT with alcohol/drug rehab. After many of them had been there for a few days, and they were either coming out of the worst of it, or just getting to the peak of detox,...

  9. ZZZZ's - Time to be honest!

    xtxrn replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Nope.... been very tired, but stayed awake. Back in 1985, I did work with an RN (I was a GN and in charge because I didn't need the Chinese-American dictionary every where I went- she was a total...

  10. Shhhh! ---It's all a crock!

    xtxrn replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    IME, it's not the monitor noise, or necessary procedures and care- it's the doors banging (no need for that), LOUD talking & laughing in the halls, etc..... the necessary care has to get done- of...

  11. Shhhh! ---It's all a crock!

    xtxrn replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses work for Press Ganey- someone else just signs your paycheck, and that stinks. Nurses (and others in healthcare) are concierge workers now- and not why most of us went into nursing. The whole...

  12. Jail Nurse needs info

    xtxrn replied to christinacub's topic in Correctional

    Criminals have the same diseases as law abiding citizens... just about anything can come up- a friend of mine who worked in a max security prison said the biggest thing was figuring out the...

  13. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

    xtxrn replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oy vey... isn't the gene pool amazing at times Hard to believe some people can navigate toilet paper at times

  14. Why the disdain for LTC?

    xtxrn replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, of course critical thinking is important....:) But in an LTC, you have to have critical thinking as well. Acute care doesn't own the market on critical thinking..... different situations- of...

  15. "Potty Talk"

    xtxrn replied to RosesrReder's topic in General Nursing

    Eeeewwwww...... that sounds more like a visual laxative :) Don't care what he looked like- the ego sounds a bit tough on

  16. The comfort of thinking you're going bonkers

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    That's the pits- Did they think you were going to figure out US stuff by

  17. Why the disdain for LTC?

    xtxrn replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    You did not get the experience I did- please do not speak for the generic 'anyone' :) Some places are ECFs- that makes a difference. SNFs are where the acute patients end up when they can't stay in...

  18. Why the disdain for LTC?

    xtxrn replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    SLOWER PACE ????? :) My first job as a GN was taking care of 30 medicare residents on 3-11 (meds, help with dinner, treatments, meds, trachs, etc)...At 11pm, I picked up another 30 patients (I...

  19. "Potty Talk"

    xtxrn replied to RosesrReder's topic in General Nursing

    Add TX and IL to the mandatory excrement

  20. Why the disdain for LTC?

    xtxrn replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    SO it was about you- not the LTC residents...? Did you find you learned anything in LTC that acute care nurses don't get exposed to? I've also worked both... and found myself going back to LTC when I...

  21. Why the disdain for LTC?

    xtxrn replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    LTAC isn't the same as LTC... the LTAC patients have more acute type problems, but they're going to be that way for a while, are relatively stable, and the acute care hospital isn't really needed-...

  22. OK- need some help with ancient nursing history

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    :barf01: Yeah- the universal precautions and onset of never doing anything "wet" (or gross) without gloves was during the time I was going to school and the first couple of years out.... it was...

  23. OK- need some help with ancient nursing history

    xtxrn replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    Yep- used computerized charting, order entry. I didn't like it for some things, but did like it for order entry so nobody could tell me it wasn't in the system- HA- got them on that one !! I used...

  24. "Potty Talk"

    xtxrn replied to RosesrReder's topic in General Nursing

    Nope....I worked at many places where notes were in the BR... mostly because nobody listened anywhere else, and wouldn't bother to take it upon themselves to do what they're supposed to do........

  25. wonder how rumors work in a nursing facility

    xtxrn replied to brotherbear's topic in General Nursing

    Rumors generally come from bored, insecure, unethical people (nurse or not). The best way to control them is don't pay any attention. There's always some sort of payoff for the one who keeps yakking...