dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Life Lessons

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to TXRNC's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Congrats!!!

  2. How do you handle narcissist patients?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to mikala3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You can only see the diet order after you answer a bunch of questions? Wut??? That is irritating me just thinking about

  3. Happy July, Fellow Nurses

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    That July being the most dangerous month to be hospitalized thing is a

  4. Facing a reprimand before I can take NCLEX

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dsevier's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Fight it! That reprimand will follow you FOREVER. It is going to keep you from getting jobs. It may keep you from getting licensed in other states should you decide to move. It may keep you from...

  5. Getting alternative AA meetings approved by your program?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    That's rough. :/ One of the things I try to find gratitude in with the monitoring program (aside from the fact that it has kept me sober) is that I know I have a problem and need to be in it. The...

  6. RN from home

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Geig's topic in General Nursing

    Cigna and Aetna often have case management positions from

  7. So you want ME to quit?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to MyPrnPleaseBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I try to tailor smoking cessation to a patient's medical history. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your lungs and will probably give you lung cancer or COPD. They don't always know that smoking...

  8. Sex, Porn & Roto-Prone Beds.....

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    Meh. Adds some life to the forum. I quit coming around AN for years because things were either redundant or dead. (Or, frankly, too heavily censored to be interesting or meaningful but that seems to...

  9. RN in Recovery-Work in Addiction Field

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to FHL18's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I admit that this something that I strongly intellectually agree with. But as a patient, probably my strongest and best memory of my rehab-psych unit-rehab revolving door episode last year was one...

  10. What is your strange bed story?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to ECMO's topic in General Nursing

    From going through the OP's post history...maybe he was a severe electrical burn victim and is trying to piece things together. It would explain the obsession with specialty beds (I swear our big...

  11. Getting alternative AA meetings approved by your program?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    CR is allowed in my program. Are there many actual addicts at the one you attend? This girl in my monitoring meeting loves them but says that 98% of the attendees identify with overeating or...

  12. Can I be an RN in NYC and take antidepressants?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Helpxme's topic in General Nursing

    NY does not ask about mental health history on its licensing application like some states do. Unless you have charges from being involuntarily hospitalized, you do not have to disclose anything to...

  13. Loco-Parentis

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I think the OP could write a book. Sell it to MTV to make a miniseries out of. It could be styled after The OC. I smoked pot as a teenager, lived on adolescent psych and eating disorder units as a...

  14. Getting alternative AA meetings approved by your program?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yikes! You got stipulations altered? Did you use a lawyer? The thought alone is making me nervous. I am alternating between "well, all they can say is no" and fearing that I am going to be labeled as...

  15. Desperate to leave the bedside, possibly even nursing entirely

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to GenericUnicorn's topic in General Nursing

    This question gets asked a lot. At least once a week. You might try doing a search or going through the "nursing career" archives to see the various suggestions. I wouldn't delve into getting a...

  16. Funny Things Patients Say

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Spanglish speaking drunk patient who could not grasp how to use the IS. Suck like a straw. A straw! He finally has this Oprah moment and goes "Oh like a breathalyzer!"

  17. Sex-ed

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    But there's not any follow-up to the question. The OP just assumes the kids aren't giving him an answer because they are coming to some conclusion about the morality of Media and female exploitation...

  18. Sex-ed

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    You can't just present one side of an issue though. That's when you start getting accused of pushing your morals on to other people. Media can be a perfectly safe outlet to explore your sexuality. (I...

  19. Nursing was not my major

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to plastic100%'s topic in Nursing Career

    If you have LTC experience, why not do MDS or some sort of caseworker type job? I have RN friends from school who went straight into LTC and are now MDS nurses or ADONs without ever stepping foot in a...

  20. Sex-ed

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    So when did ya'all ladies start looking at Media, if you did? I was probably 13 or 14. This was the late 90s. Mostly pics with a few verrrrry slowly downloaded files. My husband and I watched Media...

  21. Pot, teenagers, and the psych ward

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Using this line of thought, I assume you are against the legalization of alcohol as

  22. I'm a sexless nurse

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I know there is a meta question in here but I am a practical person. Are you also asking me to do peri care, bed baths, wound care (I have packed a lot of lady partss), enemas, suppositories? Because...

  23. article on the Obese Pt/Dr Nurse relationship

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Well, that was an interesting exercise in the power of

  24. First lab nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Studentnursedgm's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I know you mean well but - the OP is not an addict. Keeping an extraneously enforced "sobriety" is meaningless to someone who is not an addict. (And is kind of insulting to those of us with addiction...

  25. First lab nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Studentnursedgm's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Agree that your situation sucks and is 100% unfair. I wonder who got the kick back from your 3 day IP stay fees? Yuck, yuck, yuck. Will you be graduating with a clean license at the end at