dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Couldn't believe he did this...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Elizabeth Renee's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not pretending to know anything about geriatric or SNF care. So please don't take my word for anything. But isn't this slippery slope argument prevalent in most of health care these days? You have...

  2. Couldn't believe he did this...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Elizabeth Renee's topic in General Nursing

    My diabetic niece was dosing and injecting herself with insulin by the time she was eight or nine. It's not rocket science. People take PO medications all the time at home. I think at one time I was...

  3. A few questions about bedside manner.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I also understand your pain, OP. I never get anything bad written about me *knock on wood* but also never get recognized. Some of it probably comes from working night shift. (Or so I tell myself!)...

  4. Please listen!!!

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to snowwhite2002's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Personally, I think most people are probably better off waiting until they can work as externs/student nurses. (I think we could half way through the first semester of nursing school?) Most of these...

  5. New Grad Interviewing for Fast Food

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Neurotic Student's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Well, the interview experience can't hurt esp. if the OP has never interviewed for a job

  6. Writing multiple times?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to loriangel14's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone think that they could pass the NCLEX *now*? Couple coworkers with 5-6 years of experience on me and I were going through one of the NA's NCLEX study books and marveling at how we could...

  7. PICU thinking of going to Burn ICU

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to JeenaB.'s topic in Critical Care

    I would caution you that while many burn centers will advertise as being "Burn ICU" -- most are set-up as mixed acuity units in order to provide a continuum of care with PT/OT/speech and dressing...

  8. Need Advice... Nurse stealing non-narcotic medication

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to JSSCELI's topic in General Nursing

    Ahhh...dayshifters...

  9. What Are The Most Creative Call-off Excuses You Have Heard?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I once had to call out to a non-nursing job because my pet rats had mites, which are highly transmissible to

  10. Are we tyrants?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Dear god. Babies! May I never take care of something smaller than my hand.

  11. Bullied for reporting a med error by another nurse

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to StaffNurseMcS's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It's a punitive process, no matter what management

  12. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    Also, one of my last families was a single parent household where the mom was questionably employed. (ie. she was home most of the time with me and the kiddo but would stay in her bedroom for most of...

  13. Craziest PDN/PDN Venting Thread

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Private Duty

    I did time in a hoarder home! It was more clutter than poop-in-a-bag hoarder home. They had wheelchair-sized paths around the house. The family was well-off and it was a large house in a nice...

  14. Ugh, the MUSIC!!!

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    Never ran into a playlist but did run into a lot of noise machines. Which I actually like and use myself to help sleep BUT working nocs and listening to rain/thunder/white noise/womb sounds...makes me...

  15. Alternative nursing positions

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to cjo85's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Private

  16. Checking A Patient's Blood Glucose In His Earlobe?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Dazglue's topic in General Nursing

    We do earlobes on our crispier burns all the time. Great place to put a pulse ox, too! But for critical low values, a serum lab value is actually the gold standard on my unit although that can take as...

  17. Why I'm Leaving the Nursing field and Nursing School

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to sweetcaroline101's topic in General Nursing

    Meh. On one hand -- you left nursing to get into fashion? Good luck with that. On the other hand, you left nursing.

  18. Home health pediatric...demanding parent tips??

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to CrazyCatNurse's topic in Private Duty

    Late in replying but I had one of those cases as well. OMG. There is only so many times I can play with the same five light up toys over eight hours and not want to kill myself. Even the kiddo was...

  19. Perks of the Job???

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to CloudySue's topic in Private Duty

    This probably sounds weird but I think the biggest perk of working PDN for me was the good reviews and positive feedback that I received from the parents. Either through our scheduler ("hey, this...

  20. Possible to take extra class per semester at another school during nursing program?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RnStudent2021's topic in General Students

    You might be able to pull it off but I don't know if you'll be able to devote enough time to a) get very high grades in your med school pre-reqs AND b) pull the grades that you'll need in nursing...

  21. What is your Achilles heel?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a burn ICU. Not much I can't stomach except nasty, snotty, thick, green phlegm that we get from our trachs. There is a particular combo of cdiff and sulfamylon solution that makes me

  22. How critical is your ICU?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to calivianya's topic in MICU, SICU

    Summer is slow for ya'all? Yikes. I work in Burn ICU and we're hopping. I think with the hot weather, people prefer to make their meth indoors -- not a good

  23. Visitors that are drinking in patient rooms......What do I do?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Innocent2021's topic in Critical Care

    I like this approach best. Unless they were so unruly drunk that force would be needed. For what it's worth, when my MIL was dying in the hospital of brain cancer over New Years -- we snuck in a...

  24. Playing with fire...

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

    Aaah. I was referencing an older (possibly infamous)

  25. scolded for reading a book at work

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

    What are you supposed to do during your down