dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. What is the nurse-patient ratio where you work?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to kaliRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I work nights on mixed acuity burn unit. We have a wound care tech/PCA about half of the time for a 17 bed unit. No unit secretary and we do all of our own admissions. Max is 1:4 medsurg/tele...

  2. Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    This makes absolutely no sense. Many countries have legalized same-sex marriage. This doesn't stop promoting marriage as the be and end all cure of society's woes. (??) It merely segregates Christian...

  3. Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Eep. I'm sorry for offending. :/ I didn't really mean to conflate Republicans with Libertarians because they obviously aren't the same. However, many *fiscal* Republicans that I know strongly identify...

  4. These two idiots need to have their nursing licenses revoked

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to guest416560's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa. $1300/day for in-home nursing care?? I'm in the wrooooong kind of

  5. Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with this post 100%. As a liberal and Democrat myself, I think it's incredibly unwise to paint the Republican party as a single homogeneous group. The splintering of the Republican party in the...

  6. Taking things personally

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Tobygo2's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It gets better as you become more confident with your nursing abilities. (From glancing through your previous posts, you're a fairly new RN. Yes?) You're projecting your own insecurities onto other...

  7. Discrimination & Whistle blowing - Would you hire this nurse again?

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

    You're making unfair assumptions about the characteristics of the unit that you were hired on to. My personal experience with working nights on my small-ish acute/critical care unit is that everyone...

  8. Discrimination & Whistle blowing - Would you hire this nurse again?

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

    My ICU clinical was in said SDA facility down the street from me. As a long time vegetarian, I thoroughly enjoyed their cafeteria selections, but...I don't know how I could have told a SDA nurse from...

  9. Discrimination & Whistle blowing - Would you hire this nurse again?

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

    Weird! I just googled it and it appears that you're correct. I live in an area with a large SDA population and it was always my understanding from associating with SDA friends etc. that you could work...

  10. Facebook while on the clock?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to maureen924's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Stocking the med room.

  11. Letting off Steam, hope my extinguisher is ready

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, and what I'm trying to say is that I could post just as many links to posts from an immigration forum that I'm a member of r/t foreign RNs who end up in the US and need help figuring our...

  12. Discrimination & Whistle blowing - Would you hire this nurse again?

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

    Muslims do not celebrate a traditional Sabbath day. Their "day of prayer" is on Friday. SDA and some Baptists (?) celebrate a Saturday Sabbath. However, if you are to take what the OP worded as...

  13. Letting off Steam, hope my extinguisher is ready

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    But it's next to impossible for a foreign person to just decide that they want to work in the US -- especially a nurse. You can apply for a H1 visa but must be sponsored by the job that will hire you....

  14. Letting off Steam, hope my extinguisher is ready

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think that you have anything to apologize for. People who live in different countries do fall in love. You're here because you happened to fall in love with a US citizen. That's just how life...

  15. Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Dude, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think Obama is the reason that you don't have a job. Why not apply for disability and get some better medical

  16. Discrimination & Whistle blowing - Would you hire this nurse again?

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

    Are you going to sue everyone who cannot offer you a job because you cannot work what are typically the two toughest shifts to staff? PRN would probably be a better fit. Or a M-F clinic setting. But I...

  17. Confessions Of A Nurse With Poor Interpersonal Skills

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

    Your mistake is in assuming that there are only two categories of nurses: "fake nurses" and those who tell the "blunt truth." At the end of the day, it's a bit o' a little bit

  18. Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I live in a state that always goes red for the president, in a city and county that always goes red for its representatives. I am going to vote, 'tho. In hopes that I can keep the pro-creationist,...

  19. Letting off Steam, hope my extinguisher is ready

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. I mean. It seems like most hospitals are past sponsoring foreign nurses in this economy. Which means that the only way that many of these nurses are here legally is because they have...

  20. Noc Nurse perspective...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to exit96's topic in General Nursing

    I also work in a hospital where shift diff for nights is huge and on a unit where the work load disparity between days and nights is massive. I try not to complain - but I do feel like the impact that...

  21. How would you handle this..?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to crichards00's topic in MICU, SICU

    Burn nurse here, although I don't know if I can really offer any sort of constructive advice. We don't wipe off SSD before going to MRI at my facility, but that's certainly a per-doctor/facility...

  22. New grads Need Not Apply

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to elisiah's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Spoken like a new grad who got one of those coveted hospital jobs? (Or at least a "nurse residency" per your other

  23. What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I actually walked into a wall while flipping through a patient's chart with a fellow

  24. Is my husband being unreasonable?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Nurse ABC's topic in General Nursing

    Eeeh. If watching siblings kept the 18 year-old from getting or working at a regular job, yes, s/he should be

  25. Nursing: Then and Now

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Kind of sad-face that the several other threads in this vein (some dating back 10-plus years) weren't