dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Stocking/cleaning -- not as often as you would think. We're a very small unit. I do think that some nurses choose not to stock (which is technically the aid's job) in favor of being lazy, but as an...

  2. Is My Nursing License At Risk?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to TheCommuter's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Reading through the remedial education, deferred postings is cringe-worthy to me. Proof that you can get hauled in front of the BoN for simple mistakes in med administration/nursing judgment, even if...

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

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Personally, I work nights on a unit that can have quite a bit of downtime between 0100-0330ish. Most of my coworkers bring ipads to read with or even watch movies, cellphones etc. Just because many...

  4. What's the craziest thing a patient or family member has said to you?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to monkeybug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    When I worked in the ER, we had a girl come in claiming to be nine months pregnant and in labor. We turf her to l&d who immediately turfs her back, stating that she's not pregnant. She kept...

  5. Be a nurse to go to med school?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to judit4424's topic in Nursing Career

    Technically, many (most?) medical schools do not require a bachelor's degree for admission -- only pre-reqs which usually cover the gen ed section of any BS degree. Obviously a bachelor's degree makes...

  6. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Not a nursing story but -- My mother had passed the day before and we - her kids, plus my father/her ex-husband - were at the funeral home trying to price out plans, get the obit written, etc. It's...

  7. Different Types Of Coworkers

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

    Went to school with a person who I suspect ended up as the second-career type mentioned above. A subset/offshoot of the second career RN that *I* see more of is the new grad RN who is just putting in...

  8. The Role of a Psych Nurse

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to boricualuv4ever's topic in Psychiatric

    Soooo I'm a little bit tipsy, so this may not be terribly on topic, but I will say this --) as a former psych patient multiple times over, both as an adolescent and young adult, I will say that I...

  9. If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Realistically -- I got into DVM school and probably would have gone if nursing hadn't popped into my head. I don't necessarily think that I would have been happier 'tho. Actually, I'm pretty certain...

  10. Craziest thing at work...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    My father is an ER attending and I heard this story from several RNs who've worked with him for 15+ years -- when our family dog was hit by a car, dad used the ER's trauma room to set his leg and...

  11. Best MD note

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to beckster_01's topic in Nursing Humor

    Came across a nurse communication order that read: "Please provide pants for the patient. Thank you very much!" Initial diagnosis of "flaming pumpkin vs. pedestrian" (which was an accurate portrayal...

  12. Overcoming Clumsiness

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to gemini_star's topic in General Nursing

    I'm clumsy but have fast reflexes. So when I trip over a patient's pedal arterial line, I'm quick enough to jump over the tubing before I rip out the

  13. Does Obamacare 2014 allow only BSRN to sit for NCLEX-RN?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Streamline2010's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well, at least 'round mah parts, the only diploma educated nurses working in hospitals are nurses who were initially licensed 20-30+ years ago. I, too, would look towards nurses who have been in...

  14. MAs call themselves Nurses at my office..opinions please?

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

    From some of your previous posts on this forum, it's obvious that you feel superior to non-NP nurses. What makes your DNP any better than a BSN other than your scope of

  15. My unit is desperate for nurses

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

    Yikes! We do have days where the most experienced person aside from the charge nurse is one of the new grads that was hired with me. Everyone else is maybe 2-4 weeks off orientation. A pain when you...

  16. Anybody LIKE working holidays?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    I don't mind working holidays. Pay is great, yeah. I work nights anyway and so management and often family isn't much of an issue to begin with. However, the last couple of times I went in to get...

  17. My unit is desperate for nurses

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

    My unit has had something like 60% turnover in the last twelve months. Counting my cohort, we've hired 12 new grads in the last year -- for a sixteen bed unit. And we have three new positions open...

  18. It's a Myth that it takes thousands of dollars to train a new Grad RN

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

    Just something that I didn't realize until I chatted with my nurse manager that wasn't brought up -- a lot of new grad training (and training in general) comes from departmental budgets. It's not as...

  19. Nursing student here...need encouragement. Not sure I can do this!!

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to rocksteady1's topic in General Students

    Well, what parts of patient interaction don't you like? CNA-type duties like cleaning up poop and bathing patients? Actual patient interaction? Specific types of interaction? (For instance, I hate...

  20. Is your Facility 'forcing' you to get the Flu Vaccine?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to madwife2002's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There is a whole subforum dedicated to this topic. I believe it gets brought up at least a dozen times each flu

  21. Any new grads having major employment problems?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to lsid16's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Of course not, job prospects are great, has said no new grad since

  22. Things dying patients say

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

    Not actively within minutes of dying or anything, but my mom *knew* she was dying. The talk started about 3-4 days before she actually died. No real change in her (chronic) condition or mental status...

  23. are there nurses who ACTUALLY care ?

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

    I would have kept the six figure

  24. If a phlebotomist corrected you on order of draw, what would you do?

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

    I've never been a phlebotomist so maybe there's more to it, but I have worked in a lab that processed blood samples. The only cross-contamination that *we* could read from improper tube sequencing was...

  25. Getting a job - from the employers perspective

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

    You explain that the unemployment period is when you were going to school. (Or, if you're smart enough, you got a part-time job during nursing school. Not that I did that either, so it's all water...