dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Want to be a nurse in Doctor's Office...which degree? ASN or BSN RN?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to mrspolly's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Most of the hospital-based outpatient clinics still hire LPNs around here. The infusion, dialysis, pain, ambulatory surgery, and cancer clinics all tied to my particular hospital all hire RNs but the...

  2. Why does every unit have a princess?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to echoRNC711's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have a guy on our unit that I guess you could call a prince? He's allowed to pick and choose the easiest patients for a shift, even if it means having to reassign all new patients to several...

  3. Patient requests

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

    Hehehe. Your first story mirrored how my nursing school psych group asked questions. But it does happen? I was a frequent flier on several psych units as an adolescent. Just *asking* helps; you often...

  4. Patient requests

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

    Had something similar to this happen on my non-pediatric unit. I actually think social work gave the guy all the info/contacts to get it arranged. (It was his kid!) I'd helped take care of the...

  5. Common Misconceptions About Professional Licensure

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think the "I know it when I see it" rule applies

  6. How did/do you pay for nursing school?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    My father, who is a doctor, paid completely for my schooling. My husband's mother is also a doctor, and she paid completely for his schooling as well. The moral of our story is that going to medical...

  7. Patients on Medicaid

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

    You guys need to start a wiki. Or at least a thread of passed AN

  8. Interns takes credit for my idea!! so unfair sometimess

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

    This is me cussing up a storm: !!!!! Recent spat of new, NEW residents at my large teaching hospital. Pretty sure that they got the lekshur on "respecting the intradisciplinary team" or whatever the...

  9. How to fail clinical

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to cnmbfa's topic in General Students

    A girl in my clinical group got reamed by the assistant dean at a clinical site for having a bit of a white t-shirt that she was wearing under her scrubs showing. She had to go change. We were allowed...

  10. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    +1! I did referrals/social work consults for a free urgent care clinic that operates 3 nights a week; my job was to refer people who did not have a PMH/came to the clinical with a chronic problem to...

  11. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My husband is a Canadian immigrant via spousal visa to me. (He's technically a permanent resident -- has no interest in becoming an American citizen right now.) Navigating the immigration system gave...

  12. Dear God, Help me

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to artsmom's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Try being a psych patient with someone like that on the unit. You get to go home after eight hours. I'm lucky if the screamer isn't my

  13. Dear God, Help me

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to artsmom's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That's just really

  14. Dear God, Help me

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to artsmom's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I work in acute care but we get a lot of confused older patients on my unit. (Dementia + smoking = extremely flammable habit.) I can actually tune out the mindless screaming. But had one the other...

  15. Whats so Hard about Nursing School and the profession?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to whipwreck82's topic in General Students

    Most of the burnt out nurses that I know burned out *because* they completely embraced that selfless, compassionate, empathetic nurse archetype. Which is what I assume you're referring to because I'd...

  16. The perfect private duty setting

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    If you also happened to tell me that I could nap but "turn up the apnea alarm" I'd say that you were the best PDN family that I'd ever had. (Never took them up on it 'tho, and would have felt awful...

  17. The perfect private duty setting

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    Given that you have six other children, I don't know how much of this would be realistic but having done PDN in a wide variety of settings: a clean house, or at least a clean space where I will be...

  18. Any good standardized report sheets?

    dirtyhippiegirl posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    With the unit I'm on now, people tend to take report on a blank sheet of paper -- probably helps that there's been no turnover for the last 39084309843 years so they know what they're doing, lol. With...

  19. New nurse feeling overwhelmed and miserable!

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to RN2012Newbie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I write that I could have written this post, word-for-word, about six months ago. Everything from the overwhelming anxiety, the absolute dread of going into...

  20. Waitressing as a pre-req?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Humble? I made more as a waitress + tips than I do as a nurse. The nursing bennies are def. better

  21. So...you've had a bad day?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Been there,done that's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Eh, and I learned that my mother had died while I was working. That was definitely a bad

  22. Any Nurses Dealing with Eating Disorder Recovery?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Tobygo2's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I mostly get annoyed because my coworkers are both skinnier than me and eat healthier than me, at least these days. /works with a lot of borderline anorexic/EDNOS

  23. Lost my first nursing job... now how do I find another?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to 071911's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Have you gained any more insight into why you were not performing up to standards on the job? If it was patient acuity -- are you actively looking for jobs in lower acuity settings? I wouldn't...

  24. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    You should read the book. It's not like you're acutely aware of not sleeping for months. (There is a slow form of the disease that takes years and that manifests itself in psychosis, mostly.) There's...

  25. I feel so dumb... I got flustered - about a patient in respiratory distress

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to LalaJJB's topic in Emergency

    Eeeeeh. I can see a preference for an EJ over an IO if you need blood work done STAT and/or are expecting to need blood work done STAT and can't art stick for whatever reason. But at the end of the...