dirtyhippiegirl

dirtyhippiegirl BSN, RN

PDN; Burn; Phone triage

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  1. Should patients be allowed to refuse LPNs and CNAs?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to flashpoint's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    People the poster is apparently obsessed with people not putting tubes in her private bits. No foleys,

  2. Gifts for preceptor

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to sfbates's topic in General Nursing

    Does your preceptor have any obvious friends on the unit? You can always ask them what the preceptor might like. (This is what I did.) If they bring in coffee a lot, you might get a small giftcard to...

  3. Average pay for a new RN in KCMO????

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to FORTHELOVEOF!!!!'s topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, re-reading, I think I might have mis-typed what I really meant to say. It's not necessarily the experience per se but the ability to navigate the system. People with former military or...

  4. Visitor policies

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to FoolsErrand's topic in General Nursing

    Our unit got rid of those very comfortable sleeping chairs (unless we have a pediatric burn -- then they magically materialize) and replaced them with simple, straight-back chairs for visitors. This...

  5. Average pay for a new RN in KCMO????

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to FORTHELOVEOF!!!!'s topic in General Nursing

    KU starts at 21.50/hr but night shift diff is the highest in the area, I believe, at an extra 6.50/hr. The VA is pretty hard to get into unless you have some sort of military

  6. Are there doctors on duty in the ER?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    I haven't worked in the ER for years but was chatting the other day with some old friends, etc. They updated the ER about six years ago to a huge, football field sized area with individual rooms....

  7. "Alive Inside" Documentary

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing

    Just out of curiosity, does anyone else have Dr. Sacks in their death

  8. So Sad, Too Bad

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to ClearBlueOctoberSky's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not offended. Just making a non-funny joke based off a common colloquial joke-ism that you

  9. So Sad, Too Bad

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to ClearBlueOctoberSky's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like I should be changing my screen name to dirtyhipstergirl. edit - also, *ahem* I am not the forum bicycle, thank you very

  10. So Sad, Too Bad

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to ClearBlueOctoberSky's topic in General Nursing

    Meh. The nastiness towards one poster in particular was getting...really nasty. And this is coming from someone who was TOS'd after drunkenly ranting (with profanity) at said poster for his political...

  11. The Mockery of Nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Dear SnowPrincess: you suck at trolling. /experienced trolls eat their young, too //and then make neon colored poop studded with little jewels ///or something. Just finished a 17 hour

  12. "Sir or Ma'am" when addressing physicians?

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a large teaching hospital, nights to boot, and it seems like most of my interactions with doctors begin with "hi, I'm the resident covering XYZ service" so they become The Urology Resident...

  13. The Mockery of Nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In my area of the country, to smurf usually requires making meth in some form or

  14. Stupid things doctors do?!

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

    Yes, it was with a GYN patient who was getting a

  15. Burned out from floor nursing, need advice, please..

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to frazzled2012's topic in General Nursing

    Wait...so you got into nursing so that you could convert people to your particular brand of Christianity and now you're upset that you can't do that because you're too

  16. Stupid things doctors do?!

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

    To be fair, I was asked as a nursing student in the OR by a doc if I also wanted to do a pelvic on a patient that had just been put under before they started. And I declined. If anyone had asked, I...

  17. Everyone wants to be a nurse

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    I hate how nursing is automatically supposed to be an emotionally rewarding career. While medicine is supposed to be an intellectually and financially rewarding career. Because, ya'all, what a...

  18. Starting to become hopeless with this resume, please help?

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

    Well, they aren't anymore. Just out of curiosity - are you American or European? It seems like Europeans use "CV" while Americans use "resume." I do believe that the European CV is actually quite a...

  19. There Are Easy Nursing Jobs......

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hyperbarics is a pretty sweet deal from what my colleagues tell

  20. The Mockery of Nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ^Hon, I thought I told you to lay off the weed...a couple weeks

  21. The Mockery of Nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My dad's done rotating shifts as an ER doc for about 20 years. I definitely couldn't do that. So props. But my dad was giving me **** the other night because the docs are salaried, so have to stay...

  22. The Mockery of Nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, that's pinpricks in the condom. But don't marry a med student. Or a resident. /my mom, she went through two

  23. The Mockery of Nursing

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Old.Timer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Dammit, if I can work three nights in a row and then show up for initial PALS certification during the day for the next two days -- AND keep up for AN posts, so should you. The soft Media thread was...

  24. Im here to complain. you can too:)

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to Pneumothorax's topic in General Students

    Amen! And I was one of those nursing students who actually burnt her awful scrubs after grad. And promptly sold all my textbooks for twice as much on half.com as I would at the

  25. The 'look' that people give you...

    dirtyhippiegirl replied to theatredork's topic in Burn

    lol, you could possible be going to my unit then. Mixed bed unit at a large teaching hospital in the