ProgressiveActivist BSN, RN

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    Advice with a difficult pt!!!

    ProgressiveActivist replied to tinytrexarms's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This sounds a lot like serotonin syndrome, an adverse effect of phenothiazines(is he on promethazine?), a severe neuromuscular reaction to an antipsychotic agent or neuroleptic malignant syndrome....
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    Gutless Colleagues

    ProgressiveActivist replied to LPC2RN's topic in Psychiatric

    Those people, who are supposed to have your back, watched you get beat up. You have every right and reason to be angry AF and write this all up as a near miss sentinel event for their failure to act...
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    Gossip Girls... (And boys)

    ProgressiveActivist replied to ambobam's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Healthy boundaries and staying out of the petty drama is your best course of action during your tenure in this bullying
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    Would you call out sick?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to WCSU1987's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Do the right thing and stay home when you are infected with norovirus or the
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    Job abandonment

    ProgressiveActivist replied to Nurse_CrystalRN's topic in Nursing Career

    I couldn't agree more. It's a pleasure to read a concise response from a nurse keeping it
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    I have been out of compassion for years.

    ProgressiveActivist replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    When I get short tempered to the point that I am thinking why are you bothering me instead of how can I help you then I am no good to anyone. I take at least one or two mental health days every two...
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    My facility is going to a new mode of trying to care for hospital level patients.

    ProgressiveActivist replied to mr cooper's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Up to ten acutely ill patients to one nurse, without the necessary supplies or resources is unsafe. Your ace in the hole is to inform the family and let them go to the MD and admin to demand a...
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    Gossip Girls... (And boys)

    ProgressiveActivist replied to ambobam's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If the OP is working in a unit where the culture is for the core staff to openly trash their coworkers, stay out of the drama, bide your time and then transfer to another department with a higher...
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    Gossip Girls... (And boys)

    ProgressiveActivist replied to ambobam's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Insecure low class people spread gossip. They are not worth your time.. Focus on your work. If someone tries to suck you into their devious web, you have to stop them in their tracks. I would...
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    Is a patient out of my care if he is in another department off the floor?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Did the pt have ascites, respiratory difficulty or pain that would make it impossible to lie flat or lie still? Did he vomit or aspirate contrast in the scanner? I suspect that something happened...
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    Is a patient out of my care if he is in another department off the floor?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The patient was off the floor for 55 minutes when the code was called. I wouldnt be surprised if this is a case of a rad tech ignoring a symptomatic patient, and then claiming "I tried to call the...
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    Hospital that bans family members

    ProgressiveActivist replied to paramedic-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I recently had an ICU patient (and frequent flyer) who received exceptional care, and even slept well, as it was a calm and uneventful night. After lab drew his aml he put on his call light and...
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    Is a patient out of my care if he is in another department off the floor?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I once had a non monitored patient who slumped over in interventional radiology in mid sentence while talking to the IR nurse. She had a head bleed. Sometimes no one can foresee or predict a...
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    No First Day Instructions

    ProgressiveActivist replied to ParalyticAgent's topic in Travel

    Your recruiter should have provided instructions for orientation and it's her job to make the
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    My preceptor is everything they taught us NOT to be...

    ProgressiveActivist replied to Live..&..Learn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    She did reply to three posts. It went downhill from there. Some of the responses were, in my opinion, unnecessarily insulting and harsh and did not merit a
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    I've been suspended

    ProgressiveActivist replied to Sheila2155's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "I've been suspended because when a student said to me John's quiet I did not respond to her request for help with a deteriorating patient. I don't understand how I could have other than to carry on...
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    Caribbean travel nursing company for Canadian RN's

    ProgressiveActivist replied to Rimlak's topic in International Nursing

    There is a new hospital in the BVI on Tortolla. Just apply directly to their board of nursing. The BVI license will transfer to the USVI, if you want to work in almost third world
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    Do you stalk anyone here?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I do not want to talk to you
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    Do you stalk anyone here?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I don't want to talk to you
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    Do you stalk anyone here?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't speaking to you, and I would appreciate it if you would stop speaking to
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    Do you stalk anyone here?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    T I am also not a fan of the members who work as a group to gang up on anyone with a workplace issue. Especially the ones who have not worked in-patient in years, or ever, and just make ****
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    New quest

    ProgressiveActivist replied to Mostafa.shakshak's topic in General Nursing

    Hi
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    Big Hospitals affiliating with community hospitals

    ProgressiveActivist replied to kiatu10's topic in General Nursing

    All of the nurse managers will have to reapply for their jobs and you will probably get a new
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    Is this a possible misdiagnosis? Disgnosed as "pressure area" but looks rash-like

    ProgressiveActivist replied to mlimoges's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That could be mottling related to very serious metabolic derangements such as hypercarbia and
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    Have you met your husband at nursing? Is nursing a good career to meet men?

    ProgressiveActivist replied to Upward_Bound's topic in General Nursing

    No. It is