TriciaJ RN

Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory

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    Manager catch phrases

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It's not leadership to talk like someone's pulling the string in your
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    What Did You Get For Nurses Week?

    TriciaJ replied to iPink's topic in General Nursing

    You had me
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    What Did You Get For Nurses Week?

    TriciaJ replied to iPink's topic in General Nursing

    But hopefully no medical students. They are like plagues of
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    Inappropriate nurses?

    TriciaJ replied to hgraves64's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How about "Here're your keys; there's your hallway.
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    Inappropriate nurses?

    TriciaJ replied to hgraves64's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I can see needing some urgent help with something but not wanting to overload someone who already had a heavy assignment. So it would be quite appropriate to ask someone about their workload before...
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    Documenting injection the MD gave

    TriciaJ replied to SaltySarcasticSally's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, it's inappropriate. It provides no information pertinent to the patient. A medical chart is not the place to front street anyone or air your
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    Little boy who cried wolf

    TriciaJ replied to WineRN's topic in School

    You should just have a chat with him about being careful what he wishes for. For example, faking a limp could cause a leg to swell up and fall off. (Just kidding,
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    New grad RN and I'm considering leaving the hospital fresh off orientation for another

    TriciaJ replied to FlyingFishofFury's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say I do find it sad that nursing as a profession has come to suck this bad. How many other new grads have we coached about the consequences of job-hopping vs staying in a place that makes...
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    New grad RN and I'm considering leaving the hospital fresh off orientation for another

    TriciaJ replied to FlyingFishofFury's topic in General Nursing

    A meeting with all 3 preceptors plus the floor manager? All of them in the same room at the same time to discuss the problems encountered by a new employee? That would take a planetary alignment not...
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    Some people are just plain rude!

    TriciaJ replied to HburgRN07's topic in School

    If you can't think up something good on the spot, you can always be ready with this standby: "I'm sure you didn't mean that to sound as insulting as it
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    New grad RN and I'm considering leaving the hospital fresh off orientation for another

    TriciaJ replied to FlyingFishofFury's topic in General Nursing

    I'm reluctant to tell someone to jump ship right off orientation. By the same token, life is too short to be miserable if the pasture really is greener just up the road. If your friends at the other...
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    Question for nurses that are male...

    TriciaJ replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    I do take offense. Using "client" when you mean "patient" is like nails on a blackboard to me. Likewise, "male nurse". A doctor and I were discussing the hospital where my mom worked and he said "I...
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    Per diem med surg nurse here, need something new, help!

    TriciaJ replied to kar212's topic in General Nursing

    I've not worked hospice, but I think it might be worth exploring. Hopefully a well-run hospice service would lack the chaos of most med-surg units. If you worked per diem you might be able to score...
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    Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    TriciaJ replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    This is the
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    Dragging hospital communications, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century

    TriciaJ replied to Rpw3b's topic in General Nursing

    [quote=Extra Pickles;9435905 If there is an email about something I need to attend and it's sent while I'm off and I miss the event that's nothing I'm going to worry about. If I really needed to...
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    New nurse.. Just want to quit everything..

    TriciaJ replied to nohseungjin's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be a crybaby too if I was doing the work of 5 people. This is not a job. It's indentured servitude. The only way they could make it worse would be to require you to live on site and be paid...
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    Any tips on how to protect your self in a clinic?

    TriciaJ replied to Life22feb's topic in General Nursing

    You can't get advice more succinct than
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    TriciaJ replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, it's why you're single for 5 years. It's why you've not spent the past 5 years supporting a useless freeloader with creditors and critters. I waited 9 years for a good one. So worth
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    TriciaJ replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ma Vida is obviously being too
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    "the nurse"

    TriciaJ replied to Flare's topic in School

    When I started working in corrections, I had to spend an orientation day at the County Health Department. I spent the whole day being referred to as "the jail nurse". Sounded uncomfortably close to...
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    Psych RN-A Thankless Job?

    TriciaJ replied to femaleRN's topic in Psychiatric

    Psych tends to attract people who don't plan on doing any work. It's like they think just being there is therapeutic for the patient and not much more is needed. The flip side is someone who hangs...
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    My coworker was high and got away with it

    TriciaJ replied to Volley88's topic in General Nursing

    How did you see his phone? Do you normally look at his phone? Does he leave things for you to find? Did he set you up to look
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    TriciaJ replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't that a flavour of Ben and
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    TriciaJ replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    It couldn't possibly have stayed on for a year. He must have kept replacing
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    Seriously?!?! You gotta be kidding me!

    TriciaJ replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe an