TriciaJ RN

Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory

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    My unit is closing!

    TriciaJ replied to Mplsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like an excellent time to get surgery, when your unit's closed anyway. You won't have to feel guilty about your coworkers working short or feel stressed if you need additional recovery time....
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    I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    TriciaJ replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    Wait - you take an anxiety med but you can't understand why other nurses are so anxious? Here's the thing about nursing and anxiety: while you're busy getting good at I & Os one week and taking...
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    Short Rant Alert!

    TriciaJ replied to AcuteHD's topic in General Nursing

    The glorification is what sucks us in to accepting poor working conditions. Too many nurses buy in to their glorified status and feel noble when they can't get a break. They won't back the rest of...
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    Unsupportive boss? Is it worth quitting over??

    TriciaJ replied to Cola89's topic in General Nursing

    OP, you are caught between a lazy tech and a useless manager. If you could do her job and yours, too, then why have they hired her? She's using victim behaviour to weasel out of working and your...
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    The Stethoscope

    TriciaJ replied to Flyboy17's topic in General Nursing

    I think The View should be cancelled because it never had any redeeming value. Compared to those women, Gilligan's Island sounds like intelligent
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    Clinic staff ask pt how to find injection site?

    TriciaJ replied to MinneNurse's topic in General Nursing

    It's one thing to ask a patient if she has a site preference. I always ask a patient if she prefers her depo provera in arm or hip. It's a different story to ask the patient how to correctly...
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    An open letter to the #NursesUnite movement

    TriciaJ replied to disillusionedrn's topic in General Nursing

    I posted my comment before I saw this post, but it sums it up way better than I
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    An open letter to the #NursesUnite movement

    TriciaJ replied to disillusionedrn's topic in General Nursing

    The reason TV shows like "The View" are even on the air is because people watch them and they sell advertising. There must be people who believe what those aging bimbos have to say on any topic....
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    Thank you, Joy Behar!

    TriciaJ replied to ixchel's topic in Nursing Humor

    The "apology" sounded extremely patronizing. I did not get the impression than any lesson had been
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    Thank you, Joy Behar!

    TriciaJ replied to ixchel's topic in Nursing Humor

    I can't. Whenever I stumble across them I think of magpies on a fence. I can't hit the remote fast
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    Frugality thead:work less, spend less

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I can relate to the spendthrift spouse. I had one of those. Life was a nightmare. As soon as I was on my own again I made up for lost financial time. Now I have a nest egg, a supportive and frugal...
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    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

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

    Do you have to do the Walmart
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    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

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

    "One day I wore 37 pieces of
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    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

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

    Love
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    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

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

    Well, at least you'll know what kind of administrator NOT to be. Just remember to be real and never think your butt is a good place for your
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    Nursing Instructors Would Rather see You Fail than Succeed

    TriciaJ replied to pat8585's topic in General Students

    After I'd worked as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse for 3 years (separate qualification in western Canada at the time) I went back to my alma mater to pick up my RN. My first 2 clinical instructors...
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    Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    TriciaJ replied to 2bnursebeckky's topic in General Students

    What you're seeing is the hospital-eat-nurse
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    Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    TriciaJ replied to 2bnursebeckky's topic in General Students

    This is what I did back in the Stone Age: I would find a busy nurse and ask if I could take any scut work off her hands. Empty laundry, turn over a room, wash equipment. Not the best learning...
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    New Graduate RN having preceptor commucation problems

    TriciaJ replied to Kaytayxx's topic in General Nursing

    One little thing that jumped out: You were offering to write down verbal orders when the doctor was right there. And you were probably not wrong to do so, if your hospital doesn't have a policy...
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    Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    TriciaJ replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

    Hemi-gluteal! That's a new one for me. Love
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    Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    TriciaJ replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

    Is this
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    Difficulty precepting

    TriciaJ replied to jellybean312's topic in General Nursing

    You seem to be noticing a definite difference in skills level between your current grad and previous ones. I'm sure your observations are valid. Maybe she attended a less-than-stellar school or...
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    Why does everyone say that they "consigned" a drug waste.....

    TriciaJ replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    And wah-lah! We have our own grammar thread and don't even have to segway off another
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    I feel like an idiot at my new job.

    TriciaJ replied to BalancedInsanity's topic in General Nursing

    Can't "like" this one
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    I feel like an idiot at my new job.

    TriciaJ replied to BalancedInsanity's topic in General Nursing

    Here's the deal: they have ICU internships for a reason. But they conned you out of yours because they needed a warm body. And now you're dealing with a steep learning curve and the perception that...