TriciaJ RN

Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory

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    NPR's take on RV

    TriciaJ replied to ruby_jane's topic in General Nursing

    You're trashing Fox? Yes, sometimes they're a bit full-on (to use a British expression) but they're where I go to get The Rest of the Story. They do have feminists, liberals, people of colour. I...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard not to come away thinking "We're our own worst enemies and maybe we deserve this crap." I dealt with people refusing to join the union "it's not professional"; refusing to request the needed...
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    NPR's take on RV

    TriciaJ replied to ruby_jane's topic in General Nursing

    In any of the media accounts I've read, there is always a part about "nurses around the country are rushing to her defense". It sounds as though we're all rising up en masse. No mention that a lot...
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    Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

    TriciaJ replied to drkshadez's topic in General Nursing

    You're sadly right. Alexa is unlikely to save our feet and our sanity. But can hospitals guarantee Alexa won't be commiting HIPAA violations? That's something to think
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    Return to nursing possible? Looking for advice/similar experiences.

    TriciaJ replied to BeatriceBee's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree with Brownbook. I can see feeling so crummy about the whole thing the only real option was to get out altogether for a bit. Then you got married and had a family. That's the only part an...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I was the lone voice at the staff meetings. My coworkers would approach me after the meetings to tell me they were glad I spoke up. But no one ever backed me at the time. When I was relief charge...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I was on a staffing committee back in the early 2000s. It was a joke. I left bedside nursing in 2008, so maybe the laws have changed. I don't stay in regular-enough touch with my previous bedside...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Oregon nurse here. I have first-hand experience with a hijacked staffing committee. I also stopped paying dues to ANA a few years
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    Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

    TriciaJ replied to drkshadez's topic in General Nursing

    I think I've seen the light! "Alexa, call hospital maintenance to fix my TV." "Alexa, let Dietary know my meat was underdone." "Alexa, tell Pharmacy to hurry up and review my new pain med order, so...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    That computers can be a help or a hindrance, but never a substitute for using your own brain. Did you see the episode of The Office where Michael was using GPS for the first time? He turned exactly...
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    Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

    TriciaJ replied to drkshadez's topic in General Nursing

    As long as the nurse's name isn't Alexa, it should be a whole lot less
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    Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

    TriciaJ replied to drkshadez's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't spend too much time messing with patients' TVs. If they were maintained in proper working order the patients could manage just fine. I do like the idea of "sending it up the chain of...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You make some fair points, but what are you calling scorn and contempt? No one here has called for prison time or voiced the desire for misfortune for this nurse. No one has cast aspersions on her...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    And then there'd be too many words on the vial. It's too confusing to have so many words. Of course you're not going to bother to read a vial that's teeming with words. Honestly, this latest turn is...
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    Nurse Charged With Homicide

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I've long known that hospitals really didn't give a rip about patient care or safety, but I had no idea they actually want to shut down critical thinking. This is the only post I've seen on these...
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    What's the Difference Between Right-To-Work and At-Will employment?

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. I never had a good understanding of the two entities. Now I
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    Nurse Charged With Homicide

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Speaking of truckers, it's just past the anniversary of the hockey players who were injured and killed when their bus collided with a truck. The trucker was inexperienced and believed to be poorly...
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    I accidently took home a zofran in my pocket.

    TriciaJ replied to MarqT's topic in General Nursing

    I always found Pericolace in my pockets when I got home. It was the med that got refused the most. Since they were given at 2100 - my busy time on evening shift - it was really low priority to put...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder about that too. When I started out, I had to medicate a whole ward full of patients using stock meds and the tray with the slots and holes for the cards and cups. Those were med errors...
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    Alcohol withdrawal unit?

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Pompom's topic in General Nursing

    The general population doesn't have a problem with substance abuse, so they handle things better in general. Anyone with a substance abuse problem has general coping problems so not unusual to see...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    She wasn't new. I never saw the title "resource nurse"; I only saw "help-all nurse". It was defined as a super-numerary nurse who did not take an assignment, only helped out with tasks. She did not...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Check out the TBI report. That should help clear up a whole lot of
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    TriciaJ replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes these traits are identified by their peers, but are blown off. Then when it all goes pear-shaped, the powers-that-be make a big production of shaking their heads in
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Just stop what, already? Engaging in a discussion on a discussion board? There has been very little attacking on these threads, except for a few people who go after those with whom they disagree....
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    TriciaJ replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know the meaning of the phrase, either, so I looked it up. The phrase means "irrelevant conclusion". It's when an assertion is made to refute something, but actually refutes something else...