TriciaJ RN

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    Least stressful nursing job at a hospital?

    TriciaJ replied to Forest2's topic in Nursing Career

    Preop nurse - meet patients a few days prior to scheduled surgery to provide information, reconcile meds, get preop labs, EKG, etc. Also short stay or day surgery: regular hours, once they're able to...
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    What Does #MeToo Really Mean?

    TriciaJ replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Great post, HomeBound. I think we've come to confuse self-respect with moralizing. No one ever deserves to be drugged and assaulted, just like no one ever deserves to be run over with a car. But if...
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    Write Up's and Potential Termination for Pain Reassessments

    TriciaJ replied to MiralaxOnIceRN's topic in General Nursing

    There's GOT to be a Davey Do cartoon to address this.
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    Another Tragedy at Vanderbilt

    TriciaJ replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    If you read the CMS report and the Tennessee statutes, you will see that the charges are appropriate. Cutting corners during medication administration is a very bad idea. This nurse did way more...
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    Failed Capstone clincial....

    TriciaJ replied to sophia_29k's topic in General Students

    This defense is not going to help you. The whole point of a capstone clinical is to demonstrate readiness to assume a professional role. Saying "...as a student I was just doing what my superior...
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    Interesting case of the spilled pills

    TriciaJ replied to KCMnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Mistake #1: Not having a formulary Mistake #2: Fishing pills out of the sharps box. I have my doubts as to whether the inmate was as distressed as you or I would be. This is the demographic known...
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    Anyone have experience working a strike?

    TriciaJ replied to WanderingVee's topic in Travel

    What are the grievances fueling the strike? How do the union members feel about you crossing their picket line? Will you be undermining their efforts to achieve safe staffing or some other important...
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    Interesting case of the spilled pills

    TriciaJ replied to KCMnurse's topic in General Nursing

    You're right about everything. At the jail where I worked, the county settled everything. And inmates have 24 hrs a day to think up things. A case like this would certainly have been worth a few...
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    Interesting case of the spilled pills

    TriciaJ replied to KCMnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Of course the inmate would lose if it actually went to court. But if you have a management that settles every lawsuit, no matter how frivolous, it's worth filling out the paperwork for a few
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    Where Do Nurses Look for Jobs

    TriciaJ replied to Megajess's topic in Nursing Career

    Maybe the ad itself is a problem. Does it portray the workplace as a place where people would want to work? Does it fall back on trite buzzwords like "team player" "client-focused" and "rewarding"?...
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    Is it wrong to ask

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

    Nothing drives me crazier than the GD surveys everywhere you go. Buy a pizza - fill out a survey. Cash a cheque at the bank - survey. Nails done - survey. If I get sick and need to be hospitalized,...
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    Difficulties interpreting in casual conversation with patients?

    TriciaJ replied to kik220's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Casual conversations between nurses and patients? What exactly does that
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    Being a target by a coworker.

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

    There is a recent thread on this site about giving people enough rope to hang themselves. That might be your best bet in this case. Fabricated is easy. It means she has nothing and the onus is on...
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    Fibromyalgia, Anxiety, Depression - Help!

    TriciaJ replied to nursingmymind's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Rotating shifts? Where are you? They're still ubiquitous in Canada, fairly rare in the US. I think a regular shift (even nights) would stand to improve things. Any way you could get off rotating?...
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    Been out of work for three weeks due to vestibular migraines....

    TriciaJ replied to NMK17's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I'm so sorry for what you're dealing with. Why kind of relationship do you have with your current manager? Is there any way you could have the above conversation with her? She must already have some...
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    Nursing fields suited for physical limitations/chronic illness

    TriciaJ replied to Watki22's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    This website is open to the public and is an excellent place to start researching nursing as a possible career. It just seems to not be the best of planning to undertake the rigours of schooling for...
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    Interesting case of the spilled pills

    TriciaJ replied to KCMnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Actually this whole story made me laugh and not because it was remotely funny. It's just... so Corrections. And just when I thought I'd seen the nth degree of multi-layer stupidity... Correctional...
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    Interesting case of the spilled pills

    TriciaJ replied to KCMnurse's topic in General Nursing

    And not only a free ride. When that inmate found out what had happened, you know his first thought was "SCORE!" and off he went to call his
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    Any way you could stay over and work a few hours

    TriciaJ replied to guest974915's topic in General Nursing

    Wait, the wage is low because of the contract? Who negotiated the contract? Either you have a crooked union who negotiates back room deals with management, a really inept employee bargaining team,...
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    Working on weekends!

    TriciaJ replied to PubSub's topic in General Nursing

    OP said "...it wasn't in my contract..." Otherwise, in this country I would not assume there is a
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    Written Up

    TriciaJ replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    I suspect "write-up" just means incident report. Incident reports are supposed to be completed for near-misses as well and their main purpose is to uncover systems errors. Since many of us agree that...
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    New Nurse Tips for Struggling Nurse

    TriciaJ replied to bostonnurse99's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This might seem rather stone-age, but is everyone using a work-sheet? When people complain of feeling disorganized I wonder if they're putting a worksheet to good use. (I once precepted a grad who...
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    Working on weekends!

    TriciaJ replied to PubSub's topic in General Nursing

    If your unit is operating outside the contract, you have grounds to file a grievance. There will of course be repercussions for doing this, so you have to decide if this is a hill you want to die on....
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    Pyxis Problems

    TriciaJ replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    1. Elvis impersonator 2. Guy with his scrub top backwards 3. Someone taking out vecuronium 4. Wormy apple 5. Davey ('nuff said). Can't find the other 3 - wait - is one of them a manager actually...
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    Failed Capstone clincial....

    TriciaJ replied to sophia_29k's topic in General Students

    I'm really sorry you're having to go through this, after believing that you were on track. To play devil's advocate, I'm wondering if your preceptor thought each error was an isolated situation at...