TriciaJ RN

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    6 years and I'm nearly ready to 'retire'.

    TriciaJ replied to IKnowYouRider's topic in Nursing Career

    This is where you keep going to school for the sole purpose of adding alphabet soup to your name. Then you claw your way up the food chain. Once there, you work to impress the even bigger-wigs by...
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    problems.....at work

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

    Here's what should have happened: A few weeks or months before graduation you would have asked your employer what need to happens to be employed there as a nurse. They should have told you what the...
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    Dr makes me feel so incompetent?

    TriciaJ replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    This is great advice. Always assume every question is simply a request for information and act accordingly. Even when it couldn't sound any snippier or more sarcastic. Stand your ground and answer...
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    Dedication

    TriciaJ replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    There are many threads on this site about whether nursing is a "calling", or are we just callous and mercenary and "doing it for the paycheque". I'm reminded of an incident back in the 90s when the...
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    Holiday proposal

    TriciaJ replied to Eagleschamp52's topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering why most places don't adopt this sort of system. In Canada (the places I worked, anyway) you picked Christmas or New Years to have off (or got assigned based on seniority). Having...
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    Low salary same work

    TriciaJ replied to Tiabluesky's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I second this. The salary/wage is a number on paper that gives a very tiny indication of what your whole life will be like, working for a given employer. You cannot compare a regular job to agency...
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    Patient safety compromised

    TriciaJ replied to LonghornChic's topic in General Nursing

    Wanted to wait until the next morning? ***** To see whether she should be transferred to MICU or the morgue? You absolutely did the right thing and saved her life. Next time this happens, you will...
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    Patients & Pet Peeves

    TriciaJ replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Two minutes after the doctor leaves the room: "Will I be able to get a sleeping pill tonight?" Me: "If your doctor ordered it, sure." "I didn't think to ask him." My thought balloon: Well, that...
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    Patients & Pet Peeves

    TriciaJ replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    I once had a neighbour who did that. I learned not to pop out to the mailbox when I had something on the stove. If I encountered him, I would be shanghaied indefinitely. I read that it's...
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    Do you think that nursing students need to work as a CNA or nurse aid while in school?

    TriciaJ replied to LindseyPar's topic in General Students

    I'm guessing it's a two-way street. Your attitude shines through and your coworkers want to pave the way for you. I'm glad you've found a supportive environment, but I think you should give yourself...
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    nurse doesn't do her charting

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

    And for whatever reason they are slow to sniff out lawsuits waiting to happen. Do they really think they can keep pushing the envelope? Do they think they're not going to get hit with vicarious...
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    nurse doesn't do her charting

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

    The scenario I'm thinking of is when a doctor is informed of an adverse situation. He/she wants to know the baseline and about when things started going bad, right? And there is no info? They...
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    Eating the patients' food?

    TriciaJ replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't get the opportunity to mention it. I never worked doubles and I never heard about this from a manager directly, but through other channels. Bummer, because I would have been waiting with...
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    Asked to resign after 6 months

    TriciaJ replied to FNKA's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    "I was one of forty new grads that started on the unit. It got a bit stressful for that unit, for both the preceptors and the new grads. Not all of us survived the situation. I did meet many...
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    Dazed and Confused: Blurred Lines

    TriciaJ replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Next time ask her "Is there something I can help you finish up so you can get out of here? Two of us doing the same thing is an error waiting to
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    Assisted living turned nightmare

    TriciaJ replied to danij040866's topic in Nursing Career

    Exactly. Start billing them for every nanosecond that you work. Of course they'll go ballistic. What kind of discipline do you think they can impose? They can write some bad things about you on a...
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    Assisted living turned nightmare

    TriciaJ replied to danij040866's topic in Nursing Career

    The place is a pit. They're stealing from you, your coworkers, the people you care for, their families and Medicare. Every minute you stay there, you are aiding and abetting. What was your...
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    Dazed and Confused: Blurred Lines

    TriciaJ replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    I completely agree with above responses. Also: are you clocking in overtime for all the hours you stay late? And is management okay with that? If you're working off the clock, then your facility...
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    Jahi McMath is finally at peace

    TriciaJ replied to anon456's topic in Nursing News

    She reportedly had several surgeries since her brain death, but where is this information coming from? The hospitals can't release information and the family is not credible. It would be very...
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    Calling the unit? Mistake?

    TriciaJ replied to dergs's topic in General Nursing

    No. Not silly. It's the pits when you're haunted by things from work, but sometimes you just have to put your mind at rest. Three ICU patients? Of course you wonder if you left something
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    Los Gatos ER Physician in the News

    TriciaJ replied to CityofAngelsRN's topic in Nursing News

    Sometimes it's a D. My favourite memory is a jail inmate that told me if he didn't get his medication, the doctor told him his heart could just stop. All he could remember at first was it started...
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    Los Gatos ER Physician in the News

    TriciaJ replied to CityofAngelsRN's topic in Nursing News

    They very rarely start off asking for the drug of choice by name. That would look like drug-seeking. They typically go through a lot of machinations, complain of various symptoms so that their drug...
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    Cardiac Monitoring/Strip Interpretation

    TriciaJ replied to Kiwi82's topic in Emergency

    Wouldn't be the first time a lame idea got blamed on the Joint Commission. OP, you said there are "barriers" to being compliant. What are the barriers? That would be the place to
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    Jahi McMath is finally at peace

    TriciaJ replied to anon456's topic in Nursing News

    Any particular reason you are trolling a nursing website? An axe to grind against
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    Nurse dating former patient?

    TriciaJ replied to mzsuccess's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Amen to this. If the guy was decent and normal and just interested, here is what he'd do: After being told "no" he would send you a note at your workplace. He would thank you for the care and...