Antikigirl ASN, RN

LOL!!!!!!! Oh my goodness...one night shift at an LTC when all the patients were asleep (Thank GOD!), one of my caregivers fell in the hall...sadly she had just had a biopsy on her leg that was a good 8 inches long and it split open! So I get a call ...

I had a call a few months back from our Pharamacy asking if I really wanted to give that ducolax suppository PO! (as I had written). OH I busted up laughing... Being quick some days, I said "well...naaaa we can make it PR now, that patient is being ...

NO WAY! I have been asked several times, and the answer is the same... "Oh I so appreciate that! However, it is policy of all staff here to not give out their personal information to anyone. I have a great idea that can help me though, instead...c...

Oh man there are such senstive folks out there! I have been in trouble tons for saying simple things...like being busy and not really watching when I say "okay hon thanks!" Or saying "I am running my tooshie off" (yes, someone said that was profani...

Oh I have seen this happen before, and currently our facility is going through a very similar thing as well! We have lost several excellent awesome nurses just this week...and others are following. Administration was alerted on several occasions abo...

In my hospital we are in the hub of many many LTC/ALF/SNF's and typically most of the patients have some form of dementia. With dementia they are so very out of place, confused, ill, scared, and more. So these people do a lot of kicking/screaming a...

One of the most disturbing interuptions in my day at work is the constant and frequent calls I get from family/friends about my patients. And I sound like a parrot when I answer the phone and have to start my ol HIPAA banter, knowing full well I am ...

So we had a chart audit yesterday and I was privy to some interesting info about documentation of Patient Education!!!!! IT floored me! Okay...we have a place to document patient eduation. You list a general term of what you taught (like for me ye...

WOW! Maybe a fear of the unexpected, the dire, the emergencies and your wish to never have to feel alone during it? Maybe now you feel alone, and are subconsciously anxious about a sudden emergency...natural, terrorism, or medical! With todays day a...

Oh yeah btw...the patient was a long term alcoholic had blown a huge varices in his esph during the AM from a cough, and his liver was no longer functioning. Not only did his GI tract back up over the past few days (no ng or anything to counter that...

I think one of my toughest was thown at me within my first year of RN. I encountered a patient in a room next to my own patient. I heard struggled gargled breathing and there was a man spurting out massive amounts of blood out of his mouth. I ran ...

Love the title of this...I laughed so hard! Anywhooooo..the thing that gets me...and this may be new info for folks...is that this organization is hired by your facility in order to have the 'status' of their consultation. Therefore, your work facil...

Well..reminds me of the old phrase..."becareful what you wish for..." LOL!

Oh yes, and btw...hopefully this thought will help you now or in the future. You did your fellow nurses an honor by being professional and sticking up for your patient, staff and yourself. Think about how many other people didn't...and where that p...

Yeah, at the point of touching (IE grabbing your badge) I would have walked straight down to Nursing Administration after alerting my charge nurse that they need to cover me and a brief comment on why I am going IMMEDIATELY to the Administration offi...

We also do not have limitations, but I use my own discression on it. Frankly I do it easily...anything that will need to be explained in full by an MD isn't discussed, and I parrot phrase the whole "this is something you need to discuss with their M...

Oh man what a familiar tune! Been there too! I have learned to be professional but to the point of things with MD's...takes time and thankfully I work with the same MD's and know them/they know me well enough I can frankly say... Better now then whe...

Sounds to me like an MD that has no respect and or realistic view of what a nurse is and what we do...or that the value of a good nurse is worth the expense from many angels including fiscally and liablity! I would so stay away from them!!!!!!! I wo...

Oh heck...one time that really floored me...a male patient (at this point color has nothing to do with it as you will see) cursed me out when he found out I had a husband and child! He was screaming at me that my husband should be ashamed of himself ...

LOL!!!! So very very very true!!!!!!!!!!

Holly cow, not only anxiety but think about it...that nurse/patient relationship will be down to zero by having to give all this info and documentation because frankly...as a patient...I would feel that the RN thought I was an idiot!!!!! Crazy stuf...

Be absolutely truthful to YOURSELF! If you want peds, stick with peds! Switching may not make you happy, and could be more detrimental to your mental/spiritual health as well as physical!!!! Don't kid your own self talking yourself into something you...

Yes...it is scary! And this seems to be the fuel for most of the hostalilty!!!!!!

LOL!!!! I like that patient...good common sense thought there! My patients don't seem to care how many I have or their accuity levels...they are my "only patient" in their minds...and especially their family's minds...LOL! (for these patients I watch...

It does make me laugh...typically after I cool down at home..>LOL! Yeah, I have a comedic nature as is...and actually can cuss with the best of them (sadly I grew up with a bunch of foul mouthed old millitary vets that spoke their minds at all tim...