heron ASN, RN

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    Should Healthcare Professionals Ask About Guns in the Home?

    heron replied to P-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Of course you would. Between cops who fear for their lives and carriers who are just too tender-minded to deal with the safety of children in their home, people with guns are starting to seem awfully...
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    help/advice new rn recently fired for dumb mistake

    heron replied to jkdrn's topic in General Nursing

    Hard to know how to help without knowing why he didn't finish orientation at the local
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    Got hit on by a patient and it wasn't a granny.

    heron replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Why wouldn't
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    Got hit on by a patient and it wasn't a granny.

    heron replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Not necessarily - this feminist lesbian enjoys a little eye candy as much as the next
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    So fed up with my coworker

    heron replied to Rainy day RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And she has acknowledged them, or at least that her thinking was off. Ten pages of posters making pretty much the same point seems sufficient to me. OP, here's where the concept of personal...
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    Did I make a mistake by going into nursing?

    heron replied to nrsstudent05's topic in General Students

    I just want to point out that the workplace is not a therapy group. The OP has told us that she has severe anxiety and that caring for her grandmother is turning her off. I think we do her a...
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    "Right" way to pulls meds from cards?

    heron replied to Pat_Pat RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Substituting a "look-alike" pill or liquid is a time-honored method of diversion that avoids throwing off the count or fudging a MAR. Works best with
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    So fed up with my coworker

    heron replied to Rainy day RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    4 kids under 5 isn't full time work? You're kidding, right? I may be misreading your post, but you seem to be saying that your co-worker owes it to you to rearrange her life to meet your needs. Is...
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    clinical breakdown

    heron replied to olivianurse's topic in General Students

    Oh, please! We don't even know what this "rant" consisted of. For all I know, it was an off the cuff remark made while waiting to get into the pyxis or something. The fact I gleaned from the OP is...
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    How do you deal with being called a "snitch" by your co-workers?

    heron replied to 1Jessie86's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, I know I talk to the cnas I work with about job performance because I'm their direct supervisor ... it's part of my job (and the part that I seriously hate). Any cna working with a patient to...
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    clinical breakdown

    heron replied to olivianurse's topic in General Students

    Seems like we can't do anything right. Let a negative opinion show and we're munching on the young'uns. Put negative reactions aside and try to meet the students' need for support professionally and...
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    Drug seekers

    heron replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, but they crop up once a year or so, along with the "entitled patients" and the threads mocking people on welfare. Seems to be an unrecognized phase of professional development - somewhere...
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    Please help...

    heron replied to nurset4835's topic in General Nursing

    OP - in a very limited job market you managed to land a job in acute care straight out of the gate, did well enough to have a second coveted position offered to you over the heads of several...
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    This isn't the hospice I used to know

    heron replied to jeannepaul's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Yes - plus, in ltc, we're dealing with phantom hospice nurses who might, if we're lucky, show up once a month or so, make little or no attempt to communicate with facility staff and are nowhere to be...
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    Please help...

    heron replied to nurset4835's topic in General Nursing

    OP, learn to take "yes" for an
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    This isn't the hospice I used to know

    heron replied to jeannepaul's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    So, did you sign them on? Did you report that to a case manager, company compliance officer or the CMS fraud
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    Scary co-worker. What to do?

    heron replied to blondenurse12's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Since your manager is unwilling to address the problem, I suggest finding a way to alert your company's risk manager(s). Offering yourself as a mentor is a good idea, but it will take time to show an...
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    Ever hear of someone NOT being able to work night shift for health-related reasons??

    heron replied to Nola009's topic in Health, Stress Management

    It happened to me. I worked nights for 11 years straight without a problem. I did 2 years of three 12s, then it was four 8s for another six years. All back to back over the weekend, every weekend. I...
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    Libertarian Nurses View on Core Measures

    heron replied to bluelion's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We've already waited a while. The same invitation was posted elsewhere. The only response was ***crickets*** (At which point, the thread went happily
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    Libertarian Nurses View on Core Measures

    heron replied to bluelion's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm confuzzled, frankly. How is forcing what is essentially a square scientific process peg into a round economic philosophy hole going to produce anything resembling
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    Just a rant over something irritating

    heron replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in General Nursing

    I'm missing some context, here. There's nothing in the OP that contradicts the possibility that the co-worker liked the new version and wanted the manager to approve it for general use. Beware the...
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    Libertarian Nurses View on Core Measures

    heron replied to bluelion's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Please don't change what I said. The government does not "run" healthcare. The private sector does, and it's control has been tightening over the decades since health insurance companies were first...
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    Libertarian Nurses View on Core Measures

    heron replied to bluelion's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Two brief points: 1. So far, the performance of the private sector over the last 50 years has been a dismal failure. It has not inproved efficiency, controlled costs, maintained quality or increased...
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    Breaking a New Grad Contract?

    heron replied to badwolf4's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Forgive me if this has already been said, but a broken contract could lead to less than glowing references. It's a buyers' market these days and newbies have very little leverage getting
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    opinions on nurses going on strike

    heron replied to Yerani27's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    OP, when I tried to look up your previous posts to get a sense of who you are, the connection to both your activity and your posts got the message, "connection to local host blah blah refused. Maybe...