heron ASN, RN

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    Nurses- medical provider needs your opinion!

    heron replied to Buckeyeqt's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for getting back to us,
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    I give in, I'm a COB

    heron replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Alternatively, the Curmudgeon Corps. (Picture the two old fahts in the balcony on the Muppet
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    Nurses- medical provider needs your opinion!

    heron replied to Buckeyeqt's topic in General Nursing

    Hard to know how to answer without knowing what kind of calls tick him off. Could you give us a
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    Arrogant "know it all" RN

    heron replied to ArrowRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Um - the behavior described in the OP started before the coworker was made a charge nurse. She was publicly correcting and micromanaging the OP when she had no business doing so. We've all experienced...
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    who pays if my teeth or glasses get broken by a violent resident ?

    heron replied to all_too_well's topic in Canada

    Hopefully some of our Canadian members will be along with more pertinent comments than mine. Meanwhile, were you attacked? Are you
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    who pays if my teeth or glasses get broken by a violent resident ?

    heron replied to all_too_well's topic in Canada

    In the U.S., absent a union contract, the company is bound by their own policies only. Do you have an employee handbook, or other access to personnel
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    QED
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    @Crunchberries: re your last statement about being nice, helpful and, I would add, empathetic - I think you're absolutely right. So why are so many so angry when the same privelege of understanding -...
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    Is this legal?

    heron replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't that what they call "upcoding"? Totally fraudulent now, but I remember seeing nursing journal articles on DRGs years ago. They basically gave instruction on how to maximize reimbursement by...
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    RN being bullied by LVN

    heron replied to BDBSNRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And, remember, negative attention rewards behavior just as powerfully as
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    Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    heron replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    KY jelly - works every time. End of derail - carry on
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    Hospital Sues Nonprofit Leader

    heron replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The sad thing is that they're just imitating their betters in the finance industry. They're monetizing bad paper. It's what their shareholders expect of them. According to The Greenspan, the only...
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    California Vaccine Bill Eliminates Personal Exemption

    heron replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    @777RN: You are beating a dead horse. Re-litigating the science yet again is a waste of time and bandwidth. Only someone who has grown up free of these preventable diseases would try to sabotage herd...
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    Dealing with possibly unsafe coworkers?

    heron replied to Oswin's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    @morte: that's a good idea. The info in the OP was necessarily limited and could fit a number of different scenarios. We've all been in the quandary of trying to get a provider to address a situation...
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    Dealing with possibly unsafe coworkers?

    heron replied to Oswin's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Agree, report only direct observations. It could be someone's being set up. Proceed with caution and don't get sucked into a conflict that has nothing to do with you. The CNA is basically running...
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    How do you handle narcissist patients?

    heron replied to mikala3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No clue, klone. I've heard "borderline" used as a label for this kind of patient, never "narcissist". For this old hippie, "narc" is slang for undercover drug cop or an informant. Maybe the OP can...
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Maybe because whenever evidence is presented, we either pretend nothing happened or try to shoot the
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    How do you handle narcissist patients?

    heron replied to mikala3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Narc =
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Full disclosure: I'm not impressed with Sharpton. He's a not very thoughtful opportunist, in my view. But ... Why is attempting to articulate certain realities of Black folks' experience "race...
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, if white privilege didn't exist, then why all the outrage when a person of color declines to defer to it? I remember acknowledging that the OP's coworker could well have mis-perceived the OP's...
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    @ crunch berries: but apparently the OP's co-worker being honest about her experience of the OPs comment, and taking steps to fend off any further pain, doesn't count. The PC position here is that she...
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It takes a special kind of mind to point out the obvious. In this case, the race card certainly exists and is pulled whenever white privilege is challenged. "The race card" and "race baiting" are...
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Even more people have realized that they can make a buck out of being
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    Mean girls....OR Bullying

    heron replied to DoingGodsWork's topic in Operating Room

    @O9eleven: Ruby Vee seems to be the user newbies love to hate. In this case, I have to say that you don't know what you don't know. "Awesome" is a value judgement that depends entirely on where the...
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    I got reported to HR

    heron replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Which tends to support my original point: that people of color are held responsible for protecting Caucasians from the negative consequences of our own ignorance. In my view, that's not