heron ASN, RN

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    Overweight RN talked about

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

    I'm curious, where's the evidence that the nurses in the nurses' station were laughing at the
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    Bullying online is NOT harmless

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We actually had a recent episode of real online bullying here at AN - it started out as fairly mindless snark aimed at anyone who disagreed. Obnoxious and offensive, sure - but not bullying. The (now...
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    Bullying online is NOT harmless

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thanks - I'm glad it made sense to somebody. I've been trying for a while to figure out what it is that irks me so about these bullying threads. Generally speaking, as a staunch believer in advocacy,...
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    Bullying online is NOT harmless

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Where do you get that
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    Bullying online is NOT harmless

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Hurt feelings" seem to be the only diagnostic criterion for bullying, these days, which makes the whole subject difficult to impossible to talk about productively. Most "bullying" scenarios...
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    So what's going to happen to health care now?

    heron replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    Trump is the legal president elect, for sure - and elections have consequences, the gutting of the ACA likely one of them. BUT, don't expect the opposition to roll over and play dead. A two million...
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    The Dreaded Social Media

    heron replied to Lorelions's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yet another vote "no". Privacy settings will not protect you either from employers or predators. Save them for private offline sharing. When I was hired by a corrections company some years back, they...
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    Bullying online is NOT harmless

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    AA folks (the other AA) talk a lot about "stinkin' thinkin'". It refers to the phenomenon of self-sabotage by means of unrealistic expectations, inaccurate assumptions and dishonesty with oneself. In...
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Never said I would be ignoring you. I'm still looking for some kind of logic to your thinking. I don't find dissenting opinions particularly upsetting, but apparently you do, so ignoring me seemed to...
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What you described in the OP was bad behavior but, until you provide more context - including your own behavior towards the "bully", I'm not seeing the incident as bullying. You have demonstrated in...
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What I question is not the reality of bullying, but just exactly who the bully is,
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Uh huh. Considering everything else you've posted in this thread, it's sounding like you demand far more benefit of the doubt than you're willing to give anyone else. As for the "AA" acronym, that's a...
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Actually, AA as short for alcoholic's anonymous has been standard usage as long as AA has been around - far longer than the term African American, which cropped up sometime in the eighties, I think....
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, I mean context ... what events led up to this "mean girl" feeling it was appropriate to accost the OP and blurt out her dislike? Unless MG is psychotic, it's highly unlikely that this behavior...
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    Bullying in nursing field does exist

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I disagree. Without context, you really can't say one way or the
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    So what's going to happen to health care now?

    heron replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    We've been listening to that "free market" schtick for almost 50 years, now. It hasn't worked
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

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

    Old dead thread, overworked slam against large nurses. Run a
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    So what's going to happen to health care now?

    heron replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    So, how does one create affordability without adversely affecting
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    So what's going to happen to health care now?

    heron replied to Rocknurse's topic in General Nursing

    Get ready for ongoing pay cuts and general penny-pinching in the workplace. What do you think those insurance and medicare/medicaid tax dollars pay for?
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    Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    heron replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I have one, too!! It's a turn-of-the-century-ish nursing textbook. Fascinating stuff. Students were cautioned to beware of families that expected them to function as household maids for free on top...
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    What Can Be Done to Avoid this error?

    heron replied to callienewh's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Is there a way to program the emr to flag overdue Coumadin orders before they are automatically
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    Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    heron replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Rotating tourniquets for pulmonary edema. Endless iced saline lavage for ugi bleeds. Paraldehyde given rectally for DTs - with a glass syringe because it melted the plastic ones. Using those Byrd...
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    Need suggestions - Studying while driving

    heron replied to Rionoir's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    She's driving and shouldn't be watching anything but the
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    Does anyone have good experiences in the nursing profession

    heron replied to magslu's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    S'cuse me? I'm 46 years in and nowhere near being burned out. Please take some responsibility for your own behavior and lack of awareness of what you were getting yourself into. Your response to Cob94...
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    Defaming other nurses

    heron replied to NurseMonica87's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The action is a public record. While I think that spreading it around via social media is mean-spirited and malicious, I also have to acknowledge that actions have consequences. A damaged reputation...