amoLucia

amoLucia

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  1. I got a counseling letter because I refused to help another staff member with her personal problems?

    amoLucia replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    OK - but I still don't get

  2. I got a counseling letter because I refused to help another staff member with her personal problems?

    amoLucia replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    DD - what

  3. Family Education at End of Life

    amoLucia replied to kendall94's topic in General Nursing

    Your post so clearly bepeaks your discovery & introspection into the field of hospice/palliative care. Sounds like you may have found your 'niche' early. It's needs are unique, but rewarding....

  4. I got a counseling letter because I refused to help another staff member with her personal problems?

    amoLucia replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    ^^^ This and can be terminated any reason (assuming you're in one of those many states). Oh, to have been a fly on the

  5. Thank You !

    amoLucia replied to Jim Bim's topic in Nurses Rock

    The OP hasn't been back since posting. I think I'm detecting a weeee bit of displaced anger. Curious if OP is HC or a

  6. Holiday Sick Calls From Self-Centered Staff

    amoLucia replied to SunDazed's topic in General Nursing

    Re ^^^^^. There'll be someone (or 2) who'll figure it's OK to call out because someone would just be extra

  7. Passive Hostility Between Workplace Departments

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    It's how they earn their 'brownie points', like a reserved 'get out of jail free' card. To be redeemed in the future when the bearer needs it. It flatters the bearer to think they're superior than...

  8. Med-Surg to Rehab help.

    amoLucia replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Rounds were made q2h, so freq someone would already be wet. Regardless the staff would still walk the pt to the BR just 'to try even a little bit to keep the feeling there'. And they'd be emptier next...

  9. Med-Surg to Rehab help.

    amoLucia replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I used to tell them it made their therapy stronger to get up 'so they wouldn't pee their bed' when they went home.' Or I asked them how their daughter would 'feel about a peed-on couch'. And 'how...

  10. Passive Hostility Between Workplace Departments

    amoLucia replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Therapy has long had a simmering superioritry complex. They make money by billing for their time. THAT make them important! Our time just gets included with all the 'other'

  11. Tricks to getting an Spo2 reading on a difficult patient

    amoLucia replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Are 'rapid teams' a very common hosp thing nowadays? They didn't exist way back in the dark ages. Also I doubt there's anything even close in LTC/NH. (I guess I should have clarified LTC/NH in my...

  12. Tricks to getting an Spo2 reading on a difficult patient

    amoLucia replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    I remember a new grad nurse working NOCs with me. We had a DNR/DNH comfort care pt who was steadily declining but with no acute distress. Despite nasal O2 for comfort, his sat was POOR. New nurse was...

  13. HELLLLLLLOOOOO, Retirement !

    amoLucia replied to Davey Do's topic in Retired Nurses

    I used to use a travel audio tape for my car when driving home. I would just respond to the Spanish lessons - good for extra vocabulary. Funny because I do have an itty-bitty fluency/comprehension...

  14. Help Me Decide Based On Your Experience

    amoLucia replied to MomWifeNurseStudent's topic in General Nursing

    I think the vote is

  15. Floor Staff Pre Pulling Medications

    amoLucia replied to NurseEe1's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Maybe an inservice by your pharmacy consultant would help. It WOULDN'T be you banging the same old drum to the staff. Amanda - re thyroid meds. I've known places that did thyroid meds at HS. It...

  16. HELLLLLLLOOOOO, Retirement !

    amoLucia replied to Davey Do's topic in Retired Nurses

    If I had thought about it at the time, I would liked to have learned a foreign language, like French, then Spanish. Using Rosetta Stone or Babel. Then 2 yrs later, pick another language. Just that my...

  17. Help Me Decide Based On Your Experience

    amoLucia replied to MomWifeNurseStudent's topic in General Nursing

    The other post's responses were leaning toward the office position. People scoot around & read everything. As a result, many do recall very similar postings. And it becomes somewhat...

  18. Help Me Decide Based On Your Experience

    amoLucia replied to MomWifeNurseStudent's topic in General Nursing

    Isn't this the basis of another

  19. Taking another route after getting my BSN

    amoLucia replied to Sasha1225's topic in First Year After Licensure

    With all those delays, you would not be much of a desirable catch for nsg position. Of course, it could all depend on your grad degree, potential nsg position (not all are direct pt care-focused, and...

  20. 2 Jobs as a New Grad Nurse

    amoLucia replied to Phi Phi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Uh, how will you negotiate orientation periods at 2 facilities??? Places are NOT too gracious to extend hours to accommodate special scheds like you'd need. Of course, a few more details re the 2...

  21. Tricks to getting an Spo2 reading on a difficult patient

    amoLucia replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Tee hee! Just did my own reading = 76% & hr 42. I'm fine, but have chronically cold hands. I typically do the finger rubbing, but also the "Al Bundy hands-in-the-waistband" works well for me. But...

  22. 3 possible job options, cannot decide and need insight!

    amoLucia replied to MomWifeNurseStudent's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Hoosier, you beat me to the same posting. Except to say the tele unit is HOSP. You're talking holidays! And 24/7 for bad

  23. Considering Quitting My Job- Had Enough (Kind of a Vent Post)

    amoLucia replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing

    Uh, just double check your commitment obligations. I doubt I knew any facility that DID NOT require at least 1 major BIG holiday. Even a minimal as you are. Double check - be

  24. Patient going to complain against me?

    amoLucia replied to Bella345's topic in General Nursing

    Am agreeing 110% with other respondents. Only thing I would consider doing would have been to alert the nsg super. Give Admin the heads up first BEFORE they hear it from the disgruntled family who...

  25. Help!

    amoLucia replied to AnonymousGuest's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand your involvement. You were in the cart. They had you produce a urine, so they believed enough. Be glad you're out of that facility. But just know, you'll need to tighten up...