JZ_RN

JZ_RN

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  1. No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

    JZ_RN replied to RNGriffin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Even when I am short staffed and working in the shift from H**L I still give good patient care. I don't take shortcuts that can harm people. I do give a crap, which is why I am a good nurse. I am not...

  2. No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

    JZ_RN replied to RNGriffin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Honestly, this may be true, however, if working conditions were decent it would be different. I love my patients and I don't treat them poorly because I am stressed and overworked. The people at...

  3. Bad day... looks like it's everything I dreamed it would be.

    JZ_RN replied to NurseCard's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Our facility counts management staff who do no patient care and most of the time are not even there as "direct care staff" and that is how they get away with 1 nurse to 50+ patients. I want to just...

  4. No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

    JZ_RN replied to RNGriffin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was an enthusiatic young new nurse, now I know LTC is a money-maker and nurses there are basically abused and patient care is as basic as it comes and I could never be happy doing that kind of...

  5. Not sure how to make myself happier

    JZ_RN replied to greetings's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Same boat but I am in a miserable job and leaving it for what I hope is a much better position for me on days with no LTC crap staffing nonsense. I am in need of some serious

  6. No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

    JZ_RN replied to RNGriffin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Love this, I am jealous of you as well. I totally agree and wish I was in a union! Staffing is the bane of nursing, they don't have enough nurses to take the patients they bring in,

  7. No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

    JZ_RN replied to RNGriffin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You shouldn't be just "content" or "happy" because you have a job and others want one. You can hate your job and still appreciate having one at the same time. However, when you hate your job not...

  8. Are non-healthcare providers bound by HIPAA?

    JZ_RN replied to grownuprosie's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Certainly unprofessional and unethical. Not sure if it's a violation of HIPAA, however, it most likely is if she is employed for money, or if she works under a licensed individual or

  9. No need to be upset at the truth! Change careers

    JZ_RN replied to RNGriffin's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    LOL OH PLEASE. I LOVE patient care. I LOVE what I do. I don't love being treated like a disposable commodity, instead of a human being. I don't love when people treat me with disrespect like I'm a...

  10. Warning: Rant enclosed

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in General Nursing

    minnymi- They are not superior. They have a higher position than me but don't mistake that for "superior." Maybe, "egotistical" and "misinformed" as to what's really going on but don't think for one...

  11. Warning: Rant enclosed

    JZ_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I want to write self-righteous doctors prescriptions for "get over yourself" ATC AND PRN. If you're all so smart and better than the nurses who actually do everything for the patients except write the...

  12. Advice - Patient Ratio and BS Check in ALF

    JZ_RN replied to LFalcon's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    LFalcon- I do the accuchecks first at medpass. Then I do all the narcs. Then I go around the building and do IV's, finally, everyone gets their other pills afterwardsm (always late, but a cholesterol...

  13. Will I ever get out of LTC or am I doomed?

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am not saying the hospital job is what I want, I really just would like to do something where I can care for patients in a SAFE manner. That is

  14. Religion Needed to be a Good Nurse?

    JZ_RN replied to Kabin's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    NO. Just no. Religion is not needed in any way to be a good nurse. Care and concern for others and mutual respect for all spiritual beliefs is. You can be athiest or agnostic and still empathize with...

  15. Stupid things that nurses say

    JZ_RN replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Doing a treatment on a quadriplegic- I hope I'm not hurting you, if you feel anything let me know. .... He just goes, nah all I ever feel is pressure. He was so nice about it. I felt like a A) idiot...

  16. Please, please, please remember the 5 rights!

    JZ_RN replied to Double-Helix's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    And "Been there, done that" is right. even in this case, the syringe was labelled and the nurse just didn't check it, i would NEVER give something I didn't open the package to, or knew exactly what it...

  17. Please, please, please remember the 5 rights!

    JZ_RN replied to Double-Helix's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    How horrible and terrifying! I always check the med, dose, and patient name IMMEDIATELY before I hang any high risk med, and I double check my regular meds as well. has recently 2 patients with the...

  18. Giving two week notice...

    JZ_RN replied to Jess_Missouri_RN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Our manager schedules 1 month in advance. However since I am an at will employee I gave 2 weeks notice (the 3rd week, the one after my 2 weeks would be my vacation, only 2 days of it paid) and I don't...

  19. Advice - Patient Ratio and BS Check in ALF

    JZ_RN replied to LFalcon's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have 11 brittle diabetics with accuchecks and 53 residents. it's not

  20. Doctor's office vs. hospital

    JZ_RN replied to tsgarman's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I cannot wait to leave LTC to work in the clinic. No alzheimer's patients who try to hit you, you stool-filled depends, no angry families who want to know why mom or grandma can't walk anymore (well...

  21. Alzhiemers

    JZ_RN replied to tsmason's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    LOL I know those might help but who has time to get music and snacks for patients in LTC? I know I don't. Wish I did but with 53+ patients I just don't. And the lights have 2 settings... on and

  22. Should penmanship be a mandatory course for physicians?

    JZ_RN replied to DichloroacetateAl's topic in General Nursing

    Physicians should just write electronic orders AND PUT THEM IN THEMSELVES. I can't be sitting trying to read and figure out what they wrote, their incomplete orders, then have to call and clarify and...

  23. Stool around femoral line: How do I get the nurses to listen to a student?

    JZ_RN replied to SNB1014's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    They wouldn't place a femoral line except as a last resort, and if a patient is A+O they should be able to call for a bedpan, whether one gets there in time or not is a whole different story. I agree...

  24. Med Pass

    JZ_RN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I wouldn't want a med tech who doesn't know the A&P/nursing part of drugs and how they effect patients, plus how they work, plus the parameters, plus the patient's medical issues to be passing...

  25. Warning: Rant enclosed

    JZ_RN replied to JZ_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I can relate to that, some nurses treat aides like crap, etc. The point is that any decent person shows respect for their coworkers and doesn't treat people like they're idiots just because they...