audreysmagic RN

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    Curiosity Killed the Cat and Got 50 Hospital Employees Fired

    audreysmagic replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    This. It's my understanding that the employees fired were not at all involved in the individual's care. They were literally just peeking. I work on a small unit in which we work as a team as well....
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    Curiosity Killed the Cat and Got 50 Hospital Employees Fired

    audreysmagic replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    There can be a lot of information on the name screen, too, at least in
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    Curiosity Killed the Cat and Got 50 Hospital Employees Fired

    audreysmagic replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    This has been all over the news in Chicago...realistically, Northwestern can probably absorb losing the 50 employees (they weren't solely nurses) pretty quickly - it's a huge facility. I work at a...
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    Help me name my baby!

    audreysmagic posted a topic in General Nursing

    ...not a real human one, though. Or even a fuzzy one. I'm a BLS instructor, among the many things I do, and all my CPR mannequins have names. It was purely for my own amusement at first, but then I...
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    Blast from the past...

    audreysmagic posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, yours truly is of an age where the original Power Rangers was her must-see TV in her preteen years. And because I've been stressed and needing a bit of 90's nostalgia, I've been re-watching the...
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    Ain't no fire now, it's gone...

    audreysmagic posted a topic in General Nursing

    It has been a weird few weeks here at my current hospital, which I have decided is probably an affiliate of @Davey Do's Wrongway Medical Center...but this last week or so takes the cake. (Maybe it's...
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    Ain't no fire now, it's gone...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    What can I say? I cope with humor.
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    Blast from the past...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    And here I thought being stressed was just a common side effect of nursing.
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    Blast from the past...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not laughing - I'd be sitting on the couch next to you watching
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    If you could give one piece of advice back when you were a new grad RN, what would it be?

    audreysmagic replied to Mursthetics's topic in General Nursing

    If someone can't be a good example, they might become a horrible
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    If you could give one piece of advice back when you were a new grad RN, what would it be?

    audreysmagic replied to Mursthetics's topic in General Nursing

    And: Go on to your BSN right away, kid. Don't think that year or two gap will cure your academic fatigue, because you'll jump right in to working full-time and eventually two years will become 13....
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    If you could give one piece of advice back when you were a new grad RN, what would it be?

    audreysmagic replied to Mursthetics's topic in General Nursing

    Eventually, there will be a day when you will fail to be surprised by a patient's antics. Impressed, perhaps, but not
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    Happy dance!

    audreysmagic posted a topic in Pediatric

    I'm so excited! My background is in pediatrics, but I've done time in psych nursing, which is another specialty I love. It's given me a lot of valuable experiences, especially as I've moved up the...
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    Happy dance!

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in Pediatric

    Funny enough, I was in Albuquerque this weekend...I must've taken a right on the way back, because I ended up in
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    Happy dance!

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in Pediatric

    Thanks, guys! I went away for the weekend and my current job welcomed me back with a burst pipe issue... ? So this made me smile for sure when I logged back
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    Happy dance!

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in Pediatric

    Thanks! I'm really excited. I've been longing to get back to working with small
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    How do you decompress?

    audreysmagic replied to BarrelOfMonkeys's topic in General Nursing

    I love the trend of adult coloring books. I have one specifically for nurses...it's a little sassy (ie, "The 'H' out front doesn't stand for hotel!"), but it sure helps with the stress
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    How do you decompress?

    audreysmagic replied to BarrelOfMonkeys's topic in General Nursing

    Writing (or plotting, anyhow...somehow, that's always more fun than the actual writing), chatting with a friend/family, watching something nerdy or that I don't have to think hard about, snuggling...
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    The ballad of the lonely educator

    audreysmagic posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I was supposed to have an inservice, like...15 minutes ago...but no one's showed up. This isn't exactly the first time I've been stood up, and it's one of multiple sessions, but...still. I have...
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    Nursing Uniforms: From Skirts to Scrubs and Beyond

    audreysmagic replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure what side of the argument you're on, but I'd like to see it, myself. I had a "fun" hair color for awhile, while it was not outside of my hospital's dress-code policy (they later changed it,...
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    Nursing Uniforms: From Skirts to Scrubs and Beyond

    audreysmagic replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    The cape, I admit, could be awkward and it's an infection control nightmare. BUT I STILL WANT ONE. I keep promising myself that for Halloween, I'm going to do an old-school nursing uniform just so I...
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    GoFundMe

    audreysmagic replied to hawaiicarl's topic in Nursing Humor

    I share a birthday (obvs not the same year ;)) with Lucille Ball...she's one of my comedy inspirations! I nicknamed my writing muse "Lucy," as she's always got some 'splainin' to do... My theory on...
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    The ballad of the lonely educator

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    UGH...so, venting time. Came in to do another session of this in-service, on my day off...my plan was to do it and go home (then come back for my afternoon sessions, as I don't live far)....
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    Would this shirt get me into trouble in class?

    audreysmagic replied to FloridaLPN19's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Agreed. It just feels too...narcissistic. Like, I smile when other people tag me in nurses-save-lives memes because they're thinking of me, and they appreciate what I do. But posting them myself...
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    PTO/Sick Leave, etc.

    audreysmagic replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Same! I've used "I have plans tonight" to dodge working over (now that I'm not in the schools anymore, alas)...they don't need to know that my plans involve sitting in my PJ's and eating frozen...