TreetopAngel_RN

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  1. CNA Abuse??

    TreetopAngel_RN posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    This was the weekend that one of my evening CNA's started on the nightshift and wouldn't you know we would have the "weekend from hell." I also had a new evening CNA covering the shift left open by...

  2. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    This past weekend was it! Two patients in the same room, they both work hard to wake each other up, i.e. banging on furniture, yelling and shouting to each other, ambulating (which they are NOT...

  3. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    :rotfl: Thank you! Thank you! I needed that one after my

  4. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh how I wish I could do this. I will tell patients that no staff member will be answering their call light for 15 minutes. This at least gives us a breather so we can take care of our other 19...

  5. Is Your Last Name On Your Badge?

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Only once was my last name obscured on a name badge, as a student nurse on the psych unit. Since then my full name has been on the badge. I believe we could get by with a first name and last initial,...

  6. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I came up with one from Saturday noc, after a set of circumstances left me alone on the unit (20 patients) for 8 hours without a CNA: Never, never call the front desk to report that you want the...

  7. Have you noticed an increase in patients with type II diabetes?

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to Brian's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Definitely YES! And many of them say they didn't have diabetes before they went into the hospital. I have patients that I am checking blood sugars four times a day and they have sliding scale...

  8. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    As of midnght tonight my two-week vacation is over. I chose to take vacation at this time because I needed surgery, a surgery that my doctor considered urgent. I waited to take this vacation (have...

  9. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I fully sympathize with your position. I get to try to call for replacements after the bars close and people call-in at three in the morning. There is no best time to call people to be in at 0630...

  10. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

    The spousal unit says, "BRILLIANT!"

  11. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I refuse to get an answering machine. The scheduler had the guts to tell me I *HAD* to get one so she could leave me messages. I told her, "If I don't answer the phone, I'm unavailable."...

  12. Vacation Woes (rant)

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to TreetopAngel_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the advice. However, I still feel that a person's vacation should be inviolate, let alone recovering from surgery. I have voice mail and caller ID, but I resent that I cannot even...

  13. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    That's when I make sure their bedside table is as close to them as possible and remind them that their arms are not broken. I also remind them that I am there for the things they CANNOT do for...

  14. Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Too often! I had a dream one night that I came in to drop something off and the nurse on duty asked me to flush a tube feeder as she was swamped. While I was flushing the one I heard the next pump...

  15. ER Pet Peeves

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    But, if my norm is lower than the average norm, I hope you listen before I start into seizures. I had a nurse ignore my high temp of 98.8, my norm is 94.2 and I went into seizures, and found out my...

  16. Worst information given in shift report!!!

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    But, sometimes that is all there is to say. I work three nights (weekends) in row and report off to the same dayshift nurse two days in a row. If there is no change and they had a good day, I am...

  17. Going home from night shift

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to promises's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That's the one I use! Nothing like waking up the whole parking lot with AC/DC blaring out the window! The younger folks at work are surprised this Granny listens to AC/DC! Little do they

  18. You know you've been a nurse for way too long when...

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to jalvino1's topic in General Nursing

    I takes you seconds to hear a feeding or IV pump beep and minutes to hear a call light. You bring home your leftover, store-bought lunch in a bio-hazard bag. Just last week I counter-signed my...

  19. New nurse scared to talk to doctors!!

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to cparrish's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't be afraid to tell doctors when you don't understand what they are ordering/saying. One week into my nursing career I asked the doc I had called if he was on his cell phone and driving. He told...

  20. You know you've been a nurse for way too long when...

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to jalvino1's topic in General Nursing

    When the doctor tries to teach your spouse some aspect of his care and he says, "I don't need to know that, my wife's a nurse." I coulda shot him! I also taught him how to check his own blood pressure...

  21. Nurse Not Doing Her Job

    TreetopAngel_RN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Keep in mind I don't do well with confrontation, I usually get so angry I start crying... Two weekends ago I had run out of blood test strips for our monitor on my last patient that morning. I...

  22. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Your story reminded me of one incident with a doctor during nursing school: I picked an elderly patient who had just had abdominal surgery. All the floor nurses told me I would regret the choice as...

  23. RN who wouldn't be CNA

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to cjog's topic in Nursing Career

    Not true in all walks of nursing. My CNA's have 14 patients, each...I have 28 patients. And nurses don't have only patient care to do, they have many other duties, on top of patient care. I do...

  24. Share Your Saying

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    Then I am glad I helped make part of your day! I pull out the soapbox, myself, on occasion. Lots of explaining, lots of love and lots of care...can't get much better!

  25. Share Your Saying

    TreetopAngel_RN replied to angelique777's topic in Nursing Humor

    I stole your quote...properly cited, of course! I wish I had said it. Thank you!