T-Bird78

T-Bird78

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  1. Charge nurse unnecessary comments

    T-Bird78 replied to thevez's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Can you tell by her body language and/or tone of voice if she's joking or serious? She may be trying to keep it light by joking, or there may be a smidge of truth behind her statements. I worked in...

  2. Most Frustrating Thing ?

    T-Bird78 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    Yep. I've heard from more than one pt that insurance won't cover it or even with the $100 copay card it's still over $200 out of pocket. There's a generic auto-administer self-injector epi device...

  3. Never Say the Q Word

    T-Bird78 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Or "bored" or "it's slow". I was working in a small office and the MA said she was bored and I fussed at her for saying that out loud. She said it again 5 minutes later and the doc opened the exam...

  4. Most Frustrating Thing ?

    T-Bird78 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    EpiPen coupons can be used with insurance EXCEPT government plans--Medicare, Medicaid and its varieties, Tricare. I work in allergy so we're filling those forms out for school all the time. If we dx...

  5. Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

    T-Bird78 replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    I asked someone with full sleeve tattoos on both arms, with full color and shading, who his henna artist was when pt said he hates

  6. Grey's Anatomy Scrubs- how to keep in good condition?

    T-Bird78 replied to rnbsn694's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I wondered if they were worth the $, and also if they were made for people NOT built like Katherine Heigl and Ellen

  7. Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    T-Bird78 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Pt can be alert but not oriented. They can be wide awake and coherent but not know person, place, or time. There is a difference between alert and oriented. I think the post was referring to people...

  8. Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    T-Bird78 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    That would be a noun--if they're impacted they're certainly not

  9. Has being a nurse changed your outlook on...

    T-Bird78 replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Hospice gets a bad reputation for just "doping people up on morphine" but it is so great and such a great resource for families. My FIL was on home hospice care the last week of his life (he was dx...

  10. My best friend is now a patient on the floor I work on

    T-Bird78 replied to EmergencyChocolate's topic in HIPAA Challenges

  11. Upset/impatient patients

    T-Bird78 replied to ginazimmermann's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I don't like meaningful use stuff either. Follow-up visits are a little easier because we can just compare what we already have on file with what they're currently taking (although I ask how often...

  12. Would you do this...? Thoughts....

    T-Bird78 replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine has had have a NG tube to survive due to gastroparesis. After seeing the struggles she has on a daily basis with this horrible condition, I can say there is NO WAY IN H--L I would do...

  13. Giving versus taking...lol

    T-Bird78 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    That's mine too. I used to watch when I had to have blood drawn of IVs started, but since becoming a nurse I run from people. I've told more than one nurse to drop the 20g and pick up that 24g...

  14. best i quit or fired story

    T-Bird78 replied to OnlinePersona's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    HR was at our main location and I was working in the satellite location. The coworker suggested I take it in case they wanted me to work at the main location, but in reality she knew I was getting...

  15. Job to have more family time

    T-Bird78 replied to Belle2013's topic in General Nursing

    I've only worked in offices so that I can have the evenings, weekends, and holidays home with my family. Check with specialist offices versus PCP because they're more likely to use nurses vs. MAs....

  16. best i quit or fired story

    T-Bird78 replied to OnlinePersona's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was waiting tables (briefly) while in nursing school. I had worked the dinner-to-close shift on a Friday and had to be back for opening the next day (scheduled 7-3). At 3:30 I asked if I could...

  17. If you accept a job, stay at least a year

    T-Bird78 replied to Emergent's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I left a job after not quite 3 months because I had a much better and closer and higher-paying job come up. The job I left was an hour and a half drive in traffic, pay to park, no breakroom so you...

  18. Pay for parking?

    T-Bird78 replied to Paws2people's topic in General Nursing

    My current employer has free parking, but the large medical center downtown (hospital, multi-storied physician office tower, and attached parking deck) charged $6/day for parking. Being a M-F...

  19. Patient Education

    T-Bird78 replied to crNAtion's topic in Patient Education

    Verbal instruction, written instructions, demonstrations of med administration (inhalers, epi pen devices, etc) but the stubborn ones will just nod at you, acknowledge they need to quit smoking but go...

  20. office setting nurses

    T-Bird78 replied to littlekaneRN's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    We're a smaller clinic but still have around 20 pts daily with 3 nurses and 1 provider. One nurse does take back (rooming, vitals, lung function; also pt education and other misc. tasks the doc...

  21. Maternity Scrubs

    T-Bird78 replied to MountainBikeChick's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I wore my regular scrub pants (yay for drawstring and elastic, just wore the waistband under my belly) and bought scrub tops a size larger. I was all belly, looked like I swallowed a...

  22. Nurses with worse spelling than mine are laughable.

    T-Bird78 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A preceptor of my classmate called it "deltroid" when she did an IM. My classmate looked at the chart one time and it had been spelled correctly, then the preceptor grabbed the chart to "correct" the...

  23. Why can't we tell pts/families we're understaffed?

    T-Bird78 replied to delphine22's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The facility doesn't want to appear mismanaged, disorganized, and cheap. By telling pts the facility is understaffed it gives the impression they don't care and can't find people to work. It could...

  24. Common nicknames for hospital items.

    T-Bird78 replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    Annoying pt/family member is a PITA--pain in the

  25. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    T-Bird78 replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    A few years ago I had a Godswill. The odd thing is in 70 years there'll be nursing homes full of Precious and