T-Bird78

T-Bird78

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  1. Fake News: Nursing Shortage Due to Covid

    T-Bird78 replied to cherylrenee's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well, I’m ready to leave the profession, just waiting on my local technical school to start the medical coding program next year and I’m done. The hospital my doctors do surgeries at has lost 5...

  2. If you didn't have to bite your tongue?

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

    “I don’t care what the scale says, we have to get vitals, including weight, on every patient, so shut up, take your shoes off, and get on the scale. I don’t care if it is ‘just the ear...

  3. I called in sick today, they didn't accept it.

    T-Bird78 replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    I called out one day because my 9-year-old son was throwing up and running a fever and he couldn’t go to school. Apparently a coworker called out because she’d been in the ER with her boyfriend...

  4. If you didn't have to bite your tongue?

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

    SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! Like I told you when you called the first 3 times, your surgical specialist will NOT prescribe meds for migraines, HTN, or diabetes. You have a PCP for that. Oh,...

  5. My boyfriend is still unvaccinated

    T-Bird78 replied to vio's topic in Disaster Preparation

    He’s willing to lie and falsify documentation just to shut you up? Yep, sounds like a winner. You will never change a guy you’re dating. If he’s showing his true colors then move on. Don’t be...

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

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

    Honest to goodness, I had a Harry Pitts this Summer. Not Harold, but given name is Harry, and he’s a junior, so his dad gave him that name knowing how much he was teased as a kid. I also had a pt...

  7. Cell Phone Use at Work: Is It Appropriate?

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

    My nursing school instructors forbid phones at our clinical sites so that’s been ingrained in me from my nursing school days. One of my employers made us keep our phones in our lockers, no...

  8. Weighing pts

    T-Bird78 posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I know we all *love* getting pt’s weights at office visits. I get the annoyed huff, the eye roll, the “what does that have to do with anything”, all the usual. I’ve always, from day one in my...

  9. The Things That Come Out Of Your Mouth...

    T-Bird78 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I’d opened the door to the waiting room and called my next pt back. Pt stood up and told me to keep talking, as he was following the sound of my voice. Pt had on the dark glasses and unfolded his...

  10. How many unvaccinated coworkers are you aware of?

    T-Bird78 replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have one coworker, front desk, who submitted her resignation for the deadline to be vaccinated at our healthcare system. After contracting COVID for a second time, she told our manager if she...

  11. Pregnant, when do you start light duty?

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

    As someone who had rough pregnancies, I can understand the need to at least ask for a lighter load. I had hyperemesis gravidarum, or “severe morning sickness” with both mine (calling HG ‘severe...

  12. 9/11 20th Anniversary- Where Were You When Our Country was Attacked, the Twin Towers Fell and America was Changed Forever?

    T-Bird78 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I was working in a different profession completely, 8 months pregnant with my first child. I’d heard snippets of conversation and my mom called and asked if I’d heard about it. I’d been to New...

  13. Just Feeling Done With Nursing

    T-Bird78 replied to Nurseybl06's topic in General Nursing

    I’m done, too. Pts attitudes are horrible, their family member’s attitudes suck, and I’m tired of tiptoeing around doctor’s

  14. Curious about how confident nurses here are in testing patients for COVID

    T-Bird78 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I had to undergo an online COVID testing module and a quick test before I was assigned to work COVID testing for preop pts. I went all the way in with the swab, up to the line, and I’d warn pts that...

  15. Vaccination Mandating

    T-Bird78 replied to Ariemay82's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My healthcare system has a deadline of October 1 and if you’re not complaint by then, you’re suspended without pay until you get your vaccine OR 30 days, at which point you’ll be terminated. One...

  16. Do you think you are a "hero"?

    T-Bird78 replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No, we’re just a little crazier than most people LOL. We do put ourselves in harm’s way on a daily basis, but we are trained in how to safely do that and have the necessary equipment to do that....

  17. I Think I'm Done With Nursing

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

    I’m done also. I’m trying to decide between going to school for medical coding or ask if my friend’s insurance agency is hiring and do customer service stuff. I’ve been working by myself for...

  18. Covid and Non-Covid on Same Floor?

    T-Bird78 replied to P IV's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was pulled from my office location to work in one of our larger hospitals within my healthcare system early this year. I’ve never worked in a hospital so it was a first for me! I was told it’d...

  19. California 1st in nation to require vaccines for health care workers

    T-Bird78 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m in a low-vaccine state. My healthcare system, one of the largest in the state, told us last week that the vaccine is mandatory for ALL staff, even work-from-home staff, by a set date. If you do...

  20. Second Thoughts on Becoming a Nurse

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

    I’m an LPN for 14 years now, graduated nursing school at 30, and I am seriously considering getting out NOW. I wish I had gone on to get my RN so I had some non-bedside options but everything...

  21. Things I wish my patients understood

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

    I’ve found that pts will yell at me “I’ve been waiting 45 minutes for this appointment! What is taking so long???” And when the doctor comes in and does his thing, the pt leaves smiling...

  22. Manager wants us back in office...

    T-Bird78 replied to rn30's topic in General Nursing

    Sigh. No pity from me LOL. As someone who’s worked in a “cushy” medical office job, we NEVER closed. Last year we were doing mostly virtual visits for about 6 weeks but still had to go in for...

  23. Things I wish my patients understood

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

    I do not work for your insurance company. The doctor is NOT going to order a CT sinus STAT because your insurance requires a 14-day precert time frame and you’ve had chronic sinusitis for years....

  24. Going from med surg to ambulatory surgery - working with kids?

    T-Bird78 replied to s0ad's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I’m not in a surgical setting but we do see peds and adults and do in-office procedures. Just talk to kids at their level and try distraction techniques. I try and talk to them about a favorite...

  25. Coworker leaving but won’t put in notice

    T-Bird78 posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    My coworker came in on a Monday and we got an email that they were taking 2 months FMLA effective the next day. At the end of the day coworker told myself and our other coworker that it was a family...