Judee Smudee

Judee Smudee ADN, RN

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  1. Drug Users in the hospital

    Judee Smudee replied to Ready's topic in General Nursing

    MIs and CHFs are acute medical problems that require acute treatment. Some people with drug problems do have acute problems that do need emergency treatment. However, many people with drug problems...

  2. Drug Users in the hospital

    Judee Smudee replied to Ready's topic in General Nursing

    Everything you say is true but on the other hand I have complete sympathy for the ER nurses who are about at their wits end with this particular problem. The real problem is that their is very little...

  3. Heparin Error - Distraught

    Judee Smudee replied to tulips79's topic in General Nursing

    Your feeling are understandable, they are valid under the circumstances. Any nurse worth their salt would feel bad. The only thing you can do is learn and move on from

  4. I feel really awful

    Judee Smudee replied to alli's topic in General Nursing

    Show me a nurse who does not wonder if more could be done and I will show you a nurse I don't want to take care of

  5. Identity Theft in the Hospital

    Judee Smudee replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I remember when myself and my fellow employees had to threaten a law suit just to keep our employer from having time cards with SSI number on them kept in public place. It is a good enviroment to...

  6. use of oral syinges to administer oral meds

    Judee Smudee replied to vague1's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have used a syringe to administer meds to patient many times. The fact that you are not supposed to do this is news to me. Matter of fact the meds came in prefilled syringes from

  7. No call/show doing OT.

    Judee Smudee replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Every place I have ever worked had very strict rules about this sort of behavior. This employee would be placed on probabtion and if it continued fired. You should not be worrying about this,...

  8. Signing things you didn't do

    Judee Smudee replied to dinkymouse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I can't believe the things I read here sometimes. I have NEVER run into such a situation. She needs to be made to see that she is putting herself and you as legal risk. If something gets signed off...

  9. Forced retention?

    Judee Smudee replied to holly31's topic in General Nursing

    One question about this situation if you don't mind. Did you give your two week notice to go to another facility that is part of the same healthcare organization for which you already work? The...

  10. Pensions Should Not Be Workers' Priority

    Judee Smudee replied to Geeg's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you asked 100 people same age say 40, how many of them had done serious retirement planning, I bet the number who were not paying attention is pretty high. It is never to late to do pension...

  11. Something fishy about advertisment for medication.

    Judee Smudee posted a topic in General Nursing

    There is an ad running for Nexium on TV aimed at senior citizens. Each time I see it something seems not right. It starts with ordinary looking older couple. He says "she worries all the time"....

  12. Nurse/Patient Ratios

    Judee Smudee replied to justmanda's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If they give you the lecture if a fall occurs it is on your head and not theirs. If State and Joint commission can mandate the lecture why can't they mandate patient

  13. Something fishy about advertisment for medication.

    Judee Smudee replied to Judee Smudee's topic in General Nursing

    Three cheers for

  14. Nurse/Patient Ratios

    Judee Smudee replied to justmanda's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have been coming to this site for about six months now and no one has given a better synopsis of the situation than you. It looks to me that the only thing that is going to stop the problems that...

  15. helping a nurse with drug use/job

    Judee Smudee replied to kkind4's topic in General Nursing

    I think that attitudes toward chronic pain need to be updated in healthcare and thoughtout our society. BONs are severly out of date about this and many other issues. I do not take pain meds for...

  16. some HR people

    Judee Smudee posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was on a job interview recently. The HR person was touting the fact that they had direct deposit, it apparently was something new for them. She said "you really ought to sign up for it, it is...

  17. Bait and switch

    Judee Smudee replied to ZZTopRN's topic in General Nursing

    Like you I am around 60 and like you I have witnessed a lot of dishonesty on the part of recruiters. I have only worked in healthcare but I wonder if this sort of dishonesty is as prevalent in other...

  18. Charge nurse Issues

    Judee Smudee replied to cameleon's topic in General Nursing

    You are being taken advantage of by managment. I guess you get roped in just like we all do. You start out trying to be a team player and only later realized that someone mistook you for a dormat....

  19. Ever had a family overdramatic with dying patient?

    Judee Smudee replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

    There are cultural differences and we have to accept them. In my family a show like that would be unacceptable and the other family members would feel as if they had been disgraced and yes we do have...

  20. Agencies in the Burgh

    Judee Smudee posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I haven't done Agency nursing in ages. Just thinking of trying it again. Do any of you have PERSONAL experiece with an agency you really liked? You can email me privately if you would rather not post....

  21. Parkinson med causing compulsive gambling?

    Judee Smudee replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Hubby and I are quite amused by this article. We are thinking that we are getting a little long in the tooth and that if we could somehow skip the compulsive gambling and go straight to the...

  22. Ctr Nsg Advocacy: Nurses upset over Univ of Alberta medical students "Medshow"

    Judee Smudee replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    In the US about 50% of med students are women. Where do the future doctors who happen to be female stand in all

  23. To all London nurses.

    Judee Smudee posted a topic in General Nursing

    God be with you, I know you are all very busy right now. I wish I was there to assist you but since I can't be you are in my thoughts and

  24. insurance

    Judee Smudee replied to meaton1421's topic in General Nursing

    Are you really saying that you used your facility for health care and they deducted it from you pay check? Or are you just saying that by the time you got done paying for things you had nothing left....

  25. Can any RNs tell me if this is true

    Judee Smudee replied to geminiskittels's topic in General Nursing

    If they do have that requirement they better have a full time person on board just to take all the phone calls. It might have been reasonable to have a rule like that 50 years ago but times have...