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  1. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, you're desciribng our kind quite precisely. :flowersfo As much as I hate to be that way, I will think twice, before I do anything for anyone next time. It's so absurd, I would have been better...

  2. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, that sounds reasonable. But it's hard though (eventhough irrationally), to send the baby away for the day, while leaving big sister at home. ...Can't really imagine that yet. It would definitely...

  3. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the rock hard advice. Everything WAS done for my patients. I made the error as I was helping other staff at the end of the shift. Basically, all these three unfortunate events took place...

  4. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    I did... But thus far I didn't find a way of doing it without having to stop to work and didn't really seriously concider being willing to give up my hospital job. I'm one of those people that once...

  5. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    My patients were on the tape FIRST! So I guess she was being lazy. What kind of boggles my mind is that the charge nurse didn't think so. :selfbonk: The order called for 70/30, I wrote down in the...

  6. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! At that time, I didn't even think of that and didn't realize, that I taped on the wrong tape (since evening shift before me did it too, incidentaly - which didn't bother me any...) If she...

  7. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all so much.... I know that I have a lot of thinking to do...

  8. assignments based on Patient Accuity

    estrogen replied to Alrn's topic in General Nursing

    YEAH...acuity me... We just all get six in a row. If there's more staff, LPN's get six, RN's get the open beds for poss. admits (how fair is that when there aren't any admits?). The floor is simply...

  9. 1)Feeling picked on, 2) How much is too much? A vent of a nurse/mom loosing her mind.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, thanks, SmilingBluEyes. I'm

  10. Inappropriate ER doc?

    estrogen replied to elizabells's topic in Emergency

    Was his name House, by any chance?

  11. NIGHT SHIFT - Bored out of my mind

    estrogen posted a topic in General Nursing

    I started night shift about two months ago. I came from bussy day shift and before that I spent two years on my most favorite shift - swing (Oh how I miss you, my cheerfull, sometimes b****y but...

  12. NIGHT SHIFT - Bored out of my mind

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Boy, you've got it made then

  13. NIGHT SHIFT - Bored out of my mind

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    Now, for those who said, that there ARE times, when there's nothing to do and you spend time reading a book, knitting, crosheting etc. Is that OK? No one complains, no one is offended? It's just that...

  14. NIGHT SHIFT - Bored out of my mind

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    ....and everyone else who understood, Oh thank you so much for the kind words of support! I feels so god to know that someone has been there... I don't feel so much like a freak anymore.

  15. NIGHT SHIFT - Bored out of my mind

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle I think you hit the nail on the

  16. OB nurses, what do you do in adoption situations?

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Ob/Gyn

    ....and this opinion has it's merrit too. How interesting, two opinions and the completely oposite end of the spectrum ( yours and the one from reprise, posted above) and both are

  17. OB nurses, what do you do in adoption situations?

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Wow....there's DEFINITELY something to

  18. What Exciting Thing is Your Management Doing For 'Nurses Week'???

    estrogen replied to Mystery5's topic in General Nursing

    yet another travel cup, I'm

  19. cannot get over mistake

    estrogen replied to takrn's topic in General Nursing

    forgive me for asking, but I would really like to know what are the consequences for you and for the hospital when something like this happens? Was there a lawsuit? It yes, what was your role in it?...

  20. PT INR critical level, not once, not twice

    estrogen replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in General Nursing

    Idon't get it eighther. why isn't the doctor holding her coumadin 'till her PT comes

  21. Your opinion on HOSPITALISTS.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Hospitalists don't have their own practice outside the hospital. They function solely within the hospital and take over the care of patients that are hospitalized. Intensivists are kind of the same...

  22. apts or townhomes in Tacoma Washington

    estrogen replied to serinamour's topic in Washington Nursing

    I did clinicals in St.

  23. Your opinion on HOSPITALISTS.

    estrogen replied to estrogen's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Wow, I think my hosp is progressive for once. We are a 250 bed hosp. (I guess you couldn't call it rural, but let's say small town) and we have seven hospitalists and three...

  24. Disposing of IV bags?

    estrogen replied to PJMommy's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's a JCAHO violation if you don't have your IV bags labeled. If ours don't come labeled from pharmacy - i.e. NS, or the stuff out of the Pixys, we have to label it ourselves before it's...

  25. I love nursing but I'm too busy to:

    estrogen replied to UM Review RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our CNA's are too bussy too... Often even more so, than we are, if that's even humanly possible. Darn staffing anyway