SassyTachyRN

SassyTachyRN

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  1. Glove use

    SassyTachyRN replied to Hopeful1003's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

  2. How much time off for Winter Break?

    SassyTachyRN replied to SassyTachyRN's topic in School

    I really wish we had some sort of break in February or so. Come then, I am dying for a break again. We usually get a lot of snow days in Feb. so that's my reprieve. The kids get very anxious come...

  3. How much time off for Winter Break?

    SassyTachyRN replied to SassyTachyRN's topic in School

    While I agree with you, I was trying to be.. "Politically correct." [emoji12] We don't get any break in February. In fact, after this break, nothing again until Spring

  4. 12/5: What I've learned this week - No, I don't have "just a second" to help you

    SassyTachyRN replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that I am tired. Really tired. And my patience is with just about everyone is running thin. Come on Christmas Break!!! (9 more school

  5. How much trouble am I in?

    SassyTachyRN replied to Tropicalsun's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm well aware of the fact that you can get into a supply room with your badge or code. (FWIW, our Pyxis would not let you in if you weren't clocked in). However, point is, if you're off the clock,...

  6. Glove use

    SassyTachyRN replied to Hopeful1003's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I don't use a TON of gloves in school nursing, but I still use them. Maybe 3-4 pairs a day, abrasions or bloody noses mostly. I do wash and sanitize constantly. My daughter is allergic to all...

  7. How much trouble am I in?

    SassyTachyRN replied to Tropicalsun's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How did you get the supplies to start the iv? They might look into that as a factor

  8. POTS and Psych

    SassyTachyRN replied to michlynn's topic in Cardiac

    I am glad you asked and glad I could offer some insight! I appreciate the fact that you wanted more info. There is a wide range of how incapacitated it causes people, I have found. The specialist that...

  9. POTS and Psych

    SassyTachyRN replied to michlynn's topic in Cardiac

    Exactly. Thank you. I belong to many online POTS support groups and many go years before receiving a proper diagnosis. Most are told to go see a psychiatrist because their symptoms "are all in their...

  10. POTS and Psych

    SassyTachyRN replied to michlynn's topic in Cardiac

    I have POTS. I was diagnosed at age 29. I was not a new mom. My children were 10 and 5 when I was diagnosed. I have no psychiatric conditions. I am a nurse. I work full time. I had to take...

  11. Is it possible to get the holidays off?

    SassyTachyRN replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm a school nurse, I'm off Dec 19th-Jan 3rd, paid. I never work holidays, nights, or weekends, obviously. When I worked in the hospital we rotated holidays. If you worked Labor Day you were off...

  12. TGIF

    SassyTachyRN replied to SchoolNurseTXstyle's topic in School

    I had one in my office this morning who christened an ENTIRE hallway. He didn't know what to do so he just went back to class and didn't tell his teacher he threw up. Luckily, another kid saw him do...

  13. Today's funny

    SassyTachyRN replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    I have a date with Mr. Moscato

  14. Is it Friday Yet?

    SassyTachyRN replied to SnowyJ's topic in School

    I am SO with you. Please, week, go

  15. Frustration with office staff

    SassyTachyRN replied to zombieghoast's topic in School

    That is crazy. That is absolutely a litigation nightmare waiting to happen when no one will give an epi pen or an albuterol inhaler/tx because the nurse isn't in the building. This is why I am...

  16. what do the students call you?

    SassyTachyRN replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in School

    I go by Nurse Firstname, but the prek kids call me Miss Firstname because that's what they call their teachers and I'm ok with that. I don't like to be called Mrs. Lastname. Too formal for me and I...

  17. Least Favorite Things Patients Say

    SassyTachyRN replied to remotefuse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "I just don't know, but something doesn't feel/seem right." You know, that feeling of impending doom. That patient you watch constantly because you feel like they might crash at any given

  18. Who's Working Today ?

    SassyTachyRN replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    I am working... full day today for us. Parents are calling me about Monday already... kids are saying, "see you Monday!" as they leave the clinic. NO! NO! I don't even want to think about Monday when...

  19. Happy Thanksgiving!

    SassyTachyRN replied to 100kids's topic in School

    Happy Thanksgiving to all my WONDERFUL fellow school nurses. I am so THANKFUL for all of you and your

  20. Where did you start working right after getting your RN license?

    SassyTachyRN replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    I started on an inpatient oncology floor, but we also took med surg patients if we had room. I did sub school nursing prn while doing that and I have been full time school nursing for three years now....

  21. Orientation Questions

    SassyTachyRN replied to DEgalRN's topic in School

    How much orientation did you get when you started? A week What did it focus on? Everything, it was in the summer before school started, in a small group of other newly hired nurses, a full 40 hours...

  22. Patient care question

    SassyTachyRN replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    So.. Question. They go off hospice and into the hospital to have a gtube placed. They come out of the hospital and want to go back on hospice. But the tube is placed and obviously going to be used for...

  23. Vibra Hospital

    SassyTachyRN replied to stepbystep12's topic in Oregon Nursing

    I have a friend who works for a Vibra... I have heard they are high acuity patients like others said before (basically from icu) but yet I have heard staffing ratios are anywhere from 4-6 patients to...

  24. Ridiculous Reasons to See the Nurse

    SassyTachyRN replied to NanaPoo's topic in School

    I had a first grader sent down yesterday with rocks in his shoe... Seriously... He had to walk two LONG hallways to get to me for me to tell him to take off his shoe and shake the rocks out. By then...

  25. Demotion from DON, self report to BON

    SassyTachyRN replied to MB,RN's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Since they gave you the option of staying on as a floor nurse, obviously they believe you are a competent RN. Therefore, I don't see the point in the BON involvement? You weren't fired and reported...