Thessaly36

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1. Drug seekers

   Thessaly36 replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

   Well first I avoid this conflict by staying in my own bubble and do go with the "if it's ordered and they say they have pain the they get it" philosophy. A drug seeking patient on the hospital drugs...

2. How to Land a Job

   Thessaly36 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   In my area the only way to get a job at one of the few hospitals if you are a new grad is to physically go in and talk to the nurse managers and hand out your resume. The market is so small they don't...

3. Pain med admin

   Thessaly36 replied to kimdav's topic in Patient Medications

   Interesting, when I had my 2nd child I was Rx ibu and norco because they potentials each other. I often get an order for ibuprofen for my patients with their opioids because I know it's super...

4. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Thessaly36 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses like you always baffle me. How can one work in a field that requires so much use of common sense and so much scientific education and understand and yet clearly still not use science or common...

5. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Thessaly36 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   You would rather not get a flu shot because this person got H1N1 and almost died? You realize that makes absolutely no sense

6. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Thessaly36 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Do you know why that's a ridiculous and irresponsible assertion or are you just being

7. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

   Thessaly36 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   First I'd like to point out that we're getting much closer to a universal Flu vaccine which would seemingly skew some numbers in the studies you present. Scientists Take Huge Step Toward Universal Flu...

8. An Atheist Nurse in King James Hospital

   Thessaly36 replied to EMSnurse411's topic in Spirituality, Religion

   The more posts I read on this site the happier I am that I live and work in California. I very rarely have any issues with my atheism and when I do get an ultra religious patient I just avoid the...

9. Become a Nurse without Nursing School

   Thessaly36 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

   Where I work we have a lab tech like that. Stories about how she used to be a nurse and always wants to give input on patients like she has a license. Guess she doesn't know that you can look up...

10. Become a Nurse without Nursing School

    Thessaly36 replied to Longa's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if anyone has brought this up but I have worked with a few "diploma" nurses from back in the day and although they have been nurses for upwards of 40 years they still lack a lot of the...

11. Threatened by patient

    Thessaly36 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yet again I am thrilled I work in California. Our laws are very specific about nursing and they tend to veer toward the nurses side of the

12. To Say or Not to Say Hospice?

    Thessaly36 replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    On a side note I'm not sure who we are really fooling because all of our Hospice services still have hospice in the name i.e. Hospice By the

13. To Say or Not to Say Hospice?

    Thessaly36 replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I work in the Bay Area of California and all of the facilities I have dealings with are trying very hard to get away from the term "hospice". We now use Palliative Care or Confort Care and instead of...

14. Lessons Learned as an Expert Nurse Witness

    Thessaly36 replied to ElizabethStoneRN's topic in General Nursing

    You comment also makes the point of not "precharting". I worked for a short time at a hospital that had a serious precharting problem once the new EMR rolled out because they hadn't prefected what the...