Warpster

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  1. Do I have a right to be upset?

    Warpster replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    You have a right to raise hell and put a board under it and the contract to back it up. You have already not only worked your family holiday this season, there is no way they can screw with your...

  2. Unrealistic steriotypes of medicine on TV

    Warpster replied to chnc1024's topic in General Nursing

    For me, ER was a stress reliever. I mean, consider the scene when a fresh cardiac transplant patient in a bed is being leisurely strolled down a hallway by the ER doc who has morphed into a...

  3. "It jsut water weight........"

    Warpster replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    During the earliest stages of a deficiency diet, your body compensates by using up glycogen stores in the liver. Glycogen is large molecules made of glucose hooked together by water molecules. As...

  4. Banner Hospitals to go to Uniforms

    Warpster replied to WoosahRN's topic in General Nursing

    Just be glad they didn't insist on starchy white dresses again. I have a Scandinavian friend who says if the hospital mandates a uniform, they have to supply it. Nurses arrive in their street...

  5. Have I displayed drug seeking behavior??

    Warpster replied to elthia's topic in General Nursing

    I saw typical drug seeking behavior in post op patients whenever I followed Nurse Tylenol. People in real pain can and do display classic drug seeking behavior, especially when some martinet has...

  6. WHAT DO NURSES DO? --help me respond to this question

    Warpster replied to RiaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Most people miss what we do because it is often subtle. Talking to a patient about the weather involves observing the patient's affect, his orientation, his speech patterns, and his overall attitude....

  7. Whites or Colored scrubs?

    Warpster replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    This became an issue at the lat place I worked in. A VIP's wife complained that we were all wearing scrubs and she couldn't tell the nurses from the scrub ladies (the introduction wasn't enough?)....

  8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Warpster replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Never stuff half a stick of dynamite down a fire ant nest and then lean over it to find out why it hasn't gone off yet. Never shoot heroin you left sitting in the spoon next to a birdcage. Never try...

  9. Nursing has made me dislike dealing with people in general....

    Warpster replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    Although I might fantasize about breaking a call bell addict's fingers, this was not practical, legal, ethical, or in character for me. What I did learn to do was ask, "Is there anything else I can...

  10. Have you ever heard of this? UGH!!!!

    Warpster replied to Heloisea3's topic in General Nursing

    Aw, darlin', I guess you just weren't around in the 60s. I once had a hippie cookbook that gave a recipe for placenta stew. No, I was not interested in trying it. I know of quite a few tribal...

  11. When has your intuition saved the day?

    Warpster replied to deeDawntee's topic in General Nursing

    It sure isn't experience. I'd only been on the job a month in a neuro unit as a new grad when a patient got transferred in. He'd been hit by a bus, LOC for 30 minutes, but had been doing fine. His...

  12. The worst or strangest orders you have seen...

    Warpster replied to MadisonsMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    "Taper steroids" This was when I was a new grad at a VA. I found out that was a standard order at this particular facility and that we were supposed to write the tapers. One phone order for a...

  13. So I lost it? Am I out of Line?

    Warpster replied to fizz2Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Your story made me cringe and set me up for nursemares tonight. Working conditions like that are why 50% of RNs in this country have left nursing, including myself after 25 years on the job. If one...

  14. chronic pain patients: pain in the behind to care for

    Warpster replied to Tadpole's topic in General Nursing

    OK, this one pisses me off no end because of all the misconceptions in the OP. First, chronic pain patients, and I am one, do not get a buzz off the meds we are on. We do not enjoy them and we hate...

  15. When failure is labeled success; Socialized Medicine

    Warpster replied to DarrenWright's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Failure labeled as success? Try record profits for insurance companies and drug manufacturers while patients do without lifesaving care! That's how success for for-profit medicine is

  16. Being Sexually Harrassed

    Warpster replied to markymark's topic in General Nursing

    It's a bit late now, but what anyone who is being sexually harassed at work needs to do is keep a paper trail. It starts off as a notebook documenting what, when, how, and who was present. Later,...

  17. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

    Warpster replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    A family member of mine was ill, blind, deaf, mostly bedridden and miserable. She would beg us to help her die even after her quite understandable depression had been treated. I didn't know it at the...

  18. Would you call in because you didn't get any sleep?

    Warpster replied to Elvish's topic in General Nursing

    Lack of sleep was how I lived when I worked night 12s. I was pretty consistently sleep deprived. I was rabid when some poor fool rang my doorbell while I was sleeping, and some of them would not go...

  19. Should I tell my friend that she is dying?

    Warpster replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    She needs to know. Tell her to ask her doctor what her chances are and how long she has if the transplant doesn't come through. Then hope the husband hasn't made a big deal to the doctor about not...

  20. need help--husband died at home

    Warpster replied to pyseymo's topic in Cardiac

    This is a late reply and I hope you see it. This is the hardest lesson every nurse and doc needs to learn: even when we do everything right, we can't save every patient. No matter how we wish for...

  21. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    Warpster replied to lorster's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think "pathetic" is quite the right word, as I'm sure the flamefest so far has demonstrated. "Overly dedicated" might be a bit better. Working conditions like the ones you described so neatly...

  22. Mandatory overtime. Yuck!!!

    Warpster replied to CountryGirl1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You bet there's mandatory overtime. It is always at management's convenience, not yours. The hospitals around here mandate at least one overtime (12 hour) shift per 2 week pay periods. They tell...

  23. Nurses with MS or similar disorders

    Warpster replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    History plus an EMG doesn't tell them much of anything, and it certainly seems like it didn't tell them much, did it? They needed to do an MRI to check for lesions and a CSF assay to detect sugars....

  24. Am I worrying over nothing?

    Warpster replied to poetryeclipse's topic in Developmental Disabilities

    Amber, one help is asking your patients to look at the meds in the cup. If the patient sees anything different, catch that cup! It only takes a minute to double check everything and make sure it's...

  25. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    Warpster replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    They studied this in Boston in the mid 1980s. They followed 10,800+ patients who had been given narcotics in hospital. Guess how many new addictions they found! Wait for it. Got a guess? FOUR. If...