Warpster

Warpster

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  1. Why Can't Hospitals Offer Shifts Other Than 12 hr. 7 to 7?

    Warpster replied to neonurse97's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing homes offer 8 hour shifts and the VA did when I left, the 8-4 shirft that you so crave. However, that shift is assigned by seniority and most nurses will have to work evenings or nights...

  2. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    Warpster replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    It always depended entirely on the patient for me. Most patients did fine without the lido, and it would just have been another stick to them. I have never had lido myself. IV starts HURT, but it's...

  3. How many pregnancies are too many?

    Warpster replied to L&D_2b's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Too many kids to feed and take care of is too many pregnancies. You can have my share, kiddo, I never had any kids. If any of those ZPG folks harass you, just thumb your nose at them and tell them...

  4. Near miss, should I be blamed?

    Warpster replied to Tony35NYC's topic in General Nursing

    Your post reminded me why I left my last job 2 1/2 years ago and never wanted to go back. Shifts from hell like that were getting more and more common in the PCCU I worked in and a 6 patient load was...

  5. Would you consider a home birth?

    Warpster replied to 2curlygirls's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I had a lay midwife friend with 15 years of a perfect safety record when I was in nursing school. I'd always thought she and her clients were taking a terrible risk by home deliveries until I got to...

  6. Womens interest in male nurses

    Warpster replied to johny1's topic in Men in Nursing

    Think of it as a twit filter. People who are worth knowing will accept you for who you are and what you do. People who snicker up their sleeves and worse are generally the world's biggest jackasses...

  7. White Pants Underwear Woes

    Warpster replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    Lab coats. They hide all sins including underwear offensively showing underneath white nursing pants made of cheap material. Lab coats also have huge pockets for all the stuff that pack rats need to...

  8. Nurse dates doctor openly at work.

    Warpster replied to castle's topic in General Nursing

    Been there, seen that, and as long as it doesn't become a problem with the job that either one of them is doing, I look the other way. Nobody appointed me judge or jury and I'm certainly not the...

  9. Getting hit!

    Warpster replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know why we as a profession are supposed to tolerate this. I've always been able to get chemical and/or physical restraints ordered for dangerous patients. Remember this guy is a potential...

  10. Doctors comments about not trusting his Nurses

    Warpster replied to grinnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Write the bastard up. Trust me, the hospital will deal with it. Make sure you include the name of that patient's wife and their phone number if you have access to it and any other witnesses's names...

  11. Nursing Unions-what is the good,bad, ugly?

    Warpster replied to johnson0424's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked in unionized hospitals and I've worked in non unionized hospitals and even a bad union with hostile shop stewards and wimpy negotiators are better than no union. They stop a lot of...

  12. wearing perfume to work

    Warpster replied to acaringnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Funny you should mention unscented lotion. I swear by the stuff. There are craft suppliers online (I Googled "unscented lotion" and got loads of hits) that will sell various quantities. I bought a...

  13. homeless pt's?

    Warpster replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    Babynurselsa wrote "My frustration lies in teh fact that you can have all of the resources in the world and they are useless to someone WHO DOES NOT ACTUALLY WANT HELP OR TO CHANGE THEIR...

  14. Floating to diffrent units in your hospital

    Warpster replied to mugwump's topic in General Nursing

    I loved floating from floor to floor and from hospital to hospital, but it's certainly not for everybody. My last job had a rational policy that floated among med surg or among womens' and childrens...

  15. homeless pt's?

    Warpster replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    Those "choices" include lost jobs, divorces, and generally being kicked in the teeth by a country that hasn't cared about its people for a very long time. I've taken care of a lot of homeless people,...

  16. Ever had a nurse or doc as a patient?

    Warpster replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    I would have been a peach after my appendectomy had they not left me unmedicated for 10 hours after the surgery. You kniow, if she's sleeping (the anesthesia off) she can't possibly be in pain. I...

  17. wearing perfume to work

    Warpster replied to acaringnurse's topic in General Nursing

    It used to be funny to work in a teaching hospital. All the new docs would arrive in July, well groomed and doused in after shave and cologne. By the end of the first week, they were all scent free...

  18. If not a nurse...what????

    Warpster replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, dear, trophy wife has become a thankless job since Viagra came out. No longer are you the adored child to be petted and indulged. The dynamic has changed completely and not for the better, at...

  19. Worst information given in shift report!!!

    Warpster replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, lordy, my prize would go to the sweet young thing who didn't really know much about the new patient in Room X, but the patient was probably depressed and withdrawn and wouldn't talk to her when...

  20. Arnold Schwartzneiger says "We need to create more nurses"

    Warpster replied to Nathalie's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think the academic requirements are the problem. It's the JOB, folks, a job that pays fairly well but wrecks your body, your sleep schedule, your social life, and interferes with your family,...

  21. We need a Nursing TV show

    Warpster replied to jbeck817's topic in General Nursing

    and that Mediao image is the last thing we need right now. You can portray nurses as sexual beings without having their tits half popped out of their uniforms. It was a stupid show written by and...

  22. Family Witnessing Code Activities

    Warpster replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    However, keeping them OUT of the way is a necessity. At my last job, we had the luxury of a hospital chaplain on call 24/7 as part of the code team. They were extremely valuable to families during...

  23. We need a Nursing TV show

    Warpster replied to jbeck817's topic in General Nursing

    even though nurses are doing things I've never seen done in a real hospital, and even though the soap opera-ish aspects of the show focus on the baby docs. The show's nurses don't parade around in...

  24. Arnold Schwartzneiger says "We need to create more nurses"

    Warpster replied to Nathalie's topic in General Nursing

    The way to get more young men and women into the profession has got to start with addressing working conditions, something Arnold is doing the opposite on. The long hours, backbreaking labor, lousy...

  25. Drug seekers "Drug of Choice"

    Warpster replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Well, I can't explain it from the inside out, since I never found my drug of choice despite months of field research in the 60s. The best description of what an addict is feeling is in a book called...