FolksBtrippin BSN, RN

Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice

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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Also, for whatever reason, execs have hidden very important info from me. I try to wrap my mind around why. Do they not know how vital this info is? If there was another nurse there, she would have...
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not feeling like I want to stay anymore. I'm feeling the opposite now. But it's not the on call. I want to do what callioter has suggested, and go through each home fixing what's...
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    I'm salaried and on call 24/7. I feel like they would be happy for me to actually work 24/7. I was called all
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    I wull be out of town because I scheduled a shadow day with an RN who works my job in a different region. Very important for me to see how she does this
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    I might quit. This is too much. I'm reticent to give details, but there are some people in our homes who are way too sick to be there. I'm really scared for them. I feel like one of our...
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of fraud did you
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    OMG, I cannot believe what I did. What I should do now!

    FolksBtrippin replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    It seems to me like you didn't really know what a PICC line was, and now you do. Did you expect a peripheral and get really surprised when you saw how long it was? You have learned from this...
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    Checking visitor's vitals

    FolksBtrippin replied to AJPV's topic in General Nursing

    I was visiting my psych patient in her home when her son came in and said he was dying. He was pacing, diaphoretic. I used my pulse oximeter. His heart rate was around 150 and his SPO2 was normal and...
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    Checking visitor's vitals

    FolksBtrippin replied to AJPV's topic in General Nursing

    You did the right thing. No good deed goes
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    Ethical Question...

    FolksBtrippin replied to Wantingananswer88's topic in General Nursing

    Is this person rounding with the physician or not? It doesn't really sound like an ethical
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I also feel like this will eventually be rewarding for me. The regs we follow seem to be under DDD instead. Our direct support staff are not CNAs or HHAs. The medication aide...
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! I looked at the last internal nursing audit, which is quarterly, and it seems like the previous RN just checked off everything as passed. I know that not ALL of these problems happened...
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in NJ. I don't know the answers to your other questions, but I will try to find
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    This is really helpful, thank you. I am in NJ,
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    Job: Clinic vs Hospital vs Case management

    FolksBtrippin replied to Pocadots's topic in Case Management

    I'm not sure where you are, but you're probably going to have to get over your reluctance to work with COVID patients, because if they're not everywhere yet, they will be, even in your "clean...
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    Am I able to change from Psychiatry to ICU

    FolksBtrippin replied to NurseL20's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a psych nurse and I would need a really good orientation to adjust to ICU. My assessment skills are excellent from working in the community with people who don't communicate well. And I am...
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    This does help, thank you. The state is coming in November. I do not feel like I have enough time, but I am just going to do my
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    Please help me with this new job overseeing group homes

    FolksBtrippin replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Privately
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    What's up with the RN vs Paramedic hate?

    FolksBtrippin replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in General Nursing

    Paramedics get paid a lot less than we do and some of them are quite resentful about
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    Is it appropriate to "show off" that you are a Nurse on social media?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so much happier since I deactivated my
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    Scared of being harmed at work.. Am I overreacting?

    FolksBtrippin replied to mell0nurse's topic in General Nursing

    You should not be by yourself. That is not safe in a
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    Advice

    FolksBtrippin replied to Dtwjj's topic in General Nursing

    Your manager made a personal attack on you, so that is why you are taking his comments personally. He has poor leadership skills. And now you want to back off from being charge which is surely...
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    ER nurse dealing with bullying...

    FolksBtrippin replied to guest1156666's topic in General Nursing

    Your CN takes an issue with you going in the separate break room. I'm not sure why. She wanted the NM to tell you not to do that. Instead the NM was all... "Are you happy here?" Which made you...
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    Bait and switch

    FolksBtrippin replied to doberman's topic in General Nursing

    Start with communication to your manager that you want to circulate at least XX% of the time. Leave them some room to float you in an emergency. Like at least 5% of the time you can suck it up. Ask...
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    Anyone else wearing old scrubs whilst shopping/running errands?

    FolksBtrippin replied to NewRN'16's topic in General Nursing

    I garden and clean the house in scrubs because they are so convenient for that. The pockets are so handy and the dirt comes right out in the wash. I wear an old scrub top when I dye my hair....