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Clear Liquids -- gastric bypass diet, clear liquids (meaning beverages that you can almost see through). The clear liquid diet starts with sips of water, and then allows foods like sugar-free juice, diet gelatin, boullion or clear broth, and flat (no fizz) diet soda in small amounts, usually 2-3 ounces at a time.

The ones I find to be difficult have a history of GBS, 12 months or greater. Not the ones that just had the surgery.

I did not read any post that led me to believe the poster was not compassionate, nor did any of them state that all gastric bypass patients were psycho. Why would the nurses humiliate you or treat you with contempt?

Do any other nurses deal with post gastric bypass patients and the difficulties they have as a result of their procedure? I find a lot of gastric bypass patients to be extremely rude and demanding. The other day another nurse and I were splitting a room, I had B bed and the other nurse had A bed. The gastric bypass patient in A bed began complaining to her nurse that she wanted regular sugar and jello and not all this diet stuff. The nurse explained to her that the doctor ordered a clear liquid gastric bypass diet and explained the advantages of being placed on that type of diet. The patient did not care she began to yell at the nurse stating that all the other nurses brought her in a regular tray and that she was just being difficult. For the second time the nurse told the patient that she would place a call to the doctor to try to have the diet changed. The patient was utterly obnoxious to the nurse. The nurse walked out and the patient called the nursing coordinator. She explained her exaggerated story to the coordinator. The coordinator must have told the patient that the nurse was handling it appropriately, because I heard the patient say, "you don't see a problem with this?" And began yelling and screaming all sorts of rude things. In report nurses just cringed ever time they have a patient with a history of gastric by bypass, and ask are they psycho? Anyone else find gastric bypass patients to be difficult?

Charge nurse would have a reduced pt load.

med/surg telemetry floor day 5-6 pts evening 5-6 pts mn 8-9pts

There is a statement above ACLU: Undocumented immigrants annually pay an estimated $7 billion more than they take out into Social Security, and $1.5 billion more into Medicare.... A study by the National Academy of Sciences also found that tax payments generated by immigrants outweighed any costs associated with services used by immigrants. If the immigrants are paid "under the table" How exactly are they paying into SS. If they have work visas that's different, but the illegal ones are the leaches on our society, and need to be deported.

I feel your frustration:angryfire I transferred to a new unit where the techs are completely useless. I honestly feel like they walk around with the automatic blood pressure machines just to look busy, then they are always disappearing. I have only been on this new unit for 4 weeks and I have noticed how atrocious their work ethics are. The problem is there is not enough supervision, and Techs don't respect nurses as their superiors. Also the techs have no accountability, they feel if is not done it will fall back on the nurse. I just did a recent thread voicing my annoyance with the techs and ask for the input of other nurses on how their hospital handled tech assignments. I received 1 reply, it stated "Kinda been there done that, found another area and am perfectly happy. Maybe you should try another area. Good luck". Sad that nurses are leaving floor nursing where are are need the most, just because of Tech issues.

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This is why are country is in the state it is in now. We should focus on our own. Like the elderly people who have worked and paid into SS, and now they can't afford prescriptions or run their heater or air-conditioning because they simply don't have the $. You want to help the children just go into the inner city, we have plenty of US CITIZENS in need of help. And as far as the US constitution defines any child born on US soil as an American citizen, it needs to be changed, too many ILLEGAL immigrants abuse it. If they are in the US legally that one thing, but when they cross the bordered and break the law that's different.

I worked on a unit where the unit clerk answered the calls bells via intercom and would forward to patient's needs to the appropriate staff. This worked great. Let the RN/LPN focus on their responsibilities and the techs got to their work. Patient satisfaction was very high and you could actually focus on being a great nurse. The unit I work on now, we have to physically go into a room to answer the call bells, the RN/LPN answer apprx 80% of the bells most of the time the techs are MIA. The job satisfaction on the unit is low, just hired 17 new nurses and techs. Last summer we had the lowest patient satisfaction rating in the hospital. I just started on this unit 4 weeks ago can't wait until my 6 months is up, and I can post out.

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Are you a nurse or a tech? What nurse has time to bath and give back rubs with 6 patients on med surg floor:lol_hitti :

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