MichaelLooney

MichaelLooney

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  1. African American Care

    MichaelLooney replied to CametoitlateTexan's topic in General Nursing

    This one always buged me. Now I'm not African American, yet being raised by a southern grandmother who was herself raised in the army, I was taught that it is disrespectful to look a person directly...

  2. Worst patient experience

    MichaelLooney replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is what actually lead to me being terminated: I had a resident who gave everyone a little bit of trouble, but nothing major. She liked to wonder into people's rooms and mess with their things,...

  3. Your employer's policy re: *snow and ice*?

    MichaelLooney replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I call for a ride. Of course, I don't have a car, and have to ride my bike to work. But tell them that YOU do NOT feel comfortable driving on the roads, and if they want you to come in to see if...

  4. Are 12 hr shifts long and drawn out?

    MichaelLooney replied to FirstYear2005's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't had a job yet, no matter how short the hours, where I didn't find myself at least often looking at the clock and being flabergasted that only 20 minutes went by when it seemed like I'd been...

  5. Why a C-Section?

    MichaelLooney replied to edj02's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I dunno...so many younger women I see these days (around my age or younger) appear to be sticks and don't seem to have enough hip room to give birth anyway. Dunno why that is, but it makes me...

  6. Religion Needed to be a Good Nurse?

    MichaelLooney replied to Kabin's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    When I took the BNA class they made it clear that we are NOT to share our religious preferences with residents since they may NOT have the same religious beliefs as us, and we should refrain from...

  7. If not a nurse...what????

    MichaelLooney replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to be a school councelor. But I had the chance to take a CNA course at our facility and get a job immediately, and save up...then I had the chance to take the Medication Aide classes, so...

  8. Worst information given in shift report!!!

    MichaelLooney replied to AMARTIN1's topic in General Nursing

    EXACTLY! Then we come to find out Mrs. Worth is in the hospital, Mr. Fowth threw up after every meal as soon as he got back to his room, and Miss Everstein died last

  9. I saw something new and scary

    MichaelLooney replied to teeituptom's topic in Emergency

    Actually, its a complete therapy (dunno if anyone has said this yet). Compeltely alternative medicine, though, and very well frowned upon by most of the world, which, of course, makes me intersted,...

  10. I shaved off a patient's mustache. Was I wrong?

    MichaelLooney replied to NebbyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I imagine it was something like this: She made it sound like though he was having trouble feeding himself, he was still at least attempting it on his own. Having been in a situation like that, where...

  11. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    MichaelLooney replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, two things (and I'll try to be quick =p). First off, my experience form watching ER tends to be that the nurses are ignored when they try to say something that would make a very quick positive...

  12. What punishment should this nurse get?

    MichaelLooney replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

    OUr facility had it, too. Unfortunatly I've fallen asleep while DOING my charting at the end of shift b/c I've been so tired. I always thought it was more embaressing than anything else that could...

  13. "What do you need Christmas off for? You don't have kids!" (rant)

    MichaelLooney replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I've had to deal with a lot of people like that. There's too many who feel entitled to getting what they want simple because they 'have kids.' ANd too many higher ups don't want to hear the whining...

  14. public's view of nurses

    MichaelLooney replied to bulldawggirl's topic in General Nursing

    I see you point, but there's just one problem with all this changing: A few generations down the road we'll have to do it all over agian b/c people will be so use to the 'fancy' names for what people...

  15. public's view of nurses

    MichaelLooney replied to bulldawggirl's topic in General Nursing

    Actualy, this is scary. I've heard a LOT of people make the blind assumption that someone becomes a nurse b/c they're not good enough to be a doctor. BUT, on the other hand I've heard a lot of...

  16. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    MichaelLooney replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

  17. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    MichaelLooney replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    We've had residents who did things just to get laughs like that b/c they think we're all too serious at

  18. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    MichaelLooney replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    We had a resident who kept doing that. We solved the problem by simple crunching up the cups before we threw them away. Only took one crunch in the hand, drop it in the trash, and she'd leave it...

  19. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

    MichaelLooney replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Nursing Humor

    I get some petty brainless ones. Like our resident rooms (I work LTC) are so small, I swear I've seen dorm room closets bigger than them (I keep getting reminded they WERE built back in the early...

  20. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    MichaelLooney replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, this actually happened to my grandmother while I was in Jr High. She was in teh hospital after having cancer surgery, and the monitor they had her hooked up to suddenly quit taking readings....

  21. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    MichaelLooney replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    In my experience, the only people who have time to sit around are the patients, and they're usually the only ones around who DON'T want to be

  22. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    MichaelLooney replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    Well, at the facility I work at, they'll chew your ass apart if you do that...but then I work in a long term care facility where the facility doens't pay for the meds anyway But, really, I think...

  23. Medical-type question

    MichaelLooney replied to MichaelLooney's topic in General Nursing

    I USE to be in the SCA and I did dancing and all sorts of things, but it just always felt like I really had trouble getting the energy up to do anything for very long. I'd have to contuinally take...

  24. Medical-type question

    MichaelLooney posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, this is going to sound a bit funny. I've been do the doctor...well, actually, I've been to TWO doctors now, and a chiropractor. I've been though a battery of tests, and felt like a pin cushin....

  25. Medical-type question

    MichaelLooney replied to MichaelLooney's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you very much.