NuGuyNurse2b

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  1. Picture of wound?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Glycerine82's topic in General Nursing

    The only time I've taken a pic is using the patient's own camera because they were curious what it looked like, or they wanted to document their progress. It is in their belonging, they can do...

  2. Florida Hospital 10k sign on bonus

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to nursefromcali's topic in General Nursing

    Most places pan out the bonus that they advertise. Ie, if you stay for 6 months, in good standing, near perfect attendance, you get a portion of the pay (like 25%) and then they pay out the rest in...

  3. University hospital tuition assistance

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to LRN2018's topic in General Students

    It depends on your hospital. At my place, you're not even eligible for tuition reimbursement until 6 months of

  4. Work place violence, is the ER safe?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    In our ER we would get the drunks that the cops pick up on the streets. We're often prepared with the EMS team telling us who's a security risk and who's not. But sometimes they're docile in the...

  5. Was I wrong?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Munch's topic in General Nursing

    I think your friend nurse is being stingy on purpose. She wants those sickle patients to request anyone but her. It's old hat. We have one on our floor who's notorious for that. The sickle cells...

  6. How many patients do you have on each shift?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to LStgo's topic in General Nursing

    holy that's like perfection. On a rare day I go down to 4 and that's when I can do everything that they want me to do. I can have conversations with my patients, actually edumacate them on their...

  7. Really, Doctor?!

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    At my facility if you're getting something like Dilaudid Q2 you might as well get a PCA pump; ain't nobody got time for that. Regardless, either of those orders would come with prn Narcan for...

  8. Ambien on second shift

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    This is where the lines of communication should be opened and often they're not. If a patient asks me for Ambien and it's 10p when I know at 11p vitals will be taken, I tell them they will be waken...

  9. Have I ruined my nursing career?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to jlc0618's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    do you bring up your psych history in

  10. Reducing CLABSIs by prohibiting blood draws from line?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to fartjohnson's topic in General Nursing

    D'OH! I was overthinking the

  11. Reducing CLABSIs by prohibiting blood draws from line?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to fartjohnson's topic in General Nursing

    Why do we avoid femoral lines? I had a pt with a TLC in the femoral recently so this raised my

  12. Only certain departments in hospital got a pay increase?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to RNingBSNing's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds strange. Have you asked management or HR about

  13. Trouble with New Grad Orientee

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to FrancescaF's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Probably what a former manager would do to me. Ask the patient leading questions like "did your nurse control your pain" and suddenly someone who hasn't asked for pain pipes up and says "oh yeah, no...

  14. What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    ^ there were plenty in my cohort who weren't in a hospital setting (some were waitresses, some worked retail) who were excellent nursing students. I actually don't think being any kind of hospital...

  15. Manager Insists....

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to alaskaman's topic in General Nursing

    Here it does...that's why the system kicks it into asterisks. I'm pretty sure we all signed the agreement when we signed up for the site. And I know that's what the OP is talking about, and I...

  16. Manager Insists....

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to alaskaman's topic in General Nursing

    That's quite a stretch and perhaps you need a cool beverage if your post is going to include asterisks to voice a counter opinion. Everyone knows management is stuck between a rock and a hard place,...

  17. How My Orientation is Going

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    I love Pyxis. Between Pyxis and Omnicell...Pyxis any day. Scanning patients bracelets and meds have saved patient's lives from incorrect meds and dosing. I have worked in a facility where we do not...

  18. Manager Insists....

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to alaskaman's topic in General Nursing

    I think people forget that managers are under the administrators' microscopes. The directive probably isn't coming from her. It's why I would never want to be a manager and have argued in prior...

  19. What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    I fondly remember an instructor telling us we'll be wishing we were back in nursing school. I of course didn't believe it at the time. but there are days when I do prefer being in a lecture/lab...

  20. No Respect.

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    While I know the stress of the acute setting and priorities, but this is like the second thread I've read where the communication breakdown involves such a simple task. Just get them their

  21. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see it as you trying to "lighten" anything up. You seem pretty salty. Your initial response to me was that you thought I was wrong. Your flawed logic has been countered by a few other...

  22. Thinking About Nursing as Second Career

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to Birdie3's topic in General Nursing

    I was 33 when i started in an ADN program. I'll be honest, there are days where I am miserable when I first started out. but I stuck with it, and yes there are still days where it's frustrating, but...

  23. Rejected hours after an interview

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to edilleyrn's topic in General Nursing

    I had the opposite happen...I got a job offer hours after going home from the interview. It was a psych facility, red flags even for my new grad body at that time. I knew it was unsafe and sure...

  24. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Good. I'm not sure when this turned into you being petty about people disagreeing with your comments, but good for

  25. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    NuGuyNurse2b replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Feel free to do so, but based on the comments responding to your posts, it would seem you're in the