AliceTrout

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  1. "Just" a CNA?!

    AliceTrout posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I confess being a total rookie - I graduated with my BSN in December 2013. Already I am kinda annoyed, miffed, and confused over this rampant obsession over what role people are in the healthcare...

  2. If You Could Only Give ONE Piece of Advice to New RNs

    AliceTrout replied to renardeau's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Best advice I have to offer in nursing - or anything is one from my mom. "First things first, second things never". You can't get bogged down in unimportant things if you remember to always keep your...

  3. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

    AliceTrout replied to hamsterwheel's topic in LPN to RN

    I was a non-trad in my nursing program, but the youngest one (I jumped degrees back to back). I will tell you at my school there was a pretty strong anti-nontrad sentiment, and for a somewhat good...

  4. I failed my school drug test. Am I finished forever?

    AliceTrout replied to Breatholife's topic in General Students

    I don't know if anyone said this yet, but my idea was maybe to contact your local state board and ask them. They are the ones that make decisions about the consequences of licensed nurses who are...

  5. I let one slip past me

    AliceTrout posted a topic in General Nursing

    Before I was a nurse, I was a domestic violence advocate for the county. I would get a page from the PD whenever they were on scene, and I would provide assistance and outreach to the victim. I had...

  6. Negative Post on Facebook About New Nurses - I'm Fired Up!

    AliceTrout replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think nurses who make snarky comments like these instead of seeing that they are in a teaching opportunity are more of a disgrace on the profession than someone who is still learning. Maybe this...

  7. Hospice: What You Don't Know Can Hurt

    AliceTrout replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you for this story, it helped illuminate some of the emotions I have picked up on emanating from family members when we bring up the idea of hospice to our ICU family's. I struggled to...

  8. Disrespectful ad against nurses on Craigslist

    AliceTrout replied to Trilldayz,RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    I have found that the hospitality industry is very often where future nurses start their careers. I know I did, and so did an overwhelming number of my former hospitality working cohorts. The fact is...

  9. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

    AliceTrout replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I like to give report somewhere quiet without interruption (no family or patient trying to play HouseMD and misinterpret or get nervous from things in our report, no oncoming nurse looking around the...

  10. Screaming match with my preceptor

    AliceTrout replied to jherd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You kinda sealed your fate by letting this get to the point you blew up. You should have asked for a different preceptor before you blew up, or found some other way to manage the bad friction between...

  11. Odd finding (Concerning genitalia)

    AliceTrout replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    HA. Well it turns out he did have a peritoneum to house those bleeding guts. I am guessing the fake IV had something to do with the profoundly low H&H and furious blood bank who called them 99...

  12. Odd finding (Concerning genitalia)

    AliceTrout replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    This reminded me of one of the best/worst/best again reports I ever got from the ER. Stated that the patient was a "bilateral AKA with dependent edema in the lower extremities" being admitted for...

  13. A sobering story-------

    AliceTrout replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    I read through all the (somewhat catty?!) replies just to see if anyone else thought this very thing! It was all that went through my mind when I read what happened - how did the massive quantity of...

  14. I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    AliceTrout replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't read every reply, so forgive me if this has already been said; but to me not having some anxiety as a new grad sounds suspicious and dangerous. On one hand as a new grad you shouldn't have so...

  15. Are You Protected Against Identity Theft? - FREE Offer for Nurses

    AliceTrout replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Skeptical is my middle name, but surely I am not the only one who thinks this deal sounds to good to be true...am

  16. Are you really not a "real nurse" unless you work in acute care?

    AliceTrout replied to tenderfootjoe's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah well lots of nurses say lots of snotty, inaccurate things about other nurses/units/domains of the profession. Doesn't make those things true. A nurse is a nurse and one of the best things about...

  17. Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    AliceTrout replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    People who hit the call light and than use the call light to bang on the bed rail until you come answer it. This is 95% of the time done for some petty reason like "I forgot how to turn the TV off" or...

  18. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    AliceTrout replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I love how my rooms looks after I organize it at the start of my shift (and how I keep it crisis permitting). IV Lines all orderly, labeled, untangled, neatly strung from bag to pump to patient. All...

  19. Becoming a nurse is no longer an option for me?

    AliceTrout replied to KAThftf's topic in General Students

    I know exactly how you feel, I had a mother that who was so preoccupied with advancing her own interests, it sometimes shot me in the foot. First thing you do is recognize the situation and move on....

  20. Why don't you just read the chart?

    AliceTrout replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am comfortable in the assumptions I am making because I know the people I am talking about, and what hospital I am talking about, and what policies and amenities this hospital has. Knowing all of...

  21. Pushing meds through NGT/OGT with the plunger

    AliceTrout replied to delphine22's topic in MICU, SICU

    E'rry day I plunger it. I saw a coworker try the coke thing and it backfired terribly. I haven't tried it since as I won't do anything I don't want to explain to a doc. (Yeah so the PEG wasn't...

  22. Nursing Shortage: Yea or Nay?

    AliceTrout replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    I moved to this armpit I live in because 1. nursing education was good, had small class sizes, and was affordable - but more so because 2. They hire new grads galore. I knew I could get a good...

  23. Why don't you just read the chart?

    AliceTrout replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I understand this concept. I know that there are a lot of super awesome nurses in ER who are professional, and this quote applies to them. I also know that some ER nurses (like any floor) are not...

  24. Why don't you just read the chart?

    AliceTrout replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oops duplicate

  25. Why don't you just read the chart?

    AliceTrout replied to Guest219794's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Of course not. It varies by hospital. Our hospital has one of the best ratios of this. They only call report at shift change for that reason 50% of the