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  1. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

    MsNewbee posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, everyone. I'm a year out from graduation and have been working my job so I haven't posted or been on in a while, but a topic came up on the job and it just rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't want...

  2. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

    MsNewbee replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

    Yes psych saw her and the only thing they said was she has anxiety and was taking clonipin scheduled twice a day. She didn't have memory loss. She would hit the call light while other staff was in the...

  3. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

    MsNewbee replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

    I hope that she was! She works the opposite shift of me so I've never worked with her directly before. The patient's behavior was so consistent. The nurses on the night shift would comment how awful...

  4. Patient's "right" to abuse nurses...I need your opinion

    MsNewbee replied to MsNewbee's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for that. I just didn't know I could do anything other than pull my own hair out. I offered her the patch and she declined. She had on a fentanyl patch that she said didn't work and demanded...

  5. Nurse to patient ratio

    MsNewbee replied to McBambi's topic in Rehabilitation

    I work in a free standing rehab hospital and we typically have up to 10 patients per nurse. One of the nurses that has been there for years says that she has experienced 12 patients there. They do the...