Tenebrae BSN, RN

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    Terrible experience with nursing staff

    Tenebrae replied to guest1074638's topic in General Nursing

    The issue is not single payer. The issue is that you live in a country where people can sue for because they had ribs broken during CPR that saved their
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    Terrible experience with nursing staff

    Tenebrae replied to guest1074638's topic in General Nursing

    I think we often run into troubles when we expect to take our first world expectations into a not first world country just
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    What to do about DNP and flu shot?

    Tenebrae replied to Travelingon's topic in General Nursing

    Stanley Plotkin was instrumental in developing the rubella vaccine. Thats like one
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    Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

    Tenebrae replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

    I have no issue with team work, I have had a situation where a ward clerk was demanding that I attend to something, while I was halfway through another issue that I couldnt leave. I politely said "I...
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    Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

    Tenebrae replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

    Yup
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    Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

    Tenebrae replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

    The only time I would consider it a medical emergency is if the patient needed an urgent IV medication and had no IV access eg patient in cardiac arrest etc Your scenario. No, not a medical emergency...
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    Disrespect & Profanity

    Tenebrae replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely its about the patient. I was more thinking along the lines of my own experience with someone taking their own culture as the only right way to deal with things. As nurses we see things...
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    Disrespect & Profanity

    Tenebrae replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I generally dont call a patient Mr or Mrs. I will say their full name and say "what do you like people to call you?" I'm a potty mouth and the staff around me are also potty mouths and yes, we may use...
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    Sociopathic Staff

    Tenebrae replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I actually did........ ? I could count on the fingers of one hand and still have fingers left the number of patients who set off 'my hackles' for want of a better term, this patient definately gives...
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    Sociopathic Staff

    Tenebrae replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    To clarify I meant a patient not a staff
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    What to do about DNP and flu shot?

    Tenebrae replied to Travelingon's topic in General Nursing

    Source for this please? That is, something that proves aborted baby foetus DNA is present in
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    Sociopathic Staff

    Tenebrae replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I have one of those people who ends up on my ward from time to
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    Expectations when addressing physicians across the country

    Tenebrae replied to labordude's topic in General Nursing

    Its a cultural thing IMO. I've never called a doctor Dr. Its always "Name, followed by an ISBAR" In pysch, doctors always introduce themselves to patients by their first name and designation. And my...
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    Psych RNs - what is rewarding for you?

    Tenebrae replied to NurseChapelLovesSpock's topic in Psychiatric

    This. Also seeing patients who came in really unwell, leaving happy and
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    My Visit to China: Could This Be A Reason Why Coronavirus Started There?

    Tenebrae replied to Gadsale's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Not remotely triggered here After March 15 2019 I will no longer be someone who remains silent in the face of eurocentric xenophobic approaches that actual racists (not calling the OP racist) are...
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    My Visit to China: Could This Be A Reason Why Coronavirus Started There?

    Tenebrae replied to Gadsale's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The entire article was written from a eurocentric
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    My Visit to China: Could This Be A Reason Why Coronavirus Started There?

    Tenebrae replied to Gadsale's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Last year I got to experience first hand the consequences first hand of untold xenophobia and racism. The person who shot and killed 51 muslims and critically injured over 50 more was arrested outside...
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    My Visit to China: Could This Be A Reason Why Coronavirus Started There?

    Tenebrae replied to Gadsale's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was in Noumea a few years ago and walked into a market very much like this one. Would I have bought food from there had I not been on a cruise ship and unable to take any of that sort of food back...
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    My Visit to China: Could This Be A Reason Why Coronavirus Started There?

    Tenebrae replied to Gadsale's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you asystole. You said it way better than I could
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    How to give a 2 week notice

    Tenebrae replied to penny186's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Just say something along the lines of Always keep it positive. What you learned may be more about the sort of nursing you dont want to do, but the person reading your resignation doesnt need to know...
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    What to do about DNP and flu shot?

    Tenebrae replied to Travelingon's topic in General Nursing

    Then dont come to a nursing website and ask us to ignore the screes of scientific evidence to help you find a work around and potentially put health compromised patients at risk of death And I think...
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    Western Governors University (WGU) and Flu Shot Declination Pre-Licensure BSN

    Tenebrae replied to CAFFEINEgtt's topic in School, College Programs

    This, and a thousand times
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    Patient’s family threatening to report me to BNE

    Tenebrae replied to GilligansPlace's topic in General Nursing

    OP from what you have outlined here you took all prudent steps that could have been taken in this situation. Family members can be asses. I like to hope its more due to the fact they are stressed out...
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    Witchcraft Resurgence

    Tenebrae replied to HelpfulNatureHopeful's topic in General Nursing

    And you dont have to. Because guess what, its not about you, its about your patient. I'm an agnostic. And I've lost count of the times patients have asked me to pray with them. I will always offer to...
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    Call to action! Nurses in Monitoring Programs

    Tenebrae replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What bollicks Addiction may start out as a choice, eg the first time someone chooses to use P (meth) however before long choice is gone. It's rather like the dog that thinks its taking its master for...