Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    Therapeutic Lying With Dementia Patients

    Tenebrae replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I struggle with the idea of lying, even if the person wont remember what I've said. I recall when I first started out i had this one patient who always wanted me to call her mum and come and pick her...
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    The pain scale has been harmful

    Tenebrae replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The patients drug of choice was alcohol, not morphine. Patient had never abused any other drugs, both prescribed or illegal As for managing with drawl, the patient had been undergoing regular...
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    The pain scale has been harmful

    Tenebrae replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I saw something similar when I was a student. My allocated patient had multiple arterial ulcers and in alot of pain from them. Patient had morphine charted which worked well to dull the pain. One of...
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    Older Student, Unprofessional Nurse During Clinical

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse Magnolia's topic in General Students

    I had an experience sort of the same when I was a student. I did my nursing in a very small town and in my final year I had to do a placement on the acute mental health unit. I'd had the experience...
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    The pain scale has been harmful

    Tenebrae replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I think its deeper than misuse of the pain scale. (donning my flame proof undies) I think the insurance based model and the move towards a strong customer service focus, combined with a highly...
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    (IN)Appropriate Dress

    Tenebrae replied to trinitymaster's topic in General Nursing

    I think there is more important things about what makes a good nurse, nurse practitioner etc than what they are wearing. Do they treat the patient with dignity and respect? Do they seek to do their...
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    Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

    Tenebrae replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

    I cant like this
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    Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

    Tenebrae replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

    Wash hands/alcogel before and after patient contact Gloves when dealing with body fluids and non intact skin Its not
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    Nurses Smoking: Compassion Instead of Judgement

    Tenebrae replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    I used to be fairly tolerant of smokers until my mum was diagnosed with and died from small cell lung carcinoma (exclusively caused by smoking) I've heard smokers say oh but it will never happen to...
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    I need an experts opinions please !!

    Tenebrae replied to Rn 1979's topic in General Nursing

    OP that is unbelievably awful, I hope it gets sorted for you As to other people calling troll. I saw this happen during my student days. We had a tutor who was from India. Amazingly intelligent lady...
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    Family Member Watching Pro-terror/ Anti-America/ Anti-Semitic video

    Tenebrae replied to sugarmagnolia3's topic in General Nursing

    Its a case of being damm sure before you act. I would imagine incase of the lad who got taken in for investigation for downloading an al qadea training manual it could have been easy to find out...
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    Family Member Watching Pro-terror/ Anti-America/ Anti-Semitic video

    Tenebrae replied to sugarmagnolia3's topic in General Nursing

    I was watching a UK documentary called generation jihad. Its a three part series on you tube. One of the cases discussed was a young muslim bloke who was taken in for questioning after it was found...
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    Family Member Watching Pro-terror/ Anti-America/ Anti-Semitic video

    Tenebrae replied to sugarmagnolia3's topic in General Nursing

    Many christian parents indoctrinate their children with their beliefs from a very young age yet no one raises an eye
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    Accepting verbal orders from another nurse?

    Tenebrae replied to amberrenae, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would never take verbal orders from another nurse. I'm choosy about which doctors i would take a verbal order
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    Multiple CNA's refusing assigned task

    Tenebrae replied to Dawnkeibals's topic in General Nursing

    "This needs to be done" If they still refused. "This needs to be done. If you choose not to do your job, I'm going to have to elevate this matter to management and I would really rather not" I once...
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    Prescription PO/Subcut

    Tenebrae replied to Sjade's topic in General Nursing

    Cant speak for the prescriber. We often ask the doctor to chart subcut as well as oral with palliative patient, its helpful when the patient isnt tolerating oral medications, or not getting adequate...
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    "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

    Tenebrae replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    Addiction starts with a choice, however it doesnt stay a choice for very long My mum for example is dying of terminal small cell lung carcinoma, exclusively caused by smoking. And despite the fact...
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    "Safe Injection Houses"- What's This?

    Tenebrae replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    Said so much better than I could
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    Was I wrong?

    Tenebrae replied to Munch's topic in General Nursing

    I dont know know if anyone would ever overtly admit to that, however it seems to be governing their practice. Even if someone had a dependence it stands to reason that they are going to need more...
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    Work Update

    Tenebrae replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yip thats just dooshy behaviour. None of us are perfect and IMO we should be treating our colleagues as we would like to be treated, In other words if you spot a mistake or something missed it is...
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    Was I wrong?

    Tenebrae replied to Munch's topic in General Nursing

    I think your co worker needs to get the hell over herself personally. You advocated for someone in your care who was in pain, and as a result their pain was adequately managed. I recall a similar...
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    How has nursing changed you?

    Tenebrae replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    So you did your job. Do you want a medal? I'm an agnostic and all my patients get the best nursing care I can give. If a patient dies unexpectedly I do my best to make sure they are clean and tidy and...
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    How has nursing changed you?

    Tenebrae replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    How do you know that? There are countless reports of patients who have been comatose who have been able to hear what is going on in the room around them. To say nothing hurt or offended him is to...
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    How has nursing changed you?

    Tenebrae replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    So you knew for a certain your patient was a christian? Because if you didnt, thats a violation of the nurse patient relationship on the deepest
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    How has nursing changed you?

    Tenebrae replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    My sense of humour has become much more dark and