Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    What do you do to stay positive?

    Tenebrae replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in Health, Stress Management

    For me I ask myself, have I done the best job possible that I can do? I have no control over what colleagues do, all I can ensure is that I do my best for each patient that I work with. If I can...
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    After failed three time of NCLEX

    Tenebrae replied to yangq904's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I stand by what I said, if a candidate is failing an exam multiple times, perhaps they need to get some help with what they are studying. As for the whole I dont understand what you are going...
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    Patient Entitlement

    Tenebrae replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of the things I love about our hospitals. Crap like this simply would not be tolerated. It's not to say that cancer treatment is not stressful however nurses are not paid to be punching bags...
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    Bread making for stress relief...

    Tenebrae replied to bb007rn's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I think as nurses we are so good at taking care of others, we seem to really struggle when it comes to taking care of ourselves. And lets be honest it would be really easy to have work on our minds 7...
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    Compression stockings or not

    Tenebrae replied to gelibean's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Define what you mean by compression hoisery? We have DVT socks which are used post surgery for prevention of DVT. It has a degree of compression We have compression hoisery which is used after a...
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    After failed three time of NCLEX

    Tenebrae replied to yangq904's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I think you perhaps need to have a look at what you are studying, because it doesnt seem to have prepared you well. The books with the NCLEX questions are brilliant. I used them alot to help direct...
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    Wound Packing P&P

    Tenebrae replied to Paperchasr's topic in General Nursing

    What type of wound? If I am doing a Vac or renasys change using sponge I will count the sponge as I put it in. AMD gauze seems to be popular for these dressings, simply because it comes in a large...
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    BSN Only? Give me a break!!

    Tenebrae replied to michaelvgrigsby's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Help me out here (non US) whats an ASN qualfication? And how does that differ from BSN (bachelor of science major in nursing?). What would the length of study be to upskill to the BSN? In NZ we have a...
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    Does anybody else feel guilty about calling off?

    Tenebrae replied to Codeblue1982's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow. I find it gob smacking that an illness lasting longer than three days could get someone disciplined. Recently I had to have a week off due to a raging case of cellulitis that required IV...
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    Saw an angry clinical instructor...

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

    Absolutelty agree. Throughout my nursing training, I had tutors who pushed us to excel and then there were the others..... I also think that many of the problems with horizontal violence and work...
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    Miss Manners for Nurses

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

    This happens occasionally in my job. If I cant get out of accepting what ever is offered, I take it back to the office to
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    Nursing school anxiety - need advice!

    Tenebrae replied to pandy4321's topic in General Students

    Bear in mind that as a student nurse not only are you often doing the equivalent of a full time job, you also have all the other students tasks, assignments related to that. And that doesnt cover the...
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    whats so good about working in a hospital?

    Tenebrae replied to OnlinePersona's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a district nurse. Bascially that means I visit people in their homes to deliver nursing care anywhere from meds wounds, catheters, continence, palliative etc I have no desire to work in a...
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    Some of Us Are Trying to Help You...

    Tenebrae replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You remind me of a preceptor I had at a rural GP practice. One day she offered to teach me how to put an IV line in using her as the practice. I got both in first time. Again, probably not something...
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    Sticky situation .. What would you do?

    Tenebrae replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in General Students

    Try to remain from such blatant and rude generalizations. You'd be surprised how much easier life
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    Sticky situation .. What would you do?

    Tenebrae replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in General Students

    Snarky much? A decent program encourages independent study along with working with
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    Frustrations of home health nurse

    Tenebrae replied to Goal_NP's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yea right. In some respects community/home nursing can be just as chaotic, all it takes is having a couple of nurses sick and thats 10-20 patients that need to be reallocated. Posiitives of home...
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    Could this be construed as "abuse"?

    Tenebrae replied to Pat_Pat RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    So can someone explain for me why medicare would want to know the BP of a long term care
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    Could this be construed as "abuse"?

    Tenebrae replied to Pat_Pat RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    In NZ, we provide nursing care as per our patients requirements its not dictated by insurance companies, district health boards ACC. The poster mentioned having to take BP related to medicare...
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    Not sure if nursing if for me

    Tenebrae replied to nhunt's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I worked as a nurse aid (CNA) many years prior to doing my nursing training. I ended up moving into mental health and disability simply because the care loads were ridiculous and I was expected to be...
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Tenebrae replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    A friend of a friend who was a paramedic got called out to a large apartment block as someone was hearing moaning from inside an apartment. It turned out that the resident had an orange stuck where no...
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Tenebrae replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    We would triage them a five (least urgent), which may mean they get seen within 6 hours. We would also suggest if they are unhappy with that weight time that they could visit the after hours
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    My PT called 911

    Tenebrae replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency

    I recall on my last mental health inpatient placement. I took a call from the hospital operator about one of our patients who had called in a very emotional head space, crying and emotional. I looked...
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    Would you do this...? Thoughts....

    Tenebrae replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    This has to have been concocted by someone who has never ever been through an insertion of a NG tube....... its bad enough having to have one inserted for a genuine therapeutic
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    Would you do this...? Thoughts....

    Tenebrae replied to amoLucia's topic in General Nursing

    We use an NG tube to decompress the stomach in the event of a blockage. As a student got to observe, the patients stomach was under so much pressure the contents shot out and hit the curtain on the...