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  1. Patient/Family Rage

    grannynurse FNP student replied to sawbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Let me explain something to you. The RN in question was holding my right fist, while digging into my arm with an angiocath. My left hand was busy holding a nebulizer, I was in the middle of an...

  2. Medicated Patient for Husband's Sake?

    grannynurse FNP student replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Your first responsability is to your patient. You can offer her medication but you should not medicate her, if she refuses. And you or someone shoould talk to her husband about his feekings....

  3. Patient/Family Rage

    grannynurse FNP student replied to sawbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What you are referring to is quite true and you are being honest. However, I have seen, listen to and read about staff complaining about patients and/or families and reacting in anger to their...

  4. Patient/Family Rage

    grannynurse FNP student replied to sawbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Please do not try to divert this disagreement or the issues being addressed. It is funny, that only here in the U.S. do nurses voice their fear of physical assualts by patients or their families....

  5. Has anybody heard of Liberty University's nursing program?

    grannynurse FNP student replied to Beth_audrey's topic in Virginia Nursing

    Don't know about their program but given their track record, you can bet the scientific theory takes a distant second to G-ds.

  6. NYC MTA Strike

    grannynurse FNP student replied to Ari RN's topic in New York Nursing

    I have enjoyed reading some of the responses here and keeping up with the strike on cable news. I would like to share my experiences, in 1965 and 1966, when both the transit workers went out but the...

  7. Patient/Family Rage

    grannynurse FNP student replied to sawbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry but I will refuse to sign a Code of Conduct. And any hospital that makes it a condition of my stay, well I will not return to that hospital. Your response that most families respond in a...

  8. Patient/Family Rage

    grannynurse FNP student replied to sawbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have been taken to task, by my peers, for threating to slap a nurse who refused to stop digging in my arm, attempting to start an IV, after twice requesting her to stop. Both she and some fail to...

  9. Patient/Family Rage

    grannynurse FNP student replied to sawbuck's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I find it interesting, the attitude of U.S. nurses and what they presume to be the causes of patient and/or family member attacks against them. They tend to blame the administrators of their...

  10. What does Neurontin do?

    grannynurse FNP student replied to selulion's topic in General Nursing

    CTS symptoms include the sensation of falling a sleep in the affected extremity, as well as pain. Splinting is another of the treatments offered, as well as steroid injections into the affected area...

  11. Drug addicted nurses

    grannynurse FNP student replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Either you learn to accept your parent's illness or you will be frustrated to no end when they do not wish to seek treatment. You can't live another person's life and trying is a waste of time and...

  12. Nursing Theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to otownRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Evidence Based Practice.

  13. Nursing Student Unlawfully Removed from School

    grannynurse FNP student replied to RobInAlabama's topic in General Nursing

    you can go to the following site: http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topic. it will give you the address and telephone number for the ada office covering your area. i researched the site and found...

  14. Drug addicted nurses

    grannynurse FNP student replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

  15. Drug addicted nurses

    grannynurse FNP student replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well, I guess it proves the point, I've always maintained: Florida is a socially backward state. Hate to tell you this, DARE is alive and well, here in Florida. I just attended a school program put...

  16. Nursing Student Unlawfully Removed from School

    grannynurse FNP student replied to RobInAlabama's topic in General Nursing

    The poster suffers from chronic pain and has been on long term narcotic therapy. People who take narcotic, on a long term bases, usually do not suffer the side effects, that are normally present in...

  17. Drug addicted nurses

    grannynurse FNP student replied to ske0124's topic in Nurses Recovery

    First, you have see the TV commercials which are thirty second spots. Try going into the school programs. Second, you may resent all you wish. I grew up post WWII. A large number of children were...

  18. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    As you have stated, you are new to nursing. Roy's theory is applicable to many areas of nursing, not just psych and peds. Diabetics, sroke, cardiac, surgical patients, to name a few, all use...

  19. Nursing Student Unlawfully Removed from School

    grannynurse FNP student replied to RobInAlabama's topic in General Nursing

    Go to the ADA website. They can provide the information that you need.

  20. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    There are those who subscribe to the scientific proof system, that they believe either validates or invalidates a theory. With such a belief system, they restrict their view of theory. They see no...

  21. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    No, I am not. There are certain aspects of any theory that can be proven, using a scientific method of testing and validating. Like wise there are aspects of any theory that cannot be validated by...

  22. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    In your opinion. However you are the group that is subscribing to an outdated, limited scientific view. Hard science may be necessary but it is the dreamers who first set the steps towards...

  23. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    This may be the point of the thread but it appears that some are more interested in trashing nursing theory and nursing theorists As for the comment that art should not outweigh science, there is a...

  24. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    grannynurse FNP student replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Thank you. I agree with much of your posts. And I accept that many nurses have a problem with theory and theorists. However, I am not willing to write off all theorists and substitute EBP. Now,...

  25. Nursing Student Unlawfully Removed from School

    grannynurse FNP student replied to RobInAlabama's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm, your mom must be around my age:wink2: Generally, if a person has a legal prescription, has made it known, it is generally not held against an individual, as long as he is not showing any signs...