odaat

odaat

ER, Med/Surg, Telemetry, Dialysis

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  1. Report me???

    odaat replied to MendedHeart's topic in General Nursing

    8 and skate! 😂 love it and am gonna add that into my repertoire

  2. Frustration setting in!

    odaat replied to Omaapecm's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I feel your pain on the dilutes, I've also had several and I too now drink very little on the days I'm selected for testing. It makes me kinda angry sometimes because it's like dang I'm doing all...

  3. What's the benefit of self reporting to tpapn?

    odaat replied to vampireslayer's topic in Nurses Recovery

    So are they asking you to re-start the program and not get credit for the time you've already done? Agree with above, what a nightmare! But its a credit to you that you're persevering through this and...

  4. What's the benefit of self reporting to tpapn?

    odaat replied to vampireslayer's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Wow I'm really sorry it's going like that for you! Sometimes (a lot of time) i feel like I stay clean and mentally stable in spite of their "help", definitely not because of it. The only good thing...

  5. 8/22 What I learned this week....

    odaat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Sgt pepper! (She's brown and girls can totally be sergeants 😁) There's also a song called

  6. Need advice on updating resume after one year experience....

    odaat replied to jes07's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    After my first job, which was 2 years med/surg, I took my clinical stuff off my resume because to me it screamed inexperienced/new grad and thats not the message I wanted to convey. So I just put my...

  7. Help! I need to quit my first nursing job after 3 months

    odaat replied to meggers13's topic in General Nursing

    I was getting ready to post the same thing, completely agree! Keep your reason very

  8. The Blue Hair Nurse

    odaat replied to rosomebody007's topic in General Nursing

    😂 sorry couldn't

  9. Salary of an RN?

    odaat replied to hardworkingmom9's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm a single mom of 2 daughters and I live comfortably. Of course comfortable is different to different people. For me being able to provide a roof over our heads, food, clothes, a reliable vehicle,...

  10. What's the benefit of self reporting to tpapn?

    odaat replied to vampireslayer's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The benefit of self reporting for me is that I do not have a public knowledge online board order to go to monitoring; by the time the BON got around to me I had already been in monitoring 6 months so...

  11. "How are we doing today?"

    odaat replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I think that the "mom" thing is for my childs benefit, like "ok you sit right here and mom will sit right beside you" or something along those lines. I don't know, they've always referred to me as mom...

  12. Love night shift....not confused pt's!

    odaat replied to stephalina6's topic in General Nursing

    I pretty much refuse to ever give ambien to anyone 65 or older again! Every single time I have it has not ended well-IVs torn out, patient running down the hall naked, etc etc. It is a horrible med...

  13. So torn between Nursing and Social Work... advice?

    odaat replied to nybsn's topic in General Students

    I originally wanted to be in some sort of social work and got my first associates degree in social science with plans to continue on that educational path. However when I graduated with that degree my...

  14. "How are we doing today?"

    odaat replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I have a coworker that is constantly doing the "honey, sweetie, oh sure love" thing...like nails on a chalkboard to me but the patients seem to love it and probably think I'm the mean nurse cause I...

  15. Worst/silliest/are you serious pt complaint you've received?

    odaat posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't know if this has been done before but I was thinking today about the one and only time I have ever been pulled into the office to be read the riot act by a manager....my patient complained...

  16. Why am I so depressed?

    odaat replied to freckles23's topic in Health, Stress Management

    It's okay to feel a little down, you had a vision for yourself and it hasn't worked out that way yet. But you just can't let yourself stay down, and the best way I've found to get myself out of the...

  17. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    odaat replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    I just hope the people that say yes I am a dr or nurse actually are! While I understand why its done that way it still seems a lil

  18. Complaints already?!

    odaat replied to OneDayAtATime93's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Was the complaint of not being proactive solely related to the social aspect of work or were they possibly talking about clinically? Because in the ER proactive clinically is very much a needed...

  19. This week, I learned.... (7/25)

    odaat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I keep a prescription of valtrex on me at all times, it is truly a miracle drug for me for cold sores! If i catch it in the tingle stage it never develops and if it has developed the valtex makes it...

  20. Failed NCLEX, should I become a CNA?

    odaat replied to stephjane's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to throw out there that you also have options for your loans...there's deferments, forbearances, and also now you can apply for something called an income based repayment plan. I did that...

  21. Reaction to PPD test?

    odaat replied to meganec17's topic in General Nursing

    Mine also turns red and just looks irritated and angry, goes away in a few weeks for

  22. Side business ideas for nurses

    odaat replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is a hair wrap

  23. Side business ideas for nurses

    odaat replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I plan to go sell hair wraps and snowcones on a tropical beach for my

  24. Accused of narcotic/ alcohol abuse... No clue what this is about!

    odaat replied to Purplegiraffe's topic in General Nursing

    If I were going to pay for a test in hopes of proving my innocence should I need to, I would probably get a hair test. It goes back at least 90 days while most drugs except marijuana are not...

  25. What nursing task do you loathe???

    odaat replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient ask me to pour out their cup for them...ok sure sir no problem....turns out it was a full cup of the loogies he'd been hawking up barffffffffffff..thats the closest I've ever come to...