Libby1987

Libby1987

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  1. Please don't call me Dude

    Libby1987 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with nurseynursenurse, please don't ever call me ma'am. I'd seriously rather be called

  2. How to assert my authority without feeling like I'm just being bossy.

    Libby1987 replied to ceneil76's topic in General Nursing

    Oh there you are! You probably didn't realize that Jane is on her lunch break on off of the unit right now, we can't have both of you on break at the same time. Be prepared to give a reasonable

  3. Calling in treats for unit when home sick?

    Libby1987 replied to MIRN923's topic in General Nursing

    How about you volunteer to cover a shift on Tues and/or

  4. Please don't call me Dude

    Libby1987 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 50 and from California, it's a term of

  5. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Libby1987 replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Birth control, I forget that it's also against religious beliefs. How do/did Catholic* nurses ever reconcile compromising their beliefs with administering prescribed BC? Is that even an issue? Has...

  6. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Libby1987 replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Enough letters til there's hardly anyone left out and maybe we can get rid of them altogether? I tend to forget that the LBGT community even needs to be a community, until I read things like this and...

  7. Nude nurse goes nutty

    Libby1987 replied to chopwood carrywater's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like somebody who was hireable and sane at some point had a psychotic break and assaulted and battered their patient. It's just

  8. New job updates?

    Libby1987 posted a topic in Home Health

    For those who have recently started in home health, how is it going? What's good, what's bad, what was

  9. New job updates?

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in Home Health

    Definitely. It's really a communication/assertion skill that you will develop. IMO it's better to be pushed around initially instead of being overly aggressive while developing your style. Patients...

  10. Pay grade: experienced nurse vs new grad

    Libby1987 replied to rehric00's topic in General Nursing

    A new grad makes as much as a charge? Of course that's wrong and unfair when you're on an hourly pay structure. But how will your pay double when you

  11. New job updates?

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in Home Health

    That makes it hard. I'd still call who you can to at least exclude patients who won't be home plus avoid the early morning persuasion calls. I do ask about my schedule the day prior, usually early...

  12. New job updates?

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in Home Health

    If you can, call the evening before and then you'll cut out the MD appts and such and know what your day will mostly be like when you start in the morning. Particularly call your admits to make sure...

  13. Update and HELP!

    Libby1987 replied to v412's topic in General Nursing

    They sound shady but re the recerts, if an RN has visited in the last 5 days of the cert period to recertify and there in an interim order you can see the patient, ask for a copy of it before making...

  14. 1 minute scrub the hub

    Libby1987 replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't had a patient come home without port covers in several years, and every infusion company now provides them. (Northern California) I thought everyone used those

  15. Only 11,310 Days til Retirement!!!!

    Libby1987 replied to Madras's topic in General Nursing

    I have about 3,900 days to work until I'm 65, I just want to slow down the

  16. Don't talk bad about your patients

    Libby1987 replied to BrendaH84's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Report isn't for venting, that's for your work buddies, supervisor or staff/team meetings if it's mutually agreed upon to use the time for

  17. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Libby1987 replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    I don't equate it with wanting to be a squirrel. I figure if an individual can be born intersexed with both male and female genetalia why can't there be a mix of gender characteristics otherwise less...

  18. I need a passion...

    Libby1987 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    I'd look at your life outside of work and fix the holes there. Your post reads as though your tank must be empty. Nurses or anyone else who are getting their needs met in their personal life may not...

  19. Don't talk bad about your patients

    Libby1987 replied to BrendaH84's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Heads up re relevant behaviors and issues is different than what OP is talking about. I don't like it either. And I agree about imitating them, be a pro and find some other ways to cope with common...

  20. My Fibro

    Libby1987 replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    Other than my gut issues, which are managed with diet when I choose, I'm very blessed in all ways. People lwho use their illnesses to garner sympathy usually get it from me. How can you not feel some...

  21. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Libby1987 replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see the relevance in whether gender identity is a choice or not. This is a country of individual freedoms as long as no law is broken. And I cannot think of anything much worse than even...

  22. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Libby1987 replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Do MD's views as a group generally parallel those of nurses on this issue? As in are they as

  23. What do you wish you had known?

    Libby1987 replied to MallysMama's topic in General Nursing

    Second post..I didn't need to know this myself as it was just easier in years past but what I see with new nurses these days.. The first couple of years really require complete dedication, unless...

  24. Cost of your RN degree??

    Libby1987 replied to SML456's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps 180K is the true cost of this level of education that has been subsidized one way or another in many

  25. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    Libby1987 replied to TexMex22's topic in Health, Stress Management

    If 2/3rds of our population were addicted to tobacco and had the associated health problems for tax payers to cover, where would we start to address the problem? At pointing fingers to their weak...