Libby1987

Libby1987

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  1. Calling a transgender patient an "it"

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

    It is not Stalin of me at all when I clearly meant it tongue in cheek, your opportunistic snark is neither clever nor

  2. Troll co-worker

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

    I also meant don't ignore her negative comments. "I don't agree," and then wait and repeat can go a long way to ending diatribes. If your performance is strong, no one will believe you are

  3. Troll co-worker

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

    I don't ignore, I work on building relationships. Not necessarily becoming compadres but I'm not going to ignore people as a way to deal. I'm trying to soften my directness but I remain direct, with...

  4. family members working in the same hospital and exact same unit

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

    Your last response, "basically I hate them, it's their loss" makes me think the situation would have been hard for you to function in professionally. Might be a

  5. Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle

    Libby1987 replied to cynboys's topic in Patient Education

    18-21% of children are obese (not just overweight) and likely growing. At what point or ever does it become a public/govt

  6. Who teaches essential nursing skills?

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your replies. We've been meeting and strategizing how to handle this. It's becoming apparent that this is not going to be a few isolated situations. It seems home health may be becoming...

  7. Calling a transgender patient an "it"

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

    I disagree with Red Kryptonite on just about every social issue but I have zero doubt about her compassion for all of her patients and their loved ones. Her patients are dying and their loved one's...

  8. Who teaches essential nursing skills?

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    We expect to teach wound care and do provide ongoing support, inservices and mentoring following orientation. The surprise to me was that I needed to bring it all the way back to infection control...

  9. Who teaches essential nursing skills?

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    An example, I demonstrate wound care on a patient explaining *why* I'm using certain products and techniques and discussing wound healing principles. Next time is observing new hire performing wound...

  10. question about age

    Libby1987 replied to nursepenelope's topic in General Nursing

    I see 30 yr old and I think maternity/kids. I see 50 (if they look up to the job) and think kids out of the house with more energy for work. That may be entirely off base but that's how it worked for...

  11. Pre employment substance testing

    Libby1987 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't aware that testing included substances such as tobacco, I naively thought the testing was only for illicit drugs. I'm just wondering how they get around declining hiring based on legal...

  12. Pre employment substance testing

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    After seeing my post quoted, yikes, I tangled my thoughts.. Screening for tobacco use, testing for nicotine (but I see that isn't correct

  13. Professionalism....name your irritation here!

    Libby1987 replied to LobotRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is when I'd rather be eating and

  14. Orientation Drama for Your Momma

    Libby1987 replied to StudentXTexas's topic in Men in Nursing

    How can students be assigned to patients who are also assigned to a nurse still in orientation under a preceptor? That's the issue to take up, not the giggling. You can find strength and a thicker...

  15. Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle

    Libby1987 replied to cynboys's topic in Patient Education

    You guys are all familiar with the food science and engineering to make processed food competitive and addictive? I would think most health science majors would be but just in case here's an article...

  16. question about age

    Libby1987 replied to nursepenelope's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 50 myself and I hope it's okay to ask since your question is about age, do you appear to be aging? I work with nurses in their 60's+ so 46 seems relatively young to me, especially if you appear in...

  17. Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle

    Libby1987 replied to cynboys's topic in Patient Education

    I think it's more oranges to tangerines. I believe in the craving cycle due to insulin swings born out of our typical American diet high in processed carbs. I just can't believe the cross section...

  18. Adequacy of orientation

    Libby1987 replied to Photofosterrn's topic in General Nursing

    Are you writing a

  19. family members working in the same hospital and exact same unit

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

    I don't think you're asking the right question. I I think it should be, "Can two people with a dysfunctional relationship with likely work place acting out work on the same unit? And could it ruin...

  20. Verbally, mentally & emotionally abused by patient where do I turn.

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

    Who told you that, your employer who is taking the path of least

  21. I Love Night Shift

    Libby1987 replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in General Nursing

    #7 Good

  22. Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle

    Libby1987 replied to cynboys's topic in Patient Education

    I was going to say that it's a problem that will eventually take care of itself but considering that poverty and malnutrition, even starvation, hasn't affected world population in the best way,...

  23. family members working in the same hospital and exact same unit

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

    You're expecting your brother to throw a

  24. I'm a nurse and I don't like people.

    Libby1987 replied to addylpn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    What do you all mean by fake? I'm thinking now if I see any fakeness in my coworkers and I'm not coming up with

  25. About paying off student loans

    Libby1987 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion? Like I said up thread, I don't have any issue with working them off. My orignal question was regarding the resentful attitude towards them that I've