MassED BSN, RN

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    Charge nurse has it out for me...kind of a rant

    MassED replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    please do NOT think you are *over reacting*. You are not. You have a legitimate complaint. I would imagine you are not the first with her. Don't tolerate that bully mentality, then she'll know not to...
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    Severe lower abdominal pain

    MassED replied to NickB's topic in Ob/Gyn

    my first thought is gas after you'd ruled out the obvious first threats. I'm not an OB/or L&D nurse, but after those emergent conditions are ruled out, an obvious one would be gas... especially...
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    Charge nurse has it out for me...kind of a rant

    MassED replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ckh23, and ya know, one person's disability doesn't mean that another nurse has to suffer an obscene amount of stress/workload/grief. That is not how to divide patients, by giving them all to one...
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    Charge nurse has it out for me...kind of a rant

    MassED replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    talk w/ you manager and talk w/ hr, pronto. that old school nurse is committing the offense of horizontal violence. making your working environment hostile and i wouldn't take it. period. do not meet...
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    It still bothers me.

    MassED replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    :hug:I'm so sorry for your
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    It still bothers me.

    MassED replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    sounds like you, as well as some other posters on this thread, are actually OK with the doctor's verbal lashing AND the support of the others on that unit. It is unacceptable, period. The support of...
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    It still bothers me.

    MassED replied to chicookie's topic in General Nursing

    YOU did the right thing and actually took the time for the daughter. EVEN if it was false hope (it was not, it was a balance), it was hope, and you supported her in her moment of need. Nevermind the...
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    How does your ED handle "walk-in" MIs?

    MassED replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in Emergency

    using a "code" button, if you have one in an ED, is useful to get attention when you need it quickly. Whether or not it's a code, it may be one shortly... better to have peeps on hand when it does and...
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    New RN and starting a family - advice please

    MassED replied to arabstarRN's topic in General Nursing

    you're never REALLY ready, but it's wonderful when it happens. Just do it. You'll figure out work/childcare stuff. It all falls into
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    Hourly rounding logs

    MassED replied to afteralltheseyears's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I wonder if you are working where I work, since we just implemented this within the last week. It stinks and it's stupid. Let me explain why: You can sign the sheet off and not actually do it....
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    Strep - Call in or go anyways?

    MassED replied to TX_nurse_08's topic in General Nursing

    or go in and tell them you think you have Strep, you don't have PTO, and you don't want to get your NICU patients sick... so ask the charge RN, what do you do? Likely you will be sent to your ED to...
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    How does your ED handle "walk-in" MIs?

    MassED replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in Emergency

    trust your gut. Always. If you're one who understands that, you need to use it. I do and it never ever steers me wrong. You may not know exactly what "it" is that is wrong, but once you identify...
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    How does your ED handle "walk-in" MIs?

    MassED replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in Emergency

    we handle our walk-ins the same way any CP presents, you do the EKG after your VS/triage note. If it's an acute MI, an overhead page for a patient to our critical care room is called and the patient...
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    Electrical cord inside the Foley, pt from ICU

    MassED replied to Asystole RN's topic in General Nursing

    temperature sensing foley sounds
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    Is there a nurse on the plane?

    MassED replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    are you sure about this? i haven't researched it, but i just watched a documentary on pan-am and stewardesses in the hey day of flying, and their only requirements they listed were: under 120 pounds,...
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    I'm so stressed, I want to give up nursing...

    MassED replied to payang0722's topic in General Nursing

    why didn't you tell that doc that you were instructed by the u/s tech that insurance won't pay for r/o DVT??? Not a big deal.... You could call that doc and clarify that was what was going
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    Staff Meetings: What Are They Good For?

    MassED replied to steelydanfan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wouldn't know. I don't go. The last (and only one) that I've been to where I currently work, it was mandatory, and it was an adversarial meeting of the worst kind. There's a reason I never
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    Intrinsically safe defibrilators

    MassED replied to 313RN's topic in General Nursing

    interesting topic, of which I know nothing about... interested to read
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    Okay, why do ER nurses think they're so cool?

    MassED replied to gayle_the_RN's topic in General Nursing

    ha! yeah, right. if ever there were flame throwing
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    Okay, why do ER nurses think they're so cool?

    MassED replied to gayle_the_RN's topic in General Nursing

    or as I'm starting to do now to make a young person get the point.. my Alcohol overdose: waking up with a diaper
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    Okay, why do ER nurses think they're so cool?

    MassED replied to gayle_the_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I replied as just another ER point of view, not because I didn't read the arduous
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    Okay, why do ER nurses think they're so cool?

    MassED replied to gayle_the_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it does take a certain kind of person, but not necessarily "better" or cool, however the definition may be.... just as I KNOW that I could not take (or would ever want) to work NICU or PICU. I...
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    Okay, why do ER nurses think they're so cool?

    MassED replied to gayle_the_RN's topic in General Nursing

    tell me this, why would an ER "hold" onto an admitted patient when the room is ready and available upstairs? You write why does it have to be "right now" when they're been in the ED for so long, but...
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    overreacting or not, that is the question!?!

    MassED replied to luvmyhubbybunches's topic in General Nursing

    it sounds like you're a great nurse. I agree with what you wrote. It is a frustrating place in which we work... at times. Psych is bubbling up to the surface here in the Northeast with all the...
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    overreacting or not, that is the question!?!

    MassED replied to luvmyhubbybunches's topic in General Nursing

    it is professional courtesy to be seen quickly and efficiently when you work in the ED. We do that for our own. I think you might be holding a grudge because of all the other patients who are seen in...