NurseSpeedy ADN, LPN, RN

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    June 2017 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

    NurseSpeedy replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    When roller skates no longer cut it to make it through a hellacious
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    Required to stay after night shift?

    NurseSpeedy replied to notanumber's topic in Canada

    I question why it would be a routine issue with the day shift showing up on time. I am day shift. I get my butt to work ON TIME. Two tardees equal an occurrence (same as one absence) and if you reach...
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    What do you think will happen if we actually achieve truly safe staffing ratios?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Purple_roses's topic in General Nursing

    When I first started nursing I worked on a floor that did total care nursing. It was a total nightmare with 5 totals with a med pass at 0800 when the trays showed up during that med pass. If I was...
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    Manager catch phrases

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a company years ago that was trying to improve employee morale by having the new CEO come to our location and have a PowerPoint presentation with random questions that we got to throw...
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    Manager catch phrases

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This outbreak reached my coast over a decade ago and has only gotten worse with time. It's the superbug sucking the life out of all surviving
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    Manager catch phrases

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure it was some upper level management with zero nursing experience and probably has never been a patient either, sitting behind a desk thinking of what new strategy will work to improve one...
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    What makes a good manager?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    One that pitches in when you are drowning instead of chasing after you to tell you what you already know you have to do...I will get to it, but I have to put out the fire first. Priorities. If you...
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    Feeling isolated at work

    NurseSpeedy replied to phillipb22's topic in General Nursing

    You sound unhappy with your current position. Life is to short to be doing something that makes you feel that way. If unable to truly transfer to a primarily bedside role as you seem to enjoy and...
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    What Did You Get For Nurses Week?

    NurseSpeedy replied to iPink's topic in General Nursing

    One year a company I worked for sent out letters in the mail informing us that they were cutting our pay-lowest wage I ever saw-and we could take it or stop working for them. Happy Nurse's Week! They...
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    Manager catch phrases

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I was ready to go ablosutely crazy trying to PAY Pearson Vue to take my RN exam. When I got my LPN it was a paper submission, no internet application and payment. Well, somehow I had an online...
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    Best end of year complaint

    NurseSpeedy replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    Not a school nurse here, but a nurse and mother to a first grader. My child had FIELD DAY yesterday and this poor child came into my car exhausted and stinking to high hell. Holy crap, child we are...
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    Older nurses

    NurseSpeedy replied to poopylala's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure they are really that age? I'm not not meaning anything bad when I ask it's just that a lot of people do not look their age. In order to keep up with the pace of a busy floor, one must...
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    call MD if HR <60

    NurseSpeedy replied to Ehhh15's topic in General Nursing

    I have literally had tele call me and ask, concerned, "Um, is room 100 a DNR? They just dipped into the 20s" Me, "Yes, and he was downgraded to CMO 30 minutes ago" Tele, "Oh, that's good because he's...
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    Inappropriate nurses?

    NurseSpeedy replied to hgraves64's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As agency, I got 15 minutes before the shift. I think it was in part to see if I was going to show up. I got pixis access and a tour as to where to find "clean" stuff and where to put "dirty"...the...
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    Inappropriate nurses?

    NurseSpeedy replied to hgraves64's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Had to laugh. Most of my friends are men and THIS is the reason why! It drives my husband crazy but look, I deal with THIS crap at work, give me some peace off the
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    Inappropriate nurses?

    NurseSpeedy replied to hgraves64's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Honestly, the questions would not have even phased me. "How many patients do I have? Six. Will I take an admission? I wasn't aware I had a choice in the matter". Simple questions that are asked...
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    Pill packets suck

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Medications

    And to top it off it's a narcotic, so you are frantically trying to find the thing on the floor where it rolled off to...why do they make dilaudid so small??? Why are SO MANY patients on PO...
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    Vitamins are a controlled substance?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Volley88's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm thinking it's a way to monitor for theft. I had one hospital about 10 years ago that had me count EVERY single med that I pulled from the pixis. Med pass took forever-for me. The hospital staff...
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    What is your "What Was That???" moment?

    NurseSpeedy replied to PK_ICU RN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Just the other day I had an isolation patient reach over and quickly rub the back of my scrub shirt and say "Can I FEEL you? I like the material". I jumped back a little to get away and said, "They're...
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    What is your "What Was That???" moment?

    NurseSpeedy replied to PK_ICU RN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Had a drug seeking patient try to have an argument with me about how Norco/Vicodin/Hydrocodone/Lortab are not the same drugs and didn't want Lortab because it "didn't do sh&$" and she wanted...
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    Pill packets suck

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Medications

    The only thing worse than the pill wrappers are the darn IVs where the fluids have to be attached to a vial of powder and then mixed. I remember the good old days when pharmacy would preattach them...
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    MA to LPN?

    NurseSpeedy replied to tracy13evie's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It may appear that way in a doctor's office setting, but the role of an LPN vs an MA is very
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    BONUS: Nurses Week Meme Contest

    NurseSpeedy replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

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    BONUS: Nurses Week Meme Contest

    NurseSpeedy replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Just received transfer orders for your biggest bell hanger patient
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    Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    NurseSpeedy replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I walked into a pre-op patient's room and introduced myself. I was looking up her labs when she asked me out of the blue, "have you ever walked in on a dead patient before?"....what the hell? Me, "I...