Gooselady BSN, RN

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    What is the worst case of bullying you've seen in your nursing career?

    Gooselady replied to Guest878640's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good. No one can learn a thing where students aren't welcome. Anyway, nursing does have a problem with lateral violence, but it depends a LOT on the unit or facility. I've been around for 24 years...
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    Do you talk to yourself?

    Gooselady replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I always thought I talked out loud to myself BECAUSE I worked in psych so long. Anyway, I've been told 'it's one of those cute, funny things about you' (that I talk to myself, out loud). I think...
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    Job Hinderance vs. Just Annoying?

    Gooselady replied to unbalanced's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Don't forget that the secretaries are taking the brunt of angry and/or very anxious patients. They have the initial contact, and as you well know, every person calling a triage line is anxious and...
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    Why are preceptors negative towards nurses they are teaching?

    Gooselady replied to nursy1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Someone may have already said this, I haven't read every post on this thread. As for the aversion to the term 'NETY', and wanting to get rid of it (ie, censor it) won't make NETY go away! And neither...
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    Why are preceptors negative towards nurses they are teaching?

    Gooselady replied to nursy1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    FarawynRN said: I hear what you are saying. I think its quite clear that not ALL nurses are NETY, or that any complaints of NETY mean ALL nurses are just bwahahahaing, can hardly wait to get hold...
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    Unsafe assignment?

    Gooselady replied to _Skittles_'s topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If you can't get your manager or asst manager to pay attention to your concerns, I don't know any other way you can go about avoiding this happening again Especially when you requested help and she...
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    I thought we learned that in nursing school!

    Gooselady replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Every year we had 'yearly competencies' to be signed off on, and if you forgot (like I did a couple of times) your manager would get all wigged out and threaten to write you up if you didn't go...
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    Need help getting out of LTC

    Gooselady replied to KDuncan890's topic in General Nursing

    That's odd . . . I doubt your working in LTC is hampering your hospital job prospects. But I could be wrong, hopefully someone will chime in about this. At least objectively, you have developed and...
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    How to recover after inserting foot into mouth?

    Gooselady replied to eggyweggy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You must have hit a nerve We can be as careful as possible, go to extraordinary lengths to be 'sensitive' and alert to people who tend to take things negatively. But you don't have that kind of TIME...
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    Why are preceptors negative towards nurses they are teaching?

    Gooselady replied to nursy1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have wondered the same, OP. It seems to me that it is 'easier' to just be patient and tolerant of 'newbie-ness', that it takes a lot more time than the span of a preceptorship to determine what a...
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    Troll co-worker

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

    People like this coworker are actually quite easy to 'tame'. It can be a bit distasteful, but it's worth the effort. You know for a fact her head is seething with negativity, nasty judgments, and all...
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    How can I improve my reputation?

    Gooselady replied to Gummibear_stare's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Even though it FEELS like something is wrong with you -- there is in truth no 'way' a person can be 'wrong'. When I was younger, I was sensitive to negative feedback, read into it more than was really...
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    That nagging feeling...

    Gooselady replied to dudette10's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I did psych for 17 years before working acute care, so getting that 'spidey' feeling was pretty rare, as the patients were medically stable as a rule. Now getting the spidey sense that a patient is...
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    BORED

    Gooselady replied to ptcwhit's topic in Private Duty

    Coursera is an awesome, free public education site. I've taken several courses, just ones that pique my interest. Some have CEU or continuing ed credits, and the range of courses is, well, wide...
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    I Love Night Shift

    Gooselady replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in General Nursing

    I'm doing night shift again after about 15 years of avoiding it like plague . . . and was SO surprised at how easily I transitioned. I think I just couldn't sleep during the day when I had kids to...
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    Is it normal to be ostracized as a student?

    Gooselady replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    You are definitely not alone -- sometime, whether during your student days or early days as a new-er nurse, you'll run into a poorly behaved SOMEBODY, another nurse, a manager, whoever. It is...
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    I don't want to be a quitter.

    Gooselady replied to wannabecnl's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I doubt your job is actually as anxiety producing as you are experiencing it. At least approach the situation as if this may be true. Don't be too quick to give up without trying some different meds...
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    Any good "nurse" shows on tv? Netflix?

    Gooselady replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I saw a video ad for Nurse Jackie a week ago, and having never seen it, found in on my cable services watch-on-demand . . . I plowed through all six seasons and am now hanging on for each new episode...
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    Professionalism....name your irritation here!

    Gooselady replied to LobotRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This! This is . . . well, more of a pet peeve. One can't say this is an unprofessional attitude at all I've had a couple of managers that considered sitting still (unless you were obviously...
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    Pre Employment drug screen decision

    Gooselady replied to mc554433's topic in General Nursing

    I'm from Washington, it's legal here, so I'll speak from that perspective. I would NOT (not, never, under any circumstances whatsoever) tell a prospective manager. Never never. Do some research...
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    Calling a transgender patient an "it"

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

    What I bolded is an opinion of yours that I hope you'll remember is only a personal opinion, rather than a claim to truth. It's important to make that distinction within yourself, but it is VERY...
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    Calling a transgender patient an "it"

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

    You are leaving out the context around why TG folkses may take it very hard to be called an 'it'. We're talking about a life long condition, from the age where the child identifies with a gender...
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    Foot in mouth, now a social pariah

    Gooselady replied to arack05's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I hope you'll tell us what the oh-so-offensive joke was. It might be uncomfortable for you to just tell it, but hopefully folks will recognize you being vulnerable enough to tell, and will be...
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    Reusing suction catheters

    Gooselady posted a topic in Private Duty

    What do you all use to clean suction catheters (for trach) between uses? The patient gets 300 per month of sterile one time use suction kits. Coming from acute hospital care, I've been using the...
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    Preceptors

    Gooselady replied to joe007's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps we aren't hearing about the good or neutral preceptor experiences? Folks EXPECT 'good' and react to 'bad', thus what gets said is going to be mostly about the 'bad'. Whenever I've been...