Gooselady BSN, RN

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    The Fat One

    Gooselady replied to Pink86's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If she'd have called the student nurse a n***** she'd have been fired on the spot. I wonder what difference there really is in calling an obese person 'fat', in a society where you'd have to be blind...
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    To tell or not to tell!

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

    No, it's waaayyyy to high a price to pay. You are experiencing a kind of culture shock between 'nursing as you expect it to be' and 'nursing as it really is'. That doesn't excuse people from not...
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    Nurse who survived Ebola is suing the hospital

    Gooselady replied to anon456's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Ahaa! I was unaware of that, thank you for the correction. Diff'ernt ball game
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    For all intents and purposes in the real world, she isn't a corpse. C'mon. Whatever Jahi McMath is, which I suspect there's about to be a new 'term' for here soon, she is no corpse. A living body,...
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    Being Bullied

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

    I agree with the poster who suggested you politely inquire if there is something about you, how you do things, or something you perhaps DID or SAID at one time that rubbed her the wrong way? I don't...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    It's hard for me to wrap my head around how a family (especially that one) could keep Jahi going as long as she has. I suppose that is, in part, to the girl's relatively healthy 13 year old body and...
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    How do you shake off the horrible?

    Gooselady replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    It's the most unsatisfying answer . . . but time passing always smooths over those huge gut-wrenches. I even tell myself, "Tomorrow, you will remember this but not with so much angst". It's always...
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    Help me with compassion fatigue

    Gooselady replied to Raviepoo's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Good for you :) I worked in psych and chemical dependency most of my career, and 'coping' with the drug seeking patients was an ongoing thing. It wasn't like I suddenly had a revelation one day and...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    I don't see how Jahi could even be . . . well, alive (as it were) if she weren't being cared for by nursing staff and overseen by a doctor. I think in NJ she isn't considered 'dead', and has the full...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    You are right, there definitely is a ton of concern to be had for Jahi's sibs, and I believe you when you say your heart goes out to all the people caught up in this mess :) As a nurse, I dunno if I...
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    Dear Doctor

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

    Sure they are :) There's a particular attitude throughout that blog post that feels self-centered, kind of me me me whattabout me me me? That probably sounds insulting, and I'm not intending to be....
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    Have you ever disliked a nursing job so much that you quit without notice?

    Gooselady replied to Nola009's topic in General Nursing

    Did I? YES. I don't regret leaving the job per se. It was a total cluster no matter how ya sliced it. Twenty years later (and less impulsive), I still look back on that and feel bad, at how I...
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    Not getting charge nurse position

    Gooselady replied to frisky's topic in Nurse Management

    My first thought was "why would what happened necessarily be a sign of disrespect?" Then I thought "You would feel EXACTLY the same darn way, fool!" Still, 'disrespect' may have had no part in this at...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    Gooselady replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Couldn't agree more on the latter part of your post! I don't go swinging my atheist club in public (except here, which is kinda public). Around here (ETA my provincial little part of the world), it's...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    I understand you are entitled to your opinion. It's just that no one else is entitled to your opinion, and this is a public forum. On a public forum, calling a family well known to the public 'scum...
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    What to do when your manager is the bully.....

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

    Heck no. But that doesn't even sound right. It sounds like they went to the EAP, (which got reported back) and then they got reported to the BON. Why would going to an EAP cause THAT to happen?...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    But it has nothing to do with anything BUT a family attempting to exploit all this media attention for financial gain. Seriously -- it is disgusting, I agree. But this is a family that lost a child...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    I read that article too, and couldn't help but be pretty horrified at what happened. Why she had cerebral edema doesn't immediately seem 'connected' to her surgery, unless she had a deep hematoma...
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    What to do when your manager is the bully.....

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

    That sucks !! Defeats the whole purpose . . . I worked in a place where my boss (a PhD psychologist with post graduate work in NARCISSISM) was buddy buddy with our assigned HR contact. That was,...
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    If people make me feel bad, I've been bullied

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

    There's a 'third' point to be made here, after defining what 'rude' is. A good place to start is defining 'rude' as criticizing a person's qualities (like intelligence, or some nebulous claim of...
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    What would you like to see in your scrubs?

    Gooselady replied to xo_mish's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Someone else, doing my job, signing the check over to me while I go on a looooooong
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    Peer review evaluations

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

    It's no different than bedside reporting. Peer evaluation is a neutral thing. It's the dysfunctional people who turn it into a disaster. There's a lot of good feedback to be obtained from a peer --...
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    Bedside reporting as a management tool of humiliation

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

    We did bedside report the last two and a half years of my previous job. It was seriously NO BIG DEAL. What insensitive, angry, micromanaging idiot thinks it is improving patient care to wake patients...
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    clique in the workplace

    Gooselady replied to Starfish-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Definitely . . . you don't have to bow your head and crinkle your shoulders in humiliation, even when you are in the presence of a jerk. I was awkward and shy as a young girl, and then I became a...
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    Peer review evaluations

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

    We did them at my last job. We had to hand out five peer review forms, which were filled out and turned in to the manager directly. The info on them was included in the yearly eval. They were...