Gooselady BSN, RN

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    Chest hair

    Gooselady replied to Ninjateagan's topic in Men in Nursing

    Isn't chest hair the same kind of hair as pubic hair? If a chest hair fell out and landed on the desk, it would look like a pube, who would know the difference? I worked with a male nurse with a...
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    Unit Practice Council Haters?

    Gooselady replied to jrall60's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It is impossible, and inappropriate for the council member to themselves be responsible for enforcing anything. If my manager told me to enforce a rule with my uncooperative peers I would explain why...
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    Medication Error - 53 is this for me

    Gooselady replied to Mindfulone1's topic in Patient Medications

    Your mistake was neither HUGE or life threatening. It could have been (I think this is where you are getting stuck) but it was not. Mistakes do not happen in a vacuum. They are like spikes in a...
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    Has anyone ever escaped?

    Gooselady replied to ellieheart's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't have known this before doing it, but private duty (through an agency) may be a 'speed' you could totally excel at. I spent the last six and a half years in acute care, and the 17 years...
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    If you can't pass the NCLEX after three attempts....LVN license only!

    Gooselady replied to neonurse97's topic in General Nursing

    No frying from me, that was my first conclusion I could possibly draw while wondering 'who in the heck is she going on about??' In my senior year in school I was the 'nursing tutor' ($4.41 per hour!)...
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    What should I say about getting fired for family complaints?

    Gooselady replied to sissonrn's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a nurse who had some weird misunderstanding with the wife of one of our frequent flyers (an oncology unit) for chemo. It got blown way up, and she had to go to HR with the manager over...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    Gooselady replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Andi78 said: It isn't spewing negativity and 'hate' (of all things) to challenge incorrect anti-vaxx propaganda with science fact. People have gotten rude and personal off and on on this thread,...
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    Self esteem in nursing

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

    The bit about 'shutting down', and instantly doubting yourself and wondering if you are actually incompetent is something that experience will iron out. For instance, in this experience, you didn't...
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    Sorry, we must start you as a new grad.

    Gooselady replied to strawberryfields's topic in General Nursing

    This happened to me seven years ago when I moved from inpatient psych to medical oncology. I'd been a psych RN for 15 years, my first two years in home health. There were so few job openings in my...
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    Long hair unrestrained at work

    Gooselady replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, unrestrained long hair is an infection risk, similar to acrylic nails or wearing a lot of rings. They INCREASE the risk of infection and could theoretically carry an infection to an...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    Gooselady replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It would be interesting if the UK did a side by side with the US, though I don't know which would be the control . . . but it would be interesting to know if the shingles incidence were different...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    The media is in many ways the arbiter of what information is shared, and I am sick of it too, beyond sick It's been tough to find unspun information, where it is EASY to get bombarded with nonsense,...
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    I am looking for another position – when do I tell my supervisor or manager

    Gooselady replied to whichone'spink's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Nurses change jobs frequently, and most managers are familiar with how this works. They don't expect you to stay forever, they certainly won't stay forever where they are. It does put you in a tough...
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    DCDs and the one who should not be. What do you do?

    Gooselady replied to blinky's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I would also want to find some way to communicate this to her superior. The trick to doing that is to word it, and time it, in a particular way (word and time your written report of her behavior)....
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    Ask a question till reporting nurse can't answer one

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

    Unfortunately that is REALLY common, 'which side is it on?' questions. Not all of our brains are hooked up with plenty of axons to whatever brain blob's job it is to determine right or left. I can...
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    Why are magnet hospitals bad?

    Gooselady replied to golson's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    "Why are magnet hospitals bad?" is a question you have to distort reality to answer They are not 'bad' or 'good', because no one thing is either/or. However! After knowing what I know about what...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    Gooselady replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I read this article and then the opposing from from WebMD. Perhaps what has happened in UK is that 'cause' (varicella vaccine, therefore increased shingles) is being attributed before the research is...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    Gooselady replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    An older post from days ago (just catching up here) and this paragraph caught my eye. I can see how Aubrienora got hornswaggled by a distortion of the facts by emotionalism and preconceived notions....
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    That is relieving information to know (your last paragraph) and it seems evident in my personal life that this is so. This 'lumping together' reminds me of how we tend to lump all Muslims together,...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Gooselady replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    Aw, what a tragedy I'm looking through the various articles as well. Joey Cronin's case has been picked up, so to speak, by the right-to-life folks and a couple of pro-life type organizations, after...
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    Ask a question till reporting nurse can't answer one

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

    My previous manager got so many complaints from off-going shifts about oncoming shift's behavior during report that she wrote up a list of behaviors 'to avoid' and behaviors that support excellent...
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    What Would You Do?

    Gooselady replied to NewTexasRN's topic in General Nursing

    She changed your charting so the client would 'meet criteria' for medicaid reimbursement. This is pretty bad. Granted, this stuff happens all the time. I did utilization review for four years, and...
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    When is it delegation and when is it "Being bossy"???

    Gooselady replied to SNBTaylor's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is an excellent question. Other posters have covered the "you're the RN, you have the responsibility and authority" angle so I won't go there. What you want, ideally, is to work with staff who...
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    DCDs and the one who should not be. What do you do?

    Gooselady replied to blinky's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I got your drift, my way of communicating it just wasn't very clear. What jumped out at me was her shaking her finger in your face like you were a naughty three year old. That, to me, said EVERYTHING...
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    DCDs and the one who should not be. What do you do?

    Gooselady replied to blinky's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Even if everyone else is doing it wrong I agree that how you deliver criticism is important. And if a peer RN I worked with got promoted over me and started wagging her finger in my face I'd want to...