hppygr8ful ASN, RN, EMT-I

Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life)

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    Trying to learn more about hospital/physician's office discharge

    hppygr8ful replied to kik220's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Every hospital, physicians office or outpatient clinic will have it's own process. The biggest challenge where I work is having a reliable system to translate discharge instructions to patients who...
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    New grad on leave with 3 kids under 3...HELP

    hppygr8ful replied to nursemom24's topic in General Nursing

    I am assuming that you were doing well in orientation until you had to go on leave to have your baby. Is there any way your work would allow you to go Per diem once you finish that 3 to 4 weeks of...
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    How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    They may have access, but to what. The average length of stay in an acute psych facility is 3 to 5 days. Some may get as many as 7 days but that's not long enough to stabilize a true psychiatric...
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    Nurse Practitioner (Mother) leaves 21 month old in car for 8 hours

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't say you called me names but I did say I don't want it to go there. We have a difference of opinion that's all. If more of the cases were prosecuted those who have trouble remembering the...
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    Nurse Practitioner (Mother) leaves 21 month old in car for 8 hours

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    You all know my opinion - I'll not take the bait of name calling etc.... My siblings all of whom worked full time jobs have managed to raise 21 children and none of them ever got left in the back seat...
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    Nurse Practitioner (Mother) leaves 21 month old in car for 8 hours

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Negligent homicide cases to not require malicious intent. The name implies the neglect was not necessarily intentional but a person still lost their life because of it. This is exactly what's wrong...
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    hppygr8ful replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    Of course I work in a great in-patient psych unit. We watch each other's backs. If it looks like someone is ramping up we can call a "silent code" to bring extra bodies to the unit. This creates a...
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    How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    One of my biggest problem with the ACA is it has no provisions for providing quality mental health care. In my opinion the mentally ill are the single most underserved population when it comes to any...
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    Medical Clearance for Psychiatric Unit

    hppygr8ful replied to smcRN2592's topic in General Nursing

    We do have set parameter's which I will try to look up and send you. But I am off tomorrow and taking my son to see Pet Cemetery - so won't be able to do that until Friday. We have a psych RN do a...
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    Nurse Practitioner (Mother) leaves 21 month old in car for 8 hours

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No it would not change my opinion in the slightest - If dad was in charge of baby and left him/her in hot car, or just felt asleep and baby died at home makes no difference if dad was in charge when...
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    hppygr8ful replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    Look up MAB training - It teaches you a lot more escape moves and non-lethal containment moves as well as how to use things like chairs, janitors carts etc to protect your self until help arrives....
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    Nurse Practitioner (Mother) leaves 21 month old in car for 8 hours

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    This not sad for the parents it's sad for the victims. The baby who dies in a hot car. suffering the whole time. I can't for the life of me figure out why these parents are not prosecuted. In...
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    Medical Clearance for Psychiatric Unit

    hppygr8ful replied to smcRN2592's topic in General Nursing

    At our free standing psych we would not take this patient until the ER had at least stabilized the blood pressure. We would require medication to be given and also a cardiology clearance and we do not...
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    Nurse Practitioner (Mother) leaves 21 month old in car for 8 hours

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Like another much debated case here on Allnurses "Criminally negligent homicide plain and
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    hppygr8ful replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    We get MAB (Management of assaultive behavior) training which is way more advanced than CPI which I have also been trained . We still aren't allowed to hurt patients but documentation is your friend...
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    Latest on RaDonda Vaught case

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I stopped responding to this post a while back because I got tired of the rancor and name calling. My daddy used to say "opinions are like rectums in that everybody has one!" I might add that just...
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    Being bullied at work

    hppygr8ful replied to Mariah2019's topic in General Nursing

    I believe the current politically accepted term is "people of color"
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    hppygr8ful replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    This! Amen
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    How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I wish folks would read the whole thread - if they did they would see that I already acknowledged this mistake of mine and apologized for it.
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    Why don't we talk much about these scenarios?

    hppygr8ful replied to Persephone Paige's topic in General Nursing

    I have and I would fight back on any occasion that I was attacked. I have put many patients on the floor in a legally accepted manner. Still constant situational awareness is the key to staying safe...
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    How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Well as a Libertarian I don't trust the government on either side of the isle. In 56 years I've never seen a politician do what they said they would do or have any so called promise deliver what was...
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    How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Oh and "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" we all saw how that turned out!
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    What a day!

    hppygr8ful posted a topic in General Nursing

    Returned to work after a weekend off and what a day it has been. made me think it must be a full moon but come to find out the moon is waxing right now and won't hit it's full glory until Thursday...
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    What a day!

    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Just tp reassure my peeps here - Just a vent I am not jumping off the wagon.
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    How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    hppygr8ful replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I just want to say if anyone missed it that I did get the exchange rate wrong and apologize - but the thread has gone off the rails. The OP specifically asked how Medicare for all would effect...