hppygr8ful ASN, RN, EMT-I

Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life)

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    Horror Stories: Rethinking Nursing School

    hppygr8ful replied to ks__102's topic in General Students

    By the first bolded statement you have to understand that many psychiatric patients were often locked away with the keys thrown away. There was no judicial review. Patients were subjected to forced...
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    Flying solo after 2 ‘training shifts’

    hppygr8ful replied to newgrad41's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sadly you are experiencing something that is all too common in many LTCs. The managers know there is a huge turnover and they don't care enough to actually train someone in a manner that will make...
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    Am I required to take a nursing student?

    hppygr8ful replied to jm9621's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Your answer would be facility specific. Where I work all employees are required to precept and allow students to follow them as a condition of employment. Ask if taking a student or preceptee is...
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    Is this despicable behavior?

    hppygr8ful replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm not sure despicable! It certainly seems lazy to me. By the way I was taught a long time ago that one should never "Slide" a patient when repositioning as this can cause friction and shearing...
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    Horror Stories: Rethinking Nursing School

    hppygr8ful replied to ks__102's topic in General Students

    Ever the independent fact checker I found this on the Web Noodle. (n.d.). Retrieved January 23, 2022, from
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    Horror Stories: Rethinking Nursing School

    hppygr8ful replied to ks__102's topic in General Students

    Except that it costs about a quarter of a million dollars a year to house someone in a long term psych facility and the process is onerous at best and takes years. Even mentally ill people have a...
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    The Elves Mission for Patient Safety

    hppygr8ful replied to Jennifer Miller RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have a shungite stone pendant that a coworker (Who knows I like crystals) gave to me. I wear it every day as it is supposed to ward of negative energies. I don't really believe this but it is a...
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    Exhausted from Covid

    hppygr8ful replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    I am only familiar with the original version written and performed by Johnny Paycheck in 1977 - I did not know Dolly had covered the song. I would love to hear it ! Spotify here I
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    COVID 19 Dx

    hppygr8ful posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    So I guess it was bound to happen but I tested positive for COVID 19. I am triple vaxxed and based on symptoms assume omicron varient. It started as a sore throat and progressed elevated temp, muscle...
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    All tuckered out

    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Animal Lovers's Animal Lovers

    So when I went out into the yard today I discovered that Kiai had been a very naughty puppy. She got into the green house and tore up my banana tree. Then she tore up two full bags of potting soil....
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    What I did today

    hppygr8ful posted a topic in Recipe, Mealprep Hacks, and More's Exchange

    So Thursday is my day off and since I was on iso last week with Covid I got my hair done today. Then I went to the store and got ingredients to make one of my favorite dishes. I usually do pasta but...
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    Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    hppygr8ful replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Conventional isolation is 7 to 10 days this allows the patient to recover even if they are not necessarily contagious. This is the model physicians (at least mine) prefer. Contingency means...
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    Epidemic, Pandemic, Endemic.....Oh My!

    hppygr8ful posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sort of to be sung like the old Wizard of Oz tune "Lions and tigers and Bears Oh My!" And back to that in a minute. A comment was mad in another thread in which the poster suggested that Covid...
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    HHS extends COVID-19 health emergency for 8th time; Free N95 mask giveaway

    hppygr8ful replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well just because the retailers are getting free masks doesn’t mean their required to give them away. Retailers in my area never gave out free N95 masks and continue to get top dollar for them. I...
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    Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    hppygr8ful replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    While I don't think it is the CDC's intention to encourage contagious people back to work these new "Recommendations" are a clear capitulation to lobbyists for corporate medicine to keep hospitals...
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    Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    hppygr8ful replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As we enter year three of this pandemic think it's reasonable to assume that we as well as members of the general public are exposed to people with Covid on a daily basis. Like we used to say about...
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    Call to action! Nurses in Monitoring Programs

    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Unfortunately it just sort of died. The legislator I was working with a Republican by the way lost their race and I could not find a single Democrat to even look at what I put together. I see that...
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    Seasoned RN's- Guidance is helpful

    hppygr8ful replied to PrismovingUp's topic in Nursing Career

    Like Kitiger said you need to know who you are first. My path is not your path. I would guess we have very different upbringing, experiences, hopes, dreams, flaws and character defects. I am...
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    Has the staffing clerk ever made you feel guilty of calling in "sick"?

    hppygr8ful replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    The point that Davey and I are trying to make is that people may try to make you feel guilty but only you can decide to feel that way. Once we realize this we begin to be truly free.
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    War on Nurses

    hppygr8ful replied to dareese's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Emotional resiliency is not something you easily train for in adulthood when patterns of how we react to our environment, people and situations becomes ingrained in child hood . Emotionally resilient...
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    Another dilute urine for IPN

    hppygr8ful replied to Quickstepper's topic in Nurses Recovery

    As a working nurse it's not always practical to use first urine in the AM. As the collection might need to be observed or the collection center no open that early. I had this problem and was advised...
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    Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    hppygr8ful replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As we enter year three of this pandemic think it's reasonable to assume that we as well as members of the general public are all exposed to people with Covid on a daily basis. Like we used to say...
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    Do Hangover Cures Really Work?

    hppygr8ful replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I once knew a resident who came to the ER after a night of partying started a IV of NACL and laid down with high flow Oxygen while it ran in. He claimed he was "Right as rain!" afterwards He also...
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    Missing Patient Orders Due to Constantly Covering Colleague

    hppygr8ful replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    You really You know what most of us will tell you. You have a job as a manager in a facility that doesn't let you manage. You have no work life balance and you are exhausted as well as...
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    Giving Report and IV Access

    hppygr8ful replied to thehipbonesconnected's topic in General Nursing

    I learned early on that if the majority of the nurses I report to like report a certain way I try to give it to them. The they stop asking me questions that hold up report and frustrate