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    I can't give report to this nurse anymore !!

    jdub6 replied to Student2017555's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    While I think giving her a taste of her own medicine is hilarious I'm not sure its what I would do. Especially If she is annoying but your current relationship isn't outwardly adversarial. If you...
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    Calling patients by "pet" names.

    jdub6 replied to dbabz's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've done it. I'm sure i have offended some. I've also had plenty of patients ask not to be called by first name, not to be called Mrs/Mr (pt is 96-"Mr Smith was my father!") and I think by far the...
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    Am I not cut out for this?

    jdub6 replied to Juniper83's topic in Emergency

    It is not abnormal to be nervous with things that are unfamiliar. Since you started as a new grad and have been there less than 2 years I'm guessing they have not assigned you to the trauma or major...
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    is this really bad nursing judgment?

    jdub6 replied to mlss94's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It can't be bad nursing judgement if it isn't nursing judgement at all. The doctor knew the circumstances and ordered you to maintain the line a certain way. Nursing judgement allows you to depart...
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    Graceful way to NOT answer all the personal questions my patients ask me.

    jdub6 replied to CoffeeYogaNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank you for this perspective. I can see it, and never realized it before. I think I'll work on ways to acknowledge and get past that. I'm naturally introverted and find small talk draining after...
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    Why do we do codes?

    jdub6 replied to scrubs0204's topic in General Nursing

    (The ellipses were inserted by me as I cut out large portions of text in the quoted post above-easier than inserting 5 individual quotes from the same post!) A close relative of mine was recently...
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    New Nurse, New Job, Feeling Dumb

    jdub6 replied to aimee32907's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm digging up an old thread because these points are so very important. As someone with 10 years experience who recently started a new specialty in a new facility I spent months reminding myself...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    jdub6 replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    The report from the police committee investigating the officers conduct faulted the officer for not instructing the nurse to turn around and place her hands behind her back, nor even "giving her a...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    jdub6 replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    How is following hospital policy (and the law) "nursing judgement" that demands respect? That is very simply doing one's job. The policies and laws deserve respect. So does the nurse who did the...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    jdub6 replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    No. But an ER workup in a patient with alerted mention very likely would as the differential diagnosis for altered metal status includes intoxication. Trauma workup often include it as well because...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    jdub6 replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely WRONG...yes, bloodwork is necessary to the MEDICAL TEAM. Both HIPAA and the Constitution search and seizure amendment protect patients-including unconscious ones-from having information...
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    Pain Medication addicts

    jdub6 replied to rgvnurse85's topic in Patient Medications

    LadyFree, I apologize in advance for using your post to illustrate something that may not have applied to you/yourself...I recently have had several patients requesting breakthrough narcotics because...
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    ABC TV:NY Med shows ER nurse fired due to social media post

    jdub6 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Since someone else revived this thread i will give in to my temptation to reply as well. To all those decrying the HIPAA violation please note the actual sources quoted in this post: the hospital said...
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    Outed by my manager and wondering if I should transfer

    jdub6 replied to exp626's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I know the OP is pretty old. Just thinking out loud though if this comes up again for someone else...are you certain that his comment to the other manager really did "out" you? For one thing, the...
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    Melatonin ok?

    jdub6 replied to Ash2213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Should be okay. At the same time, just so i didn't have to even think about it, i got an MD note fot prn Tylenol/Motrin, Melatonin/Benadryl for sleep while rotating shifts, Sudafed before air travel...
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    New BSN getting started on the path to become a Flight Nurse

    jdub6 replied to kruse's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Not a flight nurse but do work critical care. since critical care is required to be a flight nurse, her best bet is to apply for as many critical care new grad residency programs as she can as these...
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    That dreaded question...

    jdub6 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Need some advice here...this is going to be the longest post I have ever written but I would be so grateful if you are willing to wade through it and help... I have been in recovery for over 6 years,...
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    When Your Patient is an Addict...How to Deal

    jdub6 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    And this is why we should be cautious about prescribing narcotics in the first place....because with people dependent on high doses (legal or not) it is often (though not always) literally...
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    When Your Patient is an Addict...How to Deal

    jdub6 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry but i have to disagree with that last sentence. certainly nurses do not diagnose addictions or provide therapy/ rehab. and obviously if someone is, say, intubated after CABG, or on the...
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    When Your Patient is an Addict...How to Deal

    jdub6 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I obviously am not inside the head of the member to whom this reply is directed, but i do agree with some of that person's opinions and my reasoning is a bit different than what you are describing....
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    New to LTC - Charting Question

    jdub6 replied to NJ2010RN's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    what are the policies and Medicare requirements for charting? often a daily, weekly or even monthly nursing summary is the only place really requiring an assessment as well as progress with active...
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    New to LTC - Charting Question

    jdub6 replied to NJ2010RN's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Borrowing meds isn't good practice 19 legal but realistically it happens in many facilities. Best way to minimize it and ensure you don't get stuck with no meds and encouraged to borrow is make...
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    wound vac with infected wound?

    jdub6 replied to athenamcafee's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I'm not a wound specialist but have seen plenty of vacs used on dirty wounds- off the top of my head I'm thinking of fasciotomy for necrotizing fasciaitis, surgical sites that had been sutured/stapled...
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    I didn't become a nurse to feed people's addictions. Do *nurses* have the right to refuse

    jdub6 replied to Thankgodforativan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Long time addict, now long time clean RN here...and my drug of choice was opioids and benzos.... Sorry but from experience I respectfully disagree. You cannot compare drug addiction or tolerance to...
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    I didn't become a nurse to feed people's addictions. Do *nurses* have the right to refuse

    jdub6 replied to Thankgodforativan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Very similar situation here...similar age male, sickle cell has been officially diagnosed and he does have a sickle cell doc although possibly only because he has actually been hospitalized in the...