Psychtrish39 BSN, RN

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    HELP!! I need guidance I saw someone cheating

    Psychtrish39 replied to Brie80's topic in General Students

    I think that person will be weeded out and cheating is not the way. I struggled with dosage calculation but never cheated matter of fact my program director as I was 2 year ASN student I got to teach...
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    I am SICK of male nurses who think they're Mr. Popular!

    Psychtrish39 replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    I dont think people who dont smile are unhappy at any given time. When I have 22 patients on my mind and passing meds. I imagine I dont have a grin plastered all the time. I would look like an...
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    I am SICK of male nurses who think they're Mr. Popular!

    Psychtrish39 replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    Well I smile at work too , at my patients and my co-workers but I still dont like someone telling me to smile if I am not. I may have something on my
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    I am SICK of male nurses who think they're Mr. Popular!

    Psychtrish39 replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    Now how are you supposed to lighten up? Look how it may look to the patients or family members. They have ears and there are more male nurses that don't act that way than do but there are always the...
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    I am SICK of male nurses who think they're Mr. Popular!

    Psychtrish39 replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to this
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    Did anyone's spouses/partners etc...... have a problem with you becoming a RN?

    Psychtrish39 replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well I ended up divorced after nursing school but we had problems before I started and he left me for another woman but its ok now. He is happier and I sure am. He was too controlling as a man and a...
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    Should a nursing instructor tell a student they are not nursing material.

    Psychtrish39 replied to motivated2nurse's topic in General Students

    Ruby, I agree when I was a student I had one cinical instructor that had issues with my performance and she wanted to have me come to the ER one weekend and do IVs with her and all for extra practice....
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    new rn supervisor

    Psychtrish39 replied to ellexias's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    All the attitudes about long term care I hear on here from nurses as well as places I have worked long term care the attitudes suck all the way around and if I was her I would run. There are decent...
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    Nurse Staffing

    Psychtrish39 replied to jenrn6282's topic in General Nursing

    Jen, I have been an RN and have worked in different areas and in 3 different states and the facilities I have worked at be they hospital systems, state, federal or private they all staff by numbers...
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    Stool sample for Micro class?????

    Psychtrish39 replied to RXtech's topic in General Students

    That is odd and we did do cultures off our skin grew some very interesting staph but just epidermitis.. no aureus but he would have freaked over poop my college didn't have lab fridge room for that...
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    Ten years at allnurses, this is about me!

    Psychtrish39 replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    How
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    What would make you say "I could never do that"

    Psychtrish39 replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    OB/GYN.... I could not do... I started out in Cardiac Stepdown, then Skilled Nursing, Cardiac again, Psych , Children's Psych which was too painful, LTC and now Psych again. I have mostly worked...
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    Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    Psychtrish39 replied to jjjoy's topic in General Students

    Excuse me, and with all due respect to original poster, NANDA nursing plan language and APA formatting is not just the domain of a BSN course. I have a ASN from a Midwestern college and we wrote and...
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    To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Psychtrish39 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    RNMercy, I was in my new hire probationary period. I had been told I was on what is called sick leave certification which meant that I had to provide notes from my physicians and this memorandum...
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    To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    Psychtrish39 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Well I was in a AFGE union and had missed time at work a total of two weeks and I had doctor's notes but my manager considered me AWOL it was a federal job and in my two year probationary period and...
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    Can a staff member being fired for being HIV positive ?

    Psychtrish39 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering legally if a person could be fired for being HIV positive if their work role as a nurse did not entail exposure to blood or body fluids either the patient's or the nurse? I am asking...
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    Talk me down from the ledge!

    Psychtrish39 replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Sue, you can do it.. go do it and kick butt...
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    Can a staff member being fired for being HIV positive ?

    Psychtrish39 replied to Psychtrish39's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks LisaCCU I think its because she has used alot of sick time and she is a new employee. I am thinking they could not. Thank you for the advice. I agree I have taken care of many HIV positive and...
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    Nurse calls in because of herpes outbreak

    Psychtrish39 replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

    I agree and where I used to work they wanted you to be dead and my new job which I love I had some car accident issues and spoke of it to my coworkers some of them being LPNs and NAs and I was told by...
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    Things you'd LOVE to say to TPTB, and get away with it!

    Psychtrish39 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree and I work agency and last weekend was my last day working to the TPTB staff who I came there to help and be charge and helped do meds(which charge isn't supposed to have to do and remove...
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    Long Term Care Needs Some Direction!

    Psychtrish39 replied to Karynica, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to that KSTEC... its
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    nurses from maintenance point of view

    Psychtrish39 replied to sailordave's topic in General Nursing

    Oh boy I get you are busy but this is not the place to come gripe about Witches with a B and women putting pads in toilets.. etc... Like exactly what we do for a living if we didn't like it we would...
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    Do you say you're a nurse...

    Psychtrish39 replied to picurn10's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    i think we are all nurses and i wish there were more of all of us and that lpns wouldn't treat rns different at work and that rns wouldn't treat lpns different at work where i work. i find it...
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    Sterotypes of Nurses Continues and Is Getting Worse

    Psychtrish39 replied to nursinginga's topic in General Nursing

    Fox News doesn't think and the women are on there aren't even intelligent enough to get through college . They and the others ought to be ashamed . Spain is Spain and they have a macho society but for...
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    Ever have a patient comment on his lack of size?

    Psychtrish39 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Twister.. My BF does too and its when he is cold and he rebounds nicely... also... I think its sad men feel bad about their sizes as patients in health care or otherwise... I have had this situation...