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  1. Hello, I'm your nurse today: get off the darned phone!

    banditrn replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a hospital like that for many years. :uhoh3: My PATIENTS were always my #1 priority - but I refused to be treated like the family's little hand maiden. I've always worked in specialty...

  2. How do you deal with lazy nurses??

    banditrn replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    John - can I adopt you?! ;) The ICU I worked in for many years was so good with teamwork, that you never had to ask someone for help - we just automatically worked together. I was an idiot for...

  3. Any bedside nurses making over 100K ?

    banditrn replied to EveMJRN's topic in General Nursing

    I greatly admire those of you that can work like that!!:) I just can't do it. I worked 12 hour shifts for a few years in ICU, and after the 3rd in a row, I was just plain MEAN when I got home. I...

  4. teamwork vent

    banditrn replied to squeakykitty's topic in General Nursing

    That's pitiful! Maybe you should have innocently asked the DON for help? I remember when I was a brand new nurse and had to do trach cares - I wanted one of the more experienced nurses to run thru it...

  5. Got Any Tips For Post-op Lap Chole ? Want To Share Your Experience? Any Tips ?

    banditrn replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    You are SO correct with the greasy food thing! I had mine in 1990, and stayed overnite - was back to work in a little over a week. Later on I worked in post-surgical, and they did a LOT of...

  6. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    banditrn replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    Right on, glenwood! The union hospital I worked for always 'prepared' for a strike whenever contract time was near - they severly limited admissions, etc. I also think if some of the administration...

  7. GLBT Nurses

    banditrn replied to TuckerBug's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think it should be anyone's business, anymore than it is for me to tell people about my husband and children. I would think that telling them you're married or unmarried is sufficient. If you...

  8. Police Killed Our Patient

    banditrn replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Triage - I applaud your quick thinking. I would invite anyone who thinks differently - to trade places with that CNA. I realize that dementia is a condition that these people cannot help, but that...

  9. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    banditrn replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    The last hospital I worked for was union, and altho there was never a strike in the 15 years I worked there, there was one just before I started. And it came really close a few times while I was...

  10. Random Question about chewing gum

    banditrn replied to labcat01's topic in General Nursing

    I grew up on a dairy farm, so I understand what Mom was

  11. How long is too long....dead body

    banditrn replied to Jack39's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like someone's just looking for something to sue about!! I don't know why they would have to have a body there for 6 hours - or why they couldn't have moved the body somewhere else, but we're...

  12. Have You Ever Been Told You're Too Slow?

    banditrn replied to buildingmyfaith57's topic in General Nursing

    My very first instructor was a saint!! Before she would point out somethiing that you needed to improve, she would tell you about something you did well! When we were learning to do blood pressures...

  13. Corporate Nursing Home rant

    banditrn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm about fed up!! I've been working at this LTC facility for about 6 weeks. I've observed the cost 'saving' methods they employ and I am getting so upset about certain things. The understaffing is a...

  14. What was the toughest part of Nursing school for you?

    banditrn replied to LADYFLOWER's topic in General Students

    I disliked the psych rotation! And that is still an area where I have NO desire to

  15. Thank Goodness for Good CNAs

    banditrn replied to htrn's topic in General Nursing

    When is CNA day? It should be a whole week, as far as I'm

  16. Crushing K-Dur

    banditrn replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    There are so many forms of K+ that can be administered by feed tube - if they are crushing the Kdur, that should be considered a med

  17. Breastfeed or else

    banditrn replied to babynurselsa's topic in General Nursing

    I breastfed 3 of my 4 sons. I can't say that they are any healthier that the bottle fed one - in fact I would say that they had more problems with childhood illness that the bottle fed one. What is...

  18. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    banditrn replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    nursemike - I love you!! Frankly, I don't think the good CNA's get the respect they deserve. I feel like the good ones should be paid more! The last place I worked, an ambulatory surgery dept., had...

  19. Nurses are not "allowed"

    banditrn replied to beautifulb's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, bones!! I won't get up for them either - one day one of the PC nurses suggested that I allow Dr. X to have my chair - I told her Dr. X was a lot younger than I was and he could stand at the...

  20. Dispensing? or Not?

    banditrn replied to SassyRedhead's topic in General Nursing

    We had something like that at the hospital I worked at. If I got an order for a 'stat' med, I would call the pharm and tell them that the order was on the way and I needed it NOW and I would come...

  21. Nursing without the "yukkies".

    banditrn replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    I had never been a CNA, so my clinicals were my first exposure to 'bodily fluids'. The first time I had to clean BM from a patient, I had to go into the bathroom and gag. I got myself in hand and...

  22. Primary Function of a Nurse

    banditrn replied to KMSRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've always thought that one of the major tasks of being a nurse is doing what no one else wants to

  23. How do you deal with lazy nurses??

    banditrn replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I hear what you're saying!! I get fed up with the slobs on other shifts too.:angryfire I refused to clean up the breakroom after the previous shift - I never used it, and the one time the nurse...

  24. HIPAA Compliance in Semi-Private Rooms. How?

    banditrn replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in General Nursing

    To hail with customer relations - I feel that my PATIENTS come before the visitors!! If the visitors for bed 1 are disturbing the patient in bed 2, they're out of there. I would chart it, tho, and...

  25. UGH! I get so upset with myself...

    banditrn replied to newtelenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I asked so many 'dumb' questions when I was new!! It's how you learn!! I still ask questions sometimes, but now I'm able to 'pay back' some of the nurses who helped me by helping the newer nurses. I...