hewert

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1. Volunteer to Help Nurses

   hewert posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi there - I'm a retired pharmacist who would like to volunteer at a hospital. Please bear with me as I might have some trouble articulating this, but my idea would be to volunteer to aid floor nurses (rather than specifically the patients). I'd do...

2. Suspended for a Medication Error

   hewert replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Verbal orders are prone to errors. The trend is to require all med orders to be written by the prescriber with the exception of "urgent" orders. What is your hospital's policy on this? If you were not noncompliant with a written policy, you should n...

3. Preceptor From Hell-Need Advice

   hewert replied to Breycn's topic in Relations

   You got lucky! Nasty people are a gift. You are probably really busy right now, but use some of the free time you do have to study how to get along with difficult people. It can be done. Learn this now and and you will make the rest of your life easi...

4. Being called an idiot

   hewert replied to historylovinglpn's topic in Relations

   this is a little long, but please read (it's from Steven Covey): ""I remember a mini-Paradigm Shift I experienced one Sunday morning on a subway in New York. People were sitting quietly -- some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting w...

5. Nurses Humilated - Illinois

   hewert replied to SuburbsGirl's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses are understaffed and overworked......why can't management get this?

6. Should I quit if the job doesn't fit??

   hewert replied to RoadRN's topic in Advanced

   Should you stay and suck it up? Naw - that never works. But if you truly want to work with these patients, you might attempt to make your situation better. Talk to the PA and MA and find out why they are hostile. Most of the time people will communi...

7. "Your job is to make me happy"

   hewert replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

   hmm....why was the patient unhappy to begin with?

8. "Your job is to make me happy"

   hewert replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

   Come on - you know you are not going to be happy by creating an adversarial relationship with a patient.....

9. "Your job is to make me happy"

   hewert replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

   Usually, a comment like that, or like the OP's gets then\m a blank,non descript stare, and a therapeutic "Oh,........., I see........ There you go! Plunge and move on!

10. "Your job is to make me happy"

    hewert replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

    There you go! Plunge and move on!

11. "Your job is to make me happy"

    hewert replied to Nurse216's topic in Relations

    Here's two of the things I have learned from many years of dealing with people........ 1. Never engage - defuse. This means don't continue on the track they have started. I might say "Oh honey, I want you to be happy. Can I get you anything?" The h...