NotAllWhoWandeRN ASN, RN

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    Crossed the line with a flirty family member. How to deal with ethical issues?

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Scuba_NurseBSN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Agreed.This.family.member.didn't.respect.OP's.initial.polite.dismissal.Boundaries.are.not.rude. Anyone.else.having.recent.website.trouble.with.the.space.bar.not.working?.Yikes....
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    I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You are right; my bad. I don't qualify for another month yet so I haven't been looking at specifics
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    I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    FMLA will protect your position for 6 weeks of absence if you've worked there at least year and over 1,250 hours in that year. Example: I had worked at the employer less than a year when I was hurt,...
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    I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Find your state's department of labor and worker's comp websites/help lines. Something else I wish I had followed through with (I made an initial call, but missed the call back and didn't try again),...
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    I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A sprinkling of thoughts... I'm not sure why people are reacting so negatively, but I suppose my interpretation is colored by my own experience. I was injured lifting a patient, tried to keep working,...
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    Pain medicine to drug addict?

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to MrBlueSky's topic in Patient Medications

    Tylenol: the new cure for opiate
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    Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Semantics, mostly. At one place the theory was that an RRT call was to prevent respiratory/cardiac arrest for a patient in distress, and a code blue was active respiratory/cardiac arrest. At my most...
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    What Can Be Done to Avoid this error?

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to callienewh's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This will not improve systemic issues, but if you make any daily paper brain or task list, include ordering updated Coumadin and INRs. Don't leave until you've done that and marked it off. I'm glad...
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    Nursing Admissions: A Frustrated Student's Manifesto

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to medicapoetica's topic in General Nursing

    Good thing you never see posts matching that description on
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    Help! Pharm Tech or Medical Front Office?

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to patriciajulia's topic in Nursing Career

    There may not be a great deal of room for advancement within a pharm tech career, but you can go the extra mile and start learning a great deal about pharmacology beyond the script deciphering and...
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    holidays... sick call...

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to imsickagain's topic in General Nursing

    I think that's when nursing schools/employers give preference to people who speak a second language that is common in the region, as another poster was recently complaining
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    I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

    How would one verify whether another state is truly a better place to work before taking that enormous risk? Around here, unions are nonexistent, and a major hospital system (rumor had it) was firing...
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    The "How was your day" question

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to dma13's topic in General Nursing

    If it starts with "as a male nurse," it's usually
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    holidays... sick call...

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to imsickagain's topic in General Nursing

    *sighs* *starts marking bingo card* Your performance on a normal day is irrelevant when you decided, against all logic, to plan a vacation during a high-demand time season, overlapping a holiday you...
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    Dr. complaint

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Kavikziggy77's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Lose vowels... I'm loosing
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    holidays... sick call...

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to imsickagain's topic in General Nursing

    You knew it was your assigned holiday, and you planned a vacation? Now you're planning on calling in sick so someone who made legitimate plans will have to cancel them. Seriously bad form, regardless...
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    The "How was your day" question

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to dma13's topic in General Nursing

    I will never understand why it's "polite" to ask someone a question when you don't want them to actually answer. The kid in the Taco Bell drive-thru does not care how I am. I tend to avoid frequent...
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    ADN in 2016 completely useless?

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Mr.Care's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Try the
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    Nursing Supervisor is Inappropriate

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Shelby, BSN, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Shelby, I hope you're
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    Helpful (?) (!) Advice for burns

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine has anemia (she has not offered details to me so I have not asked, and don't specifically know what type) and recently posted a comment to Facebook about bleeding particularly...
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    Helpful (?) (!) Advice for burns

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    OOH OOH, can we expand beyond burn
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    Unfair Shift Rotation

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to KHVILLE's topic in General Nursing

    You took your foot out of one pile and planted it in another. You made the decision to have a child, and that does not make your schedule more important than mine. What you describe is, however, a...
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    Interview issues

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to amiss5572's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    When they ask about your strengths, it may help to review what you've been praised for in feedback from instructors, and as a PCT, coworkers or patients. e.g. "I've been told in several performance...
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    How to politely tell a patient "do it yourself"

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to railroadrn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    PPs have had lots of great advice, including reframing as empowerment and simply explaining that you are not allowed to do it. If taking care of patient's non-medical personal to-do lists is...
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    Fentanyl Patch med error

    NotAllWhoWandeRN replied to nursesaysay's topic in Patient Medications

    I do think it's a valid concern if it was the same per diem nurse more than once and whether it's a pattern of the new patch vanishing. It could be an innocent mistake or it could be a diversion...