Daisy4RN

Daisy4RN

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  1. Lassie to the rescue!

    Daisy4RN replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Well, at the risk of tooting my own horn i can say that i have been able to assist others. However, it seems i never have anyone around to help me, so i guess all i can say to that is Lassie Come...

  2. Nurse Definition of Multi-Tasking

    Daisy4RN replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    HaHa, i am usually the one that needs the STAT lunch, and not usually bc of those type pt care issues but bc of their families, i guess over the years i have developed a low tolerance for the grief...

  3. Nurses, Doctors, and Admins: Nightmare Becomes Reality

    Daisy4RN replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree with you in principle that all should strive for quality, safe and effective care I am not sure that some admins really do care about this, hence the nightmare that some hospitals have...

  4. Float nurse vs One unit

    Daisy4RN replied to chtzu's topic in General Nursing

    Of course it is possible to ask for 1 unit but you may not get the answer you want and they may go with someone else instead. Agree with the other posters that it sounds like a good opportunity....

  5. New nurse, 1st job, how to learn everything?!

    Daisy4RN replied to gumbi_12's topic in General Nursing

    First, Congratulations!! How will you learn everything? One day at a time! But i should also say that things are constantly changing so you will never learn everything. That being said, use the next 4...

  6. Another Tragedy at Vanderbilt

    Daisy4RN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    My guess would be that everyone was working on auto-pitot because of all the "necessary" paperwork/checklists

  7. Another Tragedy at Vanderbilt

    Daisy4RN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    My first thought was: Wow Vanderbilt has some serious issues (which of course they do), my second though was that this is probably more widespread than we know (although I hope I am wrong!). I have...

  8. Are all for-profit hospitals soul-sucking despots that truly only care about the bottom line

    Daisy4RN replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked for both non-profit and for-profit. I was no difference, both have equal employee opportunity for soul

  9. Pyxis Problems

    Daisy4RN replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    HaHa, you forgot to add "to go" (I will take a Dilaudid to go). I have had patients in the hospital ask for their narcs to go, mind you they are not even supposed to be leaving the facility. Oh OK,...

  10. I was slapped by a patient

    Daisy4RN replied to FNPStudentLife's topic in General Nursing

    "It wasn’t about the fact that he was a patient and I was his nurse" I am not sure what you mean by the above stmt but IMO this is exactly what it is about. I hope that by now you have reported it,...

  11. Donate medical supplies?

    Daisy4RN replied to Floor_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think that we waste too many medical supplies (among other things). Don't know if it is still going on, but we (the US) did at one time send (some of) our expired medical supplies to other...

  12. Nurses Are So Bossy...

    Daisy4RN replied to gehrig592's topic in General Nursing

    Lets see if we can figure this out. Long time nurses (or at least short term who feel like long term) who have been dragged through the ringer multiple times by patients, families, other staff, admin...

  13. Curiosity Killed the Cat and Got 50 Hospital Employees Fired

    Daisy4RN replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    I have never seen this anywhere. Do you mean a specific place to chart that or just put a nursing note. Where I work I also "look" at patients charts for various reasons and like the other poster...

  14. Interesting case of the spilled pills

    Daisy4RN replied to KCMnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, this is sooo true, the minute you tell the manager, or MD, that you will not do this/that and that they can feel free to do it if they think it is OK they immediately change their tune!! Been...

  15. Weird Interview!?

    Daisy4RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been working Per-diem the last few years here and there. I have also worked per-diem in the past even when I was working full time. I have been to many different interviews in my lifetime (non...

  16. New nurse struggles

    Daisy4RN replied to tj151619's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I am so sorry you are having such a hard time. Your feelings are quite normal for being in a new position. Even if you were not a new nurse it would be hard because it is a new unit, but it is...

  17. BLS renewal—ouch

    Daisy4RN replied to T-Bird78's topic in General Nursing

    When I saw your title my first though was you meant it was a (figurative) pain in the butt. Before I got my ACLS synchronized with my BLS I had been to BLS renewals that were harder than ACLS renewal...

  18. Pyxis Problems

    Daisy4RN replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse to tech: Excuse me can I get into the Pyxis for a urgent needed med. Tech to nurse: (only non verbal communication) Big sigh, looks at nurse with disgust, then slowly finishes what they are...

  19. Pyxis Problems

    Daisy4RN replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    We didn't have any patients at the med room/pyxis. Why would they do that we they could lay in bed and use the call light! Besides the line for "normal" waiting for the other nurses to get their...

  20. Help. Input. Agree. Disagree. Thoughts.

    Daisy4RN replied to NRNPH's topic in General Nursing

    If by immunocompromised you mean in the medical sense (neutropenic etc) then I would have done the same thing because it would not be worth the risk bc you are right that you dont know where its been...

  21. Written Up

    Daisy4RN replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    No, but I have played the piano in the

  22. Help. Input. Agree. Disagree. Thoughts.

    Daisy4RN replied to NRNPH's topic in General Nursing

    So if I understand you, it was only the bottom of the tubing that was exposed and you are worried that the feeding itself was somehow tainted from the time you picked it up (just a few minutes), and...

  23. Written Up

    Daisy4RN replied to medteleER's topic in General Nursing

    Well, being the intellectual that I am I of course realized that your post was meant for humor purposes. I would also share my IQ except I am afraid it might make you feel

  24. Weird Interview!?

    Daisy4RN replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, my favorite. Said with smoke coming out from the bottom of your

  25. Weird Interview!?

    Daisy4RN replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    You read my mind!! Yep, that of course was my first thought (pretty much verbatim), then I went on to think of the many reasons why she could possibly be sitting like