LovingLife123

LovingLife123

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  1. Gloves Are Getting Scarce

    LovingLife123 replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    Yes it is nationwide and there is currently an investigation going on in Thailand because they are getting used gloves, trying to clean them and ship them into the US. I do not glove up as...

  2. How to deal with management who "disciplines" you for no good reason?

    LovingLife123 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I think you were wrong and I’ll tell you why. First let me say, I don’t join in on after work parties. I’m not there to make life long besties. I’m there to work and my life is very...

  3. RN Gen Z vs RN Gen X

    LovingLife123 replied to XXX ZZZ's topic in General Nursing

    Yikes, OP, getting yourself off on the wrong foot. I’m a Gen X being precepted by a Gen Z right now. I literally have zero issue with it at all. I’m soaking up the knowledge and trying to learn...

  4. Employers' Background Investigation (i.e. social media)

    LovingLife123 replied to Guest 1152923's topic in General Nursing

    But they can’t find an anonymous account on AN. Googling your name and finding an article is different. I Google myself regularly. My stuff is locked down tight. If I find anything, I fix it by...

  5. Employers' Background Investigation (i.e. social media)

    LovingLife123 replied to Guest 1152923's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t think they can access your AN account through your email. I don’t think they delve that deep. I recently had a background check done for a job. I received a copy of it. None of my...

  6. Unable To Transfer Due To Write Up

    LovingLife123 replied to KatC's topic in General Nursing

    To be honest, I would have refused to sign it if you sanitized your hands in the room. I would have asked for a sit down with the unit manager and the infection control person. I stopped signing...

  7. Bullying

    LovingLife123 replied to Hoosier_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like the term bullying gets used these days if you don’t agree or endlessly praise someone. I have told techs before, you are here to work. Not to sit on your phone, not to take a...

  8. ICU Ethical dilemma

    LovingLife123 replied to Rin nohara's topic in General Nursing

    If they are actually brain dead, we don’t treat them unless they are a donor. Brain death is death. We usually give the family a few hours to say goodbye then that’s it. Hanging on...

  9. Making a Mistake on Something You Normally Excel At

    LovingLife123 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Aren’t you a manager? If you can’t do a basic admission, how are you a manager? Sorry, SilverBells, I find your posts less and l as believable. Or you work for an extremely incompetent company...

  10. Go While You Can...Raise the Pay!!

    LovingLife123 replied to John Salyers's topic in General Nursing

    I think you can believe in wanting to do the best for your patients and give them great care but still want to be paid appropriately. I bring a lot to the table with my experience and knowledge....

  11. Has anyone switched from L&D to ICU?

    LovingLife123 replied to TylerPerrysLaceFront's topic in Critical Care

    Most quit and go back to L&D. But if you are eager to learn, go for it and good

  12. Burn ICU vs Trauma ICU

    LovingLife123 replied to Elizabeth2020's topic in General Nursing

    I’m going to tell you Trauma ICU to start. Burn ICU is way too much for a new grad in my opinion. Burn is a whole other level of horror. In trauma you get to see some horrific things. Brains...

  13. Ageism in Nursing?

    LovingLife123 replied to Guest1176712's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on what you consider “old”. I’ve seen some older nurses lose their touch and others put any 20 year old to shame. Depends on the person. Just like a 25 year old. Some are great,...

  14. Compassion Fatigue - Staying Positive

    LovingLife123 replied to JeanstarMSN's topic in General Nursing

    You are right, maybe she wasn’t. Patient told me after she left she was an RN and doesn’t tell people. There was a lot of education happening when if I had known she was an RN it could have been...

  15. Unvaccinated: Indefensible

    LovingLife123 replied to guest1168940's topic in Disaster Preparation

    So many things wrong with the one poster. Hospice at least in my ICU is consulted when a patient is able to enter in patient hospice or able to go home on hospice. If a family decides to terminally...

  16. The Art of Delegating | What Nurses Do

    LovingLife123 replied to JeanstarMSN's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely delegate when I have somebody to delegate to. Unfortunately that’s not often and if there is, they have 11 other nurses trying to delegate to them as well. In a perfect world we have...

  17. Compassion Fatigue - Staying Positive

    LovingLife123 replied to JeanstarMSN's topic in General Nursing

    I have constant anxiety these days before going into work. I’ve even doubled the amount of exercise I do in a week. Yesterday I found myself crying in my garage to my husband because my shift was...

  18. Preceptor Made Me Feel Like I Should Leave Nursing

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse12390's topic in General Nursing

    Again, not one person said that behavior was OK. I said in my post, what happened doesn’t make it OK. I watched one of my new grads get absolutely bullied by other preceptors in her last phase of...

  19. Preceptor Made Me Feel Like I Should Leave Nursing

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse12390's topic in General Nursing

    I didn’t see anyone that said that was appropriate to say. I think a lot of people were just stating why it can be hard to precept in the ICU. I acknowledged that precepting is not my strong area...

  20. 9/11 20th Anniversary- Where Were You When Our Country was Attacked, the Twin Towers Fell and America was Changed Forever?

    LovingLife123 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I was in a completely different profession and was in a class. The owner of the school came in and told us a plane crashed into the Workd Trade Center. It didn’t really hit me what happened. Then...

  21. Preceptor Made Me Feel Like I Should Leave Nursing

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse12390's topic in General Nursing

    It’s difficult for me to precept because I have a very difficult time not controlling everything. Any type of ICU nurse by nature is a control freak. We are all very aware that our patients could...

  22. Dosage Calculation

    LovingLife123 replied to sb082001's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    These are pretty basic. What work have you done? Maybe you can show us your answers then we can point you in the right

  23. Change of shift nurse’s notes. Redundant? Necessary?

    LovingLife123 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I have never once documented change of shift notes or a note that I’m going to lunch. I do not chart excessively. I chart the things that are required of me, nothing more. I put a chart check in...

  24. The Problem with Aducanumab: Approved For Alzheimer's

    LovingLife123 replied to Nadine Buchanan's topic in General Nursing

    I guess my question to you is, how many patients have had brain bleeds and what is causing it? I don’t know that swelling is a huge issue especially with Alzheimer’s patients as their brains have...

  25. Oxygen Therapy

    LovingLife123 replied to Deli's topic in General Students

    Umm yes it is. It’s a standard order in an admission order set. For most patients it’s keep sat above 92%. Sometimes, I see a 90%. It goes right in with insert IV order set, vital signs order...