LovingLife123

LovingLife123

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  1. Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

    LovingLife123 replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

    I need to know what you mean by interviewing? What setting where you in? A hospital setting? LTC setting? Were you assessing at all? I wear gloves in any patient room. As soon as I walk in, I put...

  2. Exhausting families and exhausting shifts

    LovingLife123 replied to stacylethani's topic in General Nursing

    You know, many places don't even use secondary tubing. I've never used

  3. Nurses Smoking: Compassion Instead of Judgement

    LovingLife123 replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    This. I find very few smokers that have any compassion themselves. The smell of cigarette smoke makes me physically ill, yet no smoker seems to care that they reek of it in public. I get to the...

  4. Nursing answer to my struggles?

    LovingLife123 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    How long ago did you graduate? You kind of have to pay your dues so to speak in any profession and get crappy pay for a few years. When I first started in the working world, I had a crap apt, an old...

  5. CPR LAWS

    LovingLife123 replied to shargrove1201's topic in General Nursing

    First, there is no law. Second cardiac death and brain death are two different things but are both death. Third an eeg does not determine brain death. Each facility is different and has their own...

  6. Problems with nursing profession and why I want to quit

    LovingLife123 replied to bravewarrior1's topic in General Nursing

    I like my 3-12s. No way do I want to go back to working 8 hours. Yes, we take a lot of crap. I have in all my other professions as well. I've had a gun pulled on me before in one job. I've had to...

  7. Bed baths

    LovingLife123 replied to bryson.holbrook's topic in General Nursing

    Another part of the problem is nurses are not using the correct soap to water ratio in the basin, therefore the bacteria was not being killed. The wipes get rid of the guessing. If you use the...

  8. How serious is a verbal warning really?

    LovingLife123 replied to ZSimzNeuroNurse's topic in General Nursing

    This is not true at my hospital. We have a float pool dept. My unit never works short. We never take more than 2 patients. If people call out we have a staffing dept that decides who goes to what...

  9. How serious is a verbal warning really?

    LovingLife123 replied to ZSimzNeuroNurse's topic in General Nursing

    My facility has a similar policy. It's ridiculous l. You should not be penalized for using your own PTO time. It's a benefit that you earned. How I use my PTO should not be up for debate. If I'm...

  10. Hypotension protocol

    LovingLife123 replied to bryson.holbrook's topic in General Nursing

    First, there should be no "protocol" for hypotension. You have to look at the whole picture especially before starting pressors. If our physicians decide pressors are appropriate, we almost always...

  11. Why do some nurses hate it in others pump at work?

    LovingLife123 replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    The absolute only time it has ever bothered me was when a certain prn nurse would use the room where we all kept our belongings and would put the sign up that she was pumping so we couldn't enter and...

  12. Infection controling in hospital

    LovingLife123 replied to Manisha dhiman's topic in General Nursing

    How do you think the nurses are controlling

  13. Need some input please.

    LovingLife123 replied to Pjones71's topic in Chamberlain College

    You may have this dream to become a nurse, but don't you dream of retirement one day? $900 a month for student loans is insane. Depending on where you live, that could be one entire paycheck a...

  14. I like my job

    LovingLife123 replied to Guest219794's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this whole

  15. Hospital Ad Campaigns

    LovingLife123 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I will tell you though that famous QB does a lot of work at that hospital. I honestly thought when he moved we'd never see him again there, but he's there often. He actually just visited a friend of...

  16. No Respect.

    LovingLife123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    You say you've taken care of cath patients before. Fresh Cath Lab patients? Because saying it's no big deal for the patient to have water tells me you haven't. My icu is a little different from...

  17. No Respect.

    LovingLife123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree with you completely. I've spent plenty of time in ICUs in my lifetime as a patient, not just a nurse, so I can speak to being the n both sides. You don't just cycle a pressure and grab...

  18. No Respect.

    LovingLife123 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I tell you in one word why people act like this. Internet. Everybody now has their Dr. Google degree and now knows more than those of us who have studied for years and work the job. It's not going...

  19. Unethical nursing behaviour (OR)

    LovingLife123 replied to callmetarah's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my. This is not the place for this. And FYI, getting straight cathed is not the same as a foley. What exactly did you expect them to do when your bladder filled up? Take it up with the...

  20. Many nurses do not chart?

    LovingLife123 replied to Guest716906's topic in General Nursing

    I very rarely enter additional notes about my day. I check my boxes and get done. Does your unit not have a standard on when and how often things are to be charted? I often notice notice that the...

  21. Call it a hunch.

    LovingLife123 replied to bigd82's topic in General Nursing

    Why is this being brought back up over 6 months

  22. Do Nurse Practitioners get drug tested?

    LovingLife123 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I've never done a drug test despite the initial. Does your hospital actually do random screenings? NPs should be subjected to the same rules as the rest of us, but my hospital doesn't do it. I'm...

  23. 3 year deadline HELP DESPERATE

    LovingLife123 replied to ajin's topic in General Nursing

    Have you actually went to the BON website and saw these rules? Usually it's a specific period of time when you graduate, then you need a refresher

  24. Coworker wanted to trade shifts

    LovingLife123 replied to NurseDisneyPrincess's topic in General Nursing

    In retail, you don't get the choice. The entire staff

  25. Catholic Nurse Sues Duke University Hospital After Refusing to Assist with Abortions

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

    I'm a practicing Catholic as well and have never heard of the vaccine thing. I also worked for a Catholic hospital my first year and we gave vaccines. I need rubella vaccine after my last child was...