LOLOL

I'm dyin heah!

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The ER is the only place where you are rewarded for efficiency by getting more patients!

Kim
http://www.emergiblog.com

Thank you for your warm welcome Julie. It's great to be a member of Nursing Voices. I look forward to sharing with others in our profession. I have PASSION for QUALITY patient care and I enjoy sharing with others who feel the same way.
JaneH, RN

Yes, JaneH, welcome! It's great to see you here.

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Hey, JaneH, warn us next time before you post something like that on the board. I just spit Diet Coke all over my computer screen. Too funny!!!!!!!

MJ

One more addendum to charting. There are some things that a patient says that I quote directly and put in quotation marks. The things I do this with are mainly the nasty, vulgar words that a patient is using that shows examples of how poorly the patient is complying. Yep, I've even put the "f-bomb" in quotes if appropriate. I just state the facts... Just like Joe Friday from Dragnet!

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More wisdom. This is from our hospital educator.

Don't be afraid to cry in front of a deceased pts family. (I mean tears not out right sobbing).

A nursing student was helping to wash a pt which was near EOL. He was rolled onto his side and the nurse had to leave to get another towel leaving the student to gently ease the pt back onto his back. He had died while she was holding him. They called the wife in (who was just outside the door) the student was upset with the passing, but then became embarrassed as she was more tearful then the wife (the wife expected the passing). It took a lot of convincing to get the student to realize that we all cry, just some of us make it to the toilets before we let go.

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'Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. - BC Forbes'

Boy, isn't that the truth!!

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The ER is the only place where you are rewarded for efficiency by getting more patients!

Kim
http://www.emergiblog.com

Just because others might not wash their hands, always wash yours! Hospital infections rates are high!!! Please don't learn our bad habits!!!!