tillie1

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1. really struggling with my decision...chewed out by another rn!

   tillie1 replied to erin01's topic in General Nursing

   Situations like this make me crazy! No professional should be allowed to speak to another professional in that manner. I concur with the advice you have received so far: make sure your manager knows about this incident, make sure the charge nurse yo...

2. nursing and overtime?

   tillie1 replied to tevez1015's topic in General Nursing

   There are some places that have "mandatory overtime" and there are some places that get upset if staff works overtime to finish their shift work....That said, my experience is that if you are willing to work extra shifts most places are willing to le...

3. OMG! why does everyone HATE NURSING!

   tillie1 replied to twinjeep97's topic in General Nursing

   Read some of the stories in the "sticky" about why people became nurses....not all of us hate our profession!:redbeathe

4. problems with the old folks - sorry long

   tillie1 replied to jackson145's topic in General Nursing

   See if you have an organization in your area that helps families who are needing to make these decisions...some type of Senior Resource center or Counsel on Aging. I am glad you are taking him to the Dr. It sounds like a thorough check up is in ord...

5. A bunch of questions!

   tillie1 replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

   Dissolving crushed meds in warm water makes them dissolve easier. Don't crush Carafate..drop the whole pill in a capsule and it will dissolve on it's own. I have known nurses to put syrup-y meds in the TF bag only to have to start over with new set...

6. What I didn't get in school...

   tillie1 replied to Price 2002's topic in General Nursing

   I agree, your instructors let you down! When you get hired and meet with your preceptor be ready to discuss what you hope to get out of orientation. Make sure the other staff members know you are willing and eager to take on procedures! Follow your...

7. What's a good book to read about the realities of nursing

   tillie1 replied to Rootbear76's topic in General Nursing

   Bed Number Ten is an excellent but sad book about a pts experiences in ICU. It has to be special ordered and I think is thirty bucks but worth every penny. I passed it around to all the cnas on our unit that were in nursing school when I first re...

8. Question for charge nurses

   tillie1 replied to mattcastens's topic in General Nursing

   I agree, if you don't think you want it and you still enjoy bedside nursing, don't do it!! It took me having a melt down in my managers office to convince her that i didn't want and couldn't handle what was expected of me in relief charge. That day...

9. Bed Number 10

   tillie1 replied to Ortho_RN's topic in General Students

   Nurse2be, I actually posted about this book last summer. I think everyone in nursing should have to read this book! I even gave the title to the instructors for the cna students that come to our floor every semester. After 32 years as a nurse ...

10. a nurse with panic disorder

    tillie1 replied to micknmel's topic in General Nursing

    I think panic disorder/attacks are much more prevelant than any one realizes. ( as evidenced by the above). I have been on trazadone for a couple of years now and do well on it. I never knew what was going to precipitate an attack...had on at a bas...

11. How would you feel about taking care of a patient as the one described?

    tillie1 replied to betts's topic in General Students

    sounds like a new born to me!!!!

12. had my gall bladder out 10 days ago

    tillie1 replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    When my surgeon found out I am a staff nurse on an ortho/med-surge floor he said I had to be off two week minimum because "you girls work to hard wo enough staff". He would have been willing to extend that but I had only been at the job six months a...

13. Newly licensed and ready to begin my "New Life", but scared to death!

    tillie1 replied to RNLauraZ's topic in General Nursing

    / lauraz...please go to the nursingspectrum.com web site, nurse to nurse link and click on posting titled "to help those newly graduated"...scroll down until you find a response that begins "friend of the author"....read, print and then sit back and ...

14. Looking for a poem I think I read here...

    tillie1 replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in Activism

    hi janfrn, i have this poem on my e-mail site but can't figure out how to post it here ( computers aren't my best friend and my son isn't awake!) it was posted on apr 18 and the poster is leesonlpn. maybe you can do a search and find it or e-mail m...

15. Nurse Tracking Devices: Whats Your Opinion?

    tillie1 replied to ladybyrd's topic in Activism

    when my husband was a pt recently the nurses at the facility he was in carried phones. i found it very distracting to have that phone going off several times when she was going over post op instructions, doing drsg changes etc. he said it went of...