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  1. I agree with you, the LTC where I work has really lousy management for these types of patients. The hospital does discontinue all the meds they used to control them, and they get extremely wild and unmanageable soon after being admitted, putting the...
  2. Facebook almost cost me my job

    Why does everyone blame facebook for everything, it's a social media, using it is your choice, what you post is your choice, just as all nurses is. Use your good sense and there should be no problem. It's like saying all nurses caused me to burn di...
  3. NEW Hospice RN Case Manager Question!!

    I always try to help the Hospice nurses that come to my facility, but my load is great, and we have to get our work done, we aren't allowed overtime, and it seems they show up at the worst possible times, and need help when I am in the middle of a si...
  4. Facebook almost cost me my job

    I love Facebook, I use it to keep in touch with family, friends, and church friends, we try to keep encouraging thoughts, and info that anyone can know, never anything private, we have contacted long lost friends and family through facebook. So far ...
  5. Fibromyalgia

    I know what you are going through, I've been living and working with FM for years. It took several years of Dr visits, testing, and trying many different meds before they finally diagnosed me with FM. I tried Lyrica, it helped a little, but I didn'...
  6. My God, these family members!!

    Almost sounds like you work where I do, they tell us to document, document, etc, but when you finish your work, and try desperately to get your charting done, the families (and other staff) see you " just sitting there doing nothing", and keep interu...
  7. Leaving the Profession!

    I may be behind you real soon. I love my patients, and they love me, but some of the families are absolutely rediculous and unrealistic, and I am finding the verbal abuse a little difficult to smile through anymore. I get tired of taking the blame ...
  8. White Pants Underwear Woes

    AMEN, I AGREE Down with WHITE SCRUB PANTS!!!!:yeahthat:Since they are mandatory where I work,(after several years of being allowed to wear pastels) I am all for wearing hot pink, and bright turquoise, or purple underwear. I resent the rules being ch...