ahsweeney

ahsweeney has 8 years experience and specializes in Med-Surge, PACU, now Hospice.

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1. Burned out and hate nursing

   ahsweeney replied to RN1023's topic in Stress 101

   You have 4 yrs of med-surg experience - use that to your benefit. There are tons of other positions that you can investigate and your nursing experience is key. There are other departments within the facility. Go talk to HR and see what is available....

2. Death Is A Journey

   ahsweeney replied to jadelpn's topic in Spirituality

   What a beautiful article. I work in an in-patient hospice center. I am constantly surprised as to how much I love working there. My goal is to not only give my patients care and peace, but also support the families. I have been privileged to support ...

3. New Grad Hospice Nurse, Night Shift...Help!

   ahsweeney replied to Honeybee737's topic in Hospice

   Congrats on your new position. I have been PRN at an inpatient Hospice for a year now, and have had to bounce back and forth between all three shifts. I try to take a nap around 9pm for about 30 mins. It gives me a short time to rest and get my head ...

4. LPN's in hospice?

   ahsweeney replied to sclpn's topic in Hospice

   I work at an acute care hospice facility, so my situation will be different from those out in the field. We are a 16-bed inpatient center and we utlilize LPNs. There is always an RN on also to pronounce. The LPNs do everything except pronounce.

5. Did I Miss Something?

   ahsweeney replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   My heart goes out to those whose husbands can't see how hard they have it. Thankfully, my husband was an old batchelor when we married, so he has experience taking care of himself. When I was working 12's, my trick was to call him when I was leavin...

6. Anyone unhappy with their nursing school program?

   ahsweeney replied to starz_girl_1's topic in Arizona

   You need to remember that the nursing boards test for minimum competency. There were students in my class (way back in '94) who took ACLS thinking it would help them with the boards. NOPE!!! If you paid attention in class and can use some common s...

7. That Crazy Old Lady Did It!

   ahsweeney replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Ruby - please keep the stories coming. I love reading them. When I graduated in 1994, we moved immediately from Boston to Atlanta. I took my board in GA. I had trouble getting a job as HR was going to hire from known schools. I thought Northeaste...

8. When Good Phone Calls to the Doctor Go Bad

   ahsweeney replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

   I had to call a MD once and was chewed out by him. It was only around 11:30pm which isn't too late by night shift standards. His patient was "circling the drain" and I was on my way to ICU with her. Figured I'd get some orders just to make the tra...

9. General Questions

   ahsweeney replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

   OK - here come my general questions. I live in GA and my youngest just started kindergarten. I left the hospital when she was born, so haven't worked in a (paid) professional capacity in 5 yrs. I've volunteered to be the nurse for the cub scout ca...

10. I yelled at another nurse.

    ahsweeney replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I worked a few years back with a complete jerk in the PACU. We were on call together on Thanksgiving evening. A head bleed was in the OR. "Mr Wonderful" went back into the OR, as the surgery was starting to ask the surgeon just how long this case ...

11. things you wish you could tell the doctor

    ahsweeney replied to celery's topic in General Nursing

    Way back when, while on the med-surg floor, I had a patient 'circling the drain'. She needed to go the the unit - quickly. I called her surgeon at 11:15pm (which I didn't think was that bad) and was promptly chewed out by him for having the gall to...

12. Old textbooks

    ahsweeney replied to ahsweeney's topic in General Nursing

    Quickbeam - I'm with you. I think I've opened my textbooks maybe 3 or 4 times since graduation. I did keep the pathophys. and the maternal child texts. I figure most of what I would need will be available on the internet - and will be more up to d...

13. Old textbooks

    ahsweeney posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do with my 15 yr old text books (besides using them to build forts for my kids!). We cleaned out bookcases today and I've got a pile. Was going to throw them out, but didn't know if there was another use for...

14. Need ideas for Middle-School Career Day

    ahsweeney replied to ahsweeney's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you ladies for these great ideas. My friend did the presentation and had the kids looking for good veins on another kid's arms. Appreciate your help.

15. Need ideas for Middle-School Career Day

    ahsweeney posted a topic in General Nursing

    Was wondering if anyone had any ideas for props, activities, etc for a middle-school career day. I have been asked by a neighbor to help her with her talk on nursing. She did this last year, and said the kids were not interested at all. She figure...