neonatal3

neonatal3

neonatal intensive care unit

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About neonatal3

neonatal3 has 35 years experience and specializes in neonatal intensive care unit.


retired registered nurse

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  1. can I Find A job at 62

    Hello all! Enjoyed reading your comments about work options for us older nurses. Each situation about working as an older nurse seems to be different. Other factors to consider in going back to nursing work at age 62 are individual health, energy, an...
  2. How much personal info you do share with a patient?

    Hello all, Another factor in decisions about whether to share personal info is what is the current "norm" for conduct of nursing professionals. For example, the expected "norm" of conduct when I first started working as a registered nurse in the 70's...
  3. To switch job or not

    Hello fellow private duty nurses! Can relate to comments by mamato3 about whether to "tough it out with agency" or switch jobs to some other work with "for sure hours"! I have worked private duty home health nursing at an agency for three months now...
  4. Life Just Sucks Sometimes

    Hello all, Bravo for the great "reality check" type comments about how sometimes life does suck! I salute your grandmother for saying that sometimes we have reasons to feel sad...so if that's what we are feeling, then sometimes that seems about right...
  5. Is anyone else getting cancelled like crazy?!?!?!

    Hello all, Appreciated reading your comments about getting cancelled on agency assignments. I am a retirement age RN working private duty home health for an agency. Yesterday I received a call from the agency saying "sorry but we will need to find an...
  6. i feel a rant coming on... things that make me mad!!

    Hello all, Sincerely appreciate reading all your compassionate comments about nursing care of teens with profound developmental disabilities. One of the challenges for me is to try to give positive responses to the parents of these disabled teens whe...
  7. Why Does Everyone Hate Florida So Much??

    Hello all, How very cool to read this mix of your comments about living and working as a nurse in Florida! I have long been wondering how it might be to relocate in Florida! In past years I have been on many wonderful family vacations to coastal citi...
  8. I hate nursing

    Hello all, I agree with a comment on this thread saying that "there is no shame in not persuing something that doesn't resonate with you". Years ago I used to teach nursing in an assoicate degree program, and sometimes students would discover that nu...
  9. considering nursing school at 45 yo

    Hello all, My favorite cousin has had a very positive experience of earning his associate degree in nursing at age 50 and working as an R.N. for 13 years now. He made a bold career change from being a policeman for many years to becoming a profession...
  10. Considering FT agency, a few questions...

    Hello all, I am RN who just started working for a home health agency three months ago. (have decades of nursing experience but new to home health)It is great moral support to read words written by txnursingqt about how agency work is "always unknow...
  11. daily baths?

    Hello all, Your comments about various guidelines for bath care of rehab. patients are very interesting and helpful. My current private duty home health patient is a "rehab type" patient in that he is only 18 years old and is a quad due to a car acci...
  12. Re-directing tips needed for Alzheimer's/behavior pts

    Hello all! Yesterday I had with a tough job while working only one rare day with a home health Alzheimer patient! Since this 99 year old,blind,and bedfast patient was not my regular assignment, she was not familiar with my voice --- she becam...
  13. Remember the Geri-Chair?

    Hello all! What a great and true to the world of nursing story! Can see both the sadness of the patient's health status and the "gallows humor" in the misadventures of this patient! Thanks for sharing your story!
  14. Experienced Environment Disasters?

    Hello caliotter3 ! BIG thanks for your oh so helpful reinforcement about calls to involve resource people when one encounters major negative home environment issues!(Reading your kind messages is wonderful moral support because this unfortunate patie...
  15. Experienced Environment Disasters?

    Hello! Wondering if any of you encounter home health situations where the patient's home environment is a progressive disaster situation with apparent need to move to a nursing home? I am currently working as a private duty home health nurse for an...