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1. Hospice Nursing

   ladnewnurse replied to ladnewnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, you all are really convincing me to look into this very hard and long. It really sounds like a rewarding and fulfilling aspect of nursing. Thank you all so much.

2. Hospice Nursing

   ladnewnurse replied to ladnewnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thank You, this one really helped. What is an IDT meeting?

3. Hospice Nursing

   ladnewnurse replied to ladnewnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I appreciate these responses, but keep them coming. I want as many responses as I can get. Want to learn as much as I can before I make the decision to change jobs!:loveya:

4. Hospice Nursing

   ladnewnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Yesterday I rode with an LPN that works at the hospital that I work at, who has recently gone full time with a local Hospice Care agency. I really enjoyed the day, and they are really recruiting me for the new office that they have recently opened i...

5. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   ladnewnurse replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   "No I will not wipe you after you go to the bathroom. You're 57 years old & live at home alone, who going to wipe you there when you get home later today?"

6. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   ladnewnurse replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   I remembered another one. This wasn't my patient or the patient who did the calling. There was a bathroom light going off, we have special lights for the bathroom, it wasn't my patient but I was close so I went on in. When I saw that the pt. was la...

7. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   ladnewnurse replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   It is really nice to know that a nurse effected you in that way!

8. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   ladnewnurse replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! I guess, I can understand why that man was so upset! How funny!

9. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   ladnewnurse replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   Before you read this let me explain....Our call lights ring directly to our wireless phones, so I'm sitting at the computer in the hallway down the hall from the patient and my phone beeps.... "May I help you?" I say "Did you know that Tonya is on t...

10. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    ladnewnurse replied to Goju's topic in COVID

    I would love to say that I would be the hero & go, but I wouldn't be honest if I said that. I'm young, alot ahead of me & I don't want to risk it. I won't lie!!!! I will want to take care of me & my own before I take care of everyone e...

11. Pediatric ANXIETY!!!!

    ladnewnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi! I have been out of school since last December. From what people tell me, I have been doing a good job...I really hope so!!!! I work on a med-surg unit in a smaller hospital. We get it all, infants to elderly. I have some very bad anxiety abo...

12. Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    ladnewnurse replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    or....i didn't become a doctor because i was aware that i would have to be on call for 24 hr. periods & i didn't want to be. i did not decide to go ahead and do it, then make the lives of those taking care of my patients miserable because they c...

13. Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    ladnewnurse replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    I know one of these, I would let him touch the spider I stepped on yesterday & it's already dead!!

14. Things you'd LOVE to tell the doc and get away with it....

    ladnewnurse replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in General Nursing

    Amen! Amen!! I had a pt. once, who was a former nurse, who said in the best way I've heard so far..."I'm pretty sure they all put their pants on one leg at a time just like you & me, honey!"

15. MedSurg vs. Other.......

    ladnewnurse replied to PatiencePlease's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated last December & I did start in Med-Surg because I figured it would be good for me. It's definately not where I want to be forever, but it seems like a good place to start. You get a little of everything. Where I work you get a lot ...