manjaNurse

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manjaNurse has 10 years experience.


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  1. What's the scariest thing you've ever seen as a nurse?

    this does not happened to me. It was told by one of my much senior staff nurse. A patient chased her during night shift with a glass bottle and shouting that he wanted to kill her! Patient had history of violence and the hospital refused to admit hi...
  2. If you could do it all over.....

    It sounds as if you are burnt out. I do agree that nursing has changed its meaning...it is more like a customer service...the customer's always right. I have been in nursing for 11 years only and i'm 31 this year. I am not the type who can sit in the...
  3. Code Blue Experiences

    I'll never forget this - she said, "We don't necessarily do it for the pts, we do it to give the families time to say good bye." Wow! new perspective... mine - one man came in at the start of my shift from ER. Suddenly he became delirious and started...
  4. And the disease of the week is...

    yup yup yup...stomachache and headaches are very popular!! why don't i think of colouring books?! what a great idea!
  5. When my infant had his routine immunisation injection, I was holding him and explaining to him what the nurse is doing and what will happen next. The nurse looked at me and asked, 'Are you a nurse too? I've never heard any parent explaining an inject...
  6. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Oh ok i remembered one man! He had a lung transplant, not from a human, but from a pig. he did it in some country and seeked treatment in Singapore because he was not really functioning well. He was a famous patient, always in and out of the hospita...
  7. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    A few times while I was on duty, the call lights beep on their own....from empty rooms or empty toilets....and the doors were locked from the inside! now, what's up with that?!
  8. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Oh God, I thank You for not having to go tru d worst like all of those nurses here!! my grossest - was doing home care a few years back. Patient refused BKA. I haf to do dressing. pt said put on a pail to 'collect' the pus that will be oozing out. i ...
  9. need your valuable help again pls

    i have 4 cards/notes - Green: teacher to fill up, name n class, date n time, and tick the problem or write, and remarks to be taken seriously or not. Blue - from me to the teacher, what has been done etc (all has ticking columns). Yellow - from me t...
  10. Logging students in ??

    does that mean each visit will be recorded twice? One in the log book and the other on their cards? That means I have a LOT of things to do now!!! Once the cards are up, should I copy each kid's visits from my logbook to the cards? oh gosh...
  11. Logging students in ??

    I just wrote everything in a logbook. each kid has their own medical sheet of cos, and the one with problems has a separate emergency plan. i want dis kind of system too so its easier to monitor their issues and number of times they comes in...
  12. Now it's nausea

    Thanks guys! I am lucky to get a good principal! She's backing me up. This teacher is not new but she has had problems in the past of being "unstable" (that came from my principal btw). She even told one of tthe parent who is a doctor on all those sy...
  13. RN and Autism Mom

    Hi all, I am from Singapore and I have never heard of this side of nursing though I've been a RN for more than 10yrs. I have worked in a residential home for the intellectually disabled before, but there is no 'specialty' cert or degree for this. I ...
  14. Now it's nausea

    Hi all, Thanks for the replies on my topic "tiredness?" posted yesterday. Today the same teacher came to me and said 4-5 kids in her class are having stomachache and nausea. 2 of them were the same kids that she sent to me yesterday. Only one of th...
  15. Tiredness?

    Welcome back everyone! Hope all of you have had a goooood break! Current problem - teachers have been sending students who are tired or sleepy AND demand me to send them home! What do you guys do in this scenario? I did not send 2 kids home today. Se...