Different things will work for different people, but what I've found is best for me is Skechers Shape-ups. They will do nothing to get you into shape but the cushion-y heel is perfect for me. I wore Danskos for a while but developed plantar fasciit...
Picklefreak replied to Lizbird5807's topic in Career Support
I am a pharmacy tech turned RN. I love nursing much more than pharmacy, but it was a step up for me in education, status, and pay. If it is patient care you are wanting more of, you might look into PA school.
Picklefreak replied to stallion8797's topic in Relations
I've had residents try to send post-op patients home with only Tylenol. Some of them have not gotten DEA numbers and don't want to track down their upper-level to do the scripts for them. This is where the "patient advocate" part of nursing comes i...
Picklefreak replied to TigerGalLE's topic in Critical
My dad spent the last 2 months of his life, save the 10 days he was home on hospice, in the hospital. I am forever grateful for the time my kids got to spend with him there. They were 13, 11, and 6 at the time. It was summer, and we visited every ...
Starting pay is close to what the Commuter stated. It is comparable to other hospitals in the area. OUMC is a private, for-profit hospital owned by HCA. It is located on the OU Health Science campus, but it is not actually part of the University....
Picklefreak replied to imintrouble's topic in Relations
We get prisoners at our facility regularly. Most are just people who got into trouble due to substance abuse. (Which makes them no different from many of our non-incarcerated patients!) I have had a few truly evil inmates, though. One was a seria...
Picklefreak replied to Vespertinas's topic in General Nursing
Not exactly a hallucination, but I had a funny thing with an ETOH withdrawal patient recently. I touched his arm and he flung off my hand and said, "Get the f$&@ off of me!" I said, "Hey!" and he looked very startled to see me standing there and...
Picklefreak replied to SuzieVN's topic in Relations
Maybe she is just an incredibly fastidious person, and after washing her hands, she used paper towels to thoroughly dry the sink. Or she keeps a small bottle of hand sanitizer in her pocket and used it just before you saw her.
Picklefreak replied to notjustanurse's topic in Relations
I wouldn't say that I lost it, but I really chewed out someone I caught smoking in her room. And when I was done, the charge nurse called the cops on her, and they came in and chewed her out. And confiscated her smokes and the RX drugs (not in her n...
If you default on a student loan, the government can garnish your wages and confiscate your tax refund. They do not have to go to court and get a judgement against you as other creditors would. It's what you agreed to when you signed the promissory n...
My hospital has a little different set-up for stepdown. We have several stepdown beds on each nursing unit. The ratio for stepdown is 2-3:1. (Ratio for the floor is 5:1.) We do total care and don't have techs for stepdown. We do have a unit secretar...
Picklefreak replied to horrorxgirl's topic in General Nursing
My mind says gross and unsanitary, but realistically, **** gets on everything in our rooms. The floors, the walls, the bed frames and mattresses. These just get the normal cleaning from housekeeping between patients. I guess that's really not that mu...
I think if this were the case, the OP's preceptor would have explained herself. Her comment of, "you'll figure it out eventually" makes me think she has some preconceived notions about uninsured or Medicaid patients.