Wooo... I work night shift. I feel this way a lot. Yeah, the Day shift nurses are busy, but no busier than I am. I have a lot of adminstrative tasks that only get done on nights. I check charts, order medications, refill and restock ad nauseum, c...
weirdRN replied to cptluciejensen's topic in Recovery
Ack! 4-5 12 hour shifts in a Row? With few breaks during the shift? I worked in a hospital once where I had a difficult time getting bathroom breaks let alone a full lunch. I was routinely scheduled for 3 12's but never more. I had five to six pa...
Mostly I was just curious when I asked this question. I read the package insert to a dry inhaler. It talked about the effects of the med, the length of time and the route of excretion. So when one of our residents passed away, I wanted to know how...
I work in a long term care skilled nursing facility. I crush an awful lot of meds. I mix said meds with apples sauce or pudding or water or juice. I have learned how to avoid getting the dust up my nose for the most part but I still occasionally g...
So like one of my negatives would be that I intensely dislike being treated like a child, and that can some times translate into cranky or snarky behavior when people do not consider that I have a brain? Another would be that I come across as confide...
Good For You! Be prepared to get crap from other people about calling in, but in the long run you are being Good to YOURSELF, and protecting your license. Who would they blame if you made an error because you weren't feeling well and were distracted...
I have read in other posts that if you have Bipolar Disorder that you should not disclose that to your employer, supervisor or co-workers because it could put you up for scrutiny and attack from other nurses. So, how do you manage if you have this or...
Okay, I was wrong. I have made some mistakes. Now, I would like to get past them and find a job for which I am suited. I want to be a good nurse, being good at what ever job I end up in. I am having a difficult time finding a job. At all. I am fe...
Wave, I have had a similar experience with the bedside nursing. Only thing is, I have been out of school for 2 years. I was a CNA and an LPN before I became an RN. I went into long Term Care at first. I love the older geriatric population. At m...
I would have thought that at some point, I would have come back positive as I am always the one who is changing the dressings and helping the doc with *icky* I&D's. So far though, I have had one pimple that I thought might have been MRSA contamin...
weirdRN replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing
As I said earlier: Let them come for the $$ they will earn every cent of it. Nursing is hard. Not just physically but psychologically, mentally, emotionally. It is hard on your family, on everything really. Digging a ditch might be hard physically...