I work night shift 3 days a week. I drop my son off at school after work, work out for 1.5 hours, go play with my horses, go home and go to bed only on days that I'm not expected to be at work that night. On days where I'm working later in the even...
TJ'sMOM replied to Breathing16's topic in Spirituality
Our hospital floor was a pediatric floor many years ago. Although I have never experienced anything here, many patients see children or hear them. I used to work in an old TB hospital as a corrections nurse for youth. I never experienced anything t...
Yes! I work in a hospital setting and this is 2016! We are still charting on paper and it SUCKS! So inefficient and I feel it interferes with time that can better be spent with the patient! 8-10 pages of ********. No kidding. Sorry for the prof...
TJ'sMOM replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in Relations
I beat myself up EVERY DAY over a medication error that cost me a job that I loved. I was ordered to administer a bolus of normal saline because the patient was having hypotensive problems. I confused the line-A and line-B on the IV pump and the pa...
I think a career as an LNC would be rewarding and exciting! However, I am fearful that the attorney-client would present me with a case and I would be unable to find anything relevent to report! I have had six years experience in hospital/med/surg ...
What about the obnoxious family members with a pen and paper who write down EVERYTHING the staff does; hoping for a mistake, so they are able to sue the hospital?