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Even if they have a POA or even a legal guardian, the legal guardian cannot say "Turn them every 2 hours no matter what" if the patient refuses. We cannot force them to do anything they don't agee...

Thanks for your reply! I guess I've accepted that I can't "save" everyone, when that "everyone" is someone who can decide what choices to make. I'm still trying to accept that I can't "save" people...

Hello! I have a bit of an issue. There are certain patients I often take care of who have profound dementia--to the point of requiring hand-over-hand assistance for eating, unable to consistently...

The first time I ever let the ball drop and was nearly beside myself, the director of nursing--who is absolutely amazing-- said "Oh my god, it's the end of the world! No one has ever made a mistake...

Hey, I was you once! I know exactly how you must feel! The med carts are always a disaster. The clean utility room is a mess. Even the linen closet is out of whack! You're just having a hard...

I'm sorry to hear about your difficulty and your feelings of incompetence. However, you're just inexperienced and this is totally expected. It's hard to think to look at the "big picture," to know...

I had one 80-something patient use the call bell. When I came in, she started screaming "Where's the **** call bell you ****er?" (use your imagination in the *'s; she had quite the diverse...

From what I've read, recent evidence seems to suggest that there is little benefit. You can have it in a blood vessel and it won't aspirate blood, and you might not have it in and get blood. As a...

Agreed. Though if one is forthcoming with praise, other people are sometimes motivated to be forthcoming with it was well.

Thank you for hitting a nail beautifully on the head! Some nurses refuse to do "CNA work;" everyone knows who they are very quickly, and everyone hates to work with them. I've found that if I go...

I guess it's not. I had been under the impression that, for my aunt at least, her children were taking care of that. I guess I'm just frustrated as I saw the whole "sitting at the station saying...

Yes, you will earn some delegation in nursing school as part of clinicals. If you're doing a baccalaureate degree, you'll probably have a class somewhere in there about leadership and management as...

Our director of nursing is absolutely amazing. She will work on the unit almost daily if needed. If there is a call out she can't fill, she'll fill it herself, day or night, even if it's a CNA...

Your mother is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. No, you may not be a natural leader, but that doesn't mean you can't be a good leader. On the bright side, a good staff kind of knows where they...

First, rest assured that, as a nurse, you WILL ask yourself "Why am I doing this? I'm too stupid/not brave enough/too sensitive/not sensitive enough/whatever for this." I have had that crisis...

Thanks! I needed a laugh. Yeah, I guess it's incredibly easy to over-generalize. I know I'm guilty of it in my first ever thread post.

Hands down one of the best responses to this thread yet! I would love to see this demonstrated. I took the OP at face value, but as some posters have wondered, I'm now wondering if this were a...

A number of you mention speaking to the nurse manager. I only tried a couple times during which there was no manager visible, we got stonewalled, etc. Other times, my family refused to let me...

Unless you feel like making an enemy of the doctor, have your supervisor make the clarification and let her hear the doctor yelling over that stupidity. Same thing, and in fact she is going against...

Please do not see this as inflammatory; within this rant is an actual concern! Recently, family members have been hospitalized for a variety of reasons. I keep seeing this very disturbing trend. ...