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Wow. Is this discussion only SCARY to me???!!! In my area (I've worked at 3 hospitals), giving oxygen to pt is a nursing order up to 10L. Even if it isn't, I would never leave a pt is resp...

Good old vaseline. Make sure your hands are wet/damp so that it can lock in the moisture. I have severely dry hands (made worse with nursing) and I'm still trying out lotions and so far none of...

Maybe it would be better deactivate that account and set up a secret one with just the people you really are close with. That's what I did - so when they asked - I truthfully answered that I...

"When the manager said that nursing was so easy, even a dog could do it, I really thought she was joking!"

Good ones! Some more... - Whenever I reposition pts, I flip over the pillow. Every single time. - If I pull them up in bed and their gown is touching their neck - I have to pull it down or...

I don't know if other people do this - but EVERY single time I have to give a subq/IM shot - i try about 4-5 times (point get, get close, withdraw without touching the skin) before I inject. If I...

I wouldn't let her talk to me like that in front of a patient. You don't have to be yelling or saying curse words to be sounding rude. Tone can say a lot.

Where pts hands have been? We're always helping them to transfer, get up, change etc. I noticed that a lot of the pts with mobility issues who have beside commodes or urinals do not have means of...

I know a friend who lost a job because the reference bad mouthed her. I can't say much more details but the saying 'don't burn your bridges' comes to play here.

Smiled & laughed throughout the vid. Awesome!

We were just told that if we didn't get the flu shot and called in sick we would not get paid. I can't believe they are getting away with this.

Very cool!

I'm not arguing about the basics here. Each person has an area that they are more concerned with than others. For me it's poop & pee. If a pt wets their bed or diaper - whether or not they are mine -...

I see where you are coming from now because you have taken my frustrated comment wrong. Very, very wrong. I don't give a rat's patootie about other people's jobs unless it relates to mine. I meant...

I'm the same way. It was a choice between teaching and nursing - and I went for nursing because I dealt 1:1 with pts. I did horribly with large groups (which showed during class presentations). ...

Each hospital/unit is different in terms of type & number of pts, support staff, acuity & staffing available. I don't know what kind of place you work at but sometimes - bedbaths and extra little...

Ok, I'm stumped. What is sella-turkey-ka supposed to mean?

Honestly - some days I consider it a good day if my pts are still medically stable when I leave them. I feel terrible at the state they are in - but there is only one of me and 4-6 acutely sick...

That kind of pt who loves to bring misery upon others wouldn't fire anyone if they only knew the private joy to the nurse that act brings :)

I had a young guy in his forties who was up and about but had his wife wash his bum in the bathroom after bowel movements. I almost threw up. I was too shocked/weirded out to say anything. Gross.

You wouldn't believe the number of cases that I've been seeing recently. I'm really getting sick and tired of how helpless people become/act/think they are just because they are in the hospital....

Lol. Awesome. Will use that next shift :D

I joined allnurses when being a nurse was just a wishful dream and now five years later I am a registered nurse working for about a year. It has been a wonderful ride filled with learning, laughter...

Don't take loans. I'm still regretting 4 years later. Not worth it.

Hello all, I'm sooo gratefull/happy/relieved to have FINALLY landed a full time line. I graduated December 2010 and just got the call last week. It has been a whole year. Finding jobs has...