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I am so thoroughly sick of people that I have to be alone after work. Last weekend, I had a rough shift and I was really irritated to find out my husband's family had spontaneously descended on...

1999 when I left my nursing home job. I remember the nurses put them on at work and took them off before they drove home. I like them.

I was given a full time position when I started but changed to part time. I never wanted to be a nurse full time and working full time convinced me of why I didn't want to! I like what I do but I...

Where I am at, it doesn't seem to be a problem. However, when someone sees a staff in scrubs, most will assume they work geri, though that is not always the case. It's just the quirkiness of the...

We do the q15min checks. Technically, we would have a person responsible for keeping up the rounds, but it's not realistic 100% of the time. Safety is #1, but sometimes that means that the person...

Seems to me, what you are saying would be the same thing as saying, "For every person diagnosed with a cancer/diabetes/hypothyroidism, etc., there are untold numbers more who are not yet (and...

LOL! I mentioned elsewhere about a student who showed up in spangly glitzy heels :facepalm: My favorite was the MHA who floated from our nice and clean adult unit to our geri unit. This girl...

Sometimes, if you really want to get into a specific area, you kinda have to work your way into it, to get the hours and bennies you want in the end. So, if I really wanted a psych position, but I...

Go with Psych. If that's what you like and that's where you want to stay... embrace it.

I think they're cool. I do remember one particular nurse that looked stupid in hers. She was shaped like a ball with an itty bitty head and wore a tiny little pointy cap. She looked like one of...

Most of our staff wear street clothes... and I do wonder how the heck some of them could run in heels. A new young nurse showed up in a little skirt... well, it wasn't my unit and I wasn't charge,...

Now, that's getting to the point!

If you call the parents before the nurse can be informed of the situation, then nurse would not have been given an opportunity to possibly address it. If you call the parents first, then all the...

Often times, you will have a choice of a PO emergency med and an IM of the same med. So, the goal is to attempt to have the pt take the PO first, then if that fails, you go with the IM. Better to...

Sure... It'll go away... After their foot falls off. :sarcastic:

Our butt would have been toast if we were caught sitting. We have had both a med student and a nurse student fall asleep in our day room... yes, they got reported. We know they are tired-- we've...

Considering needles have safety lock-caps after you inject, I'm not sure why you would recap it? Did the needle not have a safety? If it did, that's kinda on you... but maybe if you were really...

No... Because the point of the story was that OP said, "What's up?" to a pt who had an erection.

Yep, that's a jinx! It's probably more realistic to say, "I'm going to get through whatever comes my way!". Ah, yes...the paperwork. Sometimes, I notice we all get slightly peeved when a...

I am not owned by my hospital. They have no right to my time when I am not scheduled to work and I am under no obligation to answer my phone. It's not about being rude, it's about my personal free...

I don't care for them. Sometimes I get someone I never even work with... so that's a bit challenging. One time I got a guy who I worked with often. Well, he was a bit of a... erm... sociopath, I...

Maybe the staff's actions were questionable, but I could only imagine OP's horror when she realized how her choice of words sounded considering the situation she walked in on. How embarrassing and...

Yes. You buy a can of spray starch, use a good clean iron and do it at home. Spray or mist some water onto the wrinkles, then iron them out. To add weight and a really sharp and smooth look, finish...

I want roller skates!

That works sometimes, but I had an old gal, who I tried that trick with, look me in the eye and snap, "Oh, shut up!". :up: One of my favorite hallucinations was... (gosh there are so many good...