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So glad it may be over for you. However, you said.... "I'm terrified to talk to her because I know my documentation is probably bad, and she's going to call me on it." So you can prepare for future...

Yes Caffein...if you were covered at the time stated in the lawsuit, then you are certainly covered. It doesn't matter that you aren't covered now.

I returned to work from my weekend off. One of the patients was allowed out on an overnight pass and her meds were put into an envelope for the next days administration for family to give. The...

See I told you Nurses weren't Human. No human can put up with all that crap and still keep smiling!!!

[QUOTE=BearishBob;6454522]Our management had plans to fire everybody in dietary and have the nurses make all the food in little kitchens on the unit. I told my NM, "I hope everybody likes hotpockets...

Amen Grn Tea!!!! Finally someone who makes sense!! Thank You.

Without a doubt......VivaLasViejas. I LOVE everything she writes!!!!

GN=Graduating nurse who has yet to take the NCLEX exam. It's not a unit. DC=Discharged. So it is a unit that those from the ED are assigned while they wait for labs or other tests to come back. If...

DFW= Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

On Tuesday I checked into the Hospital @ 1100 for Surgery @ 1300, a Hysterectomy. All was great in pre-op. The nurses were awesome, even the Doc's performing my surgery and the anesthesiologist were...

The facility I work for is in the middle stages of being a Pioneer Movement facility. It is all based on what the residents choice is. They get up when they choose. Most are early risers and request...

don't know if this helps but my daughter helped me associate the word with something funny. for instance myo (muscle) was "oh me oh, oh myo oh, my muscles ache. it became fun learning and it really...

very well said tanyam73. it has always been so much easier to stand on the sidelines watching (paramedic), than it has been to actually be in the game (nurse). imho

LOL Morte

Wow. Someone is having a bad day.

Iris.....working in LTC we get orders to send poop all the time. For us it means send patient out on pass. Even better the Dr. with really bad handwriting will send an order to send poop rip even...

You start walking down the halls and notice that every resident that has a bad case of sundowners are all up at 11 at noc. They are in the hallway trying their best to either hurt...

Fresh out of school I worked with special needs kids. I loved, loved, loved working with them. I got experience in trachs, tubes and tempers!! LOL But unfortunatly the politics got to be so...

Drsg CDI= dressing clean, dry and intact

Thanks to all who responded with a wild, witty or hilarious response. This has been so much fun reading and made my day. To those of you on the holier-than-thou soapbox, I see the 80-90 yr old...

Illinois Rockford LTC Facility 59 patients: 1 nurse:bugeyes: Noc shift (11-7)

All I want for Christmas is for all my fellow nurses to get along. Instead of sitting around complaining about the nurse on the previous shift and "what an idiot she is" I would really love it if...

Absolutely YES, get malpractice insurance!!! I had been a nurse for over a year when a fellow nurse stopped me in the hallway and asked me what I thought about the whole lawsuit business. When I...