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When checking Facebook on a break at midnight or later (using my phone of course) and busting my 16 yo daughter for having posted something WAY after she should've been sleeping...her friends found...

I think it is discriminatory... the male students are allowed to participate and are not required to wear the cap. The female students who do not wish to wear the cap are being told they must wear...

@tcheshire88- Nancy Keene has authored/co-authored several books on childhood cancer and childhood cancer survivorship, I would recommend those to your aspiring student :)

All through nursing school I planned on going into Pediatric Oncology, my 12 year old is a childhood cancer survivor...but I eventually came to the decision that it would be too hard on me...

One of my previous employers still hired LPN's to work the floor (as of 3 yrs ago when I worked there), St. John Macomb in the northern suburbs of Detroit, if you're able to relocate...

Perhaps it's a positional issue...radiology most likely had him laying flat on his back, have you/your associates been accessing it with him sitting, or laying flat?

Was the Huber needle you were using the right length? I've seen various lengths ranging from 1/2 inch to 2 inches. When you inserted the Huber, did you 'feel' the needle hit the base of the port? ...

It seems like today's tube feed formulas (Glucerna, Osmolite, etc) always cause diarrhea...did the 'old' way of using thinned blenderized real food do the same? It seems like those patients always...

I worked on what was then a unit in a beautiful new wing: 36 spacious private rooms with build in couches/bed for relatives, outlets galore for any and all equipment, new beds with built in bed...

It can be a difficult shift if you have a family. My first RN job was 3p-11:30p, and because of the way my schedule was (I didn't have the option of changing it). I never saw my kids after school,...

That actually sounds like a good offer. I have 3+ years experience in the northern suburbs of Detroit and my base wage without shift diffs is less than 50 cents more than that. Does that wage take...

Venting on the phone after a particularly bad shift with my best friend from nursing school, Xanax, and reading a good book while tuning out the rest of the world :)

It may depend on the facility...some consider acute care to be inpatient hospital experience vs sub acute LTC/nursing home experience, others may mean ICU/ED experience vs Med Surg/floor experience.

This is exactly the (crappy) new standard at my hospital...no phone or faxed report, rarely an SBAR. The only way we know that the bed has even been booked is if the unit secretary is one of the good...

We are currently dealing with a manipulative patient, and documenting lengthy narrative notes since this patient and their spouse appear to be looking for a lawsuit, the type that are just waiting...

If you're on an unfamiliar unit, ask the charge nurse (or anyone) if they could please quickly show you where the clean utility/med room/soiled utility/unit kitchen are all located, and the key codes...

If you are new to the facility, take note of all the phone extensions: pharmacy, lab, radiology, nuclear med, the house officer, security, etc. Print it in a small font, laminate it and punch a hole...

@Bec7074...thanks for the link from the CDC! I just forwarded that info to my work email and will print it off next time I work and highlight the section that states "Initiate protocol to transfer...

I admit I don't know all of the details of who decides which unit a patient is admitted to, on the midnight shift it seems to usually fall to the ED docs to put in the order to admit to inpatient, or...

As for why our ED physicians are not ordering the patient to be sent to a negative pressure room, I have no idea...I'm thinking ignorance of the types of rooms on the units are a part of it and that...

I work midnights on a general Surgery/Med-Surg/Tele unit in a +400 bed suburban hospital. Our unit does not have any negative pressure rooms, though there are negative pressure rooms on other units...

Our hospital has a sort of "a-la-cart" DNR, they can choose to have pressors with no intubation or compressions, compressions only, etc. For plain DNR we would not attempt resuscitation if they stop...

I had no great passion for nursing, I ended up here in a sort of karmic game of tag...it was my turn to be "It" when my youngest daughter was born with cancer. My only previous medical background...

when you finish assisting your co-worker do a complete bed change due to a C-Diff/Golytely explosion from a total care patient, and announce "I'm gonna go eat my lunch, I'm starving".

I work on a Surgery/Med-Surg floor, midnights. I was relieving the sitter for a 90-ish year old little old lady (she was the devil incarnate: biting, kicking, swearing, pulling at lines, etc) who...