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Same here! :) I remember that fondly. Any RN can read a PPD..... I have mine read and signed off at work.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!! (Of course, run a day or so of vanc thru a 24 and it's going to go bad. Fast.)

I'm a "weekender" - I work two weekend every Saturday and Sunday. But no way could I ever work 16 hour shifts! At my hospital, weekenders are a "premium pay" position, meaning I make a higher hourly...

Last year I was able to purchase my very own staff appreciation shirt! LOL!

Awww. this is a great video. Thanks for sharing. :)

We get these all the time... and there have been cases where I actually wonder if it's for real munchausen's. I call these parents "MunchY" and will often refer to them as such in report.:yes: I...

I love love love my teens. Give me an assignment full of them, I don't care. :) They are completely different from children... but definitely are not yet adults. The stresses of the hospital on a...

We have a few of these children. There are a few that when they go.... I honestly can't think about it. And they will go. And I will be heartbroken.... but I will know that while these children...

It's just *not* a crazy policy. It's an industry norm... And believe me, I have seen some crazy policies. I am a weekender... meaning, I work Saturday and Sunday every week. I earn a slightly...

There are definitely less where I work!!! Currently out of our entire nursing staff, we have only one man. This includes both shifts! And it's sad, because WE NEED more men. Teenage boys need...

North Carolina here, and my hospital is still slamming. Now granted, it's not all flu (lots of just respiratory stuff)... but the flu definitely isn't making our lives easier! My 24 bed unit is...

I don't think mandating a 90 day policy before they pay you for TIME OFF is foolishness. I'd like the nurses working with me to actually be ORIENTED to the unit before they skip out on vacay....

Right?! I love watching them astonish their doctors and their parents. I work on an ortho trauma floor so we have a lot of really nasty operative femur fixations come and go - and the night leading...

That seems like a pretty standard policy.

Basically they will give you an idea of what the doctors are planning for this patients care. Ours will actually have "impression" and "plan for treatment" charted in the progress notes. It's always...

We call maternity where they wear hospital issued scrubs and then run ours thru the unit's laundry. (We have a washer and a dryer on each unit for patients)

I have two tattoos and want a third.... both of mine are hidden now. I have one on my right lower back and one on my left ankle. I'd like a small wrist tattoo, but I do worry because that would be...

Try and give the nurse the benefit of the doubt. It could have been one of those nights that we have all had, where everyone around you is circling the drain and you can't catch up for falling...

Working in peds will astonish you.... kids are so resilient and can deal with 150% more than an adult ever could. They recover faster from surgery, they have a better outlook on their illness.......

Loved this! :) I'm a peds nurse and it's definitely where my passion lies... but I do think that sometimes we tend to forget the older kiddos that don't care about the firetrucks or the bears...

I would definitely consult SW. Consulting SW doesn't mean that you think this child should be taken from the home or anything else. Sometimes their is just something more to assess in the home. At...

This is a topic that hits home with me because we do have children that will frequent our floors that fit this description. These are the children that I cry for on the way home from work in the...

No chemo drug has cotton stuffed in the top of the bottle, nor is it administered in a nursing home.

I am coming up on my one year mark, and the day before I head in for a shift I always feel the exact same way - just a tad nervous. I really think it's the fear of the unknown. You never know when...

Welcome to my world.... since I work with little people, I always have a room full of parents and siblings with them. Honestly, I like it that way (because the ones who are left alone... SO SAD). ...