Snowchild

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1. In desperate need of support

   Snowchild posted a topic in General Nursing

   Fellow nurses, I want to stipulate that I'm not asking for possibilities of diagnoses, just a daughter almost at the end of her rope. Please bear with me as I launch my story: I live with my 80 year old mother. Over the past two years...

2. Abuse Accusations

   Snowchild replied to Jess0418's topic in General Nursing

   Davey Do-“immediate jeopardy”

3. 9/11 20th Anniversary- Where Were You When Our Country was Attacked, the Twin Towers Fell and America was Changed Forever?

   Snowchild replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   I was new to home care and just out of orientation. I was driving to my second patient of the day and listening to the local radio news station. They were reporting on the first plane hitting the tower, and my first thought was “an accident.” Then I ...

4. New job yet again in Utilization Review, need survival tips!

   Snowchild posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone, Well, my career has taken some strange twists and turns in the last two years. Quick backstory: I’m an R.N. I worked acute care at the bedside for 8 years in Med/surg, 20 years in Homecare as a case manager(6 years with the same co...

5. Nursing home state surveyor general tips please!

   Snowchild posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I don't see this anywhere on the community wide site, so I am posing a question to those of you like me who have "gone to the dark side." As a (not so new but still have a great deal to learn) nursing home state surveyor, do any of you expe...

6. Heartbroken

   Snowchild posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I have been an active member for several years and have posted on here a few times. I am here again because I need to talk. Last week, to this day, I was laid off from my job of 15 years. (Part of a mass lay-off, not anything I did). I was comp...

7. What to Say When Your Patient Dies

   Snowchild replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   This is literally what happened to me this morning. I work in home care, and had a patient who was in palliative care in a nursing home, and the family called to let me know the patient had passed during the night. This is a patient I had for 3 1/2 ...

8. Community complaint re: company car

   Snowchild posted a topic in Home Health

   Hi, I am an RN, and have worked in home health for 18 years and I have never had an incident like this. Has anyone had something like this happen? Here is the story: A few days ago, I stopped at a fast food restaurant to use the bathroom. I got in, d...

9. Question about history of blood clot and fourth pregnancy

   Snowchild posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi, I don't have a lot of experience in OB/GYN nursing, other than my clinical in nursing school, and I have a question for my fellow nurses in this specialty. My sister is 8 weeks pregnant with her fourth child. She is 37 years old. Last December sh...

10. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    Snowchild replied to nikkole318's topic in Relations

    I was with a patient familiar to our homecare agency, doing her admission. Two hours in and I still hadn't done any assessments as the patient and her friend spent the whole time either complaining about the discharge process, getting the patient set...