midnightmadness

midnightmadness has 10 years experience.

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1. Students cutting themselves

   midnightmadness replied to Amethya's topic in School

   Not to sound nasty but if it's self harm it usually isn't for suicidal reasons. I had to do a report on it a few years ago and the stat at the time was like 1 in 6 or something along that lines. They use it as an outlet "letting the hurt out" or let...

2. Do they let family members work in the same floor?

   midnightmadness replied to Seas's topic in Relations

   I worked for 5 months at the same hospital my mom did and I was never allowed to work on the same unit that she worked on. Not that that bothered me much...oh you need someone floated to 1 East sorry mom's working so I can't :)

3. Essential Oil Overkill

   midnightmadness replied to Kayauhs's topic in General Nursing

   At one of my former jobs we had a day nurse that would apply this anti stress mix of lime, vanilla, lavender, cederwood and ocotea, sometimes every 15 minutes (she would apply it three times during a half hour report) and my STNAs and I were getting ...

4. Family members that work together

   midnightmadness replied to aikz's topic in General Nursing

   I just started working with my mother, a night nurse also, at a small nursing home about a month ago. To be honest I love it because I feel like I can bounce questions off of her (and her I to a point) easier then before. At this facility a lot of st...

5. EMS talking down to Nurse

   midnightmadness replied to heynurse1996's topic in School

   Poor kid, hope he's alright. Its not a new nurse thing its a nurse thing in general, Every where I have worked it is a common trend with them, even dated a paramedic (friend of the family and not my finest moment) a nice enough guy until our chosen p...

6. LPN's aren't real nurses

   midnightmadness replied to laurennnxo26's topic in LPN/LVN

   I used to have residents call me a "little play nurse" it would tick me off to no end and the RNs would encourage it and prompt him to say it. I had an RN talk crap about LPNs and i reminded her that i taught HER to insert a foley and an LPN earned t...

7. May the Nurse's Force Be With You

   midnightmadness replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   Not my proudest thing to admit but In middle school it took 4 burley female nurses to give me my required school shots. One put me in her lap and held me down one held my arm one braced my other arm while the fourth did the injection. I remember ca...