registerednut1221

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1. Travel nursing

   registerednut1221 replied to registerednut1221's topic in Travel

   Thanks. I missed the subforum altogether.

2. Travel nursing

   registerednut1221 posted a topic in Travel

   To put it quite simply, I have come to a point that I have to make a change in my job. I work in an LTAC ICU and I love the work that I do, but there are problems on a management level that I can no longer ignore and I see no end in sight. In recent...

3. Why no nursing love from Grey's?

   registerednut1221 replied to thisgirlsanurse's topic in General Nursing

   First let me say that I love Grey's and House, but I know what you mean. There was one Grey's though that the nurses went on strike and that was pretty cool. The place was falling apart. At my hospital we have been blessed with one of the best docs i...

4. What to do???

   registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have worked for over two years at a facility that I love. I love my co-workers. I love the docs. I love the type of care we provide. It's a long term acute care facility and we get a lot of VERY complicated patients. We also have a 10 bed ccu (this...

5. Exactly HOW addictive do you think Ambien is?

   registerednut1221 replied to justme1972's topic in Medications

   I'm not sure how much my opinion will mean on this subject because I have taken Ambien on and off for probably 4-5 years now. Let me explain...I do have insomnia. I have tried all the meditation, sleepy time teas and OTC remedies known to man. I've b...

6. helpless, hopeless & frustrated

   registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am so emotionally exhausted and think I am just long overdue for a good cry. There must have been some sort of special on crazy families and we racked up. We have one patient with a daughter-in-law that comes in to start trouble almost every day. S...

7. should i just give up?

   registerednut1221 replied to MK6babies's topic in General Nursing

   Don't give up. I was a horrible student in high school and I didn't even think about going to college until I was 25. I got my ADN through a tech program and am now in the university transfer program for my BSN. Tech schools aren't usually quite as s...

8. It's not the nicotine patch!!!

   registerednut1221 replied to registerednut1221's topic in General Nursing

   ok, dear. First off, to a certian degree, it takes a sick twisited individual to even be a nurse. To deal with what we deal with day in and day out. I'm here to tell you, if I let it all make me feel *sad* there wouldn't be enough anti-depressants in...

9. It's not the nicotine patch!!!

   registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

   This is the second time in the past 3 weeks that we've had a family that was just adamant that the nicotine patch we have put on their family member was the source of all their problems. 1st patient was a young (30's) severe drug/ETOH abuser that had...

10. So, how many of you have had MRSA

    registerednut1221 replied to teenycar's topic in General Nursing

    A few months back, our facility tested EVERY employee that has any contact with patients for MRSA. It's a fairly small facility but still that was around 100-150 employees. Out of those, only 13 were positive. This is a LTACH where the majority of ou...

11. Passed out my first day of clinical!!!

    registerednut1221 replied to oneofHIs's topic in General Nursing

    My nursing school buddy passed out cold while we were watching a circumcision. I still give her a hard time about that one!:rotfl:

12. Do you have a best friend at work?

    registerednut1221 replied to sleepyndopey's topic in General Nursing

    Let me clarify this with these are my "work" best friends. These are the gals that I love to work with and we make an awesome team at work, but we've all never really hung around together outside of the hospital. We call and warn each other about the...

13. Do you have a best friend at work?

    registerednut1221 replied to sleepyndopey's topic in General Nursing

    I am doubly blessed in that I have not one, but two best friends at work. These are the girls I would jump in to the deep end of the ocean for and I know they would do the same for me. We have worked the trenches together and, no matter how bad it ge...

14. Why we do it...

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, we (I) spend a lot of time venting about our jobs, our hospitals, co-workers and patients. I personally think that it's healthy to "get it all out" (though obviously there are some here that would adamantly disagree with me). There have been many...

15. What Was the DUMBEST Request Made By A Patient?

    registerednut1221 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient who had refused her colace for DAYS (and had not had a BM in about as long) tell me that she was consitpated and seriously asked me "Whose your 'digger'?" OMG! I told the doc of this incident and told him that even if my job depended ...