longforseaair

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1. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

   longforseaair replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

   kafene, thanks so much for the up words, I've been needing them, feeling low. jingle2bells, which cities have the demand you speak of? In case

2. Is there REALLY a nursing shortage?

   longforseaair replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in General Nursing

   I have felt for some time that there has been no nursing shortage in our area. Recently, one of the bigger hospitals laid off a number of nurses and replaced them with new grads. Another hospital...

3. Career change/why so neg on nursing?

   longforseaair replied to dragonflycafe's topic in General Nursing

   Well, maybe it is because our places of work don't care a thing about us as people, only as warm bodies? We watch our hospitals lay off fifty employees who were about to retire or have poured their...

4. Doctors Enter Their Own Orders??

   longforseaair posted a topic in General Nursing

   Do the doctors at your hospital enter their own orders into the computer? We are soon to be using a new system where this is supposed to occur. We nurses wonder how it will work and how will we know...

5. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   longforseaair replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   It's really true that some have the chest pain thing figured out. They get admitted and an overnight stay with morphine. And the first thing they ask for on the floor after morphine is food. Some...

6. Steroids for pneumonia?

   longforseaair replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

   I'm asking this because I was recently told by an RT that a certain patient was refused steroids he requested because they are not given to pt with pneumonia. I don't understand, since I see...

7. Steroids for pneumonia?

   longforseaair posted a topic in General Nursing

   Do you see steroids given for pneumonia? Why or why

8. Rash????

   longforseaair posted a topic in General Nursing

   My doctor does not know what this rash is covering my face and neck. It is rough and red and has very small clear vesicles. It is even in my ears and nares. It is itchy and burns a little bit. The...

9. Other ways to get BP?

   longforseaair replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, tried doppler and also

10. Other ways to get BP?

    longforseaair replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    This pt. is a frequent flier and usually exacerbation of

11. Other ways to get BP?

    longforseaair posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone know any other ways to assess a BP when it can't be heard anywhere or palpated? This pt BP has been done in the thigh for a while now. Now, it can't be heard or palpated. It disappears...

12. Being Charge

    longforseaair replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    I would love to take fewer patients but we are not allowed to do that. And supposedly, all charge means in our unit is making bed assignments, but it always eats a lot or time because the staff...

13. Being Charge

    longforseaair posted a topic in General Nursing

    I feel bad now, but I shouldn't. How could I have better responded to my LPN's the other night. I assigned a patient to one of them and she immediately yelled at me asking why she was getting the...

14. How do you deal with lazy co-workers?

    longforseaair replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    These are great to read these everybody! And thanks everybody for the great words! I laughed and laughed about the slug salt and the snail death! Maybe that is what I needed- a good laugh! I know...

15. How do you deal with lazy co-workers?

    longforseaair replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    These are great to read these everybody! And thanks everybody for the great words! I laughed and laughed about the slug salt and the snail death! Maybe that is what I needed- a good laugh! I know...