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Situations like this make me crazy! No professional should be allowed to speak to another professional in that manner. I concur with the advice you have received so far: make sure your manager knows about this incident, make sure the charge nurse yo...

There are some places that have "mandatory overtime" and there are some places that get upset if staff works overtime to finish their shift work....That said, my experience is that if you are willing to work extra shifts most places are willing to le...

Read some of the stories in the "sticky" about why people became nurses....not all of us hate our profession!:redbeathe

See if you have an organization in your area that helps families who are needing to make these decisions...some type of Senior Resource center or Counsel on Aging. I am glad you are taking him to the Dr. It sounds like a thorough check up is in ord...

Dissolving crushed meds in warm water makes them dissolve easier. Don't crush Carafate..drop the whole pill in a capsule and it will dissolve on it's own. I have known nurses to put syrup-y meds in the TF bag only to have to start over with new set...

I agree, your instructors let you down! When you get hired and meet with your preceptor be ready to discuss what you hope to get out of orientation. Make sure the other staff members know you are willing and eager to take on procedures! Follow your...

Bed Number Ten is an excellent but sad book about a pts experiences in ICU. It has to be special ordered and I think is thirty bucks but worth every penny. I passed it around to all the cnas on our unit that were in nursing school when I first re...

I agree, if you don't think you want it and you still enjoy bedside nursing, don't do it!! It took me having a melt down in my managers office to convince her that i didn't want and couldn't handle what was expected of me in relief charge. That day...

Nurse2be, I actually posted about this book last summer. I think everyone in nursing should have to read this book! I even gave the title to the instructors for the cna students that come to our floor every semester. After 32 years as a nurse ...

I think panic disorder/attacks are much more prevelant than any one realizes. ( as evidenced by the above). I have been on trazadone for a couple of years now and do well on it. I never knew what was going to precipitate an attack...had on at a bas...

sounds like a new born to me!!!!

When my surgeon found out I am a staff nurse on an ortho/med-surge floor he said I had to be off two week minimum because "you girls work to hard wo enough staff". He would have been willing to extend that but I had only been at the job six months a...

/ lauraz...please go to the nursingspectrum.com web site, nurse to nurse link and click on posting titled "to help those newly graduated"...scroll down until you find a response that begins "friend of the author"....read, print and then sit back and ...

hi janfrn, i have this poem on my e-mail site but can't figure out how to post it here ( computers aren't my best friend and my son isn't awake!) it was posted on apr 18 and the poster is leesonlpn. maybe you can do a search and find it or e-mail m...

when my husband was a pt recently the nurses at the facility he was in carried phones. i found it very distracting to have that phone going off several times when she was going over post op instructions, doing drsg changes etc. he said it went of...

/ we have been using a tracking system for a couple of years now. it does have some advantages: you can look on the console at the desk ans see where an employee is instead of having to run up and down the halls hollering for someone or using the "a...

i knew you would want to know the author of that book. I confess, i was too lazy to go find the book yesterday so I could tell you...sigh. it is BED NUMBER TEN by Sue Baier and Mary Zimmeth Schomaker. Let me know what you think of it, its a good rea...

i agree that echo heron's book are good, but i must say i found intensive care by her to be depressing. i ran across a really good book last summer and gave it to all the cnas i work with that are in nursing school to read. it is called bed number...

in your busy day today could you please add to your list of "things to do" to say a prayer for my husband ? his gastric bypass surgery is this morning and while we both have very good feelings about him taking this step, a little extra pressure on t...

in your busy day today could you please add to your list of "things to do" to say a prayer for my husband ? his gastric bypass surgery is this morning and while we both have very good feelings about him taking this step, a little extra pressure on t...

alot of nurses have trouble finding the right fit with gloves...esp the ones with small hands, even our small gloves slide right off them. I have a hard time starting ivs with gloves on but I always try with them on then remove the right one (i am l...

Sheryl, good for you!Are planning to go on to nursing school? We could use more people like you that stand their ground? Just be prepared for the current cna's to be upset when they find out how much you are making...somehow they will find out. On ...

wow, this is interesting and I am enjoying it for two reasons...first it makes me smile to think about alll the "stuff" i"d forgotten but most importantly I have found some nurses that are as old if not older that me!!!!I have taken to referring to m...

I admitted a pt today that told me the only surgery she ever had was a "tubal litigation" and that one of her home meds is "thenofiofaline"(theophylline)! Gotts love 'em!

Brettswife, You don't say what state yu are in but believe me, in the Denver metro area you would be welcome at most acute care hospitals. ok, I guess I can't speak for any place but where I work but we do hire new cna's. We had a school that sent...