sherylchaynes

Just wants to get your take on the government care of persons who get mentally ill after returning from Iraq. I was watching the News and saw the FBI apprehending a Gentleman who had materials for making a bomb in his luggage at Orlando airport. One look at the gentleman tells me that he is mentally ill. His family have complained about his change in behaviour since his return from the war. Do you think enough is done for persons who serve in the army in the war torn countires? Do they get enough counselling and psychiatric attention? Should more be done for them?

I always say it is selfish people who kill themselves. He has place her in a situation that is going to further compromise her health. You are difinitely going have to be the friend that will sit and hold her hand even if you do not say anything, just to let her know she is not alone. Selfish controlling man.

This a difinately yes. Too many Nurses suffer at the ends of disrespectful patients or their relatives. Late last year a nurse in a pediatric hospital casualty department was hit in the face with a chair by a disgruntley parent who thought the service was taking too long to attend to her child. Another relative proceeded to hit a nurse in the face when she thought her brother was not getting the care he deserved. Are nurses to sit and take all the abuse with handed out to them?

In our culture people use these words alot, when communicating with you. I hate it!!! Honey, baby, sweetheart, love, sugar.... these I believe are terms of endearment and should only be use by your loved ones or for your loved ones. Men seem to be the ones who use these the most. To me it seems unprofessional and too personal. The world's coolest nurse Cooliesher

Sorry about your really bad migraine, but have you tried finding out what triggers your migraine? I have migraine and they can be really bad but they are usually triggered by something I know I shouldn't have done or should have done. I am really not a fan of drugs and so I really have to be literally at my witts end before I take somthing. Good luck it finding a solution for your migraine.

It ia always recommended that all nurses work one to two years in the hospital setting before branching out into none hospital work. Fact is, that is where you gather all your experience practising using your nursing skills. I have been a RN now for 16+ years and after graduating I worked 4 years in the hospital before leaving. I didn't leave because I hated Bedside nursing, as a mater of fact I love nursing all aspects and different faculties of nursing. If Ishould have to go back to bed side nursing I would. I am in love with occupational Health nursing and the privileges that comes with it. Nursing is vast and I think that if you are truly caring individual then you will love all the diffent areas of nursing.

jjjoy! Be not dismayed, as a registered nurse you have the base knowledge and with constant reading and researching you will grow. You will gain more confidence in yourself, your knwoldge and your performance. Your nursing process guides you with each case you have to deal with. Being assertive and able to think quickly is essential in your decision making. Trust your education, your knowledge base and your nursing skills. I consider myself well rounded, assertive quick thinking, lodgical individual who is a registerd nurse with a Bsc in nursing. Think highly of yourself. Tell yourself there is nothing you can't achieve and go after it. You can function independently you make your assessment and refer accordingly.

Working out of the hospital has its challenges. I have worked in different areas of Nursing outside of the hospital. Let me tell you a little of each area. In 1996 I left the Hospital to work as an Occupational health nurse, meaning you work in an industry, this was a bottling plant. Here it was much differnt from the hospital because you dealt mostly with well persons. A lot of teaching, health promotions, you do pre-employment and yearly medicals ( along with the Company Doctor), audiometry testing, spirometry (lung function testing) and the usual emergency care e.g. lacerations, fractures, crush injuries etc. This I did for four years and then branch off into home visiting. Patients who are not sick enough to be admitted to the hospital but needs daily supervison and medical assistance at home. This I did for two years and then I went into Research. HTLV-1 (Human T-cell Lymphotrophic virus type -1 ) virus research between the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and the National Cancer Institute in Washington. The study involued recruiting blood donor to participate in the study, the names are then taken to the administrator who enters them into a computer. The test results are also entered and the computer selects those who are positive and matches them with those who are negative, using age, sex and date of donation as criterion. tThose selected are forwarded to the research nurses who do not know who are positive or negative. We call the individuals and make appointments for them to come in to the clinic. There we would check weight , height, urinalysis, blood is drawn and the doctor would do a physical examination. We analyze results and entra data into the computer, ship samples and results to Washington . This is very interesting and so I stayed there for four years. While I was doing all these other jobs I still did parttime as an Occupational health nurse and so when the Research Project ended in 2006 I returned to the industrial setting. This time at the International Airport. I am presently responsible for the Medical Post. Here I see sick passengers, airport workers, visitors and other emergencies. I do health promotions and lots of teaching, similar to what I did before. I have six other RN's that works on a shift basis, however I work Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 3:30pm. The salary is good when compared to what is paid in the hospitals here(Sometimes twice). I totally love what I am doing and the pay is good. I do hope this helped .

I have had both Nurses and Doc as patients. The nurses are the ones who try to intimidate you. You just have to be bold and assert yourself. Be confident in your ability as a professional and treat everyone the same. If you are kind to all your patients you don't have to be putting out extra effort to impress members of the heath team. I have been a patient on more than one occassion and my second experience was the pits. I happened to be a patient on the Surgical ward that I worked with a diagnosis of Acute Renal calculi. On day two of admission no RN reported for work, there were only third year Students( I should have been on that weekend) . I had to get out of my bed with IVI in hand and assisted the students with IV meds . I was in pain and yet working. No one in admin said thanks, the students did and now RNs themselves , they still remember.

Will all the perfect saints in the house hold their hand up!!! None of us are perfect, and even the most excellent nurse makes mistakes. Should you fire everyone who mades a mistake or who slip up sometimes.? No I do not think so. So many nurses in " administration" make mistakes or slip sometimes, and who knows about it? Give the nurse a break. Keeping watch over this restless patient might have worn her out. It is not professional what happened, but! sitting with him and seeing him so calm, might have had a sedating effect on her too. My opinion is that she should be reprimanded and cautioned not to allow this behavior to reoccur. I am almost sure that if she is the excellent nurse you say she is this will never happen again. Give her a break:crying2:

Why do adminstrations always do that? Don't they know nurses work the night shift? I am sorry you missed all the celebration . Happy Nurses Day to you ( even though it is passed).

I think your hospital is just cheap and mean. How dare they think of eliminating "Nurse's Week !" It isn't their's to eliminate in the first place. Continue to celebrate :balloons: it amongst yourselves.

There has been one occasion when I stock a patient, pulled back and there was blood in the syringe. All I did was, pull out the syringe, appologised to the patient , changed the needle and struck him again. Afterwards I explained to him my reason for stucking him two times. He was quite pleasant about the whole things, seeing I told him it was done to prevent him from harm. I believe patients will prefer being stuck twice than having a risk of respiratory arrest.

I was taught to all always pull back, because some meds were not to be given IVP. This can be dangerous for the patient and in some cases life threatening. It doesn't harm anyone to pull back so why not go ahead and continue doing it.

: I too would like to say Happy Nurses' week to all the Nurses worldwide. We do so much and get so little recognition. We know each other's value even if others do not recognise it. Enjoy the week especially International Nurse's Day on Thursday May 12th.