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This should be required reading for every nursing student. Thank you for a very important lesson. Blessings of comfort, peace and strength.

Great story and exactly the reason I could never be a Peds nurse! I am going on 26 years in the NICU, high-risk birth certified and NIC certified; however, floating to Peds gives me PVC's! I kid you not. Fortunately, I have floated exactly four tim...

1.This one is on one of the ER Docs where I work. End of January, I was in the ER for a lg perineal abscess, draining plus a rather lg hot/red area of cellulitis, all wrongly treated for two weeks. After waiting on the stretcher for 3 hours, the doc ...

Favorite: Sending a NICU baby home with loving people whom you hope will always be that loving. Least Favorite: Sending a NICU baby home and knowing it's probably going to be on the news one day...soon...

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This response is for 'isitpossible': Amazingly, it just never occurs to me to be sarcastic or snarky with anyone who asks me a question at work. Esp new nurses or new hires. It breaks my heart to hear of this, and I have been a nurse for over 30 yrs!...

Oh, and puree' up some Chinese for me if I have no teeth!!!!

I know from experience that it's the nurse that many times needs a hug or a touch. I have had a parent of my NICU baby acknowledge that I needed a hug after watching us work over a very ill/dying baby for a shift or even for days. I'm sure the reside...

Absolutely no durg testing. You are accused but innocent. It is up to the co-worker to prove this. Ask for a meeting with your lawyer, the administration/your immed super and this co-worker. Force her hand to accuse you and prove the accusations. Do...

I recently endured two weeks and 3 surgeries in 'my' hospital for a rather large (so am I) and deep perineal abscess. My surgeon was a wonderful, dignified, Indian man who was very respectful of me. However, by discharge, my crotch had been seen so m...

I still occasionally find myself doing this after +/- 30 years. Holding the sometimes almost full IV bag against my chest with my arm while I unplug the line to vent a new bag. It always seems like a good idea at the time, and IS if the bag is EMPTY,...

Could you not do work as a telephone nurse? Perhaps you could look into that?

Our Pharmacy states the vial tops are not sterile; if you look at the cap after you pop it, it is not air tight so...not sterile. This is esp true of pop top blood culture bottles. The vial MUST be scrubbed with alcohol and air dried before blood spe...

JonesRN, never say you are "'JUST' med/surg/onc" or anything else...EVERY nurse is as important in her/his work as any other. Please know your worth.

I worked in Dialysis for over 12 years, and my mom STILL pronounced it 'dialys'; made me crazy, finally just ignored it.

I can't believe you even have to ask!!!

In my NICU, only PICC team members or the NP can remove them. Oh, and the MD but most likely one of the others.

Oh Jordanl, you will get a more use to it as time goes by, but there will always be that one thing that just pushes your puke button. After 37 years in nursing, I still have a few. If I hear a person 'hock a lewgy" (?sp), I feel it, even if I'm NOT ...

These are funny, but I have to go to the dark side on this one!! In the NICU, the EEG's are on for 24hrs of course, but when the audio recording was added, uhoh, it bit some people in the butt. There was some, uh, embarrassment when the EEG tech r...

:eek:AAAGH!! No cleaning, no flushing, cap and call the MD!!! Actually, you couldn't pull the line without an order, and if the MD let it stay in, it's on him/her. Did the patient at least get antibiotics to cover this situation???????

Bows to you and your clinic!!! The reason hosps and clinics are not run this way is because everybody is so infected by 'customer service' that good staff AND patients end up on the short end. If every institution gave forewarning and stuck to their...

This is why I love the Eden Nursing Homes with gardens and pets and usually associated with a nursery or kindergarten which brings children to visit. It's a no-brainer that guests of these facilities are healthier and enjoy their lives more.

skicoachrn, you are doing fine because you DO recognize how DUH something looks when it's not correct. I've been nursing for 36 (OHMY!) years and there are still times I will make a mistake. Because experience and time do NOT make you a perfect nurs...

Aren't you being a little harsh??? She was on orientation, nervous, and did NOT administer a lethal anything! And if her preceptor was appropriately orienting her, these IV pumps, doses, syringes, etc, should have already been covered. Perhaps she wa...

Ruby Vee. that is a priceless story!!!!!!!!!