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As many have said disciplinary action comes from a supervisor or manager, therefore your co-worker was following procedure and reporting a missed med: that means a doctor's order was not carried out. Your manager should have had you make a late entry...

Most here are commenting on home care?private duty and that is a totally different animal. I recently, after 30 years ina hospital setting and not wanting to start over in another, was a case manager for a home care agency. My orientation was terribl...

Been a nurse 31 years soon, so I do have both stories (good and bad)... Yes reading the *bad* can be a downer, but when the situation is bad it so helps to hear/read that others have had and unfortunately may have the same problem, but foremost that ...

I hope that with the time involved and the caring and compassion from friends and family near and here you are doing as well as can be expected. I hope you have found that someone or just here to talk with and be assured that you did what was needed,...

I have been orienting with a small rural home care agency for 8 days. I have no home care experience, but I have been a nurse almost 30 years. Last week when I started there was one full time RN and an RN that has been there 6 weeks and a Per diem RN...

Well first of all thank you to all for the posts about good and bad days in home health......i just returned from an interview with an agency that covers many counties in my rural area and am hoping that i can catch on to the *jargon* and get the pap...

I am also confused.....*she may have* *she did* and if you have no knowledge of ANY of the particulars; ie date, time, content of order, you should have nothing to worry about...case closed. also question why a lawsuit??...........

dumb question........since my icu days were so long ago and we did not use prop drips/occasional boluses.........even if the patient is ventilated are u not concerned about the other overall concerns mentioned, like pt's cardio status, resp status, e...

In 1976 in rural southeastern Indiana ina small county hospital I started at $4.96/hour and in the *city* Cincinnati I was offered a job at $5.13 an hour. After almost 30 years I am only making $26.81...... seems like from 1975 to 1985 there wasn't m...

You mean ER DIDN'T cure them????...................lol,j/k.

i feel your pain........i was given a verbal/written warning in dec 05 and after a *meeting* in jan we all decided to play nice together......thw actual write up was for petty bs too........then i decided that i wanted this job and hoped it would be ...

seems to me that most of these boil down to 1) those of us who care 2) and those that do not. Thank God for those that do care re:not doing their jobs completely, not working together and remembering the patients come first, restocking what u have us...

oh i forgot.......scc=suicide completion course........sorry

I agree with you jessica and that is why I miss ER..... Non-medical or floor nurses look at me so weird when I say I love a GOOD trauma and a successful TPA for and MI or stroke......of course when they do well and survive it is so much better....but...

An Er doc i used to work with said when he was first out of school (years ago) they used to write on the bottom of selected charts.......FOAD=f**k off and die.....Bad i know. Also one we used especially when a babe or child was brought to er, obvious...

Soooooooooooo been there, and i really admire your ability to *nip that in the bud*....ER's do not need to show patients how to abuse us. When I worked in ER, one of my doc's was the same way with people that made the most noise in the waiting room....

That is the first thing that came to my mind,why wasn't he aware that she was intoxicated? and if the officer didn't persue the issue for whatever reason so be it....we are not the law in the ER....when i left ER 1.5 years ago, if it was ordered medi...

the one patient that comes to mind here and there are so many from my 10 years in er........i have seen many like u all have experienced......i was triage on an always busy sunday eve/night was a lady c/o hemorrhoid pain......it was obvious it was pa...

i would like to share what *critiquing other nurses* has done to me..... i have almost 30 years experience, and no that does not make me anything but experienced......but the co-workers i have been with for 1.5 years decided about 6 months ago that ...

oops...didn't need two of the same...

years ago when i worked in icu i was caring for a patient and for some reason while he was turned toward me he asked if i had ever been vomited on..... and i said no thank god, and i asked if he was nauseated and he said no...... about 4 minutes late...

fellow employees tend to forget whether you are on your regular shift or unit or what have you, that we are all being paid for an 8 or 12 hour shift way too often......the days of working *together* unfortunaltely are gone and many use way too much o...