softstorms

It is what it is. You either have a place in nursing or you don't. I define it as a "FEEL GOOD" job. If it makes you feel good most of the time.....then it is a good job. The cudoes never come when they should and the thanks never happen. If you n...

If you are meant to be a nurse, you will be one! Funny thing is, after that...it will never be about you again. It will always be about the pt. So, if you intend to think only about what you want and you need...then don't becaome a nurse. If on the o...

What did you think nursing would be? I have worked in hospitals and nursing homes. I never knew what it would be like. No matter what job you look for, all will have some of this in it. You have to define...what is better! All jobs you seek wi...

The best way I have seen it done was to have a nurse from each unit come in for a night and just work on Mars. Pay the extra hours and have some one do them! We have tried giving assignments to nurses, but it has not worked ( they have admissions a...

please define the term "charge nurse"? you have someone to help? or just supervise

LTC...Long term care= one nurse for 44 pts. You are kidding me?

As I said, it is a loaded question. As a nurse in Ohio we had a union, as a nurse in S.C. we do not. But, that aside, I have a friend who has been an LPN and just got her R.N. She thought all the years she worked as an LPN should have given her more ...

You got thru nursing school, you got thru the test. Now you are on your own! Use what you have learned! If you where a Med student..there would be a time you had to cut into a real pt! NOW IS YOUR TIME! You already have the skill and the knowled...

Best thing I can say......DO NO HARM....and you did none. Some will laugh...by memory of what they have done...or what they have not done yet! After 20 years of nursing..the thing I know best is that I never know what will come this day. I have t...

Please check out the state laws within your own licensure. What do they say about nurse to pt. ratio? Even here, in S.C. it is 1/44 for a long term/dementia unit. Stay if you have to, but look around and move on! Never put your ability to use your ...

WOW, loaded question....IT DEPENDS..on a lot. We always think we ae worth more than what we are...and it will be defined by how they judge new hires. Keep asking around, but be prepared to start at the beginning and work your way up.

It comes down to One-on-One...they can't offer it, but they want to make it look like they have it! I am all about making my company (hospital, acute care unit) look good, but in the reality of it.....we just can't do it!

Hard Question! I have known many who come into question and have not been in the line of fire. Others...who have been ..very open...and still not been questioned. I am really sorry to say it may be a game of numbers and politics.

You need a mentor! If you work alone on this shift..then there are other people working on other units. Ask for help! If you ask and no one helps....then hang around after your shift in the a.m. and tell them you need to know these things! They do...

They all think they are paying for HOTEL HILTON!!!! And when Mom,Dad, Sister,Brother,Child or Friend.....goes home? Who Ans. the call bell then?

As an LPN who is now going for my RN on line (please don't laugh) I know about the world you speak of. I have found my world (long term care-converted to rehab) a very challenging world. I know I will never be the Trauma nuse on E.R......but I w...

Agreed....but when long-term are was started and the powers that be decided the we need this many nurses and this many adies to take care of this many people......they were thinking ."long term care". and it worked. But so many facilities have went...

I have read thru 6 pages of text....and it all come down to personal responsibility! Nothing or no-one changed anything for you. You made a choice. You had a moment in time when you thought it would be O.K. and it was not. Now...you spend all this ...

WOW.. We have both long-term care and short term rehab-acute care. Before you all start laughing...Yep! one side of the facility is long term care and the otherside is rehab-acute care! Yes we take a lot of people on our acute care/rehab side that ...

You already know what to do! Just do what you are taught. I know you do not believe this, but just keep going! You will do great and no matter how you feel about co-workers.....just do what you know is right. After 20 years of being a nurse....I ...

"STATE" will look for "text book". You already know how to do that. Just do everything by the book. That sounds hard, but it is not. Do what you have been taught. One thing to remember. If you do not know the ans. to the question.....just say...

I am not on the front line......but I see this every day. Acutecare/rehab. Multiple drugs with multiple side effects. Admits with over 30 meds. is more than usual. The pt. and family usually have more impact than the Dr. on the needs of the pt! ...

I have not seen this ad, but I think we are all so used to seeing people use alturnative methods of changing our bodies, that most don't see it as invasive. Injections, and surgeries are the norm now, so no-one see's the reality of tubes put in for ...

I have not worked for agency for over 10 years. At that time I had been a nurse for 15 years. I made great money ( over $34 an hour as an LPN for one weekend shift) But you had to be able to stand on your own to work agency! The ability to walk int...

The one thing that is personal to all, no matter your believe or sprituality, is that at the moment you leave this life, it is all about you and no one else. You have no friend or family that is going with you at that time, no one to tell you what to...