PinkJuneBugRN

Wow. My hospital seems to be so desperate for nurses, I don't think they say or do anything when nurses (some repeatedly) call in. At a staff meeting several months ago, our med surg director said that the reason they may ask what is wrong when we ...

yeah- I agree. If the issue were no curative treatment, then the patient should be under hospice care. DNR just means that the pt does not want to go through rib cracking chest compressions and tooth chipping intubation if they are already going th...

Wow. That's me. I've been working med-surg (general, in a less-than 100 bed facility), for 4 months, and I wake up every other night panicking about something I think (or imagine) I left undone. I worry constantly about making a terrible mistake a...