clemmm78 RN

Hi all, I am working on a big (BIG) project on sepsis. It's an international endeavor to reduce the number of sepsis deaths world wide. Surprisingly, in the United States, more people die of sepsis than you can imagine, because frequently, the cause ...

Many nurses work part time in one place and in staffing agencies during their off hours. Nothing greedy about that. The only issue is if the staffing agency sends you to your part-time place of work.

Does it specifically say it has to be *your* photo?

I'm not young but I like to live my life on days off too - just sayin' I'm always a bit surprised by new nurses who are afraid they'll fall asleep working nights. When I did work nights, we were too busy to sit down for more than five minutes, let al...

uh no. We had to learn, yes. But I was not about to allow someone to start an IV in me for practice. I know how much it hurts, no matter how good the nurse is at starting IVs. We didn't learni n school but were taught in the hospital where we ended u...

Having worked more holidays than I can remember, I feel that too many nurses make themselves miserable over this. Who says celebrating Christmas or Thanksgiving has to be on that particular day? The only time, in my mind, where it's not movable is if...

One of the best approaches when something like that is to say innocently and very incredulously: Now why on earth would you do that? (after the bed incident) Why are you yelling at me like that? I'm not quite sure why you're speaking to me like this ...

I have a feeling you'd have a difficult time finding a doctor show you how to give an enema!

We always had one staff member assigned to come in a half hour later and leave a half hour later so he or she would cover the call lights. It didn't matter what your title was, RN, assistant, whatever. If it was your turn to cover, you covered all th...

You know, I've lost count of the number of times I've read this comment (just read it a few times in another thread). What I don't get is most of the people (if not all) who write this are women themselves. Does this mean that the women who write thi...

Thanks for the comments. I don't take the line personally. I just find it funny that *women* blame women for bad environments. It's as if the woman doing the blaming is perfect but the other women around them aren't. That's all.

what I don't understand about the "call back later, closer to the shift to let me know if you still can't come in" mentality: When I called in sick several hours before my shift because I was sick, I would then go to bed and try to sleep as much as I...

am I the only one who doesn't care for automatic BP machines? At one place I worked, the nurses depended on them so much, even using the results for the heart rate. How can you tell the quality of the pulse if you never feel it? The machines don't te...

That's what alcohol swabs are for.

It often depends on how you expect to be treated. Because of this "nurse eat their young" mentality that so many nurses buy into, many new grads come in with a chip on their shoulder, acting like "no-one's going to mess with me just because they have...

Most advanced practice nursing programs require a few years of experience first.

Sinus pain = taking something for it. Anyone who has ever had sinus pain will tell you it's not fun. I always take ibuprofen for sinus pain, even when I have a sinus infection until the antibx kick in and relieve the pressure. Not sure what your ques...

More times than I can recall.

I've been a nurse for over 25 years and it was only when I began reading Allnurses that I ever heard "NOC." I just can't use the term. I worked nights.

Have to agree with the others and I wouldn't want to toilet a patient in the same room as someone is waiting to have a shower. As the RN, I would have toiled the patient and gone on with my day.

You are welcome Flatbelly. The trick is to filter out the misinformation. There is a lot of it, unfortunately. Good luck!

Looking at it as "ratting out" doesn't help. I never understood that. If something is wrong and it needs to be reported, that's what needs to be done.

Originally Posted by Back2Nursing09 Speech Pathology sounds interesting.Right now,the job isn't looking so good for SP's....at least where I live. Why the focus on your area? there are many jobs that are not available in many areas. That's why m...

It's been mentioned here before and the word "profession" comes up a lot. So, what do you think after reading this? I think the last paragraph says a lot: Is Nursing a Profession or a Trade? - Nursing Link

I used to work with a nurse who charted like this, and I'm not exaggerating; "I went down to see the patient who rang his call bell. Mr. X asked me if he could have something for pain. I went to the medication book to verify what his pain medications...