You just have to consider the source when it comes to docs, the smart ones listen to you and value you as a team member, and the mediocore doctors don't listen to anyone but themselves and they...
How does the old saying go, "God closes a door, and then opens a window." It reallly doesn't sound like this was a good working environment anyway. With the demand for nurses you should be able to...
So you see my dear, at the end of the day it is not your hair color, your hairstyle, your glasses your voice etc. etc. it is the confidence that you have with your patient education. Many, many years...
Oh, that is so right, not being able to sleep the night before clinicals, and then having to get up at 5:30 a.m. and have the appearance of having it all together so that my clinical instructor would...
[ NURSE B: "We can't crush K-Dur." NURSE A: "I know but that's what the doctor ordered, so that's what I gave. It's not my problem." eeeek, and would you knowingly do something that would hurt a pt....
I completely relate, 25%of our regular staff night nurses can be found either talking on their cell phones, playing on the internet or sleeping way longer than their alloted breaktimes whould allow. I...
Hello Christy, You have picked what i believe to be one of the most rewarding fields in nursing. If nursing is a calling from God then Oncology nursing is a higher calling. You are right that your...
My mother took tamoxifen after radiation therapy. The very dangerous complication to this drug which she did experience was thrombolytic event. She experienced a massive stroke and a very large dvt in...
In the time it takes to "wipe behinds," other assessments can be done with great ease. For example checking for skin breakdown, dressing and applying ointment to any sacral skin breakdowns, this is...
In the time it takes to "wipe behinds," other assessments can be done with great ease. For example checking for skin breakdown, dressing and applying ointment to any sacral skin breakdowns, this is...