nursechris1

Wow, I don't know how you new grads make it. I do remember, when I graduated 13 years ago, I started at $12/hr. I thought I was rich!:rotfl: I was previously making about 6/hr as a CNA. I just can't believe with the nursing shortage, that nurses are...

The oncology clinic is part of the hospital organization. I know they are very busy with both radiation and chemo. The cost of living here is very, very high, so make sure you look into housing before you think about moving here.

I agree totally. I moved here two years ago from Nebraska, and I am disappointed with the cost of living and the wages. In Omaha, we lived in a nice, roomy, 4 bedroom house, that we sold for about 180,000. That won't even buy you a trailer here. My w...

I have found that the pay isn't any different than other places. I live in the Vail area, and my nurses make anywhere from 25-30/hr depending on their experience and length of service. It is very depressing here, however, as the cost of living is ou...

I hear you there. I am renting right now, and my husband and I are trying to figure out if we will ever be able to afford to buy a house. I like living here though. If anyone is looking to live here, home health is hiring in Eagle County,

We use LPNs in several ways. If we are short HHA, they do baths. We use them for overflow nurse visits when the case managers are busy, or when Case managers go on vacation. We had an LPN who did admissions for us. An RN would have to follow the next...

I worked in a small town hospital. There was a doctor and nurse having an affair. In fact, He was helping her pay for Nurse Practitioner school. Well, I don't know what happened, if he finally decided to get morals or what, but he ended the affair....

We are lucky to have 2 nurses who work every weekend to do admits and emergency visits. I recently hired a 12-8 LPN to do admits for us after hours, as it seemed we had more and more requests for admits after family got off work in the evening. It is...

Our agency recently hired a full time LPN. We feel that she can do admissions, but she can't create the care plan. We are trying to find out if she can do death pronouncement in Iowa and Nebraska.

So, Night nurses die 7 years earlier, but 7 years earlier than what? If most of your family lives to be 104, would it be so bad to die at 97? I want to live longer than my husband ( so I can be single again Hee Hee), but he smokes, drinks more than ...

flynurse, what school did you go to in Lincoln? I went to UNL and Bryan.

Do you think some of it has to do with the type of people who go into nursing? Co-dependent, care for others better than we care for ourselves, type A personality, can't say no, etc. I went through a very stressful period while in nursing school and...

Our case managers take call from 430-9 two evenings a month, and are on call every 10th saturday from 8a-6p. We have two nurses who work just the weekends and holidays. We have three nurses who work the overnights only.

In hospice, we try to attend the funerals or visitations if we can. If not the nurse, than the social worker or home health aide. I have been to many, many funerals. It does give closure especially if the patient had been on service for awhile. You w...

Well said Paula. I haven't met too many people in this world, regardless of profession, who don't complain about their jobs.

OMG!!!!! Does he think nursing school is easy.????!!! As far as the Algebra thing goes, my kids are required to take algebra and advanced algebra in high school. Can't graduate without it.

Wow, Dave, you sure opened up a can of worms. Until you have walked in nursing shoes, you have no room to judge. The nurses I work with are very smart. I have dealt with as many sloppy, and downright ignorant doctors as I have nurses. It has nothin...

Families invited? Holy cow. I don't think that would be necessary. Seems to me, if there needs to be a family conference, that could be set up separately. We usually have a time keeper, and try to keep it to 5 minutes per patient. Only the essential...

Have any of you done hospice with patients on the ventilator? We admitted one today, in a nursing facility. The M.D. would like to tak the patient off the vent, but the family is not ready. I think the Doc thinks we can help them prepare for this. Th...

My husband's ex wife holds a cigarette in one hand, and her nebulizer tx in the other, how smart is that?

I worked with a CNA who had tattoos on her neck of vampire bites with tattooed blood running down her neck. Sorry, but I am not into the highly visible tattoos. I can see having a small one on your ankle, or somewhere hidden.

I am not harming you by eating sugar, red meat, etc, but smokers do harm me when they smoke around me, and it makes me nauseous when someone wears too much perfume. I am not saying don't wear perfume, just go lightly, instead of bathing in it. I am n...

Dexamethasone, metacloparamide (SP?) , and one other, used for nausea. We also use DMH, the H is Haldol.

We do get MANY complaints about staff smelling like smoke. It, along with perfume smells, can be very nauseating, especially to someone who is dying. Would it be so hard for a nurse to Not smoke in her car on the way to a patients house?

Wow, 16 is very high. I am a hospice coordinator, and I try hard not to let anyone's census go above 12, unless all patients are in the same facility. We will on occasion have 12+ patients at our Hospice House. If a nurse see most of her patients in...