BoomerRN

We had a Medical Terminology Course but I challenged it and passed 100%. We were also taught to make beds, a regular one and a surgical bed. A dime had to bounce off it for a pass or fail grade. The only thing we were not taught was phlebotomy. ...

I'm glad to hear you say you want to be a great nurse. I remember what one of my nursing instructors told the class years ago, "You can be any kind of nurse you choose--good or bad." I wouldn't worry about the age factor, 40 is still young and, you...

Not trying to dissuade you from Richmond, but crime is at a high level there. Charlottesvill has very, very low crime.

Charlottesville, VA is a great place to live and work. The University of Virginia Hospital and Martha Jefferson Hospital are located here as well as many other health care facilities. The only draw back is it's expensive here, especially housing. ...

I had three children ages 6, 3, and 7 1/2 months old when I started nursing school in 1975 at age 26. I remember sitting in a classroom in Case Western Reserve University when my daughter was one month old, taking the NLN test. It was a very long t...

My daughter lost her son in her 8 month. He was perfect too. My family are Christians and we felt God had a purpose in taking our precious Matthew before he was born. Our faith has sustained us. This was the most heart breaking event I had ever b...

I was hired straight from beside nursing to a position as a clinical research monitor and later a coordinator at a clinical research organization (CRO) at the university in our town. The title clinical research associate (CRA) at this CRO was a moni...

I had a nursing instructor (for lecture class only) who was, I think, mentally ill. Fortunately, for me, I was luck enough to have another instructor for hospital rotation and only had to deal with this nut in class. She would make fun of people in c...

Recently, I applied for the position of ADON at a nursing home. I have been to three interviews--one with the DON, one with the administrator and one with the corporate nurse. I have about 25 years experience working in longterm care. The concern ...

I am at the stage of my life where I can pick and choose what I want to do. I do not have to work for a living, but I am looking for a position such as ADON. I have been a DON a few times, as well as a ADON, and I prefer being able to work dire...

Mine was chemistry. My brother, who is a "brain" tutored me and I passed, but I really hated that subject. That's probably why I had a difficult time grasping it, I have to enjoy a subject to do well in it.

Years ago when I was trying to decide on a profession, I decided I wanted one that would give me job satisfaction, good pay, and be recession proof. Well, 32 years later I think I made the right choice. I love taking care of people, receive good ...

Talk about disruptive? When I first started working as a nurse in the late 70's, I worked at a very small hospital in my hometown. Except for two or three docs, the rest were, jerks and demanded I turn all my attention to them whenever they came on...

The administrator has been around the area for years. I recognized her name. So, she should know better than to put a new nurse in the DON position. I could have taken the job and for a while thought I might, but having gone around the block a tim...

I gave them an answer of "No Thanks" already. I can't believe that they would put a new nurse in as DON. She told me the first DON left and the administrator gave the job to her. She had been the ADON there for a few months prior to this, (her fir...

The others are correct. A DON cannot be a charge nurse if your bed count is over 60. Besides that. Why stick around and have to deal with this administrator's rantings. I can guarantee you that things will not get better and this person may caus...

At the last place I worked, each department head, unit nurse managers and others met every am for a short time to discuss residents. The 24 hr report was used and others' observations about the residents was discussed. For example, the activities p...

Sounds like this nursing student has problems dealing with people and getting their work done. I would help up to a point, but if this person has issues now, how are they going to deal with all the people and problems that come up while working as a...

Having worked in the long-term care industry since 1979, I can tell you that yes, we used poseys and other restraints on confused residents. But, we also checked on them frequently also. This was the law "back then" and we used them according to th...

I started working at a local LTC facility as a Staff Dev. Coord./Infection Control Coord. in late Feb. and the state was in there the next week for the annual inspect. Well, we failed. There were so many tags I can't begin to tell you what they wer...

Just a suggestion but If you are a detailed person, try research. I worked in clinical research for 7 1/2 yrs. and enjoyed it. You have a certain degree of independence and the hours are usually good and you have weekends and holidays off.

I hated watching the babies be circumcised when I was a student nurse. They screamed and turned purple. By that time I had two sons and a daughter and the boys were circumcised. If I had known how painful it was for the them, I don't think I would...

Hey 4 daughters, you can start your own business. When I first moved here from another state, I advertised my services as an RN and the ad was answered by a wonderful family who had a brittle diabetic elderly mother who needed care during the day w...

I have worked in LTC for 30 yrs. off and on and the same problems described above existed then as today. It seems to me that the public has been part of the problem. They can't/won't take care of grandma/grandpa and expect miracles from the facilit...

During my first year of nursing in a hospital, about 29 yrs ago, a woman in her fortys, who was not acutely ill, told me she saw an army of men on the ceiling in her room. I assured her that there was no one there but she insisted that they were th...