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Finally, the wound is so deep we can see the coccyx bone and there's an infection. The doc came and said it is ok to treat the wound he said that is what we call in french gangrene. he said the infection is eating the flesh and it's a question of time that his intestine content will get out by the wound. We insisted that he could have a medication better than Tylenol for the pain. He said the patient doesn't suffer. what kind of doc is this??? We insisted again saying it is not because he is not able to say "it hurts" that it doesn't hurt. Then he gave him Duragesic patch. what should we do with docs like him???? Today we had a woman with a pressure 59/49 and pls 158/min he didn't want me to send her to the hospital....I was sooooooooo upset, I hung up the phone and called 911 for an ambulance. I don't care what will happened if he dosn't like this. I'm tired of him being rude like that in his manner to treat ppl.

we have a patient in terminal illness. he has a wound at the coccyx. I decided to treat the wound but the boss (who's not a nurse) told me not to treat it. she said the doc decided not to treat it. what do you think about that???? Is it normal to let a pressure wound phase 2 or 3 without treatment???

It would be a good idea to trade this patient but the other guy working with me decided i don't know why that he won't nurse this patient anymore. and....I don't want to talk about my situation to my boss. Recently he showed the door to a few people just because they missed 1 or 2 days of work. If I tell him about my health, it will be a good reason to show me the door.

I'm back from work and I can't sleep. I feel guilty and I need to know if it ever happened to you too.... I'm able to see a lot of things but when I see someone with MS lying in bed ....I can't act properly. I mean I'm not able to talk and look at these patients. Today I I went to see that women I cared for for almost 1 year now and I understood why i open the radio and sing instead of trying to talk to her...It touched me too much to see how bad she looks. All slim, in bed not able to talk and crying most of the time. Is it what I'm going to look like in 10 or 15 years? It scares me to think about it. I always tought there would be nothing to stop me to nurse until the day I'm going to have a too big relapse (I'm having Ms but in the very primary form). But now I understand that it doesn't matter where I work, there'll always be a problem. Maybe I don't suffer from that problem but how can i know how this patient feel in front of me???? Do you have a solution? Do you think it is the end of my career in nursing? please help because I'm confused chris

hi I did a depression 2 years ago when I worked with ppl with alzheimer. A lack of experience made me sad about their situation. I bagan to think : Why am I treating them? I'm going to be like this in a few years! I didn't want to live if it was to become like this. I finally found out that I am not wroking with them to cure them I'm there to help them and prepare them to die. I'm trying to make them laugh and have fun, when they die I'm abke to have good memories about them. I'm still depress but when I'm at work I never look what hour it is. I like what I'm doing and I wouldn'T change even if I could.

Last week one of my patient a 83 lady. who was in the unit for abdominal pain had a blood pressure:234/67 She's well known to have high BP and medication help just a little I was use to give her catapres po when her BP was higher than 220. first her Bp was 232/68 with headache I gave her catapres 1hour later I took her BP: 234/64 I went to see the doc and explained him the problem. He answered " just stop to take the BP you wont see the problem!" then he took the file and wrote " stop to take BP and stop to give catapres and Lasix" Is it my lack of experience or this doc as a problem???????

I work in a senior home for 1 year now and everytime I ask the boss (who is not a nurse nor a health professionnal) to buy incont. pad for people who are not really incontinent during the day she say it is too expensive to buy pull ups for night and pads for day. So they have to wear briefs. Result: They become incontinent because they are not able to use the toilet! The boss said he bought 100 washcloths last year, she wont buy other now!!!! We have to use those who are now transparent with holes in the middle. Same for serynge we'll soon have to clean them with alchool to reuse them. Here we are with our health care program!!!! I'm ashamed to work there!

To get a job in Quebec it is a good thing if you already have a cerftification card (PDSB)---> how to move patients, and have your OMEGA card how to deal with an agressive patient. Once you get the job the security commity talk once/year about security but in practice....we do NOTHING! except running on the scale to be in time in the unit cause the elevator is TOO slow! but.... I think it is ok we can ask help if we think it is dangeourous to do a task alone. :)

I work in a psychiatric hospital with intellectual hand. ppl. One night I was in my office doing paperwork when a patient came in and showed me the phone saying "emergency pls....emergency!" When I asked him what was wrong he answered he had a terrible pain to a theeth. Well he just doesn't have any theeth!

Hi I'm new here...but just wanted to say .... I'll begin my med-surgical trainning in 2 weeks...and I'm afraid of what the nurses will think of me. I had a BAD experience during my pediatric trainning. A nurse told my teacher that I'm dangeourous and shouldn't be let alone on a unit. She said she had seen me doing things I didn't do! Like...changing a diapper and wach the eyes of a baby with the same gloves.....YEURKKKK! Really..... I DIND'T do that! and I can't understand what's her goal to say so! I'm afraid and I'm just not able to sleep when I think they placed my in the same hospital. Please if some of you had a similar experience let me know. I felt so small..... and after that I was sure no one could trust in me. I won't be at ease with the patients anymore. HELP! Ann