ChristenLPN LPN

I have worked agency for about 4 months and am not sure how to best handle this situation. When I first started with my agency, I was offered more hours than I could handle every week. They knew I preferred to keep one weekend day open to spend time...

Thanks, y'all for the advice. I did talk to my agency- I got home the other day to find a message asking me to work. I was out all day, with my cell phone and a change of clothes, but no one called my cell phone to let me know a shift was available...

I have read this enitre thread and have just seethed with horror and disgust and loathing along with everyone else. And then I read your new news and the expressions of elation and have just been grinning like a fool. Sweetpea, use the talents that ...

It never ceases to amaze me how being a good nurse is often in direct opposition to being a "good employee." [/b] Truer words were never spoken! If I had a nickle for every time my focus on patient care was labled by somebody else as "not being a t...

What really amazes me is the attention this kind of thing attracts from the media. Any kind of mistake that takes place in a hospital is blown up for an hour on Nightline, or makes a headline in Reader's Digest. I make a point to read a lot of thes...

This reminds me of a patient from Urgent Care. A supposed virgin, she had a positive hcg. She was something like 13 or 14, so when I went to tell her the results I was trying to be gentle. She was very upset, going on and on, and for some reason I...

It is easy for me to understand why these ads hit so close to home with us. Those who deal with both the ups and downs of any profession would certainly be annoyed to see ads portraying smiling Pollyanna dolls while remembering all the holes that d...

I have tears of laughter about the late night TV show on large, unmanageable scrotums and the spanking clean, freshly powdered prolapsed uterus!!!!!!!!!. :roll It embarrasses me deeply to tell you battle-scarred veterans that two shifts ago on a...

"I would have felt like I was running or that they had "chased me out" if I leave, but I do have to do something. I worked too hard to be a nurse, and I will not let anyone else determine my future or undermine me." You poor child, you sound like an ...

Y'all are making me so homesick my heart hurts! I was born in Memphis, raised in Jackson, and most recently lived in Franklin. Those of you in the area, do you know the O'More School of Design? Great, beautiful school- I graduated from there with ...

Patients have rights. Nurses have rights. Smokers and nonsmokers have rights. What NOBODY has is the right to have everything he or she wants, all the time, regardless of the circumstances and the safety and needs of others. It does sound as tho...

I used to work 5 8's a week and when I switched to 3 12's, it was pretty hard at first but there is no way I would ever go back to my previous schedule. I live about 30 minutes from town, so by the time I drove in and back, it seemed like for those ...

Well, being naive and paranoid must have their benefits.... Every word I chart I am so conscious of someone reading later. I could not imagine having the...er, um... brass testicules.. to deliberately fabricate in a patient's chart. So if in nurs...

My personal favorite, in reference to an elderly female pt: "I was about to commence with the rectal exam when the pt's daughter inofrmed me that the last fellow who attempted a rectal exam was kicked in the groin and hit with her purse. Pt's daug...

This was not actually a request by the pt but more like a heinous deception from her SO... pt was a 20-yr-old G4P4, all by the same guy. At her postpartum appt we decided to bring up the concept of long-term birth control. Being the liberated fem...

This Dr actually LIED in your chart!?!? We learned in nursing school that this is the most unforgivable sin of all. How do people get away with this stuff?

I've always heard that we should all strive to be as wonderful as our dogs think we are. There is no love quite like that unconditional love, and losing it is truly devastating. Our prayers are with you.

I do not have any children, body piercings, or tattoos, and so have read through this thread solely for amusement, but I do have one thing I'd like to just toss into the gumbo here... Why is it, that when I go to start an IV, or give an injection, to...

Thanks, shellybelly and andrewsgranny, and here's to office nurisng! I have always worked in offices, and love the continuity I get with my patients. Mosty I have worked OB-GYN and love that more than anything. Unfortunately that community in Albu...

OH. P.S....... A man who checked in with "dizziness" apologized profusely for making our day busy- he had a BP of 50/18 had was dx'd with a GI bleed. A sweet old lady who was bleeding buckets from her rectum felt "just terrible about bothering" us....

As I read these posts, I am reminded that one of the things I love most about urgent care is the very limited time that we spend w/ pts, but with some of them, 5 minutes is about 10 too many! I had a 3-year-old kid with a head lac that really did nee...

German for constipation.........Farfrompoopen I have always liked that one! :chuckle

My mother and I both have a tendency to confuse what signs are really trying to say. She got stumped at Penny's one day by "Watch batteries while you wait." (Who would want to watch batteries?) At an intersection near a Shoney's I saw "Smothered ch...

Too weird! The 3 years I spent in OB, I always had the same set of scrubs on every time we had a fetal demise or missed AB. Did not wear those scrubs again till I went to urgent care. Thankfully, my patients here do not seem to be affected by them...

My boards were awful, totally not what I expected- only 80 questions and at least 75 on cultural concerns (Do Muslims eat ham? etc). I was certain I failed. My parents were visiting me when my results came in and my mom opened the letter for me. I...