eldernurse

I swear y'all work in my hospital!

Speaking of hotel, last night someone came to our ER via ambulance for (get this) DRY MOUTH! Talk about hotel!!! with limosine service!!!!! I, too, am sick and tired of catering to all of the idiots who think that we are the enemy or the handmaiden....

I had a friend who is also a nurse who had gastric bypass surgery. She was unable to eat ANYTHING for a year. She was on TPN via a picc line in her right AC. Then, she developed ulcers that began bleeding and she almost died. Then, she needed sur...

Unfortunately, every job has its group of a$$holes working. Sometimes they outnumber us and sometimes we outnumber them. I came to our ER 2 years ago when management had just changed over and the breaking up of the nasty clique had begun. A nurse ...

Actually, I agree. If doctors realized what we do then they would give us a little more respect. I am tired of trying to second guess that ones that think we should be able to anticipate their every need. I am sick and tired of the ones that think...

A frequent flyer is a person who has visited the ER instead of going to an MD's office for any ailment that is non-emergent. He may have visited more than one ER (ie, "the other hospital gives out cab tickets and meals"), or his doctor may have made...

Simple answer, YES! I work in a big city hospital, I have worked with all kinds of surgeons and the answer is YES, YES, YES. I have said to several of them that if humble was a requirement they would have failed.

They just aren't there all at the same time!

I am scared of SARS like I have not been afraid of any of the other dangerous things that come through the door. SARS is killing some of us. I have no problem asking patients to mask when they have a fever with cold symptoms.

Shandy Lynn has the right idea. Our hospital actually has a policy about that. It has guidelines. I hate it when a physician writes an unclear order to give 1 or 2. It feels like I am prescribing. This is one of the reasons I love the ER. Ther...

these stories are why i have lost all respect for doctors. who taught them to treat people that way? what happens a lot of the time is that i see nurses go with the flow so they don't have to have encounters like that----the patient loses out on th...

To nurse Lou, vigilant families are OK as long as they don't have unreal expectations on how long this care should take. I can turn, clean, do mouth care and medicate in about 3 minutes, see ya in a couple of hours! I hate the ones who say, you have...

I have voted and I am in the emergency room! We have beds in the holding area. I am supposed to have help back there to clean and make beds between patients but they are never around. I go through 10 to 15 patients a shift and I make 95% of the be...

We had one come in by ambulance the other day for "hives" of all things. Then, when we gave her body creme (that she could have bought in a grocery) for her dry skin, she wanted social service to find her a way home. Of all the nerve!

I hate it when they send patients to the ED with change in mental status and we have to ask "How could you tell?" But one of the latest reasons to be admitted to our ED is "inability to ambulate!" Just because a person needs to be placed in a nursi...

It takes at least a year. Settle down and don't try so hard. Pull your share of the load and it will come to you. (And food is always a winner!)

And don't let the patient's know you are new. Ask questions, when needed, away from patient and act like you know what you are doing. The patient's already have enough to be nervous about. They don't need to worry about you, too. WE NEED YOU. G...

I just had the day from hell. Stretchers with cardiac monitors (that no one in particular was watching, I might add) in the hall, the ER on condition RED (which means we have no more room, pinhead medics), idiots with pancreatitis and an uncontrolle...

sunnygirl272 has it right. Lie to the Phone-Ho. Do you know how many welfare idiots get a "free" pregnancy test in the ED because they just lie about abdominal pain? Don't you think health care providers need to take care of themselves?

Speaking of which, I am sick and tired of being an extended doctors office. How many times do certain doctors call and say they are sending a patient in to us for "evaluation" which means dump dump dump. Their office isn't open or doesn't want to s...

It is why the hospitals are having trouble getting telemetry nurses. The poor suckers in telemetry are really getting dumped on. Don't they realize how important it is to have the time to double check drips and blood transfusions and the like? The...

How many times a day do we save lives and save doctors a$$e$ from being sued. Junk men in my area make more money. Oh, if I could only stand the cold.

Right On obeyacts2!!! Contrary to popular belief we are not all nurses like on TV. Most of us are real people in the real world.

Do I really want everyone in my neighborhood to know I am a nurse? I was standing on the porch waiting for a ride one day and this idiot came up to me and wanted me to do mouth to mouth on this new born (obviously dead) kitten. I have strange neigh...

Do I really want everyone in my neighborhood to know I am a nurse? I was standing on the porch waiting for a ride one day and this idiot came up to me and wanted me to do mouth to mouth on this new born (obviously dead) kitten. I have strange neigh...