nursebearfeet

i think "they" design things so that it will frustrate us. our ed is in the process of being remodeled. it is very pretty and new and wonderful with rounded edges and pretty colors and absolutely no barrier between the waiting room and the patient ...

not true. it is legal and often done. in my hospital lpn's can do conscious sedation. yes, they should have iv certs, but hospital based classes will do.

why are so many leaving? well, i love nursing. does that make me crazy, probably. it is hard, long hours, mandatory overtime, mandatory holidays, weekends, call time, stress: you could potentially kill some one, and tell me why we are expected to ...

i totally agree, it's manually much harder than being a nurse, usually. and they dont make enough money!

let me say this, every one has a job to do and in doing their job they make the job for the next line much easier. for example if the housekeeper doesnt clean the room who does? if the cna does not do vitals who does? if the line breaks down every...

with draw and repeat! it's the smartest thing to do:)

add/adhd

my husband and i struggle everyday with sleep deprivation working opposite schedules in order to not have to do daycare for our 3, soon to be 4, kids. this case validated all of our struggles for me. me too sister. i remember being a new er nurse wh...

i used to work on the 6th floor. we used the pod system, 6 rooms per nursing station. in pod 2 is room 666, yes, i know. for some reason the patients in that room were always crazy. i'm not sure why they made a 666 the real story is in pod 7, use...

here's another one for ya, i received a pt from neuro icu to the stepdown unit with blood infusing............piggy backed on d5ns, wait it gets better with zosyn piggy backed on the d5ns some times i wonder, well you know the rest. same unit i reci...

this one was one of the deciding factors to my move to the er. i was charge one night on a med-surg/ stepdown floor. an "experienced" rn had drawn a pt/inr on a pt with a heparin drip. the lab came back critical high. i went to investigate. to m...

choose carefully and find out your facts. lpns at my hospital can start iv's, give push meds, do conscious sedation, dressings, caths, ect. their scope of practice is very close to the rn, and the money is decent. either way, the final stop is th...

i was a swim suit and lingerie model, no i am not kidding. i have pictures to prove it. and because i know you will ask why... everyone does! i'll tell you. once upon a very traumatic evening in the company of a crazed lunatic i found myself thin...

i work in "the city", we see this all the time. yes the smell is horrid, but on the bright side maggots work really well at debriding. we have actually had to take people in the ambulance bay and hose them off. never a dull moment. :rotfl:

i so relate to this one. my son, 5 at the time, came in the house crying. so i said, "stop whining" before seeing the child. he said but mom, it's bleeding. rolled up the leg of his sweats, yep, 7 stitches later i felt like a heel !!!!!!!! bad ...

kids are always the worst for me. we had a 2 year old who's face was completely destroyed by a pitbull, he died, the resident and i hid and cried afterwards. 15 month old mva ejection, was in a car seat that wasn't belted to the seat. 6 &7 year...

most people are intimidated by the er. i am in a level one trauma center. our ed techs are all paramedics. so they can perform a lot of duties, and most of them rock. if you are in nursing school and have the opportunity to work in the ed, do it....

let me know if you do, we could make a fortune!

yes, he required surgery to remove the bones. and a lengthy psych admission.

the first " 1gm tylenol iv" the second: nursing to bathe patient daily. that one got the doc an earful!!:angryfire

while running towards the trauma bay one night i stopped at the door to the ambulance bay to open it when all of a sudden the trauma attending swung the door open and nearly broke my nose. i would have loved the chance to return the favor:devil:

i once had a patient who complained from the moment i came in the door about every thing. she became very angry when i did not respond to her obvious attemp at provoking me. so, she exclaimed "you have a very nasty attitude" to which i replied " yes...

pt coughing up green spam bitten by rabbit cat my fav was a mom who was trying to get her son re-admitted after he left ama he had alcoholic gastritis and and irritated esophagus. she informed me that we could not discharge him because he had a hol...

With all due respect I never jab an uruly patient with a larger than required needle for fun no matter how I may daydream about it. I dont know what your profession is but if you have never held a beautiful child as he takes his last breath and then...

this should be fun, here's my list 1. if you are in my er because for some reason you "can't breathe" and you are outside smoking when i call you to be seen, I have express permission from GOD to taze you. 2. If you are able to complain (LOUDLY) to ...