grandma rn38

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  1. do you call this harassing someone?

    i'm a charge nurse on evening shift, and a lpn has been just walking out and going home. not tell me she is leaving. one night she left me with 22 pt and 1 other nurse. and we were getting admits about 4 or 5 d/t a school bus wreck. so some one that ...
  2. i hope everything will be o.k. i will keep u in my prays.
  3. Can you believe this? 13yo and mom both pregnant

    i had a pt that was 71, and her daughter was 60.
  4. What was your secret weapon for surviving nursing school??

    when i went to nursing school, i worked full time,and had 3 kids in school. my sercert was god, and lots of prayer. i have been a rn for 4 1/2 yrs now. thanks to god.
  5. Any WV nurses here?

    were i work, at boone mem i make 16 an hour and i have been there almost 4 years and do charge for that pd. we don't have resp, ivt,or a code team. we do it all, and when the er gets in trouble we leave the floor and go help them. we are a one floor ...
  6. nurse to patient ratio

    on evenings it is 8 to 1 and nights it's 12 to 1 or more.
  7. do you call this harassing someone?

    up date on this the lpn, has now threaten me, stated she was going to beat the he?? out of me. i told my D.O.N. and nothing was done. when she was ask about it,she said yes i have been threatening her, but i was mad. i have ask to be removed from thi...
  8. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    nurses that walk out in the middle of their shift, when you are already short hand.
  9. Nursing Salary Hall of Shame

    hello were i work now, i get 13.50 hr.
  10. note to Pittsburgh nurses

    hello pittsburgh nurses,i'm looking for a male nurse his name is steve if i remember right. he worked at the burn unit in 1981-in aug-nov. i was very young about 17. my husband had been burned and was a pt there. his name was ricky bailey, and my nam...
  11. Surgical menopause?

    i to had to have a hyster, i was bleeding so much i had to have two units of blood. i decide to leave my ovaries, because i had a hx of blood clot, and hormones were not a choice for me. it has been 3yrs, and i don't regeret it at all. i do have hot...
  12. Im going insane!!!!

    i feel for you, were i work it"s the same. one day i came in and there were 6 admits and a d/c waiting for me with one other nurse on the floor, that day shift couldn't get, who had 4 nurses that day. Then i had a pt to die. with 22 pt's and 2 nurses...
  13. I Hate Nursing School

    i hated nursing school also, i worked a full time job and had three kids at home. my last semester was the best, because i stoped working. i was glad it was almost over, wouldn't want to do it again.
  14. Have you ever "caught" anything from your patients?

    i got hep-c from a pt that was confused, and hit my hand and cause me to get a needle stick from her.
  15. help with suicide

    i had a pt that killed herself at the hospital. I have went over and over in my mind if i said the right things or done the right things. I work on a med-surg floor, and don't deal with this kind of thing very much at all. we had a suicide class but ...
  16. Running blood through a #22 or #24???

    i have uesd a 22 one time because we could not get anything else but we usually use a 20 or 18.
  17. Survey: Would there be a nursing shortage if...

    i think if nurses wages where raised it would bring in more nurses that would be there for the money and not for the real thing nursing. i have work at the bigger hospital and made more money, and i was dump on all the time, after being there as a n...
  18. not her problem???

    we leave a note for the dr on the chart if the med isn't needed at that time for the dr to order, or just call him at home.
  19. You've been a nurse for how long?

    i was a cna for 5 yrs, now i'm a RN for 21/2 yrs. i love it most days. like q where we work short handed all the time.
  20. help!!!! what would you do?

    i work with a nurse that has been acting funny at work. she will leave in the middle of the shift, one day she left and i had to take over her pill pass . i found beer spilled out on the mar. and the next day she work her cup (that she protects very ...
  21. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    looking for nurses gifts go to http://www.positivepromotions.com, and then to nursing.
  22. nursing superstitutions.....any truth in???

    oh my !!!! you are all right!!, it happens every time.
  23. Anyone else addicted?

    hello grandma here me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  24. Stupid things coworkers say

    my co-worker and i were charting, and i had pull my top down in front some, looking down at my breast for crums. she said are those yours!, and i thought she was talking to me, i said excuss me. we both knew at that time what i was thinking. she was ...
  25. So...does anyone like it?

    hello where i work, we have the er, and the med-surg floor, that is it. i love the med-surg floor we have every thing from MI, to children, so we never know what is coming to the floor, and when the er needs help we go there to. i have worked in the ...