Stormy62

Do you mark the NG canister with the time and date at the end of your shift or do you empty the entire canister and put it back? Seems to me this emptying of the canister is only opening you up to chances of exposure. If you do mark the canister as...

How are each of you dealing with patients who are abusing prescription medications? There has been so much emphasis put on the patients right to pain control (over the past ten years or so). I understand and agree with this belief. However, there...

Not from Illinois, but currently working here.

Hey is there a place on this board where we can post "lost co-workers"? There is a nurse I worked with back in the 80's and early 90's. She and I both moved out-of-state and lost touch. Last I heard she was getting married. How can I find her? ...

Oh wow, didn't think of the stalking issue. Well how does classmates.com prevent that? Perhaps we could just post WHO we are looking for and if that person is out there (or someone else on the board knows them) they can PM the person that posted th...

How about a place for finding old co-workers on this board? What do you think?

I think I am going to wear my cap on Nurses day (or is it Nurses Week?)....I'm doing it out of respect for the profession I entered 15 years ago. Practical? No, not in the unit where I work, but I earned the right to where that cap and from now on ...

Right now I am working the "Baylor Weekend" program, and am paying about $350 per month for family coverage. If working full time I would be paying about $160 per month for family coverage. My question is, are most of you paying about the same? Has...

Well they don't term it "Baylor" but that is what I was referring it to because that is what it entails. Work every weekend 12 hour shifts, off Mon-Fri. Pay comes out about the same as it would if I were working 40 hours during the week. Union? Wh...

Mandy, That is a beautiful poem. Did you know they (whoever "they" are) made that poem into a very touching video? It is about 10 mintues long and it shows some elderly patients in a nursing home. I first heard that poem a good 10 years ago, and ...

I think the desire/ability to work 8's or 12's is directly related to the person doing/not doing them and their lifestyle. Which by the way will change throughout our careers as nurses. I worked 12 hour shifts since my nursing career began in the 19...

Mcleod hospital in Florence, SC is pretty good size (well I guess it depends on where you come from). Florence is only an hours drive to Myrtle Beach. The humidy in SC is pretty high.....course you know that if you've already been there...kind of l...

Ok guys. Heres one for you. I worked Med-Surg almost 12 years ago and worked with ALOT of G-tubes, but we didn't D/C them in the hospital setting. Anyway I have an 87 year old grandmother who lives 100's of miles away who had one at home and she ...

You all are too funny! I thought until now that I was one of the few people in this world with such a warped sense of humor- I now realize I have this sick humor because I am a nurse and it must have been a "coping skill" that I have developed along ...

Thank God that nursing allows us such diversity and opportunity for change! Thank God also that we are all not the same. For instance, Mary and Catlady are excited because their new jobs mean no weekends, working aprox. 8am-4:30pm, probably no holi...

I am an "old" nurse going to a "new" area. (Neuro ICU). I begin orientation shortly. I wonder if any of you have any tips on how to organize a folder or some such item to keep needed information/cheat sheets that i will aquire/write down during or...

How are each of you dealing with patients who are abusing prescription medications? There has been so much emphasis put on the patients right to pain control (over the past ten years or so). I understand and agree with this belief. However, there ar...

Lori, You made a very good point. You are right. Other than offering alternatives, the patients abuse of the medication is not anything I can control. My job is to be sure the patient is informed of pain relief measures including alternatives to o...

I agree we do not prescribe or dispense. I will check out the link you mentioned. Thank you for posting it. But you are missing my point. I will try to explain using an example. Say I am a 30 y/o f with chronic back pain. MRI shows no evidence ...