Julie_Bean

you just use air to check patency

Start applying NOW!!!

You could also address the issue of non hands on health care workers wearing scrubs. Its discussed in another thread in here.

Wow Glad I read this thread! I'm sure I'll have to deal with this sort of thing sooner or later. I'll be a little more prepared for now!

It bothers me some as well. I'd rather see the office personel or secretarys in business casual dress and have the techs/cna/ma in a designated color as well. Where I work even house keeping gets to wear scrubs. WHen I first started there they had a housekeeping like uniform. That was MUCH better!

Thanks all of you! I feel much better!

this is today breakfast: yogurt smooth drink & granola bar Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and granola bar dinner: lunchable and one reeses peanut butter cup that is a crappy example of my normal routine. I usually eat better (just a little).

I agree its too much if you can still smell it after they left or you can smell any further out from them than 1-2 feet but I love it! Its a pleasant surprise after wiping stinky butts all day and dealing with the other gross smells.

last week at the hospital I work at because my doc is there. I was volume depleted from food poisoning and needed IV fluids. Anyway I was so embarressed going in there because I looked like total crap. that food poisoning REALLY whooped my behind. Right before going to the doc's I was trying to get out of my bed real slow because i had orthostatic hypotension REALLY bad. When i got to sitting position i got that quick urge that the diarrhea was on its way (again) and right after that the vomitting occured so yep, I sh*t myself, pissed myself and vomitted all at the same time and then passed out back onto the bed. Too add to the humiliation at that point I was at my fiance's house in his bed with him sitting next to me the entire time. (He would make such a good nurse but I can't convince him to go for it.) I got cleaned up and made it to the docs looking white as a ghost wearing an old t shirt, my fiances scrub bottoms (humongous on me) and no socks with my tennis shoes because I had puked on those earlier. And this is how I was admitted to the hospital also. I hoped so bad no one would recognize me but of course they did. Luckily it was only a few people. I was so embarressed seeing the people I work with looking so horribly and disheveled. I think the whole experience is going to make me a better nurse (I just graduated in Dec. and passed NCLEX in Jan.). Before this, had I been the nurse of a girl coming in looking the way I did I would have thought something that wasn't the truth about them. Just thought I would share my story. Maybe it will make a difference for some of the rest who haven't had the unfortunate experience of being a patient yet.

ok I got 75 questions. find out if I pass tomorrow woot!

my school had a fake hospital day where we wore shorts and tank tops or short sleeves to practice baths but we only did the extremities. We also had to feed one another and brush each others teeth. We had a lot of fun with it though. I can't imagine having to get completely naked or even down to underwear.... EEEEKKK! Thats priviledged or need to know basis only and my fellow students at the time were neither.

At my hospital only ICU has done this (thats where I work) I know of one other hospital that I had clinicals at where RNs were one color, techs another and housekeeping another. I liked it alot.

There is a gym available at my hospital from 7p to 7a. during the day it is used for cardiac rehab and other PT and rehab stuff BUT of all the people that are employed at my hospital hardly anyone takes advantage of this and there is plenty of room and exercise equipment!

I originally wanted to be an accountant when I started college after H.S. I worked part time at a sears call center for delivery while pursuing accounting and realized I didn't want to be stuck at a desk all day helping people get rich or low ball customers so I quite going to school and starting working full time in a different dept for a bit. Took about 6 months to goof off and figure out I really needed to get back into school when I started hunting around for another part time job. My best friend at the time worked as a PCT at a hospital near by in ICU and got me a job there PRN. It didn't take much longer for me to realize I JUST HAD TO BE A NURSE! I had never felt so good about myself and what I did at any job I had ever had before working as a PCT. It also made feel like I actually made a difference and what I did is important there and would be missed if I called in sick. I was excited to go to work because no day was the same and I never knew how things were going to go. Nursing was appealing because it would keep me in that same position and make me enough money to support myself as beind independent is also very important to me and to have independence in my work as well. So I just graduated from an ADN program in December, start my nurse orientation at the same hospital I've been working at as a tech for the lst 3 years next week and take my boards Jan 22nd. Wish me luck!

I was 22 when I started in the nursing program, 24 when I graduated.