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I was told by the Infection Control nurse that it is a national infection control standard that any working hospital uniform soiled by blood or other bodily fluids or infectious waste, need to be left and laundered by the facility or disposed of and ...

I served 11 years in the Navy NC. No where I have ever seen such an organization that rewards incompetence! It rewards those who work the least and punishes those that work the hardest. The senior ranking NC officers were underachievers as RNs who...

I think those wounds would had have had MRSA.

Was your patient digging a ditch? They get so fifthly in bed! How dare you. Bathing, airway, breathing , circulation.

According to hospitals, there has never been significant evidence showing that the uniforms of health care workers carry pathogens. Thus is the reason why scrubs are not laundered and provided by hospitals.

I work in critical care so if they can usually expend that much energy, they are most often transfered out. However, I have experienced families that are out of control. Abusive, condescending, and even physically threatening. We have found that h...

I have been a nurse for 11 years going on 12. I was a RN in the military for 10 years. Your personal experience will depend on the team you work with. This includes your fellow RNs, your chosen specialty, your managers, ancillary staff, and team o...

I work in an a multiservice ICU at a Navy Hospital , which is also utilized as the step down unit, to include Peds, Neuro Surgery, CCU, Oral Maxillary Facial, and General Surgery. We get flooded with tons of bogus admissions to include routine elect...

Microbiology, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Nutrition, Physics, and Pathophysiology are fundamentals to being a good nurse. If you can not hack it, then you need to question your role as a a potential nurse. We as nurses need critical thinkers no...

Thanks for your support. :-) I am a nurse in the Navy stationed over seas.

I was floated to the General Medicine ward that was known for its multitude of confused patients. I was called into a room by an elderly male looking for his dentures. I scoured the room for his dentures and they could not be found. As I was calli...

There were two patients in a double room on a 38 bed tele floor. One was an old fart with a sick heart an the other was a 35 year old male who was in an MVA being observed for a myocardial contusion. The old fart coded and died. During the code, the ...

It was easy for me I guess. I was a med tech, which is like an LPN, in the USAF before I went through college. I we lost half our traditional students to organic chemistry, and physiology.

In response to what is codependence of nursing: The general exagerated feeling, belief, and action of being needed, and I underline the word exagerated. Care plans are NANDA's attempt to make Nursing an independent profession and practice. Nurses...

I am a military nurse that works in an ICU at a Naval Hospital. If they need a band aid, they get admitted to our ICU.

I found that hospitals pay better than LTC. Most people tend to go where better pay is. For a large portion of LTC nurses I have met, they have had issues that have got them fired from hospitals or not hired by hospitals. Nurses that I worked with...

I found that hospitals pay better than LTC. Most people tend to go where better pay is. For a large portion of LTC nurses I have met, they have had issues that have got them fired from hospitals or not hired by hospitals. Nurses that I worked with...

Don't take my advice if you don't want a F. Care plans are usless items of beuracacy and from the nursing philosophy of -paper work before patients. Tell your instructor to read the credentials of the folks who come up with that nursing theory cra...

I have not seen that but I have seen young guys 18-22 having MIs from supplements with ephedrine. I know the body builders pre work out ingestion can includes coffee and Asprin and that some take high doses of H2 blockers to prevent exercise induced...

I worked in a Military Teaching Hospital where our stellar physicians (not) would want all sedation stopped cold turkey at 2400 for intubated, ventilated patients. They also refused to apply restraints on 90% of the intubated patients. The truth of ...

I would have written a progress note on the care given to the flowers! I would have also put a yellow sticky in the chart requesting an H&P on the flowers before I provided care.

I am a military nures in Japan. Another good lame admission dx, that I seen by our stellar physicians (NOT!) was: a Marine that went out to dinner for sushi. After he stuffed himself with sushi and proceeded to drive back to camp, he remebered that...

Admit ICU: DX Physical Exhaustion (Guess I should have been admitted on some days too) Transfer to Inpatient Mental Health Unit: DX: Major Depressive Episode, Partner Relational Distress, Suicide Gesture, and Bilateral Ingroing Toe Nail. Admit Gen...

Admit ICU: DX Physical Exhaustion (Guess I should have been admitted on some days too) Transfer to Inpatient Mental Health Unit: DX: Major Depressive Episode, Partner Relational Distress, Suicide Gesture, and Bilateral Ingroing Toe Nail. Admit Gen...