dcampbell

To make a long story short: I fell down a hill six months ago, hurt my lower back, left shoulder and neck. I have healed o.k. except for constant neck pain and left shoulder pain. After six months of Aleve, hot packs and 8 PT sessions, I am still ...

I have read this whole thread and have resisted jumping in. Back in the 90's, a nurse I worked with had problems with driving home sleepy. She was a single mother with two children and worked full-time nights (eight hour shifts). She was either n...

So you would talk to a family about not having peds experience? Have you ever gotten in trouble from admin. about it?

I am guessing you couldn't use as a defense (if something terrible happened) that you were floated to an unfamiliar unit. I am still amazed that hospitals are willing to expose their staff and hospital to such potential problems just to save some mon...

DebblesRN: Thank you so much for addressing the visitor situation. Really, that is the big problem that I see consistently. Number two would be lack of staffing/time. I wish I had a nickle for everytime a baby was just starting to latch on wel...

If these problems occur (and I think they will), who will we complain to? We won't be able to complain to the government. Who regulates, oversees, or disciplines the federal government?

So this pt will probably be going home soon? How will the family deal with her care at home? (When she falls because they get her up.) When she becomes injured at home/or needs to be readmitted due to her dx, does your facility HAVE to take her back?...

"They can make immunizations from these donors." Please tell me more about that.

How about restraints for the family members! Geez! They are interferring with the pt's plan of care and with hospital policies, they need to go.

What good advice. How can you find a "good doctor" to get your tyroid checked? At the practice I go to I can't even get to see the doctor. They will only let you see PA's unless you are dying. The PA's, God bless them, seem unwilling/unable to do o...

Could the father somehow be the cause of the boy's problem? The father doesn't want the boy to say anything or anything be discovered by a Dr.? Possibility of drug use? Or, Dad could just be the kind of guy we all know that thinks a boy should jus...

Anyone care to share how they injured their rotator cuff or did they just start to have symptoms (shoulder pain) that required a repair?

You are right. You need to stay away from those boards. It will just drive you crazy. Those people usually don't know what they are talking about so you won't be able to change their minds. Besides, you are one of "those nurses", they won't believe...

As JoPACURN mentioned, she/we who work in the US Health Care System, have many concerns about being sued. If our US Health Care System becomes run by the Government, where will patients go to complain about the care or lack of care. You can't really...

I am not very familiar with "Safe Harbor". How could our OP have initiated it to help her on that shift? Would it have helped her and her pts. enough, and in a timely manner? How could she initiate it without putting her job at risk? Has anyone here ...

That's great. Every unit that I have ever worked on seemed so h... bent on getting the baby bathed in an hour. Another thought (please, I am NOT starting a debate), I wonder what effect getting the Hep B vaccine in the delivery room has on infant ...

What if you have a "gap" in your resume due to taking time out to stay home and raise your children? Any employer will understandably ask about such a gap in employment. How should you respond?

I am so sorry for all that you have been through in your life. You have mentioned much about your plans for your next birth. PLEASE, prayerfully consider not getting pregnant again until you are able to sort out all that has happened to you in your l...

Can a security guard escort and observe these pts smoking? Does the policy require that only a nurse can watch the pts smoking? If so, that is silly and can/should be changed. I say let them smoke. But there needs to be a policy change if there are...

Thank you canoehead for your comment. You said that she had these spasms for six years, does that mean that she got better? What seemed to help her get better, or did it resolve on its own?

Due to an injury three and a half years ago, and from being misdiagnosed many times, I am now a pt at a pain management clinic. I fell down my own icy driveway (very steep) and hit my head several times. I developed much pain in the front left side...

Thanks for your concern. I did just what you suggested. I wrote out my thoughts about how things were going for me and gave it to my PM doc. Things went very well. He wants me to be able to say "yes" to more things, and prescribed tramadol for sev...

To the OP: I wonder how much you were charged for this "examination"?

1) So from many of the above threads, I am hearing that we should have 4WD vehicles? Some people cannot afford these type of vehicles, not to mention the extra gas required and the impact on the enviroment. 2) If on the way to work, one is injured...

These phones can really be a bother. I think that they are another way for management to get out of hiring enough people. How many med errors occur because a nurse was distracted with the constant ringing of the hospital cell phone? What about the br...