NightNurseKathy

I don't usually have patients asking me my age. They all assume I am alot YOUNGER than they are! I LOVE that! ha. But if they do ask, I have no problem telling them, but then most of them FIRST ask how long I have been a nurse, and THAT will pretty ...

BSNnursejlcads, I am so sorry to read of the way your friend was treated in rehab. Obviously we still need a lot of education on the treatment of all peoples, not just the homosexual. Nurses can be quite prejudiced as anyone, they are after all hum...

1. Why did you go into nursing? I wanted to be a nurse from the time I was a little girl. 2. Where did you receive your education? I was an LPN for 21 years. Became an RN in 1989 (sorry, but figured I qualified having been a nurse already!) Graduated...

I don't treat a patient any different because oh their lifestyle. Homosexuality is only ONE lifestyle we deal with. We have the DRUG problems, the non compliant Diabetics, and on and on. ALL of them should be treated equally as NEEDY people that w...

For me , I would call them VERY DIFFICULT co workers....luckily the one I have dealt with is NOT my co worker, but on the day shift. She is an LPN (getting her RN) But she is difficulty with all of us...like she is the SMARTER one. She will ALWAYS ...

Haven't been here in simply ages... we have been dealing with this issue... seems alot of hospitals are.... we simply have to STAND together to defeat the people over us, and continue to have OUR choices! At my hospital we have instituted bage ID's....

I guess there is something to be said for computer charting which we do where I work. You CAN'T prechart as you CANNOT chart ahead with the computer. Now MED sheets that is another thing. I have seen nurses do that. Me I keep out all my med sheet...

Where I work, we emphasize TWO forms of ID for the patient BEFORE we give the meds. ALWAYS check the ARM BAND, ASK the patient their name (if they can give it) . Our other form of checking is the patients BIRTHDATE! Check and RECHECK before you gi...

So far, the best I've come up with is, "It sounds like Christ is important in your life. Tell me more about that." Thoughts? Opinions? You have had a GREAT PSYCHOLOGY teacher!!! That is exactly how do deal with it! Course you may get alot on a su...

The Middle Wife, By an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher: I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second-grade classroom a few years back. When I was ...

Denise, do NOT be discouraged, you ARE A NURSE.... a nurse takes care of people. I was an LPN 21 years, and NEVER felt LOWLY and treated like I was not as good, that I remember.... I HAVE seen RN's pull that in the place I work now, and I wrote my ...

Hi here is a web site I have found very helpful on this program http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/index.php You will find a BUNCH of help there. How old are you? Have you been dieting off and on for years? If not, the Atkins program shou...

I find that MORE nurses smoke now than ever it seems.... I work the night shift, and they go for "breathing treatments" at least 4 times a shift, for anywheres from 20-45 minutes each time.... AGGRAVATES me no end.... I have stopped offering to HELP ...

Insulin med error.... That sort of error is WHY it is ALWAYS the best idea to have another nurse check critical medications. Where I work , we must double check with another nurse that we have the right dose, right time, right pt .!!!! When I was pa...

I am currently readin a book titled BLOOD MONEY, written by an EX abortionitst.... her description of HOW many FINGERS AND TOES were put down the GARBAGE disposal made me want to VOMIT.... FINGERS AND TOES belong to HUMAN BEINGS.... DEFENSLESS HUMAN ...

I live in Tucson. I had been in Home Health for 12 years, yet when I went to apply to work in a hosptial, I was told I couldn't keep up!!!! They forced me to take an RN refresher course. I was the ONLY student who had actually been working!!!! I ta...

I lived and worked in Douglas , pretty rurual compared to Tucson where I live and work now! Got my RN at Cochise College, which is primarily in Douglas, with a campus in Sierra Vista. Trained in the Douglas Hospital, Bisbee,and Sierra Vista. I do...

well one thing for sure, you will not make that sort of salary in the hospital setting here in arizona... i am in tucson, and i know that health south pays really good like that. but if you want to make the money you are now, the hospital setting ...

I have lived in Tucson since 1982. The BIGGEST thing to consider when moving here is the traffic flow. It is HEAVY coming west in the morning, and just the opposit in the eveing. I know from where I lived on the west side it took me about 30 minu...

I have not had a flu shot in years . I don't even remember their being offered last year at the Hospital I work at, yet THIS year they are pushing it. I got them when I was in Home Health, but now I do not feel it would be a good thing to do aft...

I am very concerned that we will not have enough nurses to take care of ME when I might need it 20 years from now. After the article in the Sept. Readers Digest about the average age of nurses, I was FLOORED by that revelation. Until then it did N...

Good grief!!! I have worked for 34 years as a nurse, and have drawn solutions from the med vials all that time, and the mere THOUGHT of changing the NEEDLE AFTERWARDS is NUTS.... I am SO busy MOST nights, I just would not have the time to change t...

That is so true, Cory, I really don't remember doing ANY wound care as an SVN, OR as an SRN. Course did my SHARE of wound care OUTSIDE of school.... I KNEW technique.... it was DRILLED into me my my first nursing instructor, Mrs. Piel at the count...

Well I for one have to say ON THE JOB experience is superior to schooling experience, however I will NOT knock those "dummie" demonstrations. I was in an RN refresher course, and the only skills lab I took was on trach care, not having done ANY of ...

What an odd question.... am I ashamed to be a nurse? Embarassed? Neither has ever crossed my mind for a second! PROUD, now THAT would explain MY attitude towards my chosen profession... PROUD to go into a store in my uniform! I wanted to be a n...