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Yes and sometimes you have to think quick to get Dr.'s attention without alerting the patient when you are right there in room with them and he is about to do something contraindicated for that patient. I've noticed that some Dr.'s get angry if you ...

I can't stand these whiney non smokers either. What about your car? I ride a bike why do I have to breath your car fumes? Give me a break- the facility policy allow 2 15 min breaks and a half hour lunch. Why are you not utilizing it? They gi...

i was a medical secretary before becoming a nurse - I called in prescriptions in florida all the time! Once the nurse tried to slip in a lortab prescription for herself and a xanax for the other nurse-they are just phone messages from pharmacies and...

"The whole oxycontin thing is terrible. The people who have misused this drug have taken a very useful, safe and effective medication and gave it a bad name, and that stinks. I work in an emergency room and I (almost) always refuse to give out oxycin...

Mine aren't that gross but I do have a few. Had to irrigate a foley and it was clogged at the connector. It broke apart and a big green ball of pus went right into my eye!!! i got pinkeye the following week and Bell's Palsy a week later! Dr said ...

Hi, I did the same thing last week at the local "Kwick n Easy" food mart - I was talking to 2 children outside and their mother ran outside and yellled "Get in here right now - What did I say about strangers!" I felt like a creep! I DID NOT have o...

Yes , me too, I hate eyeball stuff - In my clinicals my instructor made me clean the inside of this guys head - after taking out the eyeball!!!!! It was a huge gaping hole I had to squirt saline in! UGH!!!!!! I hate large, horrid, stinking, huge gap...

Most states mandate that a badge or nametag is worn with the full name and position or title. Maybe you can suggest wearing the badges due to state regulations. I broke my neck going to nursing school!!! Work, family, financial problems, death of...

I try to take them out somewhere - especially the elderly who have no family nearby. If I obtain permission and If I can transfer them to my car - we are "Good to Go" - Last week I took a lady to Walmart - it was her first time out of the facility ...

I agree - always report med errors!!! I have made a couple of doozies but then I was able to get dr.'s advice on resolving or monitoring the potential problem. Even a vitamin would with my luck be the one thing someone is really allergic too or cann...

I keep my cigarettes and lighter in my pocket - the rest i run back and forth for like adhd nurse on speed. I keep alot around my neck on a light band that holds med keys, watch, pen and if I dared wear a fanny pack I probably would not be able to r...

no i don't cut up charting from the actual charts - just my notes and practice chartings I do on scrap which i find the need to do 5 times before i can actually put in NN

I have only worked in a few places since I"ve become a nurse. The hospital setting was one that I never ever cared for even in clinicals. Not that it's too much work or too stressful - It's not what I like to do. I never thought Geriatrics would b...

Oh and by the way - reporting your coworker is not a good idea - not for something like that - abuse yes - but you really don't know the history between her and this family and maybe it goes way back or you didn't hear the whole conversation, Maybe...

Hey I have same problem with silly RN supervisor. Only she hears only what she feels like working on that day - that big old pressure wound that woman came in with has been festering for 5 days and you haven't even peeked. How many times can you bu...

I use scissors for many things - cleaning out clogged caths - YUK -making my own cath secures out of hypa fix - opening that darn clogged up ostomy paste, cutting up bad charting and starting over, dressings such as kerlex, polymem, tegaderm and by G...

That is why I hate working Sundays. All the family of residents come in out of the woodwork. I've noticed most supervisors are rude to family members and if not speaking harshly, or grabbing chart out and sighing heavily they are bending their head...

When I started work at the Long Term Care Center, I had just came out of treatment for substance abuse. I was on a monitoring program and was not allow to pass narcotics for 1,000 hours. The nurses from the other units had to come early and leave l...

If you happen to hear a strange buzzer in between all the alarms, lights, beeping, yells of Help! and Nurse! and birds diving against the birdcage - don't ever ignore it - chances are someone has already made it to the next town and they want their m...

my favorite patients - alzheimers, dementia - parkinsons' - i can go to work and really feel at home! Nurse stop the train - i gotta get off at the care center - ok get in your compartment - ill pull the cord. they tell the bossy cranky nurse super...

I was a nursing student on my clinicals and there was this lady in a hoarse voice whispering water please, water please over and over and over and she looked so damn dehydrated. It crossed my mind that she might be NPO but there was this container o...

I am replying to this post because it brings alot of suffering to mind. I worked in Urgent Care and they had an index box - in it were the names of people who they considered to be drug seekers - some were called over by other clinics or pharms but ...

I once worked at a successful chiropractic and physical therapy center - as a new nurse and office manager I had to deal with patients alot. we had to go to a seminar and learn and memorize scripts. there was one for every incidence that could come...