postmortem_cowboy

This is off a stand up glass thingy I bought a few years ago in nursing school, it made me think, this is the kind of nurse I really want to be... Nurse's prayer As I care for my patients today, Guide me Lord, each step of the way. Send me your wi...

well, in all actuality, that was the second patient of 2 that had surgery in a 24 hour period from a single surgeon that boffed both. The other, was a patient that was under anesthesia for over 10 hours in a hip replacement that got botched, the doc...

A few things... #1, why stop at your LVN unless that's what you want to stay forever. At the mid point of the RN program you can always go and take your boards for your LVN, so that when your done with your RN and waiting to take your boards for RN,...

At least someone understood where I was going with that posting... lol... Wayne.

Tee-Hee! Wayne.

Should have told him to get his testicles out of the boiling pot of water and that might help. Wayne.

Thanks commuter!! Wayne.

OY!!! Ok, so I haven't been around for a while, have been dealing with a couple of different issues lately, #1 being stupid earthlink. We switched over to their phone service along with their DSL, and ever since that time internet hasn't worked rig...

..... or smack someone upside the head with yer steth.. lol... ((bonk!)) Ok, so maybe the prayer should have been like this. God, give me the strength and wisdom to help others, heal wounds and show compassion. Also too, please give me the courage n...

No, but it's a job, and it's a paycheck, and it's also nursing experience... may not be a glorious job, and by all means I wouldn't want to do it either, but if it's a job that's willing to hire her, should she turn it down or not go and see if they'...

Not a problem... I think at one point all of us do or will feel the effects of burn out... it's just natural to our profession... Wayne.

Alot of things "should have" happend, but didn't, the story I told was to illustrate that male patients don't necessarily speak to female nurses in regards to these types of things. Wayne.

One night working a M/S unit, I had a CNA come to me and tell me one of my patients had gotten up with her assistance and the foley "dropped" out of her, to my dismay and utter disbelief, it sure had, how I don't know but nonetheless there it was bal...

There's also a good thread on male patients that I'd just responded to here in the male forum, where male patients respond easier to male nurses and females with females as well... could do a paper on that, watch the thread and see if it goes anywher...

Your welcome, anytime! Trust me, anything that will make you more "appropriate" for the floor your seeking to be a part of, do it. You won't regret it and the hospital will take that as a sign that you are serious about moving to ER. There was a ti...

Well my opinion is, it doesn't matter how old you are, can you do the job and be effective at it, some old nurses who've been doing it umpteen years can't, so who's to say that a young kid with everything going for them and the newest schooling can't...

I wholeheartedly agree. I've had male patients that would totally open up about their concerns and also have had female patients that wouldn't. Case in point, one night I took a M/S shift, had a post op patient X24 hours for a hip. I'd gone in to d...

Oh yeah, and to answer the first statement... lol... yes there are cheaters in every class, but like you said, they are only cheating themselves, they are the ones who spent a year cheating off someone elses test/exam, homework etc etc etc, that get ...

Advice meaning? need to narrow it down just a wee bit... lol... And yes i've worked the ER at Garden Grove hospital, East Valley hospital in glendora, Chapman Medical Center and also Gardena memorial which is right next door to compton, so alot goin...

May all the wishes of luck be with you!!! keep your nose to the grindstone and don't let up, it may seem like it's too tough sometimes through the year you'll be going to school, but it'll be like yesterday when you look back on the whole year and sa...

Not a problem Tina, always glad to help out a fellow nurse. There's just a fine line between rude and stern, watch that line and don't step over it. If you can look at the situation objectively from an outsiders perspective and see that the patient...

Be thankful you found your calling early, it took me going into the service, finding one path that looked right and following it for a while to realize that it wasn't where I wanted to be in life. By choosing and sticking to your schooling, you will...

Yeah but the only problem with that school of thought, is that you'd be memorizing answers, not being able to think on yer feet, and that's what nursing is, being presented a situation and being able to think your way logically through it. If all we...

Touche` and duly noted and thank you for agreeing.. lol.. oh yeah and tag yer it pagan! Wayne.

I'm old and a nurse... does that count? Age does have alot to do with the maturity level of what we do, but frankly, out of the 30 students that were in my nursing class, over 3/4's of us were all over 25. Wayne.