athflvr

Quote I'm currently 46, turning 47 in a week, plan on applying next year if anybody wants to email me the name of a school they know for sure accepts applicants over 45 years old, I'd appreciate i>>>>>>>>>. James, I don't k...

When I was in nursing school a few years back, they gave the average age of the class as 47 which was my age at the time. If anyone had told me in my 20's or 30's that I'd want to be a nurse when I grew up I'd have laughed my ass off.

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, it always amazes me when a pt actually admits that the ibuprophen or toradol worked better than dilaudid!

I've seen that pt! No I can't take morphine I'm allergic, no I don't remember what reaction I had. No, fentanyl makes me sick to my stomach. I think the one that worked maybe started with a d........... Oh you must mean darvocet...

An ER nurse brought me a patient one morning who was a sweet, wonderful, delightful woman. Old as Moses and still smoked, drank a little, lived alone, took care of her grandkids and herself. Really she was wonderful and most of her family was too. Of...

TWinkers, I'm guessing you don't laugh or think that it's cute when he's behaving that way. And I would assume you explain any medical conditions before someone attempts to treat your son - for his protection as well as the care provider.

IF I'm replacing it because it hit the 72 hours and needs to be replaced then I usually leave it in until the new one is in. However, if I'm replacing it because it's occluded or infiltrated I definitely take it out first. One thing about nursing sch...

OK I'm going to be really jaded and sarcastic, probably because it's 5am and I'm getting ready to go back for the last day in my string of shifts this week but .......... I'm guessing she didn't even think about it because she won't be buying the ca...

You know, on looking back, I should never have posted after the weekend I had two weekends ago. In all honesty, more often than not, we nearly always have 5 patients. We've lost some good staff lately (nurses and CNAs) which puts a bit more strain on...

Thanks for the info. I am finding our that there is so much more to learn than just what they teach in school... the policies, politics, cultures, ect... Thanks!!! ~BlueBug Ain't that the truth. When I was first hired into my job I was in nursing sc...

Emma, when I was doing day care in my home and knew it was time to move on, i started looking at some of the jobs around me - knew I didn't want to go back to accounting. I had thought maybe nursing or teaching. However, most of the people around me ...

I'm at a not for profit hospital and our ratios tend to be 5-1 on the med surg and neuro floors. Anymore it's not unsusal for the ratio to bump to 6-1. When I was a CNA we normally had 10 or 12 to 1. Now it's not unusual for our CNA's to have up to 1...

That's too funny! Why do people think that stuff is OK in the hospital. I work in a Catholic hospital - I'd love to tell them "You know I'm not catholic but this is a catholic hospital and I'm pretty sure that "Big Jesus" downstairs in the lobby is f...

Yeah, when I was still very new I worked with a nurse who was pretty involved with trying to get people into the union. About once every year or two there's a push again, we get a nominal raise and people move on. Very disappointing. I usually work w...

Wow, and I just thought I was feeling persecuted for no damn good reason! Actually a couple of years ago our hospital had a consultant from back east in to review our patient loads, practices, etc. They recommended we raise our ratio - the consultant...

One of my absolute favorite docs at my hospital will write things on discharge instructions like: 1) Quit drinking or YOU WILL DIE 2) Lose weight or YOU WILL DIE 3) Stop smoking or YOU WILL DIE. I appreciate someone who is so up front with patients. ...

I work in a hospital that tends to have a large "underserved population. (I expect many of our frequent flyers "home" for the holidays!) I'd love to answer the phone "Radisson of the homeless, this is athflvr, may I help you."

I work on a medical floor in a Level 1 hospital. One evening, one of the trauma surgeons was seeing a patient on our floor when his pager went off. A man and his wife were in the ER, he'd gotten a vibrator stuck in his rectum while they were playing....

I work on a medical floor of a hospital so usually the hospice patients come to us if they're considered eminent. Patients families always ask, how long do you think?........... It never ceases to amaze me the people who can't die in front of anyone,...

I never remember considering nursing in high school (or ever for that matter). I became a bookkeeper/accountant and worked at the phone company (back in the days of AT&T and The Bell System - and we did our work on microfiche and paper :roll ). W...

Good Luck! Having just joined the site this is my first post and one I feel strongly about. I started as a CNA in a LTC facility. When the first semester of nursing school came around they changed their minds and decided not to pay for school. I was ...