limestone replied to Elly Aker's topic in Pre-Nursing
I find the idea of employers' discrimination for engaging in a legal behaviour to be quite bizarre. What next? I suspect that BMIs or cholesterol levels will be the next exclusionary tactic in the power trip that HRs everywhere are on. With only the...
The circumstances of your interview were appalling--most unprofessional in every way. However, they don't owe you any kind of communication afterwards. Common courtesy that existed in the past has fallen victim to the impersonality of the new hiring ...
limestone replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing
On our unit it is a team decision. Team takes into account the pt's mental status, behaviour patterns, and the usefulness of pressing a charge in the context of the patient's management and treatment. On our acute care psychiatric unit, staff know ...
We have a doctor in Ontario who does penile lengthening treaments and his name is Dr. Stubbs. We had a dietitian at our hospital whose name was Mrs. Death (pronounced deeth, but the spelling....) Also on staff: Dr. Payne and a female Dr. Kevorkian.
Hearsay is not proof. Therefore you have no case. Period. Going to your instructors with this allegation will cause grief for you without resulting in a conviction of your classmate.
I totally sympathise with people who have this situation ongoing, caller ID or no. I worked on a busy unit where we were responsible for our own staffing. We were very supportive to one another which was the only thing that kept us going. All for one...
limestone replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing
At the end of one evening shift when I had been run off my feet with too many patients on a busy surgical unit and was exhausted, one of my patients asked me, "Am I your only patient tonight? You've been taking great care of me." That was my best com...
PLease don't get a dog. They are more work than you think and need lots of companionship, not just the few rushed bits of time here and there that you have left over from the demands of school. I have watched colleages stress out about getting home t...
I"ve been a nurse all my life but 2 weeks ago was suddenly hospitalized with PE's following orthopedic surgery. I did not CHOOSE or SEEK hospital/nursing care--it just happened. Sorry, but I was glad to be a patient and be looked after. On the othe...
In answer to the last query about strangest place you have fallen asleep, mine is the ferry dock. After my 12-hr night shifts, I have a half-hour drive to the ferry that takes me to the island where I live; there are times a crew menber has had to co...
Recently I was standing at the pharmacy counter waiting for my husband's prescription. The lady next to me was reading the label on her prescription med. She said to the young clerk who was ringing up the sale on the cash register, "It says here Paro...
This is a great thread! Brings back memories.... In our provincial psychiatric hospital, we used cigarettes for rewards in the token economy programs, even on Admitting units. In our canteen we sold papers and tobacco for those patients who could ro...
I am Canadian and am shocked to read of nurses discussing carrying guns. Nurses affirm life, and guns are for killing. I know the US is a gun-carrying nation but I never thought nurses would be involved with them.
If she were on a med/surg unit, she should be called dr. as it wouldn't affect her care and healing one way or the other. Probably would help with same, as she seems to need the reassurance, respect or whatever it is that she's seeking. On a psych un...
Hello Michaboo, Please read my letter wherever it come in the line-up (maybe Page 11). I love psychiatry, as human beings in their infinite varieties are endlessly fascinating. In psych the nurse is an instrument of healing, a wonderful thing to be....
