nurse2002

14 year finally got tired of taking a teens abuse. Everyone has a limit and she was at hers. I can guess why the police got involved also. The teen was upset because her mother actually took up for herself and put the teen in her place. Im not saying the slap was right and I am not saying it was wrong. Im torn here. But I also know she is a TEEN. And verbally and mentally abusing your MOTHER is VERY wrong. Counseling is probally warranted here but a CONVICTION is definately NOT.

I dont know what state you live in but where I am from there is something called an 'out of control warrant'. If your minor child is that out of control I would look into something similar to this. The court does get involved, but will help you get your child under control. Through probation, counseling, curfews and the like. Also random drug tests. If your daughter doesnt want to be held responsible for her behavior at home she will get the consequeces through the court. Its called tough love. You might try it. It could save her from a world of hurt in the long run. I too will not judge you for slapping her. You made a mistake. But I can see it happening. I have come close to slapping my teen in the face more than once. (We are now in counseling). Please make sure there is no conviction on your part. Get a good attorney.

Good post.

I work agency every once in awhile and am pretty much on the same unit. The same RN always throws a fit about her team of patients. You could give her one patient that had been admitted for constipation and she would still throw a fit. I just want to hand her a 'binky' ever time I hear her. My answer. Write them up every time they do it. In the future maybe they can throw a fit at another facility. AND get the message.:)

I think it is the one's that think they are God that are the most likely to kill someone. Too much confidence. They get in there and think no matter what they do nothing can go wrong. And when it does go wrong they dont know how to handle it. Just not prepared. Just a thought

A friend of mine had a lady partsl hysterectomy recently. Having had 4 c-sects she must of had a lot of scar tissue. The doc said about the surgery, "It would of taken a lot longer if I were't so good at what I do". Less than 2 days later she was back with an infection and hematoma.

Wow, im so sorry you feel this way. I know excactly how you feel. I felt this way waaaaaaaaaaaaay before 24 years. I love what I do, but it has become sooooooooooo frustrating. Venting helps me. I was in one thread and I started talking about the healthcare system and administration I started typng and I just couldnt stop! After I submitted it I was so shocked at what I had typed. Geez I felt better though. I think the thread was something in the nature of "would you recommend to someone a career in nursing. The thread is about a zillion years old. So I read my post over and over again. I decided im not going to let the "Healthcare situation" make me feel this way about something I love. Some posts stated that maybe some should take a break from nursing or work in a diff area. Im still thinking about this. But I would miss my patients.

I think our jobs as healthcare professionals would go a lot smoother if these two sayings were banned from all facilities. "Thats not my patient." "Thats not my job." Any other thoughts on this?

Please dont think I am being sarcastic. I swear I am not. But did you misspell just now on purpose or are those typos?

Sometimes when I put a post up ive just come home from work, made dinner, did laundry, helped with homework and/or have just gotten finished with many other things. So Ive worked diligently throughout the day. I might burn something for dinner every once in awhile, but pretty much get everything accomplished the way I need and/or want. Well, I burn dinner sometimes, forget the fabric softener at times, sometimes I dont even understand the kids' homework. Sometimes I misspell words. Sometimes I miss the words that have been misspelled when I edit. If these were the worst of my worries I would be doing pretty darn good. Ooooops, I might misspell a word...sorry, Im human.

I haved worked many many places through agency. My favorite place to work was a inpatient hospice unit. A small 12 bed unit, the biggest assignment I ever had was 4-5 patients. We did everything. Sometimes we had a cna, sometimes we didnt. We did oral care, baths changed linens and fed patients. I loved that unit. Of course everyone had "moments". But everyone worked together for the most part and as agency I felt welcomed to this unit. If there is time, on a regular ms unit I will give a bath, change a patients brief, feed them, whatever. I actually feel as if total pt care is real nursing. Like I am taking care of the patient as a whole. I know many nurses who dont mind giving baths, changing briefs etc. But I know many more who do mind. I dont undrstand how we can be good nurses if we dont do these kinds of things if we have the time.....even if there IS a cna. I have actually worked with a nurse that was sitting at the desk and answered the call light via intercom . The patient needed some ice water. She was actually sitting there doing nothing and got up to hunt a cna down to do this task. It made me so angry.

I also need to say that I dont always have eight visits a day but last week and the week before I did. This wek it is mostly 6 visits. Wen I do a nursing visitand hha visit I am there for one hour. I do the hha and skilled in that one hour. I have no idea how it is billed. Guess I need to find aother job. Thanks!

Thank you very much for your reply. No, It wasnt harsh at all. I really needed to hear that. I knew I was being taken advantage of but i did not know to what extent. I appreciate youur input VERY much................ Thanks again

In noverber of last year I started working with a new home health agency. Ive just recieved a memo that all patients must have a scheduled appointment everytime I see them. This s now mandatory. I see up to seven to eight pts a day. I never know what I am going to walk into when I walk into a home. Be it high blood pressure and I have to call the doc -or rectal bleeding that has been going on for two or three days and the pt is "waiting for the nurse" before they call the MD. So of course the visit will be longer. Now I always try to see the pt whithin the same time frame of a couple hours if I see them more than once a week and I call before I go to thier homes. I just dont see how I can see them at the same time every day. What happens when I get a new pt and have to juggle them? and everyone wants me at thier home at 0900? How can I do this? It is also common practice for the office to call me out of the "blue" to go 20 miles out of the area I am in to go see someone else that just "needs a visit" when I have two or three people left in the immediate area I need to see? Also it is common practice for the office to call for me and another nurse to do blood draws because the pt's nurse "just doesnt do them"? And I have a "scheduled appointment" with another pt. I have one area that does not have a home health aide and give these patients baths as well. I dont mind this but it is very time consuming. Also, is it my job to find the patient a home health aide.? I thought the office did this. Im getting confused on my role as a home health nurse. I always get diff answers from colleages. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :confused: :confused:

I became an LPN due to the program being convennient at that time of my life. I will get my rn, sometime in the future, if its con venient for me. I have always done hospital work. I have worked med surg, ob, pcu, icc and other units. The facility I work for trusts me to float to these units, I also know that Im just as big of an asset to them as any rn they have. When it comes to work quality, work ethics and just good nursing skills ....well here I am, and they know it.

Ive probally had at least 20 people with "abd pain" this past year. They want thier pain meds iv. They are "allergic" to anything po, unless it is oxycontin of course. Sorry, but I dont feel sorry for the fakers. Psych case or not. But I do treat them like any other pt I have with "real" pain. Im not there to judge someones pain for them, I cant. I can just try to help control it. And if they need a psych eval Ill have the doc order it. These "fakers" do need help, but not on a non phsyc unit.

Okay, I work agency. I was at one hospital one night. this guy comes in claiming a history of dvt s to his upper arms. They put him on heparin gtt. So the @@S hole is yelling in pain. So, with 6 other pts, I spent half my night on pain control for him with part of this time being on the phone with the doc. To get this guy stronger pain meds. So, my night ends going home feeling sorry for this guy. Two nights later i am in another hosp and the same guy is there with t he same complaint. But now they have him on a pca. So I call the doc and he orders a search of all the hospitals he had visited that week and also a search of rxs he had gotten. I was mad! I asked the doc if I coul write an order for a vastectomy for this guy but he wouldnt do it. Instead he is looking at some serious felony charges. One being insurance fraud.

Ive worked in a couple facilities that it is policy to put an air filter on every set of iv tubing hung. Then I have worked at others that dont stock them at all. The pharm sends them up with drugs that require them such as iv protonix. Though this filter is more to filter out particles than air. Then you have blood filters to filter out small clots and such.