WYDiceDancer

I,too, work for Corizon in Wyoming and part of the delay from the state. In addition to checking your background for Corizon, you also have to pass a state background check for security clearance. Some state agencies are not as efficiant as we would ...

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How nice for you that this works. Unfortunatly, most of the patients that came into my hospital (before I went back to corrections) were full of entitlement. There is nothing like worrying about "customer service" when the "customers" are drunks and ...

Love those "concerned" family members. The best part of correctional nursing is no call lights and ALMOST no families!!! "Calling the Governor" is my favorite, like the Governor would do anything.

You worry to much. I worked in primarily LTC/AL for better than 10 years when I went back to the hospital via an agency and they usually asked for me over several other RN's. Since you are in school, you will be refining your skills, not letting the...

Hey, congrats on finding it in you to go back for that old "RN" after so many years. I was an LPN for 16 years when I took the NCLEX for the second time (first time was paper and pencil so the whole computer thing kinda freaked me out). I went to Lar...

hey, canuckstudent, this thread is for ranting and venting so we don't say these things to docs and disrepect them to their faces. without places like this, the nursing profession would soon be refered to like the post office, as in "going postal". l...

about nursing school? the only thing that most of the instuctors want to hear is "yes ma'am, no ma'am, i don't know ma'am and i'd love to learn that from you ma'am". if you find a really good, caring instructor, take them for ever course that you can...

On the same thread, I have a friend tell the administrator (when he ATTEMPTED to write her up for an imagined infraction)"You can take that and shove it up your @$$, and maybe on the way up it will lance the hemorroid that is keeping the blood from r...

Some of the most shallow folks on this planet are the ones you find in a "church". Go ahead, flame away, but my experiences have been they shake your hand in the sanctuary and flip you off in the parking lot. I hope you will look into calling adult p...

Remember telling the admitting nurse at the nursing home that you "don't have any standing orders"? THAT'S why you are getting the call at 0200 for Tylenol. Next time, think about it! ASK THE NURSE WHAT SHE WANTS ORDERS FOR!

SO TRUE!! Years ago I had the instructor that was handing out the diplomas tell me AS SHE WAS HANDING ME MY SHEEPSKIN "We never thought you would make it through." With that hunk of paper firmly in my hand my reply to her was "And it was no thanks t...

Some people don't like to be in the spotlight, pure and simple. I've gone to MY graduations only because of family pressure, nothing more. When I got my LPN, pinning was during graduation, thank goodness I didn't have to go and deal with those instru...

I've worked plenty of places that treat the CNA's like ambulatory chunks of gold and LPN's and RN's like dime a dozen pound mutts. Good luck on getting her out the door permanently. She's toxic and to much time around toxins will REALLY make you sick...

Another female here to agree with the "to much drama" aspects of both nursing school AND nursing. Just be aware, that as long as you continue to be in a human business (vs building computers or snaking drains) you will have LOTS of drama. A suggesti...

If you don't like the show, change the channel.

Your family sounds toxic and you need to limit your contact with toxins. Hope you can, I know it's hard, but it's really worth it.

This thinking is why nurses are treated badly today. Being sick is not a license to bully others. It's high time nurses expect professional treatment and quit letting docs, patients and the general public walk all over us.

Have you thought about "sharing" with someone that works your opposite nights? I don't have kids, but reliable child care is important to EVERYONE that works nights. Can't tell you how many times we ran short (and we were bare bones staffing anyway...

Geriatrics present many times with atypical s/sx of infection, so your WBC's are your best bet.

Once upon a time, when I worked in the hospital, I delegated other duties to the CNAs/techs and got my OWN vitals. I never wanted to be responsible for something so important without doing it myself. That being said, I can't begin to imagine what I...

Thank you, Press-Ganey scores! :flmngmd: Administrators are so afraid of getting even one bad survey, they give this type of patient anything they want, usually to the detriment of the facility, staff and other patients. Positive reinforcement for n...

I feel for you! About a million (or 18) years ago, I worked as an LPN in a AL/IL facility that had specific criteria for dealing with incontinence. If a potential resident was incont. they had to either be able to self manage their "depends" or pay f...

So THAT'S how C-diff gets spread, thanks for the clarification. :wink2:

"Do Nurses have to clean up after patients'? For instance, if a patient throws up all over themselves or poops on themselves, do Nurses have to clean them up? What is the most disgusting thing that you have done for a patient? Give me the dirty 'lowd...