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My mother says Tydenol for Tylenol and Eptilepsy for Epilepsy. She is now 85 and I have stopped trying to correct her.

I have had a similar experience as the OP. The nurse that I oriented went through three preceptors. We all tried to work with her. She called in almost once a week, she was asked to remove staples from a patient after she had been shown and she had b...

We don't know everything she posted on her fb. In the article it also states that "She also posted another remark we can't repeat." It may not have been the "cop killer" remark but the other remark she made. I have several people from work on my fb b...

I went to an inservice years ago where the nurse had us cross our ankles and we were to keep them that way until she said to uncross them. Of course it was to show just by doing that for 5 or 10 min the pressure area that is there.

We have PTO at our hospital as well. Our policy is if you have the PTO time you can take time off, if you don't have any PTO then time off is not supposed to be approved. I would certainly ask human resources to clarify the policy.

I went to nursing school with a lady who was a Pentecostal and she wore a skirt or a dress. In fact we were the first vocational nursing class to be able to wear pants. We had a designated uniform we had to wear so we had to make sure that it was ava...

In addition to what is written above, I would like to have been told don't depend on management to praise you. It is more important what your patients, family members, and co workers think of you than management. You need to take your 15 min breaks a...

I didn't grow up wanting to be a nurse, in fact I wanted to be an elementary school teacher. Due to my parents I ended up in nursing. I don't love nursing and I am not doing bedside nursing now. However I have worked many areas in my 30+ nursing year...

Years ago when I was complaining about a patient and family members to my sister she got a little upset at me and said "you nurses need to understand that they patient is not at their best when they are in the hospital." I was upset with her and stop...

My advice is usually to realize that you have to give yourself time to learn your new job. It may take up to 6 months or more to feel as if you know what you are doing. Don't be too hard on yourself and as vharris said don't be afraid to ask question...

Ask yourself how you can change your practice so hopefully you won't make a mistake. I am always wary of any nurse who has nursed for a long time that says I have never made a med error. My question to them is so you have always given every med on ti...

I work for the HIS department at my hospital. I am one of two educator/trainer in our department. I was asked why I wanted to leave nursing and I told them that I loved to teach and wanted to learn something new. So I think your answer is a good one....

It all depends on where you are. I live in Texas and LPN's at our hospital can hang the blood as long as two nurses have checked it and at least one of them is an RN. LPN's cannot do comprehensive assessments, which means here the initial admission a...

After 30 yrs of being an LVN I have decided to go back and get my RN and I am 52, so I don't think you are too old. I am taking one class at a time but I will get there.

It is not your problem unless you make it yours. They are using peer pressure and that only works if you let it. Take the time off and get done what needs to be done.

Your time is as important as anything else in your life. It is hard to say no and just no. I always wanted to make an excuse why I couldn't help out. Just say no you don't have to give a reason why you can't work. Take care of yourself because no one...

We used to have a hospital skills day but got so it took too long that now it is divisional related. Some of the things we did were check off on PCA pumps, IV pumps, and what the process was to get blood from blood bank and how to check the armband. ...

I work in Informatics. My hours are Mon - Fri 8 to 5, but they are flexible. We are on call every couple of weeks for two days and every 8 weeks we take weekend call.

I had a similar experience but with an LVN who had 20 years of experience but not in the hospital. She had three different preceptors. Two of us had the same amount of experience she did and the other one had about 10 years. We wrote down where she n...

The hospital I work at has not mandated it yet. If we take the flu shot though we get a star and if not we get a frowny face. Once we get the sticker we are supposed to post it on a sheet of paper next to our names. Talk about treating someone as an ...

It will still take some time for you to become confident in your new position. Anytime I have changed positions or jobs it takes me a little while to feel comfortable with what I am doing. I changed positions about 3 years ago and it took me several ...

I have been a nurse for over 30 years and when I was first in nursing school I was watching a blood gas being drawn and almost passed out. I went to surgery and watched a vaginal hysterectomy being done and almost passed out. What I found out was tha...

20 years ago something similar happened to me in Texas. The administrator and owner of the LTC I worked in would call the doctor and get an order if their was a resident he felt was too "loud". He would then go to the DON and tell her what to write. ...

When I have been a preceptor I try to tell the brand new nurse or new nurse to my hospital that it will take 3 - 6 months to feel comfortable with what they are doing. I think it is normal to feel the way your are feeling. One nurse that I oriented ...

I have worked for over 30 years as an LVN in Texas and have found that what an LVN can do varies by hospitals. All hospitals have to follow BON but in our hospital LVN's are allowed to hang and spike blood and are allowed to start and stop TPN.