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or your thing to yourself, Please keep breathing until I get off.

An actual statement made to a resident "Medical degrees are now being given out to each patient admitted to the hospital " To the patient complaining that their follow up clinic appointment wasn't magically in their hands before they left the exam ro...

5 second applies everytime !

You've had this for 5 years and today it is an emergency? or WOW, that's bad. or There is a lesson I am supposed to learn here, or If your doctor said jump off a cliff,would you do it?

True Story- My sister and I (we are both nurses) were eating lunch at a restraunt. This lady walked by us on the way to the ladies room, she lost her cookies allover the floor beside our table and ran into the bathroom. We glanced over, looked at t...

As a manager, I smile, I listen, I take the person to any empty exam room. to talk to them, ( no Audience calms many). I assure them we are all working on their problem, which may or may not be the case. In reality, as in the above post, silence re...

Or.... "You don't know why you are here in the clinic being seen today" Hmmm, Were you ever SICK?" "No, We do not provide taxi service for patients, here is the phone book, No, I do not have the number memorized. Yes, I will be glad to look it up, ...

Reply in support of these posts. I am an RN and FORMER FAT PERSON. Been there, done that, wrote and burned that book. Talk about IRREVOCABLE IGNORANCE. You have a right to your anger but so do other nurses that are risking their health and livelih...

I worked for both systems. LSUHSC all the way! Level 1 Trauma Center, you will see more in 1 month there than you will see in a year elsewhere. Love to go to work every day, always a stimulating, challenging shift.

Start putting out feelers for another job, or everyone works for the MDs, feel them out, let them know these scheduling changes are inconsistent with your employment agreement and cause a hardship. You have already discussed this with the clinic man...

Things actually said: To the 500 pounder with a dx of syncope: NO, you won't fit in a standard commode chair. We don't have a wheelchair that size. Who takes care of your personal hygiene at home? To the family member of the snoring lap choley patien...

I am a former nurse manager. NEVER,EVER,EVER CONFIDE in a subordinate. Many of the suggestions are right on in these posts. 1. Form relationships with other nurses outside of your facility. 2. Ask from feedback from your administrator. Don't ask to...

My vet let me take our dog home to recover from an accident, he had hematuria, my husband freaks, Do Something, Do Something. I said what? He said you're the nurse, your supposed to know. I said I do people, not dogs. Dog is great. Same situation...

Yes, I really did wake up this morning planning just how bad I can make your day, aren't you special. Or the jewel I really did say to a house supervisor when she complained about our having to move a 500 lb patient to dialysis. My magic wand broke ...

We all need a place to vent. This is a wonderful forum in which nurses can let out their frustrations. Do not be let what you read cloud your judgement about nursing. Nursing is the most wonderful, frustrating, rewarding, toughest job that I will...

LOL, All nurses HAVE to vent to keep what little sanity we possess. I love it, I have lived everyone of these in my career. Keep them coming.

Go online to the ASGE website. American Society of Gastrenterology, they have a position paper on that subject. Basically, it is not recommended any further to turn off or manipulate the pacer settings with a magnet during endoscopy. 1. Cautery i...

Welcome to GI! I have no CNAs that work for me, only techs, these are scrub techs. Much of GI technical work training is on the job. My best advice is to learn the flow of the lab you work for, take EVERY opportunity offered to learn and enjoy. Yo...

I agree, with VS like that, we would have been called emergently, my docs think better safe than sorry.

We discharge our patient from recovery when vital signs have returned to baseline, the patient is awake, alert, and able to assist in ADLs, ie:dress themselves. We have no specific recovery time, it is patient and situation specific, as every patien...

I read through all of the replies on this site. I am an old endo murse, 10 years, I have sedated all types of patients. The endo lab I work in is hospital-base with inpatient and outpatient procedures. We handle all types of endo cases, except EUS. W...

Your facility should have some type of staffing ratio requirements. That these are not adhered to are normal everywhere. This happens, been there myself. I personally spoke with the NM, gave her 3 months to correct the problem, and called her bluf...

Keep your chin up! Been there,done that. So now I'm happy, I am not in the cardiac unit at "big shot hospital taking fresh hearts, so what. I made the T-ball games, the school plays, the wrestling matches and awards ceremonies, and now that I'm going...

Reply to WaynesvilleRN, We begin our discharge on admit, the patients are given their discharge criteria during the assessment and pre-op, that save valuable time, we also repeat verbally with family prior to d/c. The same 2 RNs work assessment, pre-...

Our administration responded the same way. Stick to your guns. Administrators are very aware that trained GI personnel do not grow on trees and you are not easily replaced.