junebug50

I would like to say I am a Onc.-Med Surg. nurse for 2 years now. I was an CNA for 6 years then A LPN for 5 while taking my BSN classes. I would love to take care of nothing but oncology patients, but due to bed needs in the hospital we have alot of med-surg. Oh, I am sorry you have had a lap-coly, but you will live, meanwhile let me take you down the hall to my really sick people that need me. I love my oncology patients, and I give them the best of me that I can, but I truly have felt like giving some patients and family members pillow treatment. Does that make me anyless a good nurse I don't think so, it just makes me human. Keep the threads coming they are priceless.

This list is great. I would like to add one more. Yes I am glad your family come to see you but the hospital isn't the place for a family reunion. Trust me I have seen this, and when you ask them to please limit visitors and to trade off in grandma's room they get offended.!!!!!!!!!! Hello this is a hospital.

My heart goes out to you. I am an oncology nurse and I see first hand how scared patients are and can be. One thing I have learned in the last two years is to have compassion for my patients. I try to think of them as a loved one, my parents, sister, uncle or God forbid my child. To the nurses that gave and will give you good and compassionate care a big thank you. To the ones that are indifferent or cold, shame on you. One other thing I have learned is that you never know when it could be you. Always treat someone like you would want to be treated. I hope that everything turns out ok and God Bless You.

I would ask what the nurse patient ratio is, also i would look at nurse turnover. this might give you a little insite and what you are getting into

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much, there for a while I thought I was the only one that felt that way. I would like to tell some of the hospitalist that work our hospital if they are not going to help the patient then why are they on call. We consistenly hear, Thats not my regular patient and I don't know him, you will have to call his regular doctor. Well its the weekend dumb a____ and you are the one on call!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do exactly that, some get up with no problem, but I still have some that don't want to move.

The more I read thru these, I can see that people must be the same all over, from the ones that can't move to the ones, with N&V, eating everything they can get their hands on and cusing you when you take it away. Good Golly Miss Molly, sometime I just stand at the nurses station and laugh because I can't see anything more amusing than patients that come in the hosptial and tell you what is wrong with them. I feel like asking them "if you know what is wrong and how you got sick then why do you come here, why not just treat yourself" Thanks for letting me vent once again.

I feel your pain. What makes me feel bad is that I work oncology, and we have overflow med-surg. Well, some end stage cancer patients have pain that is unbearable. When the patient down the hall can't move (because they want you to move their feet for them) it takes vauable time from my patients that really need me. It's not that I begrudge anyone care, but these patients are capable of moving their own feet, but feel that they pay you so you need to move their feet. I too feel it is very difficult to put on a smile when for the tenth time I go into a room to move ice water or remote or telephone two inches closer so they don't have to move. But, if you want to see some of your so called "invalid" post-op patients have a cow, tell them they have to get up and walk and that the dr. wrote the order to take the foley catheder out. It don't take them long to get to the phone to call everyone they know to tell how terrible you are because they just had surgury. Mean-while, down the hall the little 90 pound patient who has terminal bone cancer with met's every where dosn't want to bother you because you have been running your butt off for the patient that can't move their feet. Please remember all patients are not like this, but the ones that are make you crazy. On the whole I love my job, dispite of some patients, long hours and short staffing. Thanks for listening.

I loved working in LTC and the Alzheimers unit. It was so entertaining. We had one elderly gentleman that was a farmer all his life. He would sleep all day and be up all night. He would be found going up and down the hall calling the pigs and cows. The best one was when the CNA's finally got him into bed he got back up (he was in a low bed) took his depend off and was on his hands and knee's with a flower off the window sill. He had dumped the dirt on the floor and was pushing the dirt around with his hands. When we asked him what he was doing he just smiled and told us he was plowing the fields. He was such a entertaining old fella.

I agree with you to an extent. However, this person will have to answer for their own actions, sooner or later this will catch up with them. Hopefully it won't be at a patients expense and no one will be harmed by this students actions. I had something similar happen in my nursing class. One didn't pass her boards and the other had discipline actions against her and couldn't get her lincense.

I am sorry for responding the way I did. I have taken care of many patients who have patiently waited. I have also taken care of just as many who didn't want to bother me because they knew I was busy. These patients are special. But, all patients are important.

Oh my gosh! When I read down thru these comments, it brought back nightmares. I have been cussed out because friends didn't have the patient code for information. Yelled at by familes, called on the carpet by the manager because families weren't pampered the way they thought they should be. Told that I would be reported because pain medicine was late, I replied make sure you spell my name right and showed them my badge (they wanted to go smoke with their friends and didn't want to miss a dose of morphine). I worked my way up from CNA to LPN now to RN. I had been out of the main stream working group homes while in the last semster, and forgot what fun I had been missing. I know one thing to keep your sanity or whats left of it, you have to have a thick skin and a warped sense of humor

I work 8 hour shifts now and would love to go back to my 12 hour shifts. I liked having my 4 days off. I will graduate in Oct from LPN to RNBSN and hope I can find 12 hour shifts in either psych or oncology where I live. I vote for the 12 hour shift.

I have had the surveyer's go with me on a med pass. Just make sure you identify your resident. Make sure you got the medications you need. I was working 3-11 on a med cart that wasn't usually my hall and right off the bat, I needed a 4 pm med that hadn't come in yet. You talk about wanting to crawl in a hole. I had to come in the next morning on the 7-3 shift and wouldn't you know here they come to make sure that I had the medication in. The thing was they orignially wanted to see me do a dressing change on a decub. Since I didn't have one due on afternoon's they went with me on my med pass. Just relax and do what is right.

Regarding the posting from ALmanager. I worked long term as both an aide and lpn and I disagreed with the way that residents get taken care of. And do you know where it got me? Fired! In some facilities when you buck the management they find a way to get rid of you. I suggested to my cna's to try once if they don't get anywhere then go to another resident and then go back. It works with some and not for others. Maybe getting onto the residents way of thinking may help also. Good Luck to all involved.