PrivateDuty

I do private duty nursing and my patient has now 3 stage IV wounds. His mother has a friend who uses Comfry Leaf mashed up and mixed with honey to pack wounds with. She leaves this in 48 hours, then uses Me-Salt for 12 hours. At the beginning, he had...

I have been working 52 hours one week and 60 hours the next week rotationg for 3 months now. It was really hard at first, but now I just take it one day at time and somehow I make it through it.

There is a bill pending which would 'strengthen the laws against violence toward health care workers'. Find out about it and help get it passed. WE are the ones who can change what goes on where we work. CapeCodMermaid...where can I find out info on ...

I did not take the med for excessive sleepiness per se. I have chronic insomnia which Ambien nor Restoril helped, so my MD wanted to try to even out my sleep patterns. Like I said, I did sleep better, but the side effects were horrible. I do not just...

I actually had this dream last week. I was working in the ER and went outside the bldg to get something. I looked up and saw a big jet coming right toward me and the bldg. All of a sudden the wheels fell off the jet and I flung myself to the ground k...

The thing that hits me in the face most from your post is about the other nurse havig to chart 4 times to "get it right". That is "illegal" in our profession. You cannot alter charting, even if administration does not like what you charted.

Working with alzheimers pts you hear all kinds of crazy things, but the best I think I have ever heard was from a proper little lady who came to me one time and whspered, "See that woman there?" I looked up to see aother pt. walking down the hallway ...

I feel that the bond also comes from the respect we have for the different ways each of us approach helping others. We all have the same goals, but go about it in a different way by definition of our job descriptions. In the end, it's all done to hel...

We need to all remember that we were once in that students shoes. I have time restraints also, but I have gone into a field which requires (even if not written), me to help fellow employees and potential future employees. I would expect the same help...

Several points in my reply...1) it took me 3 1/2 years to get my RN. I got all my pre-reqs first and got those going p/t for 1 1/2 years...then went thru RN program for 2 years. 2) Can't answer for any other RN's, but I do not look down on LPN's. I ...

I do agree 100% w/PAS, but do feel it should be for terminally ill patients.

I worked night shift for 2 years. I loved the shift and was able to sleep, but I never felt good. Guess I just wasn't cut out for it.

To be quite honest....the pay in NC sucks!

I do not feel the need to lose weight over guilt or anything, in fact have been overweight since I became a nurse. I finally decided to lose weight to make myself feel better, and glad I did.

I just think it's great he has so many people talking about a topic that certainly needs addressed

Personally, I love 12's. I have always preferred 12's to 8's in nursing. i always feel I can get more done for some reason.

I was prescribed Provogil 2 years ago d/t terrible sleep problems associated with shift work. The good news is I did sleep better...the bad news, I had a terrible reaction to the med. I would burst out crying all the time, was paranoid, had terrible ...

I would turn in my resignation effective "RIGHT NOW" and break the door down to get out of there.

About a year and a half ago I was working the 11p-7a shift in a nursing home. We had a patient that could not ring her call light d/t paralysis. About 2am the call light in her room went off. Me and the CNA's just looked at each other for a second th...

I took the test 12 years ago when computer testing was fairly new and rumors about # of questions going wild. I was with another girl from my class and we both finished about the same time (the first 2 finished) and walked outside. When she said she ...

Thanks Sabby...I am about 20 minutes down S 85 from Charlotte. I know exactly where Mt. Airy is...(Mayberry, right?) Glad to meet you!

I was the RN supervisor for weekends and went to work one Saturday morning. It was foggy that morning going to work. When I got there, a CNA called in and said she could not come in b/c she started to work and a cloud landed on her car and would not ...

I didn't have to sit through the written tests they had years ago, but I did have to wait a week and a half to find out if I passed or failed. I came out of the test KNOWING I had failed, cried all the way home, and felt like I couldn't hardly functi...

CONGRATULATIONS...:welcome:!! I was gonna say I took the boards with approx. 25 people and everyone was between 75 and the max on questions and everyone passed. You can just never tell!

It has been 14 years since I started RN school, but I was a single parent of 2 small children and had no choice but to work FT. I did work at least 40 hours a week throughout school, and it was hard, but it also helped me arrange time to study that I...