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I LOVE being a night nurse.... not having to "deal" with administration except through email, or doctors unless I call them... our worlds maybe be different... but I will never work day time... I have done it once.. and never again. A motto I picke...

I am 5'1. ahem... Im not going to give my weight..LOL... but I have never had a problem working in ICU. I have rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalga as well. Never once had I a problem with working with my co-workers in moving patients and preformin...

Hi all, I moved to Hospice from the ICU last year, mainly because I feel I have had a calling to this field. And quite frankly I do. (When things go right...LMAO) Our Hospice has been hit pretty hard, and Im the new baby on the block. My very fir...

We use atropine gtts for emergencies and keep those in a comfort box. But Scop patches work even better. We use the Atropine gtts (typically opthalmic gtts) under the tounge... 2 gtts every 4 hours as needed. We get the scop patches as soon as we...

Hi.. its me again.. the nurse falling apart. I talked with a manager today... explained feeling so stressed and that I am crying all the time... "Well sometimes Hospice is not for everyone" Let me put it straight.... I love Hospice... I love seeing a...

I agree with Irish there.... it does sound like a bad case of terminal agitation... and I had one of those about a three months ago.. it still haunts me... no matter what we did, we could not ease this man's agitation... and pain... no amount of medi...

Howdy... Graduated gosh.. going on 6 years ago.. dang the time flies.... Not so competitive in the spring.. because... I imagine... you dont walk graduation.. I mean you can... I started spring... and graduated in December... we had our own pinning c...

Well, what don't you like about it... it does take some getting used to its a different nursing entirely. I mean there is still the bedside but in the field, you are on your own most of the time, that is when your team comes in and you work together...

Where I come from our medical directors are pretty quick to take our judgement when it comes to a patient out of pain control. We would have them on a gtt at home before going inpatient. There have even been times we have done continous care with a p...

Thanks for the input.. I have always carried extra insurance since the day I received my nursing license... thank you for suggesting that.. hopefully someone who read this who didn't have it... will get it. Im in a much better frame of mind right no...

Its wonderful that you feel this way now. I too would have to worry for you in the field being new grad. This is no reflection on being a new grad whatsoever... we all were at one time. However. Right now.. you are paired with a nurse who probab...

Even though I do not have mine... I do plan to get it. Monetary reimbursement is great and all of that... but just think of the knowledge base you will have... and the good you can do for all of your future patients.

lol... Im reading this post because I am a hospice nurse.. and quite frankly... I write a lot of orders.... but in my defence... the orders I write are from standing orders in which we have a ton of them. However... if a doctor hasn't signed off on t...

In our agency, we use quickcrete concrete, not sure of the resource... but from what I understand we are no longer to flush meds down the toliet or rinse down the drain due to chemical residue that cannot be filtered out during water treatment proces...

LOL... sure... I can give this a whirl. Call report line from home.. because I dont have time to sit at the office... because I just a call that my pt has died. jump into my clothes I laid out the night before, my hair is wringing wet... grab the ph...

Hi All, Im a near 41 year old wife and mother, and was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis 5 years ago. I also have PCOS... and if you know anything about that... I pretty much in a nutshell dont stop producing insulin. My weight keeps climbing despi...

I've had several patients like that.. they can be nasty little buggers... once even had a guy that kept calling me to the room and I would ask what he needed.... he would just look at me and say nothing. He did this about 5 times one night.. then the...

I've had several patients like that.. they can be nasty little buggers... once even had a guy that kept calling me to the room and I would ask what he needed.... he would just look at me and say nothing. He did this about 5 times one night.. then t...

lol.. thats what I told my husband... the guy is comming today.. sigh.. well.. I talked to him on the phone last night.. he knows his stuff... and now wants me to tutor him through the NCLEX.. EEK... yep... he is a nervous ninny... guess we all were ...

Just got a call from my husband, a guy he works with Father.... is in his 4th semester of nursing... (ob & Peds).... and wanted to know if I could tutor him... his final is this Friday... Egads..lol... umm... my specialty is ICU/CCU Cardio and Pu...

Hi all, Im new to the forum, and well not so new to LTC. I chose to be a CNA while going through nursing school and worked in LTC. My mind set at the time I chose to do this was: If I can't cut it as a CNA in the worst place (at the time I thought) t...

hehehe.. had a patient... who came in with pain in her lower jaw... She said... doctor told her she had a problem with masturbation.... ROFLMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ie: Mastication....LMAOOOOOOOO had to leave the room on that one before I died laughin...

I have to go with the missed abortion thing. I had a miscarriage years ago in my early 20's.... way before I was a nurse.... and I am oppossed to abortion... they kept saying missed abortion... that tore me up mentally and emotionally even more so t...

Hey.. tell them not to give up... pardon my language.. but some people are assess no matter where they are and there are a lot in health care.... what can I say.. I earned my title... I call em like I see em.. I have had to deal with them over and ov...

That is absolutely horrid.... Despite anyone's sexual affinity... they are still human beings.. needing care..... I dont care if they want to date a Llama... they are still entitled to safe, professional, ethical and moral care. People are people...