rnparrot

it sounds to me like you all work in a hospital setting. i work in ltc and because we have completely different guidelines for staffing etc....out patient load is endless pretty much. currently i have 21 patients to care for, and on night shift add a...

before i even opened this thread i thought it was going to say....is this true about most nurses that they eat their young?.....YES!!! unfortunately every nurse just about has to go thru that "right of passage" so to speak in order to toughen up, bui...

love love love augmentin liquid..smells like bananas! mucomyst is the worst smelling and even worse when you give it as a minineb and you get a breath of it......it burns forever!!!! i am thinking there are way more bad smelling things than good smel...

i was a patient in the hospital last year for sepsis in my joint replacement (knee)...i could not bring myself to ring the bell for anyone for anything! because i know how much bell ringers are hated...no matter what the bell might be for. one night ...

seems to happen everywhere. the paramedics and emts think they are one step below the MD's. but like was said earlier, they are the ones taking the orders from the doc who ordered the patient sent out and the rn who is giving the same order. their jo...

i would have to agree with you on this one...i work in LTC...with 21 patients, 2 cnas who have to feed them, change them (several times) and get them all into bed. no problem right? add in some one or two falls, skin tears, calling drs. and family me...

that has got to be the most DISGUSTING and DEGRADING "gift" i have ever heard of. what were they thinking??? i hope everyone left them in the garbage so they could see what you all thought of their "thoughtfulness"!!!

i have received a coin purse with a logo for nurses week, a lunch bag with logo for nurses week. this was at a hospital i worked at. i don't recall being given any type of christmas gift/bonus. i am working LTC now, and last year we got a very nice c...

quick question...you don't shock a flat line?? what do you do....when DO you shock?

i work in ltc, there are alot of things that i hate, and sadly, i do not like caring for the confused, totally disoriented patient. i have no patience to "reorient" the 10,000 times a shift and chase after them when they walk off the floor. i also do...

you can take all the c-diffs and colostomys and everything else that everyone hates to do, but nothing can be worse than doing your job susan! you are loving and compassionate when a job couldn't get any worse.:balloons:

i work in a ltc facility that is on the "upscale" side. there are so many interesting people in ltc. one of my residents is a former ceo of sun oil, taught at west point. he is 99 years old and just a facinating gentleman. his wife was a patient with...

one of the things that is new where i work in LTC....if there is a change for the patient, we have to write the MD a note, and FAX it to his office. when he gets a chance he will FAX back a note sometimes including orders. How many of you think this...

i agree!! he is doing the YMCA!!!!

sad to say my MIL has alzheimers and my BILwill never say alzheimers no matter how many times i've corrected him. he always says "old timers". i always say...if she had cancer would you say she has cankor??? My BIL thinks nothing i say matters since ...

now here is what a NORMAL fear factor show should be like!!! this thread keeps getting grosser and grosser, but funnier and funnier....but i am still

in case anyone reading these believes what you read about LTC nurses, it is totally false. our acuity level is so much higher now than it ever has been. BTW, one of my residents recently told his daughter that this "hotel" is very nice here...they e...

this was a great thread. i couldn't agree more with all of you. the one that made me laugh the most is MURSE~! never heard that as a male nurse, but i HAVE heard it used to mean a MALE PURSE!!!:rotfl:

about 5 years ago i had a total knee done. healed perfectly well, although i have always had pain in it. i never went back to nursing after i had it done for other reasons, but in the last few months i returned to nursing in a ltc facitlity, and lo a...

lori i am so sorry for the loss of your job. but something bigger and better will come of this. someone who will appreciate all of your hard work. its a shame that your dedication didn't overide the decision to just call out for the night. i know tha...

am not afraid to go to the ER for what i consider a true emergency that cannot wait. i recently went because i was having severe knee pain and swelling and unable to bear weight on a joint replaced knee. it ended up being infected and i was admitted ...

i am not afraid to go to the ER for what i consider a true emergency that cannot wait. i recently went because i was having severe knee pain and swelling and unable to bear weight on a joint replaced knee. it ended up being infected and i was admitte...

i have had supartz injections in my left knee with excellent results. it is the same type of medicine. i had synvisc in my right knee but that was after i had it scoped 2 times and there was very little cartiledge left. if your knee has never been to...

i just started working in LTC and most of the residents keep their rooms at a stifling 75+ degrees...in the hot summer heat. its been in the 90's here for some time now. i am hot just from walking in and then going in and out of all the rooms i sweat...

Hi, I just returned to nursing after being away for about 5 years. I took a job in LTC. I had my first night of floor orientation last nite and it went well. I did the med pass in good time. But I still have alot of anxiety about returning...fear ma...