Dalzac LPN, LVN, RN

My husband and our snowstorms only last a day or so but the ice storms are the pits but still even then it is the hubby. Sorry I live in Oklahoma

I have been doing the monitor tech thing now for 9 months. I just love it! Sometimes I miss hands on care, but I just can't physically do it. They have gotten sick of me saying how much I love coming in to work. But in my first evaluation I was told ...

I go to NA and to me I can better relate to the NA program 12 steps.I also served on the BON peer assistance program. We tell our nurses either program must be attended, which ever is more comfortable to them NA covers all addictions including alchoh...

What a great topic. I have been a nurse for 38 years and have never understood trying to orient a dementia patient. I have always gone with them instead. That saves so much time and effort. I once went with my Great Aunt to visit my Granny. We walked...

I have woked night since I was a baby more or less. I retired in 2005 and have not been able to go back to days. I do everything at night ccleaning, shopping, and making dinner for tomorrow. I even tape tv shows to watch when I am awake. I took a apr...

When your daughter calls you in the middle of the night to come over to her house and clean and change the sheets to your grandkid that just threw up every where.

I am so glad I had a killer career as an LPN and I worked in CCU,ICU, and ER the whole 38 yrs of working and was just as trusted as the rest of the TEAM I worked with.

Every job I have ever had came from knowing someone. Even my first job as a CCU tech.

I started as an aide in ICU in 1977. We could smoke at the desk then. The monitors then were a bouncing ball type oscillascope. We had to mark the leads when we ran EKG's. We did 15 minute VS without the help of any machines The drips were not on any...

Well I have been at my new job for 2 months now I still love it The people for the most part are glad to have me there is one that has an issue with the fact I used to be a nurse. Not sure why. I just feel useful now. My friends have told me it has m...

I sweat too much to wear foundation and it comes off when I have to wipe my face but I do wear eyeliner and shadow and lipstick when I first come in.

After 35 yrs of critical care nursing, I found myself disabled and forced into retiring. I hated it! There some things I loved in some areas and one of those was rhythm interpretations. I found a job as a monitor tech and I love it! No walking, no pa...

I know this is truly a God deal. I mean My hubby said it all. " Okay let me point it out to you. You are in a room with a couple of other people and you only work 3 days a week. It is a closed department. You will work nights, which you love any way....

There is a place in the city I live that has a beer and pool joint open at 7 am and the oly folks that go there are hospital people,firefighters and cops.

I watched a seasoned ICU nurse with a pt. that had multiple face fractures, smashed sinus cavities, broken cheekbones, forehead, jaws, nose just smashed to pieces. It was my patient and I wallked in to see she had taken my oral gastric tube out anad...

I had a a unit manager that was over the ICU 2 months after she got out of nursing school with an AD no less. She brown nosed her way into the position. I rememberr once days was short and she had to work in ICU. She said"you only have 2 patients. H...

Turn all your unresponsive patients TV to cartoons. Worked for me

In the 35 yrs of nursing before I retired, I worked the majority of that time on Nights. The only time I worked days was when my kids were teenagers and I found out my house was party central. I retired in 2005 and I still can't adjust to daytime ...

It happens everywhere. I worked in a hospital that had a prison ward. So we had several that would come in to ICU occasionally. I had one patient that was an OD but he was just in for observation. The guards had put him in a spead eagle 4 point chain...

My ex marine hubby does the same thing it's downright gross!

I worked with a nurse that had an eating disorder. She weighed in at close to 400+ lbs. She would actually eat everyones lunch! I had to leave my lunch in another department. Nobody did anything to repremand her. One other nurse did exlax brownies. ...

The float nurse from the floor won't take any vents so you get 3.

I used to sing to all the golden oldies(60's and 70's) or listen to audio books

As a aptient, I just loved my nurses at the clinic. Excellent IV skills are a must! They have to be gentle. My hands are a gnarled mess that hurts all the time. It feels like someone is constantly twisting my fingers the wrong way. Same as my ankles...

Once I had a pt. in his 40's and he had a huge MI. He looked bad and was getting more critical by the minute. When I called his doc all I got was drunk gibberish. He made absolutely no sense. I ended up calling our unit Management doc who was ALWAYS ...