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:kiss :blushkiss Anyone out there in business for themselves? The more I think about it, the more I feel like having a home-based nursing business. After reading everyone's concerns about low pay, low professional respect and status, and being treate...

I have worked for a Beverly owned company, and most of what I have to say is not favorable. The benefits are poor, the pay mediocre, and there are constant memos to the employees about cutbacks due to loss of profit. I was only approved for part-ti...

Just got done e-mailing Reader's Digest, petitioning an on-line printing of the report on nursing. Please, everyone, do the same! Our voices count!

From another Echo Heron fan, the recommendation for all of her books. Especially Tending Lives. It is timeless and will always reverberate in your heart. By the way, WHERE IS ECHO????!!! I find it hard to believe that she doesn't pop into this w...

Don't know if I'm supposed to identify nurses by region, but I had a great experience with some student nurses in Omaha the other day. I'm an agency nurse, and went to a complex pulmonary unit to work the other day. There was another RN and a CNA, ...

I myself went to Iowa Western Comm. College. Graduated with my RN in 1993. Anyone I might know out there?

Belinda, I worked long-term and skilled care for years and the got into agency work on the side. One of the first places I was sent was a nephrology floor at a hospital. You take it slow and ask questions when you need to. You will be fine and it ...

The students I worked with were from Metro Tech Community College. Again, thanks, you guys!

I was honestly amazed at the list of benefits you and the union nurses before you have negotiated, jt. And I think as professionals you deserve every darn one of them. Administrations have repeatedly turned a blind eye to the bottom line of health ...

I really like to tell myself this one: To GET through it, you've gotta GO through it. Also, having a sick and warped sense of humor helps........like answering the phone "Julie's massage parlor-we never rub you the wrong way!" But only use that on...

:confused: HELP!!! I have tried and tried to copy and paste excerpts from posts and cannot figure it out. I'd like to keep an online folder of some of the wonderful things you all say, also. Anyone out there willing to help? I have only been usi...

Thank you! I guess online folder isn't what I meant. I would like to save it under "my documents" I have an HP pavilion with windowsxp. Obviosly, have not got it figured out yet. Thanks again for your reply:imbar

Tried to copy and paste a reply I made from the thread aimee referred you to, but I am having trouble. After I wrote it, I went back to read it and couldn't believe the emotional stuff that had just pured out. Please read all the posts. They will ...

Most agencies give a flat rate to nurses. For example, I worked for an agency that charged nuring homes $31/hr, and paid the nurses $26

WHEEEWWWW!!!! I just e-mailed Ms. Linn and really got into it. I took her through the typical issues nurses deal with every day, everything I have to do with 13 patients, WHY I had 13 patients.( the ratio supposed tobe 1:8 but if we lose one patien...

As a hospice nurse, I can tell you that there usually is a "pulling back" days or hours before death. I believe in my heart that the immenently dying patient can hear and feel right up to the point of death. I have seen touch and voice calm a perso...

There, there, nurses... Most of you are women who just take themselves and their jobs a little too seriously. Probably just PMS or old-fashioned vapors. Why don't you be good little girls and sissy boys and scoot your little fannies back to the bed...

Lynn- I really feel for you. My son is now 13 and just came home in Novenber after spending 3 years living in a residential PMIC program for children. He was hearing voices, telling him to hurt himself, told me that sometimes he would stand over m...

Nurses ROCK when it comes to gross stories!!!! I have two short but gross ones..... Had a thirtysomething man in for wound care and IV abo therapy. He was about 6 and 1/2 feet tall, approw 350 lbs, and very rarely showered. He had scabbed and inf...

Nurse T, I'm also curious about what services you decided to offer. I know you mentioned a van.... I'm hoping to offer consults, referrals, personals cares, errand services, private duty, etc. If I can find enough hoursin the day!

Nurse T, Thank you so much for your helpful reply. I'm doing agency work right now until I decide what I want to do. I'm very scared! I have a disabled husband (only 38y.o.) and a son who has severe needs for psych meds. About 1200 dollars worth ...

Wow. All the frustration of nursing seems to spring up in me as I read this article. Reminds me of those NEAT patients with FMP syndrome. (Fluff My Pillow Syndrome for the novice.) One of the things I Love to hear from a petulant and demanding pat...

Had a patient's leg start to turn cold with pedal pulse becoming more faint by the minute, and he was in horrible pain. When I called the doc, he ordered Tylenol #3 ONE EVERY 8 HOURS. It was effective though, because the feeling in the guy's leg di...

My moments have been so different from each other. As a hospice nurse, it's teaching a family how to care for a loved one and knowing that while they were in a panic at first, they now know it's going to be ok. It's seeing a man walk onto the unit ...

:kiss :blushkiss Anyone out there in business for themselves? The more I think about it, the more I feel like having a home-based nursing business. After reading everyone's concerns about low pay, low professional respect and status, and being trea...