manlpn

What do you meen by cleaning patients?Are you for real,what do you think nursing is ,if someone is dirty of course you will have to clean them up,and as a nurse you should be more conserned about giving your sick and dying patients respect than getting it yourself,I think you should do some soul searching before you give up your 75k job,becouse if money and respect are what is important to you nursing might not be the right fit.

It is just a hard decition to make being new to the floor and all but I know your right,she would fry me in a minute.

Thank you for your support.

I have been working on the same floor at my hospital for ten years,I have recently transfered to the stepdown unit were they have until this new possition been working with a all RN staff.The policy in the hospital is that lpns are not to push iv meds,we can hang iv piggybacks but no direct push meds,my pt was asking for his iv dilaudid push so I asked the charge nurse who was covering this pt if she would give him his dilaudid she asked me why I would not give it to the pt and I told her it was against policy and it was not within my scope of nursing,she gave me the typical huff and puff and said ok I will sign it out in the book and then you can give it,I said again I cannot give push meds,she proceded to march into the pts room mumbling under her breath about me,later in the shift I overheard her talking with other RNs about me.My problem is I am on this new floor and am trying to make a good impretion,but also I feel that I have to protect my license,lately I feel that mabee I should have just given the med,has anyone been in a similar situation,any advise would be greately appreciated

The only time I cried was when I got my man bag hit by one of the bed rails.