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ulmaulma

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  1. First shift crazyness!!!!

    with all respect ( just started evening and nights) we are busy too! At least where I work doctors don´t take care of things on shifts unless is quite acute. For u too be too busy to do things is not...
  2. Your Call Light is On Can I help YOU?

    nurse nurse nurse Can´t remember why I called ten times. Probably need water ( me: theres two glasses on the table) godnight. 30 seconds later nurse ....still can´t remember think I am about to...
  3. old lady feel like I am starving her

    thanks for your replays! This is always hard. the lady had a stroke years ago,know unable to swallow. came in five days ago, 96 years old weiging well maybe 35/40 pounds. Known with cardiac disease,...
  4. One RN on a shift?

    I have 37 patients on a geriatric ward ( quite acute care most of the time, it´s like being on a complex medical ward combined with geropsych) I am the only nurse on the shifts( with 2-3 aides) ..LOL...
  5. frustration big time..only me?

    hi all I have been working 6 months at a geriatric ward. I feel like I am burn out. So depressing cause when I say I work in geriatrics people seems to feel that I am on a holiday! Guess I don´t feel...
  6. frustration big time..only me?

    jn I´ve never heard of staff washing the patients clothes in a hospital setting? I don´t mind emtying the bins( thats part of my job) but I do mind being yelled at when it´s don´t done after a...
  7. frustration big time..only me?

    LOL ..spot on;-) Thats the patient I fear the
  8. frustration big time..only me?

    by the pt I meant BLOODPRESSURE;-) Lol and I am not compairing countries,,I have a BA and are also quilified to work in the states;-) I am just looking for people working in ltc who can understand.(...
  9. Hi ya all, I am new to this forum, and fairly new at being a nurse( 1 year hmm) I am so embarresed about this issue! I HATE BEING THE ONE IN CHARGE! I hate being the one held responseble for 42...
  10. anxious about being the only nurse on the floor

    thanks u for replying:-) Now don´t laugh I work at a geriactic ward. This is not an normal one though, we receive patients 65+ in an acute state... heart and lung failure, bleeding, post op psychosis...