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  1. Travel nursing

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in Travel

    To put it quite simply, I have come to a point that I have to make a change in my job. I work in an LTAC ICU and I love the work that I do, but there are problems on a management level that I can no...

  2. Travel nursing

    registerednut1221 replied to registerednut1221's topic in Travel

    Thanks. I missed the subforum

  3. super powers...

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just for fun!!! Since everyone seems to think that nurses are somehow superhuman, if you could have one job related super power what would it be? I would have the ability to control bowel movements. I...

  4. Why no nursing love from Grey's?

    registerednut1221 replied to thisgirlsanurse's topic in General Nursing

    First let me say that I love Grey's and House, but I know what you mean. There was one Grey's though that the nurses went on strike and that was pretty cool. The place was falling apart. At my...

  5. What to do???

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have worked for over two years at a facility that I love. I love my co-workers. I love the docs. I love the type of care we provide. It's a long term acute care facility and we get a lot of VERY...

  6. helpless, hopeless & frustrated

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am so emotionally exhausted and think I am just long overdue for a good cry. There must have been some sort of special on crazy families and we racked up. We have one patient with a daughter-in-law...

  7. Exactly HOW addictive do you think Ambien is?

    registerednut1221 replied to justme1972's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not sure how much my opinion will mean on this subject because I have taken Ambien on and off for probably 4-5 years now. Let me explain...I do have insomnia. I have tried all the meditation,...

  8. should i just give up?

    registerednut1221 replied to MK6babies's topic in General Nursing

    Don't give up. I was a horrible student in high school and I didn't even think about going to college until I was 25. I got my ADN through a tech program and am now in the university transfer program...

  9. It's not the nicotine patch!!!

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is the second time in the past 3 weeks that we've had a family that was just adamant that the nicotine patch we have put on their family member was the source of all their problems. 1st patient...

  10. It's not the nicotine patch!!!

    registerednut1221 replied to registerednut1221's topic in General Nursing

    ok, dear. First off, to a certian degree, it takes a sick twisited individual to even be a nurse. To deal with what we deal with day in and day out. I'm here to tell you, if I let it all make me feel...

  11. So, how many of you have had MRSA

    registerednut1221 replied to teenycar's topic in General Nursing

    A few months back, our facility tested EVERY employee that has any contact with patients for MRSA. It's a fairly small facility but still that was around 100-150 employees. Out of those, only 13 were...

  12. Passed out my first day of clinical!!!

    registerednut1221 replied to oneofHIs's topic in General Nursing

    My nursing school buddy passed out cold while we were watching a circumcision. I still give her a hard time about that

  13. Why we do it...

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, we (I) spend a lot of time venting about our jobs, our hospitals, co-workers and patients. I personally think that it's healthy to "get it all out" (though obviously there are some here that would...

  14. Do you have a best friend at work?

    registerednut1221 replied to sleepyndopey's topic in General Nursing

    Let me clarify this with these are my "work" best friends. These are the gals that I love to work with and we make an awesome team at work, but we've all never really hung around together outside of...

  15. Do you have a best friend at work?

    registerednut1221 replied to sleepyndopey's topic in General Nursing

    I am doubly blessed in that I have not one, but two best friends at work. These are the girls I would jump in to the deep end of the ocean for and I know they would do the same for me. We have worked...

  16. What Was the DUMBEST Request Made By A Patient?

    registerednut1221 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient who had refused her colace for DAYS (and had not had a BM in about as long) tell me that she was consitpated and seriously asked me "Whose your 'digger'?" OMG! I told the doc of this...

  17. Patient Beats Up Nursing Staff Member

    registerednut1221 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who recently followed a confused patient outside through a door that was locked from the outside and she couldn't get back in. She had called for help as she followed him out (around...

  18. Anyone else get bummed out around the holidays?

    registerednut1221 replied to jbp0529's topic in Health, Stress Management

    jbp---I ALWAYS get bummed around Christmas. I have bpd and this is just not a good time of year for me. So many people look at this as such a magical time of year, but all it ever seems to mean for me...

  19. Run them at the same time?

    registerednut1221 replied to rnrae's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see how you could physically hang all 5 at the same time...believe me I have had this argument with pharmacy many many times BUT if your patient has a PICC line you can run antibiotics on...

  20. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    registerednut1221 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    1. Yes, you are on a lot of medications. Yes, I want you to take all of them. No, none of them are poison. We are not trying to make you sick so we can keep you here longer. Yes, I understand that...

  21. Does any other night shifters feel like days has no idea how nights works?

    registerednut1221 replied to thomask's topic in General Nursing

    As a day shift/former night shift nurse, I know that both shifts have both benefits and drawbacks. I have given an IM injection to a sundowner patient through his pajamas @ 0300 while chasing him...

  22. Burnout?

    registerednut1221 posted a topic in General Nursing

    ]I've only been a nurse for 3 years, but I'm afraid I am completely burned out. I find myself wanting to do a public service announcement on how to be a good patient. I am sick to death of patients...

  23. Obesity - Implications For Nursing

    registerednut1221 replied to starshine07's topic in General Nursing

    In my hospital about 50-75% of our patients are mobidly-super morbidly obese and are mostly hospitalized for reasons directly related to their obesity (diabetic amputations, resp failure, etc). It...

  24. Burnout?

    registerednut1221 replied to registerednut1221's topic in General Nursing

    Amen! By some estimations, the US alone is expected to be some 1 million nurses short by the year 2020. Yes, that's 1 MILLION! At the rate things are going, I think that estimate may be way too low....

  25. Issues with a doc...(long)

    registerednut1221 replied to registerednut1221's topic in General Nursing

    I went to my NM about all that had happened and her reply was something to the effect of "I have been a nurse for 20 some odd years and I have had docs talk to me this way on several occasions..." It...