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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 longer ignore and I see no end in sight. In recent...

Thanks. I missed the subforum altogether.

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 would bring BM to the BM-less and be able to stop...

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 hospital we have been blessed with one of the best docs i...

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 complicated patients. We also have a 10 bed ccu (this...

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 that comes in to start trouble almost every day. S...

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, sleepy time teas and OTC remedies known to man. I've b...

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 for my BSN. Tech schools aren't usually quite as s...

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 was a young (30's) severe drug/ETOH abuser that had...

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 *sad* there wouldn't be enough anti-depressants in...

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 positive. This is a LTACH where the majority of ou...

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

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 adamantly disagree with me). There have been many...

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 the hospital. We call and warn each other about the...

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 the trenches together and, no matter how bad it ge...

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 incident and told him that even if my job depended ...

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 3am), but no one came. He proceeded to beat her in ...

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 is that another year has come and nearly gone and...

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 different ports at the same time even if they are inco...

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 you were perfectly healthy before you called 911 bef...

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 through the freakin' parking lot because he was certia...

]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 and patient's families complaining that daddy had to...

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 completely floors me when a 500# patient is perfectly...

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. For all of the patient's and patient's families who...

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 basically seems to be ok with her and she seemed t...