Ms.Hobbes

Well when I worked in home health or even in the hospital I would even ask them if they wanted the family members in the room during the more revealing assessments. It is common courtesy, sounds like the SW might be on a bit of a power trip if you a...

That was my question also. How can a nursing supervisor not recognize and support standard of practice, scope of work, etc. When I worked in home health and filled in for our hospice nurses we never had the SW doing patient care. That is just simpl...

Gross!! My seven year old would love that lyric though :-)

i have to agree with how expensive it is. we had a basic ceremony and cremation for my mother when she died and it was almost 2,000 dollars!!! that childhood ditty reminds me of years ago when my brother dies and the funeral planner asked us what ...

I am actually in an RN-BSN and trust me if I were to do it over again I would of just shot for the BSN in the first place, but life situation did not allow it. I feel though my experience as a nurse has only enriched my new learning experience. Any...

Hi I am sorry I just have to chime in here and say that the shot you are actually talking about is Tdap, otherwise known as tetanus, diptheria, acellular pertussis vaccine. Dtap is given to infants and preschoolers for their immunization series. Th...

Where I work they have actually set up a room for our breastfeeding mom's who pump, even make available a very powerful double pump to use ( if you don't have one available), you just have to bring your own tubing, flanges and bottles. I love that t...

I work for the public health department here in N. California as a PHN. Our TB patients have to take there TB meds under Direct observational therapy, this includes our latent TB infections, and if they do not comply can end up going to jail. I don...

"i'de also like to see that staunch nonunion member out their fighting for better legislation for better and safer care. if more of you stood up for what was right for every patient out there, you probably would not need unions." stated by sandra rn...

Most definitely keep going to school and get your BSN...case management, public health, qualtiy assurance would keep you from standing on your feet for long periods of time. Working in a hospital setting as a floor nurse or even out patient surgery ...

In my experience with Polar Cares...we used a lot in the surgery center that I worked at, was that they typically needed to have new ice and water at least every six hours. We always instructed our patients to expect that and that normal icemachines ...

For my four year old I pay per day- 25 dollars...more expensive for the younger kids. Check with where you are going to take your child to make sure they have a drop off capability because someplaces require set days even if it is just once in awhil...

How I understand it....is that the reason your glucose is still normal is because your hyper production of insulin so far is forcing the cells to take the insulin, but over time the cells will become more restistant to the insulin and cause your gluc...

Lisa- Sometimes women that have polycystic ovarian disease, one of the symptoms is insulin resistance and the treatment is metformin....I don't know if that is what the doctor is thinking. Metformin will help with your insulin resistance whatever t...

I actually have had off and on severe periods since my son was born four years ago. Recently my doctor recommended taking two Midol and two Ibuprofen every six hours, that has really helped the severe bleeding. We are also looking at horomone thera...

Nicole, I know it is hard to be new and have something like this arise, but your health and well being must come first. It would be different if you were just calling in frequently sick, but you explained to your manager your situation, which was th...

I would be interested to know where his incision was...I try not to expose a pt. to much and then say I am going to take a look at the incision. The wife though must be somewhat uptight to be so offended at seeing her husbands genitalia that it woul...

Good luck to you! It is never to late to pursue your further education. 35 most definitley is not too old. I know of many people older than that went back to school or switched careers. Your kids will admire you for your accomplishments!

Most babies get mildy anemic - I wouldn't worry. She is seeing a doctor and no doctor I know is "led" around by a patient. If the baby is meeting growth expectations, the baby is probably fine. steph I agree with steph most babies are mildly anemic...

I have to agree with stevielynn and smiling blue eyes. Reliable childcare and working especially full time can be difficult. I think it is even harder when they are litte. My husband and I have struggled with this since having kids...now age 8 an...

During nursing school (13 years ago :chair: ) I was told the same thing...don't work more than ten hours, etc. but my reality was I was paying for school, needed a job with health insurance etc. I basically worked 24 - 30 hours a week during scho...

Miss Jen- I have a friend who is in early 50's finishing up the nursing program. She decided after raising her three kids she wanted to go back to school and become a nurse. I don't think there really is any age requirement, as long as you are moti...

I have worked at an outpatient surgery center for almost three years and yes, I do have to say the environment is less stressful. Our surgeries consist of orthopedic, general, gynecological, podiatry, ENT, EGD's, colonscopies and also pain clinic pr...

No Crumping- I don't think lil peanut meant that as long as both child and mother are agreeable to it they will breast feed till they are 8. Most toddlers wean between 2 and 4 and to those parents it is a part of parenting that child for them. Chil...