Well if you take on sixty patients on one shift you must be some nurse and the patients all very satisfied that is to say if you're the only one. After all who else would give them the care? I do...
A pacer on a telemetry unit is as good as dead if they code because no one knows it. I've discovered this before and probably will again. In the future i will encourage such patients to request a dnr...
Hey, don't sweat it. The team showed up and the code was enacted that's the main thing. In fact the first priority in any code is to get a code called and going. If it takes a few seconds longer...
Maybe its basic but a lot of nurses i work with especially new have to ask more questions. If you think us oldsters will laugh maybe we won't and so what if a few do. Specifically some pointers on...
sjaubert replied to oldenurselady's topic in General Nursing
This is so typical of nursing in general from what i've seen. I always see this lack of respect in these pseudo peer relationships in a transient world where too little professionalism and dog eat dog...
sjaubert replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing
I go to work and i do my job as a nurse the best i can with all the limitations that nurses face. My answer to families from hell is that we're all dying. If you treat me right you'll probably get...
I believe women tend to conform more than men and have more trouble accepting men in nursing even at this advanced stage than men do of women in other professions. They are much more self conscious...
sjaubert replied to PrisonrNurs's topic in Men in Nursing
I think it reflects society's attitude and treatment difference in general between men and women. Its the same even more so in nursing still a heavily female profession. Women usually get less severe...