witchypoo

back in the olden days (1980's). it was used much like saline is used today. it was used to cleanse and used as wet to dry treatments and to soak wounds like a foot bath or and hand bath or in one instance we used a sitzs bath for a sacral wound it...

PS if you want to work in a hospital you have to try more rural areas,of nys

Then either try working with an agency or try a assisted living or nursing homes, believe me I have trained more young nurses to move on to better things, and you can do as I did and get a New Jersey license and come here. I know we have many new gra...

peaches does a nice job in uniforms for us full figured women.

I have been a LPN for almost 30 years and although the job market has been tight in the new york metro area because of some hospital closings i have always had at least part time employment. the LPN rumor of phasing out has been around since i att...

I had a dear little happily confused lady, my Ruthie planned the most fantastic parties, I have ever heard. I really would have loved to attend one if they were real. She spoke with her husband all the time :redbeatheand he had been gone for some y...

My experience with Filipino nurses started some 30 years ago. They have always been smart, well educated, hardworking and just like most of the nurses I have worked with over the years some you get along with and others you don't it is strictly a per...

There are many types of nurses and nursing, and this student probably has more upper body strength than your average student, beds today lower down very low and as long as she can reach around to properly care for a client I do not see a problem. Man...

oh man that is vile. guess that is why dental was added to our health plans. that is soooo nasty. I gag taking out some ones dentures to clean them let alone take them home to try them on. just call me gumby, if those were my options. man i know ...

kudos's and accolades to you and anyone else who works in peds this is a field i could never handle. i'll stick with geriatrics, i will always remember fondly the nurses that were there for the nightmare of my child's death and i hope they shine the...

sweet heart you did not fail her. her children did her doctor did but you served her in dignity. And as much as it breaks your heart that we are not listening to her requests that are written down in a legal form, they can be overridden by a wel...

Oh and ps my excessive over time is anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes it is on occasion an hour but usually includes verbal orders from doctor's who are passing through and gave them to you because They doesn't like the evening "girl" so you just w...

i found the fastest way to stop the Memo's is to act like they do not bother you. My Don asked me last week if i was sick of being constantly written up for my excessive over time, i answered not really, i have a foot of bath room wall open and i'm u...

I hate to be a kill joy, but unless you change the times on the orders and mar, if you get caught giving the meds to suite your schedule you are risking your license, you have a window in which to give meds and if you combine them in those time peri...

I too have to agree with cape cod, they work but you have to watch the pressure points. if they are too low in the chair they cause a wind swept positioning of the legs not a good thing either.

I have been a nurse for 28 years and the mom of a handicapped children for 21 and 17, and have been the care taker of a retarded relative since we started school together in 1965 my aunt held him back so he would go to school with his 4 cousins to pr...

jayhawk i feel and understand your fustration, i'm building my own group home for my son outside of cooperstown new york, he is 17 he has laurence moon bardet biedle syndrome with autistic tendencies. If i learned nothing from my aunt's mistakes wi...

They may require a physical and may have a uti, but what happens when there is nothing other than dementia. I have a lovely little fresh lady {she is rude to the point of being humorous, the filter is gone and what ever she thinks comes out of her m...

I realize this is an older post, however the lewd behavior is to be documented and care planned. A " family meeting" with the resident, administration, nursing and social services and set up boundries. He is entitled to see what ever programs in his ...

Originally Posted by crazdmomof4 OMG you two will be a riot in the LTC home. We have a new administrator who sings the "Friday song" over the loud speaker, and once nearly fired a nurse I adore for burning sage incense for a resident (or so I have ...

where i work the clients also get an average of 19 meds. as i said the beer's rule is mearly a suggestion. i have only one doctor that follows it and unfortunately she only has 4 of my clients. she 23 on my co workers unit and she actually finishes h...

i love this thread so i thought i'd add something. back when i first graduated and worked in a county hospital in a ltc unit. our dress code required that we wear starched white dress to our knees, our caps our were organiza and highly starched an...

Lamas isn't that the guy so says "you look marlvolous". of course i have a wonderful recipie for lamas bread. but will they let us burn a yule log or will we have to take it outside like a bon fire? or try to make up settle for a cd i can hear...

The beer's rule is a suggestion for doctors to limit meds. that the elderly should have less than 9 meds daily, it is to prevent drug interactions, and that they can do very well with a limited amount of meds. it is a little more complicated than th...

oh i forgot i have a little joke one of my patients told me. it's cute:lol2: question: what do you call it when you have a client that rolls into other clients chairs and causes an abrasions? answer: a bump and grind. That is why i work in geriatrics...