NurseAlwaysNForever

We had plans for children to visit the long-term care facility I worked at and we were going to hand out candy. I thought it might just liven things up a bit if I were to dress up. Plus, it isn't so uncommon to for nurses to dress up in nursing homes...

All names have been changed and some words are misspelled for pronunciation purposes and curse words have been changed or left out. She talked about dances they would be going to, hay rides, walks along the river, school and other things like that. W...

I have been a nurse for close to 10 years, first as an LVN and then an RN. I started out in LTC but was in hospice for 7 years after that. I was recently hired to be don at a small rural facility. Current census 37. I need help. Where do I get all ...

Yes. Lol. I'm on an I pad and took the short way out with that.

No showers on Sundays. I am new to this facility and this is how they have it set up. I was thinking the day shift was overstaffed

I recently started as don at a small rural private owned facility. Our numbers are: 37 patients, 5 of those are skilled. One catheter One colostomy No trachs No suctioning No feeding tubes 3 pressure sores One bed bound resident Staffing M-F LVN 8a-...

I can't see a form

I want one too! Lol.

We seem to be disagreeing at work on how this scale is used. I use it just for alzheimer's/dementia and start at the top and work my way down only ranking them on the decline that is related to their alzheimer's/dementia. Another nurse that I work ...

I have been a hospice nurse since I was 25. I had only been a nurse a little over a year. I have been in hospice now for over two years and don't want to ever do anything else. I don't think the age or experience is what really matters. I think i...

I have seen patients receiving Haldol have tremors. We give them benadryl for that and it helps.

The tropical instead of topical always get me. I almost laugh. I can't help but want to ask, "So, do they put coconut oil in that gel for you?" RisperIdal, PhenergRan, when people say Duragesic topically instead of trans dermal. There is a differ...

That was so funny to picture. Sorry you had to go through it though.

Your book comment made me think that it would be nice if we could put all of the stories on this forum together and make a book to sell to benefit a charity. Nurse to Nurse or something like that.

I have greatly enjoyed reading all of your posts about my story. Thank you all so much!

Thank ya'll all so much. I am so happy, I've never won anything before. I'm jumping outta my skin here. I enjoyed reading all of the stories as well.

3.96. Got a 93.4 on my gerontology final and that was considered a B. 94 was an A. I really beat myself up over that one B and was very upset with myself, but guess what, the girl I went to school with that had a 2.5 GPA works at the same place th...

I also feel that if they were doing something unethical they wouldn't be so open about it happening at all.

Hope this baby turns out okay. I can't help but think of something neurological as well. Sounds awful.

Here I am moseying down the hall taking care of business. VS before dig, crush so and so's meds, not the Dilantin capsule though, put it in a bit of applesauce. Flush the peg. "Med pass for you." "Open wide, here you go." "Now swallow." "Big drink." ...

I am exactly where I want to end up, however I do hope to get my RN in the future. Hospice is where I am supposed to be and I hope to never have to do anything else. I never thought I'd be doing this type of nursing, but now nothing else would ever ...

I knew you had been declining. I had even talked to your daughter about your "transition". She had been in denial and didn't really want to hear about the dying process at all. Were you already gone, was I too late, had I failed you and her both? All...

I did accept. It was the best thank you she could have ever given me, and I am so excited. I get to meet the fella tomorrow.

I just wanted to share that this patient's daughter called recently and is getting remarried. She wants me to give her away in place of her father. This is the most wonderful honor I could ever receive. I asked if I had to wear a tux and she laugh...

On this particular night my patient, I'll call him Ray, approached the nursing station with his headphones in his ears and his big black glasses on. You know, the kind they give you after you get your pupils dilated. He wore these, with cotton balls ...