southlandshari

I posted this story in an unrelated thread earlier. I really want to say this directly to each of you who puts your heart and soul into taking care of your patients, especially if you are feeling burned out, used up, worn down, cynical or frustrated ...

T-minus two weeks and a stray day or two. Final semester evaluations and exams coming up. Pass or fail, I wanted to drop by and say that I am more thankful for nurses and all you do than ever. Please go to work today or tonight or tomorrow or whene...

Wow. Hard to believe it's been more than two years since I first wandered in here with my heart on my e-sleeve! I am so proud to say that, long and strange as my trip has been since then, I have not given up the course. Or my belief that you are all...

My job in the ER and my first round of nursing school clinicals have only strengthened my love for taking care of patients and increased my respect for the incredible dedication all of you show out there in the trenches. Please don't give up on what...

I believe everything you have said, and I hope I didn't come across as judgmental. I'm rooting for you! : ) Can you give some examples of things your instructor has done that made you feel inadequate?

I really want to encourage you to stick with it if things are as you have described. If you are truly doing well in all other areas of your class and clinical work, I am surprised that your instructor has even broached the subject of dropping out wit...

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I respectfully disagree. I would suggest that there are far better and more instructive "best jobs while in nursing school" than the "get paid to sit and study" version of home health care you describe. In a hospital environment, the employee has th...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Damn. I have worked so hard for so long to convince myself that our regular patient, "Miss ------" was the only sad and tortured soul on earth who did this. Until now. Thanks for bursting my last remaining bubble of bl...

Never cut 18 inches off of a swimming pool "noodle" (anyone with kids under 10 will recognize this latest aquatic toy), wittle the end to a sharp point, attach a string and a ring at one end, and then insert it in your rectum. Especially not if your...

Not really funny, but worth sharing, I think... Whether it is #6 or #26 on written admit orders a certain doctor hands me when I'm working as ER unit clerk, the last numerated order always is "thank you" and then his signature. Nice. And far too rar...

Beyond well said.

I GOT THE SCHOLARSHIP!! :dncgbby: Just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for all the positive feedback and genuine support. You guys are wonderful! I really need to come around more often. I am so overwhelmed with school, work and some v...

Amen to that.

just read the update, never mind

I agree 100% - that was wonderful advice. :)

No. You are not crazy, in my opinion. You are doing exactly what you should, looking out for the health of the patients entrusted to your care. While you're not crazy, know that you may be lonely sometimes because of your genuine concern for patien...

Thank you for sharing that, Amy. Stories like yours with your father mean so much to me and I'm sure to others here as well. Some of my co-workers tease me about being a bleeding heart or naive for smiling all the time and treating everyone as if t...

Perhaps her mother will feel differently if she is ever hospitalized and unable to control her "poo" and is unfortunate enough to have a nurse who delegates cleaning up chores to CNAs stretched very thin between 20 or 30 or so patients at a time. Jus...

I haven't read the rest of this thread yet and am responding solely to your OP. Forgive me in advance for being very direct.... Why do you want to be a nurse? It is a serious question and I am asking it with no intention to show disrespect to you. S...

Egads. That's not one step further, that's a whole ******* flight of steps backwards. Resolving family concerns over patient care - no matter who the patient, the chief complaint, the situation at hand, and whether or not fault is involved - with fru...

Why in the heck was security involved? Who called it "patient abuse"? I understand the importance of putting the call button within reach of the patient, so I'm not minimizing the problem. Just interested in your story. I hope everything was res...

Agreed. And thank you! :cheers:

Thank you so much for this post. I meant what I said in my OP here - nurses who cared changed my life. I want to be in that number. And to do all I can to keep that number from dwindling. People need us. And we need to know how much our care mea...

Too late to edit my last response, but I did want to say I regret using the word "bitter" at the end of my first post in this thread, a post that was meant to be positive and uplifting. I was just writing off the cuff and "bitter" wasn't in the spir...