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Hello all! Enjoyed reading your comments about work options for us older nurses. Each situation about working as an older nurse seems to be different. Other factors to consider in going back to nursing work at age 62 are individual health, energy, an...

Hello all, Another factor in decisions about whether to share personal info is what is the current "norm" for conduct of nursing professionals. For example, the expected "norm" of conduct when I first started working as a registered nurse in the 70's...

Hello fellow private duty nurses! Can relate to comments by mamato3 about whether to "tough it out with agency" or switch jobs to some other work with "for sure hours"! I have worked private duty home health nursing at an agency for three months now...

Hello all, Bravo for the great "reality check" type comments about how sometimes life does suck! I salute your grandmother for saying that sometimes we have reasons to feel sad...so if that's what we are feeling, then sometimes that seems about right...

Hello all, Appreciated reading your comments about getting cancelled on agency assignments. I am a retirement age RN working private duty home health for an agency. Yesterday I received a call from the agency saying "sorry but we will need to find an...

Hello all, Sincerely appreciate reading all your compassionate comments about nursing care of teens with profound developmental disabilities. One of the challenges for me is to try to give positive responses to the parents of these disabled teens whe...

Hello all, How very cool to read this mix of your comments about living and working as a nurse in Florida! I have long been wondering how it might be to relocate in Florida! In past years I have been on many wonderful family vacations to coastal citi...

Hello all, I agree with a comment on this thread saying that "there is no shame in not persuing something that doesn't resonate with you". Years ago I used to teach nursing in an assoicate degree program, and sometimes students would discover that nu...

Hello all, My favorite cousin has had a very positive experience of earning his associate degree in nursing at age 50 and working as an R.N. for 13 years now. He made a bold career change from being a policeman for many years to becoming a profession...

Hello all, I am RN who just started working for a home health agency three months ago. (have decades of nursing experience but new to home health)It is great moral support to read words written by txnursingqt about how agency work is "always unknow...

Hello all, Your comments about various guidelines for bath care of rehab. patients are very interesting and helpful. My current private duty home health patient is a "rehab type" patient in that he is only 18 years old and is a quad due to a car acci...

Hello all! Yesterday I had with a tough job while working only one rare day with a home health Alzheimer patient! Since this 99 year old,blind,and bedfast patient was not my regular assignment, she was not familiar with my voice --- she becam...

Hello all! What a great and true to the world of nursing story! Can see both the sadness of the patient's health status and the "gallows humor" in the misadventures of this patient! Thanks for sharing your story!

Hello caliotter3 ! BIG thanks for your oh so helpful reinforcement about calls to involve resource people when one encounters major negative home environment issues!(Reading your kind messages is wonderful moral support because this unfortunate patie...

Hello! Wondering if any of you encounter home health situations where the patient's home environment is a progressive disaster situation with apparent need to move to a nursing home? I am currently working as a private duty home health nurse for an...

Hello all! I can relate to your comments about frustrations with problems in the home health environment of some patients. My current private duty home health patient is a quadraplegic and the heating system in his duplex apartment does not work. T...

Hello again! In the situation where a home health patient is admitted to a hospital with sepsis, is your latest question what are "good patient management" priorities for a private duty nurse who stays in the hospital room with this patient? The pri...

Hello! Your question about "good patient management" seems to be about what are priorities of care as your patient continues to loose ground. Though I have worked as a nurse for 35 years, I have just started doing private duty home health and it see...

Hello! I appreciated reading your comments about private duty home health situations in which there are dilemas about professional boundaries versus family requests. As a fellow private duty home health nurse, I have made some calls to my employer ab...

Hello To All! Since I have just started a job in private duty home health nursing, it is oh so helpful to read your comments about the current trends in salary and health insurance for this type of work! My new employer, Maxim Healthcare Services, of...

hello again barathi7 : To answer your question about whether most employers in the U.S.A. select nurses by giving private tests, the answer is yes. Most employers require a registered nurse applicant to pass a private, mulitiple choice, written med...

Hello barathi7 ! Your written words of "...will pray to God and let him show the right path for us...." touched my heart because I am also seeking a path to return to nursing work! Yes! Amen to your prayer! I think you wrote that you did check with t...

Hello 123sunnid, I agree with some of the comments of others including the suggestion for you to continue to renew your R.N. license in case you later choose to work again as a nurse. I also agree with the comment that one option for being more at h...

Hello focuszx5, Have you called the office of the Board of Nursing for the state of New York? The staff at that office should be able to advise you about how to pick back up in the process of being an R.N. from the UK who wants to obtain an R.N. lic...

Hello To All, I once had a friend who was a long term diabetic, and I was shocked when he told me that he often gave himself insulin injections through his shirt! When I asked this friend why he did this, he explained that "the restrictions of being ...