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  1. considering nursing...

    tommycher replied to betsyMT2003's topic in Nursing Career

    This is career #3 for me also! Started nursing school in my 40's, used to be vet tech and dog groomer! For 3 yrs I would walk into my own shop and think to myself, "I just want to be a nurse!" Then...

  2. Can you believe this?

    tommycher replied to LolaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am positively sick of this attitude of being the customer service provider instead of nurse with important things to do, which should be respected. Until hospitals quit pretending to be competitive...

  3. When did you first feel like a nurse?

    tommycher replied to All_Smiles_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Being an LVN, I have had many instances to "feel like a nurse" since I do bedside care, but the first time I actually realized that I was a good nurse, not a pretend one, just playing waitress and...

  4. Job Interview-took forever!

    tommycher replied to avahsmiles's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! We have started doing the team interviews at the hospital where I work too, and sitting there asking these questions, all I can think of is how glad I am they were not...

  5. Is your place of employment offering you the flu vaccine?

    tommycher replied to RN~in~CT's topic in General Nursing

    I was so shocked when our infection control nurse came in with a basket full of flu vaccines and asked who wanted one, my jaw dropped! Signs all over the hospital stating there will be no flu...

  6. Warning.....Visitor Vent!

    tommycher replied to bam_bam's topic in General Nursing

    Then there are the days when you get the patient with a family who does not speak to each other, you have 6 patients to care for, and every 5 minutes you hear your name overhead that you have a phone...

  7. Lpn's being dumped?

    tommycher replied to tiliimnrn's topic in General Nursing

    Same here in TX for LVN's. The hospital in which I work uses equal number of LVN's, and we have intensive clinical training for bedside care and assessments. We work together with the RN's and they...

  8. Have anyone else heard of "basic care NURSES"?

    tommycher replied to Nursingangel's topic in General Nursing

    I have the feeling that the people enrolling in this program cannot qualify for college entrance, and this program is taking advantage of that. Much like medical assisting programs, they cost too...

  9. Almost called in a "mental health day" today...

    tommycher replied to InfoNurse1595's topic in General Nursing

    You cannot be forced to work overtime, it puts the patients in jeopardy, not to mention your license. You need to talk to a supervisor. This is what agency is for, if the hospital cannot hire enough...

  10. Nurse Personality

    tommycher replied to trapped_in_light's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have a lot of lvns in the hospital where I work. So, it depends on location I suppose. If you cannot take the time for the waiting list for an adn program, it is not a bad idea to become an...

  11. HUGE A&P Dilemma, object to dissecting cats, any options?

    tommycher replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I was a bit freaked out when I found out we would be doing that also. But, you will find that these cats have been preserved, dead for a long time, and often they are not intact due to previous...

  12. Clinton syndrome

    tommycher replied to Kiwi's topic in General Nursing

    Clinton syndrome????????? Clinton was still arousable? Who was checking his LOC? A female

  13. A resident swore at me!

    tommycher replied to pumpkin's topic in General Nursing

    undefinedundefined :angryfire so sorry this happened to you pumpkin. had a crna call me after sending a pt. down for surgery. i saline locked his cardizem drip per dr order, since it was being used...

  14. NPO and giving meds

    tommycher replied to harley_fan's topic in General Nursing

    Oftentimes in the physician orders it will say either NPO except meds, or just NPO. I do not give meds if it does not say except meds, unless I have a pt. NPO with HTN and needs the meds, then I will...

  15. "How old are you?"

    tommycher replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in General Nursing

    I only have one answer to that question, "I am old enough to know better, and too young to care". That gets them laughing and talking about something

  16. Let's Hear About Your First Year

    tommycher replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Just finished my first year in June. It was great! My life is running around a never ending learning curve! Work in a great hospital with a lot of support from experienced nurses who are never too...

  17. Nurses grossed out by spit/mucus

    tommycher replied to rnmi2004's topic in General Nursing

    One morning I got this in report on a pt who was elderly, unclean, and obnoxious, "We needed a sputum sample, so I gave him a cup, put it on his bedside tray by his drinking glass and asked him to...

  18. Too good to aide?

    tommycher replied to adidas99's topic in General Nursing

    At the hospital where I work, the census has to be high enough to call for an aide, if we have a census 2 or 3 pts. away from needing an aide, yet we are 1 away from needing another nurse, then one...

  19. just venting..replies welcome

    tommycher replied to hospicemom's topic in General Nursing

    So sorry you had one of those days!! But like the other posts, on my unit, if one of the nurses had this patient, we would have all offered to exchange a pt, or all of us taken turns dealing with...

  20. When a nurse floats to your unit........

    tommycher replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    On our tele unit, we always treat floats like one of the "family", but we all know that floating down to MCH is miserable, they act superior and rude, barely speaking to us. One day we put a...

  21. The fingernail police!!

    tommycher replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

    [/img][/size] i also wore acrylics for years, wanted pretty nails, mine have always been weak and easily broken. but, when i got a fungal infection under one nail, and the nail tech wanted to put on...

  22. Mixed Med/Surg unit with tele not being watched

    tommycher replied to Stryker's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a tele unit, and we have one monitor, but no monitor tech. However, we are required to wear pagers. These pagers have all tele pts programmed into them. If there is a change in heart rate,...

  23. unworthy of an RN

    tommycher replied to LisaG21's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated from the vocational nursing program at a community college that was six months longer than many area programs. We did learn, and practice in clinicals, IV starts and IV pushes. I am...

  24. My take on nursing

    tommycher replied to New CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    Until one works the floor for awhile, they have no clue. I am still amazed that the nurse is the only one responsible for making the families, doctors, ancillary people, managers, pharmacy, etc. etc....

  25. I Just Graduated--I won't be going back!

    tommycher replied to Monist's topic in General Nursing

    I too said NEVER right after graduating, from LVN school no less. Exactly one year to the date of graduation I went from a total aversion to the idea of school to a major itch to start back. One of...