StNeotser ASN, RN

No I haven't wished I were a doctor. Nobody has ever asked me that. Though sometimes I have looked at physical therapy assistants and physical therapists with some envy. Only because patients and other members of staff blame everything on nursing ...

Doctors Without Borders Refuses Vaccines from Pfizer - The Atlantic I'm not sure where I stand on this one. I feel they should have accepted the vaccines, yet I understand why MSF are taking this position. What are your thoughts?

LOVE this thread. We have no pyxis on our ten bed unit and I could still take narc keys home and still have to count narcotics.

I think she means that they were admitted the night before instead of the day of.

Thanks. I didn't think of that one. I'll be interested in seeing the outcome of the stand MSF is taking.

No, I never do. A 12 hour shift means at least around 14 hours out of the house due to commute and giving shift report. This is when everything went smoothly. Often it doesn't. Either I have leftovers, frozen Lean Cuisine meals or something my oth...

I don't work memory care but I visit sometimes with hospice. One man at the locked door to the unit told me he was visiting his wife and he didn't know how to get out. I was slightly suspicious and looked around the room, then his wife came up and...

Mr Bill, I switched to hospice home health after feeling as you do. My pay came way down but I'm so much happier. See if there is something different you can do with that BSN. You don't have to work in a hospital at all.

My experience with working at a perpetually short staffed floor or facility is the short staffing perpetuates the staff turnover. Working short a little can be done, but months at a time takes a toll on anyone. The workplace needs to be adequately...

I like hiking, gardening, and go to the gym on most days I am off. In the winter when there is no gardening to do, I do cross stitch and drink. :)

I think it's been mandatory for me for at least three years. I don't have a reaction and I don't care. I just get the shot and show'em the proof. I cannot go around for four months wearing a mask.

Years ago I used to frequent a stop smoking forum. It was around 1999/2000 so back before anything was moderated much. People would cuss you out on that forum. Nicotine deprived people are crabby the first few weeks I suppose.

I agree with Nutella, find out everyone's name that you want to thank and then write a letter to the CEO mentioning them all by name. That does it for me more than a plate of brownies.

IF I'm doing telephone triage then only before. If I did home visits or worked on the floor then before and after, and yes it's time consuming when doing back to back twelves but I feel grubby showering, going to sleep and then just going to work st...

Oh I don't think so. I have probably said the "no problem" thing too. That's why I find these threads so interesting is that there are behaviors we have that may annoy others. Whether people are justified in their annoyance is another thing.

Oh I'm glad it's not just me this happens to! Sometimes if there isn't a bagger handy I will bag my groceries and the idiot behind me has moved up to the card reader counter bit. I said to one woman, "Can I pay for my groceries, or would you like t...

I do home care so mine might be different. But not being in when I show up for your appointment time and then getting a phone call saying "can you come back at 3?" No. No I can't. You've just wasted my time. I'm seeing someone else at 3. Do you ...

I have a Thermos lunch bag and have lots of those very small rubbermaid containers that might only have four ounce capacity. I put healthy things inside them, nuts, blueberries, hummus etc. I also have a really good salad container that has divid...

I have always used insulin needles.

I thought I hated nursing and I was making a sacrifice. Turns out I hated the administration at various former employers. I love my job now. There is no sacrifice on my part. Sometimes I wonder what other occupation I could possibly take up. Asi...

I do home hospice and palliative care. Last Sunday I got a call that went like this; Entitled: "Yeah, you need to get someone out here and deliver some lorazepam. I just gave (patient) the last one" Me: "So......you didn't think to call us when you...

It is offensive if the same cannot be done for other members of staff. I'd say it's nurses who don't get breaks or are under constant interruption. Once someone knocked on the toilet door when I was, you know, to tell me I had a lab back for one of...

Away with you! Off I say!

Oh I'll bet!

Nope. But I've paid mine and then some........