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Right now I'm having an issue with the night shift LPN. She is always crabby when she comes in and criticizes almost everything I do or say to her. Supposedly she has a bad home life, but she shouldn't take it out on me. Sunday evening when I work...

As a spin off to the nursing ghost stories thread, I am an avid reader of anything regarding death/dying. I just wondered how many near death experience stories we as nurses hear from our patients. Apparently, the bright light stories are common, ...

I was thinking that someone from here told me about an x number of months/years you can receive your benefits but try to work more like another trial work period. Let me explain briefly. I'm on SSD for bipolar disorder; back when I was approved (I ...

I dreamed one night that I was in charge and this one lady patient we had was dying. Her dx? "Chinese Toe Disease". Anyway, I dreamed her toes all fell off and she died. I called the doctor to report it and told him her toes had all fallen off......

Someone I used to work with made the comment the other day that she would never have made it through nursing school, if it wasn't for the fact that she had a few kids...she said having kids actually made school easier for her, esp. in peds rotations....

I have a friend who is an RN who just got out of a psychiatric hospital. She has problems sleeping and today was supposed to work and did try to go to work although she was very groggy. She tried to call in and was told she would lose her job if sh...

A psychiatric nurse told me that Ambien definitely comes up as a benzo on a urine drug screen. I know it is a sedative/hypnotic, but other people have told me that too. When I said she passed her drug screen, I meant she didn't have any other meds ...

Ugh. In response to the meds being their business question, most health care facilities in our area do a drug test upon hire and random ones they feel as necessary. I know Ambien and Xanax would come up as a benzo...however, I don't see how they co...

Well, I know she takes Ambien CR and they've given her static over that in the past. I think the place she works wants healthy hearty nurses on NO meds at all. I know another nurse who used to work there too that was on Paxil and Xanax and they rai...

I just got off the phone with her; she is already notifying an atty who is a friend of her parents'. She says she has never had any action taken against her license of over 20 years and cannot believe this is happening to her. They are threatening ...

One facility I worked in a couple years ago had a sex offender as a resident whose crime was molestation of female children...his own granddaughter being just one of his victims at the age of 6. He came to that facility from jail due to decline in h...

Ditto what CapeCod said in our state too (Missouri). One facility fired me for excessive abscences. I did put on the next application that I was fired, but never asked why. Claiming you were terminated on your app still makes you honest, but I wou...

The DON that used to be a staff floor nurse that when she was a floor nurse, used to cut up with you and joke and laugh and was a great person to be around. But once she got "DON" behind her name, she decides to ridicule you in front of other employ...

I wouldn't complain. The staffing sounds adequate to me. 3 CNA's and a nurse to 30 residents? That is approx. 7 residents to each staff person. That for LTC is really not bad. Anxious to hear other responses you'll get...good luck! Blessings, Mi...

I had my RN clinicals at a big teaching hospital notorious for the nurses playing practical jokes on the students. My patient was just out of OR for a hip replacement and was cold. The only blanket warmer on the floor was broken, so the nurse I was...

I was placed on a wing last night that I had never worked before. 45 residents. I told my boss I wasn't comfortable working without at least one shift of orientation. I don't even know where half the supplies are kept for this wing, let alone impo...

Was interested in hearing how much liability amount you get...and who is the provider? I used to have this back when I was full time through NSO I think it was but when I went prn I let it lapse. However, here lately our DON is write-up/suspension/...

So as many of you know, my hubby and I work in the same facility. He is a CNA/CMT going to nursing school. He works full time nights and through the grapevine, I am hearing so many good things about him. The residents adore him, the nurses love hi...

Well, I hate gossip/rumors etc. so I'm going to let this drop. If the nurses in question want me to know, they will surely tell me...or tell my hubby since he works with them. I was just worried about what this means for the rest of us nurses on st...

Well, I took a CNA class when I was a senior in high school and worked in a LTC facility while going to LPN school. I stayed on there after graduating and worked several years as an LPN before I went back and got my RN. After I got my RN, I went to...

I never worked the wing the patient was on, but she was on my wing upon initial admission for about a week. I don't think back then that she was a DNR, but that very well could've changed. My hubby seems to think that when the night shift nurse ini...

I only work every other weekend right now. Our youngest we adopted and I envisioned myself being as close to a SAHM as possible while he was young. I think I will wait until he starts full time school to start any classes. By then, my hubby will b...

I've been a nurse 18 years now, mostly in LTC. I have been an MDS/Care Plan Coordinator and did work for a year in home health/hospice. My desire is to become an adult NP. However, when I think of all the schooling ahead of me in order for me to d...

Things I have learned in nursing: Compassion is key. Blessings, Michelle

You are good to go. My hubby is a nursing student right now with a felony for forgery. He has tried several times to get a pardon, but no success. Our state BON will accept criminal backgrounds, so long as the felony isn't a class A or B. My hubb...