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So after nurses get off their work duty, take care of family, struggle and make family sacrifices (financial, emotional, physical) and start going towards their bachelors, Hopefully, your family has survived, because something has to give, where will...

Thank you for making me laugh!!!I needed this!!! Bless you!!!

There's a res at our LTC who constantly scratches the skin raw it seems. Family or daughter is in denial about diabetes and the doc has tried Claritin to no avail, Atarax 25 mg tried at HS for 2 days only and abrubtly stopped, and now doc is trying ...

We give meds, put ports in, insulin, fsbgs, vs, t & p, put foleys, lab results and remove stool, give immunizations tb testing, put creams measure wounds, check for o2 sats, change o2 equipment, put res on toilet, clysis, dressing changes and a...

You hit it right on the nose, preach it sister!! This is the source of our many problems, we want to not know where does it end?? Great thread!!

Cat, first of all just feel warm hugs right now from me to you and yours. My soul aches for you and I'm glad you called, let me tell you its a fantastic step. Let me tell you I'm praying right now for you and your name is going into my prayer jour...

Cat, first of all just feel warm hugs right now from me to you and yours. My soul aches for you and I'm glad you called, let me tell you its a fantastic step. Let me tell you I'm praying right now for you and your name is going into my prayer jour...

It has been such a wonderful support group and I've come to realize my end for long term care. Its sapped so much out of me and I can no longer give as much as they need. Until something opens up with this new job, a placement agency, for nursing b...

Since I last posted, res started to have an inflammatory event with new lesion-like (red in nature) from Left hand to upper arm and was continually itching. Paxil was d/c'd r/t possible skin reaction which just so happen to be pruritus and rash, can...

Where is the choice for the child? Where is the voice of the child, who is listening to this cry or silent cry, all in the name of choice or lets say an option for the mother?!!! We no longer value LIFE, HOW SAD!! All human beings just need to see p...

What a present issue that just makes your job just harder! I often a few years back had to work on a floor at times with this bully (fellow nurse coworker) who would tell me in a very sarcastic and domineering manner of what was needed to be done...

Thanks for an awesome article, it is so clear and vivid. I will be showing this to my kids, I mean its so sad but like the other posts I had stop eating beef for awhile, then, I slowly went back to it. But wow, what a wake up call, this is incre...

It's good to say that in our nursing home, not only do we have a wound care specialist but we also go to seminars to update our knowledge for things are constantly changing in re: wound care. First of all, only licensed NY STATE nurses are able to d...

My mother in law gets this home health care and we are going to say that all of the nurses are fantastic and exceptional but I'm sorry to say that the aides that she has had come to sit down on the couch, do homework, watch tv and I mean the whole 9 ...

We have to check for the placement of these Fentanyls' and sign off in the MAR!!! This is the lowest of the lowest, how sick and there must've not been regular staff because someone should've noticed and where were the checks in place. Other peop...

We have to check for the placement of these Fentanyls' and sign off in the MAR!!! This is the lowest of the lowest, how sick and there must've not been regular staff because someone should've noticed and where were the checks in place. Other peop...

My cousin's son also had this happen to her son and they ended first getting more extensive testing with his hearing and after some neurological testing was done, doc determined that due to traveling from one country to another r/t job relocating the...

I used a bladder scan machine and I always try to get a cross section of the bladder to see how much urine for post residual. MD order usually will say, straight cath for pvr of >300 cc's or sometimes an order for straight cath for pvr of >200...

Ditto, Ditto, just wanted to applaud you on pain control. If someone says I'm in pain, who are WE to say, YOU HAVE NO PAIN OR THEY'RE WATCHING THE CLOCK!! Sure, there may be a few that are watching the clock, but we've got to give them the benefi...

Ditto from post #2: Get another hospice provider as soon as you can and know that you don't have to allow this woman in your home, families have rights too. I had an uncle who had this Alzheimers disease and you are so special to care at this time ...

We have a great dr who actually runs our whole comfort care floor but as always, you have some staff nurses and mgrs that either have no backbone, not willing to go against "FAMILIES"; you know the kind of staff that you just about have to turn their...

We can always use more education in our field about pain. There is a resident at our facility who is in end stage cancer (bleeding and all) and the resident's family only wants perc. 1/2 tab in am and nighttime, can you stand it? Well, two of our b...

:) Oh, its unbelievable what you saw and experienced. Bless you a thousand fold, you must've wanted to just cry. I'm so grateful for the dedication it took for you to just start your duties that shift, you just don't know how proud and honored I a...