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I'm not in LTC but acute care hospital. I recently spoke with a nurse manager (new unit) who asked me how I would deal with negative people, she admitted she had an aide with an attitude. My opinion, which I did not voice to her, is that if she has a...

I bet it's not you and that you don't have a time management problem. I bet it's the staffing, or lack of, and high patient to nurse ratios. I bet that you are not the only one in the same situation regarding charting. Even experienced nurses feel ...

You might want to do a search, there have been a lot of other threads about this. One poster recommended this site http://heelspurs.com/index.html I think those stretching exercises help, done before getting out of bed in the morning, and before ...

Any update?

I'm guessing you work in long term care so there is no carbon copy of the MAR that would have been torn out at the end of the day? I've seen people lie to cover their own butt, from doctors on down the line. I would write out an occurence report stat...

I agree with you. I don't like it when people start asking questions. I'd rather they didn't know I was a nurse.

Good luck!

You just gave me my laugh for the night! Thats great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never knew anyone that actually did that.

I used to rotate to 8 hour nights years ago and it was terrible. I'd get real irritable just thinking about that night rotation coming up. I could sleep every single minute I was off and it still wasn't enough sleep. I got my best sleep before goin...

I wouldn't do it, for liability reasons. Actually, I think they have a lot of nerve expecting you to, obviously they didn't ask you about it in advance. What would they do about it if they didn't have a nurse as a neighbor? That's what they need to ...

Has been for years.

Some places, 32 hours a week is full time.

Yeah, and after her death, some young guy was answering the letters under the name of Ann Landers. That stuff is for entertainment only, just like the horoscopes or the cartoons.

I think a lot of the letters to Dear Abby and Ann Landers are made up anyway.

That's just one word, and I'm sure the caps were used for emphasis, I don't see anything negative about it.

I've aspirated blood twice over the years. One was penicillin and streptomycin, it used to be mixed together in one syringe, and it was white in color. The other, I think, was Talwin which was clear. You discard and start all over. I hadn't thought a...

Two doctors were talking in the nurses station and I went around them at the desk and the doctor from India hit me in the back with his elbow, very hard, very painfully, and I think it was done very deliberately, why I have no idea. I mentioned it t...

About 30 or so years ago I hit the bone too while giving an injection, in the "butt" to a cancer patient, very emaciated. I think I understand how you feel. If the doctor feels everything was fine, don't worry about it. Just go over in your mind h...

Ditto!!!!!!!!!

Now you know why that other nurse wanted to go home! LOL!

Have had a similar experience due to downsizing. Had planned on working there for 20 or so years to get the good retirement. Oh, well. Had to find another job. It can be pretty devastating when it happens. So much for job security (even with t...

Is this person an RN?

What is VTE?

I have the same question. What is VTE?

Maybe you should run it by the labor board, it doesn't sound legal, and maybe it would stop in a hurry.