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  1. Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    BaystateRN replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I accidently double posted, so I'll add one more thing. People who show up after visiting hours are over, go into the room talking like it's noon and wake both patients

  2. Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    BaystateRN replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    Treating me like I am a maid by using the call bell for non nursing

  3. Overweight

    BaystateRN replied to MCNERRA's topic in Health, Stress Management

    It is really hard not to gain weight. For me, my brain thinks if I eat something my body will feel better. That doesn't work. I also find that I want to eat before I go to bed in the morning. I have...

  4. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    BaystateRN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    It amazes me to look at the posts from the foreign nurses. It makes me wonder, why they train for a job that pays poorly and for a job that has an overabundance of nurses in their country. It seems...

  5. Treatment for Rheumatoried Arthritis

    BaystateRN replied to agent0068's topic in General Nursing

    I had osteo arthritis in my knees for years. I say had because the joints were replaced, at 46! The only thing that saved me was going on a tricylic antidepressant. It keeps the endorphins around a...

  6. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    BaystateRN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I am not attacking foreign nurses. The question started with... should the government be recruiting foreign nurses. As an American no one will ever convince me that you shouldn't start at home. There...

  7. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    BaystateRN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Our government would not be crazy to educate more Americans to be nurses. If we bring nurses from other countries it would put a patch on the problem, but not solve it. We have many who work two and...

  8. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

    BaystateRN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely not, nurses should not be recruited from other countries. We had a big influx of nurses in the 80's come from all over the world. It didn't solve any nursing shortage then. It took quite a...

  9. For all of you night nurses

    BaystateRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This question is directed to permanent night nurses. Do any of you have problems with mixing up words, you know what you are saying, but the right words don't come out? It drives me

  10. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    BaystateRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had to Kwell a homeless man's hair. I might add that a fellow nurse had him on her assignment from 7p to 11p and dumped him on me at 11p. I poured the Kwell on and out came a bunch of

  11. High-need infant. Please help!

    BaystateRN replied to Anagray's topic in Pediatric

    I am answering this as a mother, and not a pedi nurse. My oldest, now 17, screamed and screamed. She slept only an hour or two at a time. At three months, I changed her formula to a soy based formula...

  12. Weights on Pedi Patients

    BaystateRN replied to pediRNCHAM's topic in Pediatric

    We weigh just about all the babies on our floor every day. For the most part, the night shift does it somewhere between midnight and six am. When the child is a toddler, the adherence is not 100%. A...

  13. i feel so down!

    BaystateRN replied to new here's topic in General Nursing

    While I totally think the trouble maker should go, can your self confidence and peace of mind take the pressure with no end in sight? I almost got out of nursing because I worked with people who would...

  14. Nurses Not Answering Call Bells

    BaystateRN replied to Dolphin777's topic in General Nursing

    Obviously you've never walked in our shoes. Are those nurses that aren't answering your relatives call bell fast enough sitting around doing nothing? I rarely ever even get a half hour dinner break in...

  15. "But I'm pregnant . . ."

    BaystateRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a float RN who thought everything and almost every patient wasn't "appropiate" when she was pregnant. I finally told her that we were her coworkers, not her friends, and if she couldn't...

  16. How many 40+ nurses still working Med/Surg?

    BaystateRN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I am 47 and got out of Med-Surg when I was 40. My body felt like yours when I was done. I needed a day to recover after every day I worked. Look for something else, even if it takes you a while to...