tryingtomakeit

tryingtomakeit RN

LTC, Home Health, L&D, Nsy, PP

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  1. How do you deal with lazy nurses??

    tryingtomakeit replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What I LOVE is being pulled to another unit because mine isn't busy enough and they are "running crazy", only to get there and have them run my tail off so they can sit and read ... or talk ... or...

  2. 12N Sleeping During Break

    tryingtomakeit replied to MEDRQST's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This reminds me of our nurse manager who, during a staff meeting, commented on us all "griping" and our "negativism" over being understaffed. She said that she had noticed that most of us "managed to...

  3. Nurses are not "allowed"

    tryingtomakeit replied to beautifulb's topic in General Nursing

    For all the complaints that I have about where I work, I have to honestly say that the MDs aren't among them. They, just like the rest of us, have their bad days, but for the most part they are a...

  4. That ain't my resident! I am dumbfounded...

    tryingtomakeit replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    I work in L&D in a small rural hospital where sometimes at night we may not have any patients. We are supposed to have two labor and deliver nurses in the house at all times, but often I am either...

  5. That ain't my resident! I am dumbfounded...

    tryingtomakeit replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    I worked 16 hours on saturdays and 16 hours on sundays as a cna when I was in nursing school. I started out working the "blue" hall where all the total care residents were - until two people started...

  6. Reminiscing

    tryingtomakeit replied to knockandhello's topic in General Nursing

    I don't remember testing urine with a bunsen burner, but the other day I had been drinkning some apple juice from one of the containers we use to empty catheter bags in (of course it was clean) and...

  7. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    tryingtomakeit replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

    At least I, being from the South, do realize that sentences start with capital letters, the word "I" should be capitalized, and that the use of "run on" sentences is not proper in the English...

  8. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    tryingtomakeit replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

  9. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    tryingtomakeit replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't agree more. I live in the South, but my husband and I have a wonderful friend who lives in NY. Recently he was on vacation in the Adirondack Mountains and sent us a post card stating that...

  10. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    tryingtomakeit replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

  11. Cussing Co-Workers

    tryingtomakeit replied to Furoffire's topic in General Nursing

    Ahhhhhhhh! No wonder she struck a soft spot! Arkansan here as

  12. Bradley Birth instructor equates nursing with 'maid service'

    tryingtomakeit replied to Merovingienne's topic in Ob/Gyn

    What a wonderful experience that must have been! Thanks for

  13. Cussing Co-Workers

    tryingtomakeit replied to Furoffire's topic in General Nursing

    Your Granny sounds like a wonderful

  14. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    tryingtomakeit replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

    I probably shouldn't have done this, but one time, when I was triaging an obviously "not in labor" woman, her boyfriend, who was Hispanic kept mocking my every word. At first I just laughed until it...

  15. Bradley Birth instructor equates nursing with 'maid service'

    tryingtomakeit replied to Merovingienne's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Then the American Academy of Husband-Coached Childbirth is who I would

  16. Bradley Birth instructor equates nursing with 'maid service'

    tryingtomakeit replied to Merovingienne's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think you handled things wonderfully. A lot of people in the world seem to think the louder you are, the more "right" you are. I think your absence from the class will speak volumes. You have the...

  17. how do you introduce yourself to patients?

    tryingtomakeit replied to panamama's topic in General Nursing

    Funny thing this thread was here today! Just last night I walked on to the floor at the beginning of my shift and straight into the middle of a delivery. Our nurse manager is very big on us picking up...

  18. Getting everyone else to sign their books

    tryingtomakeit replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Our manager has the same problem. I work in labor and delivery and she is constantly on us about signing our books and logs. Believe me I do understand the importance of these, and I also understand...

  19. 35 year old mom wants to become a nurse ...

    tryingtomakeit replied to tatularu's topic in General Nursing

    I was your exact age when I went to nursing school. I am 40 yrs old now and working in labor and delivery (also owned a business before I went to school). Would I do it again? You

  20. Why do they bother coming in anyway??

    tryingtomakeit replied to htrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I know what you mean! I have one who takes the cake though ... a while back we had a frequent flyer who had previously been one of our nursery nurses. She was 33 weeks with twins and we were fighting...

  21. I'm so devastated. I honestly don't know how to do this....

    tryingtomakeit replied to Emma123's topic in General Nursing

    One of the last scenes in the movie Castaway, with Tom Hanks, he discovers that the person (Kelly) who gave him the strength to go on, day after day, for four years alone on an island, has married...

  22. Taking a child off life support

    tryingtomakeit replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    I just can't imagine being in her shoes

  23. "From doctors to beautiful ladies..."

    tryingtomakeit replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

  24. "From doctors to beautiful ladies..."

    tryingtomakeit replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

    That is what I was trying to say, just another way of getting to it. He was thanking his doctors and nurses in his own way, and that is so much more than we get a lot of the time. BTW, I work with...

  25. "From doctors to beautiful ladies..."

    tryingtomakeit replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

    Try as I might, I can see nothing more than a sincere thank you note here. I do not think that, when people do take the time to write such a note, we should take the pen from them and insist on...