tryingtomakeit RN

I really guess I would just like to hear some opinions about something that happened to one of my fellow nurses. I'll try to make it short. One of the 7a - 7P L&D nurses came onto her shift to be floated to med-surg. Bear in mind that this young ...

I just wanted you guys to know how much I appreciate your support - you have no idea how much it means to me right now. I am very grateful that, at least for right now, we are all hanging in there together. There have been three people who have left ...

I can understand that being really frustrating, but this is the thing that is so frustrating to us where I work. We do go to med-surg from time to time. It just so happened that this girl had only ever been floated over there once before, and it was ...

I only wish for a union! We were told that we should have received enough orientation to med-surg in nursing school

I HATE magging patients in OB! HATE HATE HATE IT!!!!

You bring the spoons - I'll bring the old coffee cans!

I was writing a telephone order once to admit a pt to L&D. I accidently wrote "damit to L&D". It wasn't caught until the OB was signing orders. He never let me live it down! :chair: :chuckle

Too funny! I know what you mean. At Christmas we had a contest for decorating. The nightshift did EVERYTHING! Our unit won and the day shift got the prize! Does anyone else get tired of getting memos because ONE person screws up badly? Instead of t...

Angie, I know exactly what you mean. I was a CNA for nearly twenty years before becoming a nurse. I miss it terribly sometimes.

..."I don't know nuthin' about birthin' no babies" If I had a dollar for every time I heard this ...

I don't really have any words of wisdom for you, but I will tell you that I have walked in your shoes many times. My co-workers and I have talked to management until we are blue in the faces, to no avail. I have nothing against med-sug, have worked ...

Gosh, do I know this feeling well! I work hard keeping up with my charting, etc. so that as soon as my moms deliver and are safely recovered, I can move them to post partum and help there (our post partum nurses are terribly neglected by management)....

Not trying to hijack the thread or anything, BUT, do any of you ever get a bit of a sour taste in your mouth when you help a patient labor for hours, hold their hand, coach them, bring them ice chips, blankets, or what ever else they request - all th...

I'm curious what your policies are in your various facilities regarding pitting women who are in active labor, but the fetus isn't viable - or when it is questionable whether the fetus is viable. Our policy states that we start pitocin only when the ...

I don't she why you should be called on the carpet. I have seen patients do the same thing - nurse in the room, no ctx - out of the room, ctx appear again. As far as asking her about abuse, this is part of our screening on both admissions and triages...

Literally

I have been working in L&D for about three years now and I have one pt who is on her third pregnancy since I started. She will start coming to us via ambulance at LEAST twice a week as soon as she hits 20 weeks. Each time she is smiling happily a...

Once I went into a pt's room to do her admission assessment and found a young guy sitting by her, rubbing her shoulder, and another older man standing on the other side of the bed. I, at one point during my assessment, looked at the younger guy and a...

Pentecostal here as well and I would let em keep my innards!:)

Just wanted to send my prayers your way. Know that there are so many out here pulling for you and thinking of you. Please, please keep us posted.

I breezed through my prereqs and my first year of nursing school. My son was at just the right age to want to be active in EVERYTHING that passed his way, plus I worked 16 hours on saturdays and 16 hours on sundays. I did, however, have a very suppor...

You sound JUST like me. I have been very passive my entire life. I have never been in an abusive relationship, it's just how I am. I was raised by very passive parents. Both my siblings are very passive as well. I don't think I can attribute it to an...

Just wanted to tell you that I am rooting for you and praying for you. I know how dark this all must seem to you right now, but as a woman who has been through enough to drive the average person insane, I can tell you that time heals. Tammy

Lori, I think you replied to a thread I started a while back about some of the problems I was having on my unit - remember, I got drug tested the day after confronting my nurse manager about unsafe staffing. The entire hospital, including me, had bee...

Very well said.