Not_A_Hat_Person RN

Health-care system causing rampant burnout among doctors, nursesAs many as half of all clinicians suffer from the problem, creating risks to patients, malpractice claims and absenteeism, study finds.Imagine a health-care system in which doctors and n...

You may want to talk to a lawyer. I don't know the rules in Maryland, but in Massachusetts the campus police at Harvard, Brandeis, and all of the public colleges are Special State Police. They are sworn officers who go to the State Police Academy, an...

No way should 2 people try to position a 400+ lb. patient, unless they are using a mechanical aide, like a lift. In Nursing Home Hell, I had to try to position a resident who weighed over 500 lbs, with 2 LNAs and a lift. Things did not go well. I wo...

My state licenses CNAs (They're called LNAs).

On an episode of "Homicide", the medical examiner says a victim died of a pulmonary embolism. Then one of the officers says "a heart attack!", and the other officer and the medical examiner repeat "a heart attack!"

A field with a lot of high-paying jobs when you start a field of study can have none by the time you finish. Ask anyone who graduated into The Great Recession. I graduated from nursing school in 2008, in a city full of hospitals. NO ONE wanted new gr...

The New York Times examines PTSD among nurses.

I graduated in 2008, when no one wanted to hire new grads. After a 10-month job search and a 250-mile move, I worked in assisted living for a year, then 6 horrible weeks in Nursing Home Hell, then 7 years in home health, with some flu clinics and a f...

One of my nursing school instructors shared a story about performing CPR on a penguin during a trip to Antarctica.

I told my manager at 10 weeks, when I had a suspected miscarriage during my shift. I was working home health, and my client couldn't be left alone, so I had to wait 90 minutes for someone to relieve me. I think you should wait to reveal until you nee...

This reminds me of the Ohio nursing home where a meth lab was discovered in a resident's room after a fatal fire. My first reaction was to wonder how bad staffing must have been for no one to notice.

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF) was intended to encourage people to fill positions that have a high cost of entry, while making less money than they would in the private sector, in areas that have a hard time attracting those prof...

That would be news to my parents, who had measles and cancer.

Many 10 Commandments displays were erected in the 1950s to promote the movie "The Ten Commandments". https://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Ten-Commandments-went-from-film-to-stone-1674007.php

I have never understood why "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is considered a Christmas song.

In my experience, people who complain that society is "too PC" want to say whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want, to whoever they want, with no repercussions, but God forbid you say anything they don't like.

Adrienne. You can shout "Adrienne!!!!" when you first discover the baby needs CPR.

Thanks to Obamacare-related data collection, the federal government has realized something many nurses have known for years- many nursing homes are deliberately understaffed. Perhaps this will lead to change.

Assuming this is legit, why do you have to wait 60 days until you can work as a nurse?

In my pre-nursing life, I worked at a place where people were routinely fired the day they gave notice. I'm not surprised it would happen in nursing.

Could the 2008 real estate crash have something to do with it? It's easy to make money on real estate when you buy at what turns out to be the bottom of the market.

Urgent Care will see me without an appointment. Urgent Care is open after 5, and on weekends.

I thought this would be about the NICU.

Let the millenial bashing begin!

ADNs are limited in the clinical setting in the sense that some facilities will not hire them. When I graduated, even nursing homes wanted BSNs.