KY RN

Naked and Afraid

I don't know if she was, but I sure was, walking into that.

The worst patient I ever had was an older woman (50) having sex in a semi-private room. (with her 30 year old son.) Needless to say, everybody got called into that situation, SW, APS, nurse manager, risk management.( The roommate got moved to another room.)

My true calling is laying on my RV couch and travelling the world. Since I do not get paid for this, I am a nurse. I think that most of the people who say they have a true calling, would say something much different, if they weren't getting a pay check for this "true calling.";)

I told my children it had to be blood, bones, and brains before they could wake me up. They burst in because one had fallen on his bike and hit his head. My son said, "Mom, this time it is blood, bones, and I think BRAIN!"

I started HH 3 months ago and I got off Friday, charted 2 hrs., Sat in AM for 2 hrs., and have been charting for 3 hrs. today. It seems never ending. Then , there are the phone calls. I have pts. that have called me at 2 AM. I repeatedly tell them to call the office #, but they call my cell phone. (I don't give them my #, they have called ID which they seem to use very well, when I call to schedule my visit. Ugh! It is definitely an adjustment from hospital work.

Perhaps you could get the Dr. to consider a psych consult, anti-anxiety meds, and/or a sitter? When I have people like this, I usually ask to get another team the next time. Two days in a row of these types of patients really wears me out. At our unit, we prefer to "share the love" and let another nurse take a turn with them.

My hospital used to have set visiting times. Now, the hospital has a new policy that anybody can visit at any time. The hospital cites the new CMS rules for this new policy. Of course, this is so fun when a patient is in a semi-private room and decides to have 20 zillion visitors at 0330. Of course, the other patient in the semi-private room would love to sleep but cannot due to all the noise from the neighboring patient. http://beyondhealthcarereform.com/2011/01/cms-publishes-new-rule-requiring-equal-visitation-rights/

I'm so sorry this happened to you. Did the external applicants,perhaps, know the hiring manager?

You want IV pain meds, you don't go off the floor. If you go off the floor, you will not get IV pain meds because we cannot assure your safety. If you refuse to leave, we have HUGE security guards that will escort you out.

Try having her place a pillow across her incision when she coughs.

Prenatal care is generally a "Westernized" idea. My husband is from a Central American country. Most of his friends who have immigrated here do not know what the idea of prenatal care is and really think it is unneeded. I have had to drive the wives to clinics, seek financial assistance and educate the husbands about the necessity of prenatal care. In some countries, it is rare to find prenatal care. In some cultures, prenatal care is mistrusted due to past histories of abuse by physiscians. Also, there is an issue of cost and insurance. I had no insurance and did not qualify for any type of medical assistance when I was pregnant due to making a whopping $10.00 an hour. I ended up with a 15,000 hospital bill that took ten years to pay off.

You do it for the money. Oh wait, I think I just ate some funny mushrooms on my pizza! Seriously, you do it, because you are superwoman :dancgrp: and you can change some elderly resident's life, one day at a time.

My children are 14(twins), 6, & 2.

Yes, I had an ultrasound. It's definetly in the uterus and looks to be viable. I've had all kinds of tests just to make sure. I'm upset because I like things planned out and want to be able to support my children well. My husband says we'll throw more water in the beans and the kids can go to community college. He is happy. Some posters said they couldn't have children and I understand this from my experience with my sister's infertility. It is devastating emotionally. I love all of my children and provide very well for them financially. I just worry about the expense of a 5th child at my age. I do not want to short change any of my children. I grew up in a family of 8 and we had hand me downs and lived a thread bare existence.

:uhoh3:How often does female sterilization fail? Has anyone had this happen to them? How did they feel? I just found out I am pregnant and I'm very upset. I have 4 kids and underwent tubal ligation two years ago. I'm pushing 40 and I'm not thrilled with the idea of another child. I felt like my family was complete. Because of my beliefs, I wouldn't have an abortion but I don't feel happy about this child. Do other people feel this way?

Sing loud in the car on the way home, make faces at all the kids on the schoolbus at the stoplights, come home, hop in the shower, get out and eat a bowl of oatmeal, lay in bed and watch Law&Order CI, and fall asleep by 10:00A.M. up at 3:00P.M. to get kids from school.

Ruby Vee, this should still be a standing order.:yeah:" Valium 10 mg PO q 4 hrs PRN."

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This is sad, she was smart enough to be a Dr. but not smart enough to figure out student loans. She shouldn't have borrowed that much and she should have made sure she had a fixed rate instead of a variable rate. She should have tried to make her payments without going into default and getting such almost $60,000 in collection charges.People don't realize this until they are in the tar pit.

:lol2:I had a patient the other night and I was giving him a shot. I said, "You're going to feel a little prick." He looked at me and said, "Yep, that's what I tell all the girls too!". I about rolled on the floor laughing.

The banging the phone on the desk is pretty funny!

Toilet Paper My A** - triscupid, pulmonic, mitral , aortic valves

Think about it like this. "I work to live. I don't live to work."

No, I did not cath him. He came to my floor and was there 14 hrs after surgery and had a foley cath placed on dayshift. When dayshift placed the Foley they got 1000cc. When he started having large amounts of drainage, I D/C the foley and did a swab of his urethral opening. When I D/C the foley, he had no urine output for 2 hours. I waited 8 hrs and he had not had any urine output and I called the Dr. The Dr. said to ambulate him and he only put out 100 cc. Then he tanked 45 minutes later.