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 anoth...

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 ...

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 the...

:angryfireWhy do the patients that do not pay for any healthcare complain and gripe the most? It irritates me when a patient is on Medicaid and expect to be treated like they are at the Ritz Hotel. "GRRRR"!!!! It seems like a vast majority do not w...

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 ou...

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 d...

This is an accurate assesment of today's healthcare system.

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.

Just started Chamberlain University online RN to BSN. Oh my gosh! LOTS of papers. HOLY GUCAMOLE!!:typing I feel like I'm writing papers every day. Hopefully, it will be worth it. I should be done by July. How's everyone else doing?

What is the oldest nurse you've worked with? I just found out I worked with a nurse that is 95 years old. ( She works 3 -12's a week on a busy med-surg floor.) HOLY GUACAMOLE!!!! I thought she was in her 50's and she told me that she was 95. She ...

Anybody work in Eastern KY? I am thinking of moving there, possibly around Hayden, London, Corbin, or Pikeville. How is the job outlook and and how is it living in those regions?

: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.

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 wiv...

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.

: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 w...

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 ...

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. t...

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

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