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There are people above the nurse manager that I am sure would like to hear about the problems on your unit and the short comings as far as the training program is concerned. On your next day off go talk to the house supervisor and inform your nurse manager of doing so. It is your license, take it in to your hands.

Benn an RN for exactly 2 months now and I find this HILARIOUS!!!! I have even laughed at my self for some of the things that I find interesting while others sigh and pretend to be busy. Keep it light ya'll!!!

Just for the sake of having another story in on this.... When I was a PCA(CNA) A family member (son) asked me to shave his dad. So I did. The son told me to leave him with a nicely trimed goatee. So I did. Then the wife and daughter come in and oh my.....talk about all heck breaking loose. Daughter is screaming at the brother, wife is in tears. I'm standing there with a razor in my hand more for protection than anything else. Come to find out that the gentelman has always worn a full beard and the son (who I might add has a goatee) just thought he would look nicer with a goatee. Sooooo Getting the families permission doesnt always prevent a mishap. In the end we shaved it all off so it would grow back even. :uhoh3:

My favorite debate. Yes I know many of the nurses here were once patients delivering their children. Honestly though do we as nurses feel differently about the sexual stigmatism than non medically trained individuals do? I think we do. Knowing that this is a nursing forum I am not one bit surprised by the overwhelming "OK" response. This question would be better asked in a public forum of non-medical trained individuals to get a real feel for how women of childbearing age feel about this. I personally am a male nurse and my favorite rotation where I did the best in school and enjoyed the experience the most was L&D. Unfortunately I probably will never work there do to the stigmatism that the patients feel as well as the patients FAMILY. I am the last person that would want my patient to feel uncomfortable. I am a 30 year old fit good looking male. (not cocky just trying to make my point) 15-30 year old fathers in with their wives, gf's or whatever have problems with me, not necessarily the female giving birth. Hell I almost got hit assisting a male doc when he checked the cervix when the boyfriend walked in. I have never before in my life experienced sexual discrimination and it sucks. I feel for women who have experienced it because it is hurtful and it affects the way you handle yourself and the situations you find yourself in. When my patients say the want a new nurse because I am a male it bothers me and I am sure it bothers others as well. I do think though that society created this problem and it will soon (10-20years) be a problem no longer. Many moons ago ALL MD's were male and ALL Nurses were female. There are still individuals alive today who remember this era. Mater of fact, most of the hospital clientele fit this category actually. Things are changing. Soon there will be as many male nurses on a floor as there are female. Just as there will be as many female docs as there are male, the later of course happening faster. This is because women are fighting sexual discrimination and are winning their battle. As men we will have to do the same in certain circumstances. (i.e. my hospital will not hire men into the "Mother, Baby" unit.) But in the end it is what the patient wants that really maters. We are there to serve them, they are our customers let us not forget.

Classic I will tell this story to all I know!!! :rotfl: :chuckle

a pedicure and I told him..................

and will be watched by mine as well............. I lost a "perfect" newborn baby girl named Rachel almost three years ago. Mater of fact it was the NICU nurses that caused my career change. They are why I ditched a 40kayear job to go back to college. The one thing you don't want to hear right now is "it gets easier ". It does but that doesn't mater right now. I am so sorry for your loss I am sorry that your son is not with his mommy. I am sorry that you have to feel the pain that not one of us that have been through it would ever wish on our worst enemy. I can not give you any reasons why this may have happened but the one thing I can give you is hope. It gets easier. It hurts like hell most of the time but..... It gets easier. It makes you want to crawl into a ball and cease to exists but, It gets easier. Every morning, every day every week and every month............ It gets easier. A few things that helped me cope (not that they are what you will need but they worked for me and your welcome to them) are. Pray Pray often and loud have one to ones with the God that decided that your sons work was already done and that you had more work to do before you could be with him. Cry Cry as often as you pray. Do them together. I didn't cry enough. I still cry today. I am crying now. It hurts and it doesn't go away. It gets easier. Tell it Tell the story about your son. Tell your friends and family how beautiful he IS. Tell the story about your angel. We can not se god but we speak of him in the present. Speak of your son in the present as well. He is not gone. You know right where he is. "I have four children.......three live at home.... one lives with Jesus." That is what I tell friends and coworkers. May God wrap his loving arms around you and let you sleep tonight. Let you sleep with the peace of knowing that it is never goodbye but.....see you later. (((((((((((((((((hug))))))))))))))

I cannot believe you actually posted that. Cheap? What is wrong with an employee of a hospital wanting to wear a uniform and the scrubs their company provides? Its not about being cheap it's about being a professional and an infection control minded individual. What I can't stand is all the prints and cartoons and bell bottoms and all the crap that is taking this profession down to pajama wearing Doctor Secretaries. If any thing in this field needs to change it is the fact that the Nurses are not uniform or at least professional in their wardrobe. Walk into a business office wearing your sponge bob shirt and see how much respect you get. Body fluids. My friend it is not the body fluids that are the problem its the little microscopic guys that are in the body fluids so if you can see it great but if you cant.........doesn't mean its not there.

i work on a med/surg floor and today i saw a dub-hoff tube inserted and 30 minuetes later went to check the patient and the tube was sticking out an old peg site...................havn't seen that before . i love working med/surg it is fun to watch the unorganized nurse spin in a circle half the day.

When you speak using "related to" and "as manifested by" or When you can write a complete sentance using nothing but abbreviations

As of 1999 in the state of Texas anyhow.

I am sure this happens more often than we think. Prior to nursing I had a career as a Correctional Officer in a state prison. Even in that feild Nurses would have relationships with their patients. Yes the patients were inmates!!!! At least once a month we watched a nurse get escorted off of the grounds in handcuffs for having a relationship with a "patient" It is a felony

Wow and I am complaining that our hospital is going to color code Rns,Lvns,Aids, and unit clerks. I dont know I wore white scrubs yesterday to clinicals for the first time (i used to wear the zipper top yuck) and I thought I looked pretty darn sharp in them and also got a couple of compliments from the patients. I have seen plenty of unprofesional looking scrubs but I dont think the uniform colored nurses will fix that. Making sure al nurses are actually wearing scrubs and not t-shirts under open scrub jackets, or polo shirts would probably be the better attack. Whatever the dress code unless they are provided by the facility people will find ways to circumvent the "code" ie hip hugger tight a**ed flare bottom white pants and a blue thong, with low v-neck tight scrub top. I wont lie I think they look good on some nurses but maybe on "Night Shift Nurses Getting Busy" not in the real world.

I wish I would have thought to search for a thread like this a year ago. I am a nursing student in my last semester and thankfully I have been lucky enough to have been working as a Extern in a local hospital so I get tons of skills practice. There is nothing like just sticking everybody you can. The one thing that has helped me more than anything else is going for the "feelers" first. I go for the ones I cant see but can feel first and if I miss those then I go for a shallower sight vein. Those feelers are larger and your site usually last longer. Remeber "I am going to start your IV." NOT "I am going to TRY and start your IV" Confidence builds confidence in your patient and in you

Now that got my mind going... We have another victim/patient that alot of us were not even considering. Lets say the woman is innocent. Could you imagine the trauma she is going through? This woman needs help as well.