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  1. nursing home for my father in law?

    retiredlady replied to wrkoutgirl's topic in General Nursing

    It is very, very, tiring to a caregiver even though they might have help. They worry 24 hours a day about their loved one. She is in her late 80's for goodness sake. Even if the children help her, I...

  2. Input, opinions

    retiredlady replied to UpinawayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Go for the 11-7am shift. Then you will be home evenings and you can run around in the mornings if you have too to school for the kids or dr appts for your hubby. You can sleep in the eve if need be....

  3. shift wars in the middle of report.

    retiredlady replied to evolvingrn's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm, thinking about my father in LTC and the nurse giving a suppository in the middle of the night, I would not want to be that NURSE, lol. A lot of yelling would occur and wake the whole unit up and...

  4. Shift Wars! Just need to vent...

    retiredlady replied to RxOnly's topic in General Nursing

    I always just let them vent and kept quiet, because it never does any good

  5. Snow Days....

    retiredlady replied to Kareylea's topic in General Nursing

    It seemed when i worked, the people who always made it were the ones who lived several miles away and the ones who lived a mile away could never make it out of their driveways, lol. They never seemed...

  6. wise nurses, desperately need some insight

    retiredlady replied to thekid's topic in General Nursing

    Take the insurance job and have holidays and weekends with your child. You don't have to rotate., more money, you might be able to get better childcare at those times. I think that you can be held...

  7. What happens to your PTO

    retiredlady replied to BettyBoop01's topic in General Nursing

    Be sure to give your 2 week notice or they might not pay you. I got a nice lump

  8. Hospitalists?

    retiredlady replied to YankeeHater's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitalists are good for the nurse, but not sometimes for the patient. As the patient you have to go over all your medical history again and then sometimes they don't remember something. They tend...

  9. Long hair male nurses

    retiredlady replied to Nursee13's topic in General Nursing

    I say cut it for the job, then you can grow it if you see that others have long hair. I personally if I am a patient I do not want to see hair that falls in your face and gets into the area that you...

  10. What should EVERY nurse know about Dialysis

    retiredlady replied to Twink's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    ---Give their medications after dialysis--they might get washed out with dialysis. ---Many doctors think--hey they are on dialysis, we don't need to decrease their antibiotics or medications--not...

  11. Plucking a mental daisy

    retiredlady replied to Student2Registered's topic in General Nursing

    I did the same thing--moved a hour and half away. I was lonely for my old job and went back and worked part time after several months. There were new people there with the old ones. The new ones...

  12. Drawing Labs from IV Line

    retiredlady replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Nursing

    You can say that it will clot off and you will have to be stuck with another needle to restart it and maybe more than once and then you will have to be restuck for the lab and sometimes the lab is not...

  13. Caring for infants when mom is unable and no newborn nursery exists

    retiredlady replied to mthuckleberry's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our hospital had a small one room nursery for that purpose with a Rn in attendance. It worked very well. The babies were brought to her and sent back by the mother/baby nurse. Some of the doctors...

  14. Refusing unsafe workload?

    retiredlady replied to Ginger80's topic in General Nursing

    Are you kidding, I would not have taken 120 by myself. Do you have any LPN's helping? The meds alone would be too much. How can you know about each

  15. For the Student or for the Teacher

    retiredlady replied to SchoolNurseLaura's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Having dealt with children like this, frustration is why they are doing it. They don't know how to react to different problems and boys usually will act out in these situations. It needs to be dealt...

  16. Wound question,

    retiredlady replied to Finallydidit's topic in General Nursing

    Ted stockings can cause heel ulcers in patients with pheripheral artery disease quickly and they shouldn't be used with them. I think is says that on the package. It's a shame that it got to that. It...

  17. Who's responsibility is it?

    retiredlady replied to PEBBLES1's topic in General Nursing

    It would have been nurse A responsibility, but as the nurse going off, to be nice you should go in to

  18. Polycythemia in hysterectomy surgical patient

    retiredlady replied to Sarah010101's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure that it's not 8.4? that would make more sense. It should be lower with the heavy

  19. am I crazy to even think about this?

    retiredlady replied to Lola77's topic in General Nursing

    I went back to a job (after a year) that I quit that I loved when I moved 2 hours away and it just was not the same. They had hired new people and they (the new people) kept explaining how things...

  20. licensed in 2 states.. pls help

    retiredlady replied to cebuana_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Put your VT license on inactive status ( you don't have to pay for license nor do CEU's either until you activate it again) and keep your PA one. That's what I did with 2 states, that way you can go...

  21. You know you're Old School when...

    retiredlady replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    Heart attack patients not having them move at all, we turned them, shaved them, and fed them. Absolutely no coffee!!!! for so many days (can't remember how

  22. You know you're Old School when...

    retiredlady replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    No, you could use a glove for that,

  23. You know you're Old School when...

    retiredlady replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    My mother remembers mixing (really beating) infant formula in a kitchen on the floor (very sterile), boiling equipment for 20 minutes to sterilize (needles, tube, etc.) Iv's not in veins but placed...

  24. You know you're Old School when...

    retiredlady replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    Big adult respirators used on tiny babies (only ones they had) Putting your hair back in pony tail or up on head No clogs!!! Medication cards you checked every shift everyone got IM pain meds--not iv...

  25. You know you're Old School when...

    retiredlady replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

    Walking into patient rooms and smelling cancer No fathers or anyone in delivery room Waiting 12 hours to feed newborns (70's) my mother as a nurse in the 40's--only 2 student nurses cared for 40...