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It is true that many nurses are charting on things they have not done such as turning a patient or doing a complete reassessment of a patient; the list is endless. I blame this on the new charting systems where we sit at our computers and click away on little buttons. I, personally, would rather leave something uncharted then say I did something I didn't do. I've seen it come back and bite people way too many times. It's OK to say a patient was sleeping and that's why a CIWA wasn't our charting system even has a button for that!. I encourage all nurses to chart honestly to protect their license and their patient. While we should not omit doing a task, we all do it from time to time, we need to be honest about it.

I got my ADN at 55..I am now 60. Finding a job was not an issue. In fact a I had an easier time then the young kids in my class. I worked as a telemetry nurse my first year and then switched to psych which is my passion. I have been a nursing supervisor for a 100 bed facility and also do floor work..I worked part time in Case Management at a SNF. Nursing has many opportunities at any age..A friend of mine is 63 and now going for her NP....If this is your dream..go for it!!

I am a 59 year old psych nurse who has not done any medical nursing since graduating from nursing school 4 years ago. I love my job but there aren't many places to transition to in the psych field here and so I would like to transition into another area of nursing. I live in Arizona. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I go about this?