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I'm sure they do, and the reason they probably have to is because most people lack common sense and will use their phones inappropriately and inconsiderately (exception: areas where cell phone use can interfere with electronic monitoring). That doesn...

Have to disagree with BlueDevil.... I am on call frequently for work. I have 6 children, half of whom go to school. I have a stay at home hubby who has 2 children under 3 yrs old at home. If my cell phone beeps during an appointment, I'm checking it...

Let me tell you a little story.... I had just delivered my 7th child, and that labor was by far the worst one. I was pre-eclamptic, delivering at 34 weeks. I was in labor for over 30 hours with mag and pitocin running the entire time. I finally had a...

I agree....scales are evil. So are numbers for that matter. I can relate...my primary MD's scale always, ALWAYS has me about 8 lbs heavier than any other scale I step on. I tell them their scale is off, but they don't believe me....

I had the procedure done with my last pregnancy (had to be induced at 33 weeks due to BP issues turning into pre-eclampsia) and, as Heather mentioned above, it got be to 4 cm and then I stopped progressing. Considering that I had Pit and Mag and PCN...

My facility has just gone thru the process of phasing out alarms. We have a couple of residents with alarms on our Dementia unit, but the rest of the building is pretty much alarm free. The units are so much quieter, the residents are less agitated,...

I really don't mind doing any of those things. But I hate doing routine vitals. I don't know why, I just do. Mind you, I do them, and most often I do manual BP's because I don't trust our electric cuffs, but even in nursing school it was something...

Short, sweet, succinct, and RIGHT ON! I'm sorry, I know you are in a difficult position, but why are you even concerned with your CNA license? What does that have to do with the fact that you've witnessed an elderly woman who cannot defend herself b...

I agree...I lived in a Philly suburb growing up, and my husband went to Temple University. It is not in a safe neighborhood. I was offered a job at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and declined it, due to the fact that I did not want to be dri...

Does your facility offer an Employee Assistance Program? They offer counseling/therapy free of charge. Refer her to Human Resources. Or, if you feel that her personal problems are interfering with her ability to do her job, you might want to go to ...

Well, it's like this....how the heck are we supposed to know what's going on with you/other women? If someone is missing their periods, take a PG test and/or call your doctor. Just like if someone who is pregnant comes to my office and reports spot...

Thank you, Leslie, very well put. It does exist, and acting indignant towards the OP is only another form of "sweeping it under the rug." A few years back, I had this happen to me big time at work. It was horrible. And there is nothing more detri...

What I took away from this post is this (and correct me, OP, if I'm wrong)...I think we are conditioned to want "instant gratification". Meaning, immediately after graduation with our brand spanking new degree, we expect to reap the rewards of our h...

Coffee filters....put them in every fold the patient has to help control the yeast infection. I learned this at a Skin Care seminar and tried it at work. It works when nothing else does.

You do not legally have to give any reason to your employer as to why you are calling in. And they can't demand that you tell them. If you choose to tell them, that's one thing. But they can't ask. (Unless you are using FMLA, then you do have to ...

I think it would do all of us, as nurses, some good to remember not to assume anything about our patients. If any one of you would just pull my medical records, look at my labs and vitals, you would think that I would require major "lifestyle" teach...

I guess it just depends on where you work, because I've felt much more autonomous in this LTC facility than I ever did in the hospital. I've also never felt like a "b!tch", and I had the ultimate say on what was or was not done for my patients, NOT ...

To try to keep this from turning into a LTC vs hospital nurse debate, in my area LTC nurses make a bit more than hospital nursing. It was a major reason why, when I moved to this area, I chose LTC. I just couldn't afford the pay cut. As others have...

Agree with the posters above...the doc should've been called re: Behavioral Depts concerns so that he could've given you further orders. Regarding Haldol....from my experience only a psych can order or dc Haldol. We ran into that situation here whe...

As a general rule, I would tell all your patients to check with their doctor first before starting any CAM techniques/herbal medicines, just to be on the safe side.

I apologize if I came across a little snarky in my previous post. Unfortunately, that was the 2nd time in the past week I came across those sentiments on this BB, and it got me a little fired up. :chair:

attitudes like this is the number one reason why nursing will never move forward as a profession.

Yes, LTC gets a bad rap, both out in the public, and even more surprisingly, on these boards. I have seen people state that only RN's that couldn't hack it in a hospital work LTC. Then again, I had an instructor in college that stated OR nurses wer...

I had to laugh when I read this, because the exact same words came out of my mouth this morning. My husband has worked in a financial setting for most of his career, usually in a large city. It is absolutely mind boggling how different his field is ...

Agree with everyone above...I absolutely HATED Med Surg, I cannot express how much I hated it! But, I loved Acute Rehab/Ortho. (Just not real big into sick people...go figure). Now, I work as an Employee Health nurse/Educator for a large retiremen...