NurseDiane

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  1. Patients wants a back rub

    NurseDiane replied to Oceanpacific's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    aActually, no, it didn't. Those were the days when nurses actually TOOK CARE OF PEOPLE!! I think a foot massage would be pushing it, but 25-30 years ago on med-surf floors, patients received back...

  2. Patients wants a back rub

    NurseDiane replied to Oceanpacific's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yep----back rubs were part of standard P.M./H.S. care. It relaxed patients before sleep (instead of tossing an Ambient down their gullet) and got the blood circulating to help reduce risk of...

  3. Nursing is the Biggest Mistake of My Life

    NurseDiane replied to almost_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever I read stories such as this, I am mad, sad & disappointed. You should not have to go through this when you graduate as a nurse. In 1989, 2 or 3 months before I graduated from college...

  4. Is money everything in this profession?

    NurseDiane replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, money is all that really matters. There's nothing wrong with it---money is all that matters to administration, to insurance companies, to big pharma, so there's nothing wrong with it being all...

  5. Falsely accused of med diversion

    NurseDiane replied to kindia's topic in General Nursing

    "In expectation" that a patient will want it is not good enough when it comes to narcs. Wait until the patient asks for it, and if the patient has to wait a little while, then that's how it has to...

  6. New Nurse Having Bad Experience with Nursing - How can I get on track to ED Nursing?

    NurseDiane replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Welcome to the "new" world of nursing. Chronic understaffing, completely inadequate training, dangerous patient "care". It difficult for an experienced nurse, and for new nurses it is damn near...

  7. No pain meds in ER??

    NurseDiane replied to ShaneTeam's topic in Emergency

    Blaming the heroin epidemic & opioid addiction crisis on physicians that prescribe opioids is just the government's way of punting the issue to someone else so that Washington doesn't have to...

  8. Two CRNA Questions

    NurseDiane replied to fredb's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You can read all you want and think you've taught yourself all you want. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE for someone who has not even graduated from nursing school or worked in critical care to understand...

  9. Amber Does the Unthinkable

    NurseDiane replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    When the supervisor called, Amber should have said that she needs help & ask that the supervisor come to help or things are not going to get done because there were 3 hot bodies working their...

  10. Two CRNA Questions

    NurseDiane replied to fredb's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Don't read anesthesia textbooks in nursing school. Focus on passing nursing school, passing the NCLEX and getting a job. Without ICU experience, anesthesia textbooks are worthless. You won't use...

  11. CRNA school troubles

    NurseDiane replied to Junomar's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I felt completely overwhelmed in anesthesia school. The SRNA's in my program were used as slave labor---no pay, endless hours in addition to class time. I got to the end of the program, graduated,...

  12. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    NurseDiane replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    I started my first "real" job out of college in the operating room at a major NYC hospital. These were the first days of the AIDS crisis in Manhattan, the largest concentrated area of AIDS cases in...

  13. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    NurseDiane replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    OH MY GOD---I did that too, in LPN school. We were horrified that we had to give each other bed baths, but we did it. No square inch went "unbathed", if you know what I mean. Can you imagine giving...

  14. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    NurseDiane replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    Were the Haldol drips for the patients or the nurses?? JUST

  15. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    NurseDiane replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    HA!!! I posted the same thing!! "Don't wear gloves because it makes the patient feel

  16. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    NurseDiane replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    REALLY, REALLY, REALLY excellent post!!!! I remember being told in nursing school that nurses don't wear gloves because it makes patients think they're "dirty". Emptying bedpans with bare hands,...

  17. Should I disclose a medical condition?

    NurseDiane replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    You don't have to tell them anything. An employee physical is to determine if you are able to work RIGHT NOW. The employee health providers are not your primary care providers or any other...

  18. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    NurseDiane replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    I know, right? Those certainly were the days. I forgot about the 3 different shades of ink for the 3 different shifts!!! I also remember being in the throws of the HIV/AIDS epidemic---I worked in...

  19. Lied to in Interview

    NurseDiane replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    It is not your responsibility, nor any other staff nurse's responsibility, to make sure there is enough staff. Staff nurses are not the ones responsible for making sure the nurses are not working...

  20. Wrap it up?

    NurseDiane replied to Flare's topic in School

    Is this kid coming to you in the hospital or is he/she coming to you at home to do

  21. No pain meds in ER??

    NurseDiane replied to ShaneTeam's topic in Emergency

    I agree. I have been in ER's for various things---perforated gallbladder from salmonella infection w/ peritonitis (that one was a 100 pain level---I felt like someone was shoving a butcher knife into...

  22. No pain meds in ER??

    NurseDiane replied to ShaneTeam's topic in Emergency

    This news story leaves a lot to be desired, probably with good reason. Stressing that they are not going to use opioids as first-line treatment for pain discourages addicts from going there. If they...

  23. Would you report possible diversion?

    NurseDiane replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, the state boards are in cahoots with many addiction" specialists" and many people who are not addicts are treated like addicts just so the people at the board can justify their...

  24. Would you report possible diversion?

    NurseDiane replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Here's how I would handle this: 1.) Let his nurse know, in no uncertain circumstances, that you will medicate your own patients. Tell him that if he has a great interest in medicating your patients,...

  25. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    NurseDiane replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I'm surprised nobody got together to file a lawsuit against the facility. It would have been very easy to prove age discrimination---a bunch of senior nurses getting fired for not being a "team...