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Safety in hospitals ???? Since when ?? I've "been there" both as a patient and as a nurse.....after I discharged from my patient status I quit and went into Home Health and loved it. Recently a hospital ,where my husband had been a been a patient, ...

Got in trouble big time once. MD ordered a change in the flow rate of a regular IV, which I did, and documented, and told the on-coming shift about. I went home and was called about three hours later. When I got there I was in big trouble with the...

Certainly not Baton Rouge. After Katrina and Rita a couple of us RNs answered the call for RNs at two local hospitals. Both stated they were accepting only "displaced RNs" (those from the New Orleans area displaced by the hurricanes). Two or three...

I didn't do this but they say revenge can be wonderful. A rather hard and strictly business nursing instructor of mine in nursing school chastized me for not being able to catherize an extremely large woman with cellulitis in both legs. Two other s...

Please don't think your question is trivial due to what we have suffered here. I'm a Baton Rougean, we suffered damage, those parishes above us have had no food, water, power for days without help and they have to come to whatever source of gas they...

Narcotics are not a good mix with patient care. The RN is responsible for anything you do under the influence of the medication and could well lose her license. I agree with another post, if you require Vicodin for pain you should not be working or...

I had to take a speech class and give oral presentations. As a BSN I often have to speak in front of groups (MDs, nurses, MSWs, family members, etc). I see no difference between the groups of RNs but there have been rumors around here for years that...

I was lucky. I got into nursing school the first time I tried. We entered by GPA and there were only 25 slots. However, what about the nursing shortage when there are a lot of us who have only been retired a couple of years and need to go back to w...

Some facilities may not appreciate the art work but not all of them. I know of nurses with warts, freckles, leg braces and one who has a butterfly on the top of her breast that is easily seen. The best liked nurse in one hospital is an old retired N...

I also question how the patient received the Toprol without a script. Of course dizziness is an early side effect and goes away when the med is stopped. BUT how did he also get Tegretol if it was not on the med list? The dialysis unit usually has an ...

As a prior DON in skilled nursing facilities I agree this is criminal abuse. The DON is responsible for the condition of every resident and the actions, or inactions, of each nursing staff, and, each staff member is responsible for his or her action...

I think this subject has been beaten to death. We all have the right to our own personal opinions. As nurses we all have been subjected to a lot of crap during our careers but we stick to it and do the best we can for our patients. That is why we a...

Thanks for the link. Very interesting article. Shame, shame that AJN couldn't find any other comments on allnurses. It doesn't "fit" logically in the flow of the article and reads, to me, as if this was a direct hit on nurses in general being indif...

Kevin I apologize for all of those who posted "cutsey" remarks. Most, I'm sure, are from very young persons who have never been exposed to the real world before nursing school. I feel male nurses look at the sexuality of the patient as 1) this is a...

I wouldn't chart what you suggest because it is not correct. What would happen if the administrator knew this patient and asked her if she refused and she said she didn't? Can we try to think from the patient's point of view? Why did she only want...

I started college for a BSN at 45 years old, married, 3 sons (Jr.High,2 in High School). It took me 5 years and we ate a lot of bologna sandwiches, all 3 sons were in college at the same time I was. We all made it. Your age has nothing to do with it....

Get other nurses together who are facing the same issues, including RNS. All of you document specifics as to who, what, when, where, etc. and send these to your boards. Call the Boards to follow up and document this. The Boards may not be aware of th...

You seem like a gutsy gal I would hire in a flash. You've been through the mill and still choose to stay in the nursing field. I agree with Thunderwolf, I don't use my title in the field or on the floor, I'm just a nurse who respects anyone who works...

For your legal protection it's always safest to put the name and title of the person who actually performed a technique on your patient on your chart documentation. Be direct, clear,and never vague, in charting. If a nursing assistant placed a foley ...

Any non-patient care employment for a nurse requires prior patient care experience. I have never hired, nor worked with, an RN (in over 20 years) in any field who came straight out of school looking for such a position. These are usually managerial ...

Reminds me of the story about the teenagers parking in a lonely spot, the girl hears something, the boy didn't then when he drove her home and went to open her door he saw a hook (like Captain Hook's) caught in the door handle!!

I wear Fruit of the Loom nylon with elastic at the waist and legs. Never had a problem with riding up. They do show through in whites but I don't wear whites unless the top is long. May not be anyone's style. Just remember what momma said.....alw...

I agree with you totally. I had loud hot pink and other colored tops with flowers, etc. that I wore in home health and the patients loved it. Even in the nursing home I suggested to my staff that they wear colored tops . The residents loved it but...

Sounds to me like, since you were new, you didn't kiss where the sun don't shine as well as the ones who have stayed there, since you mentioned there was a high turn-over rate. Bravo. Now that you know the game do you want to play and stay ...or... ...