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I am a solo ER nurse in a small rural hospital. I have cared for friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members and never really gave it a thought. I have never gotten any negative feedback and have frequently gotten positive feedback. They see...

I am trying to recover from 3 12's + in a row. Our county population tripled over the past 10 days due to a local fair that has a big draw. No extra staffing this weekend. At 61 I am too old for this s***. But in normal times I love my work, usua...

This is the situation...I work in a small hospital in a rural community. Hospital has 30 beds, ER has 5 beds, usual visits/day about 15. This time of year it is more. We have a 110 bed nursing home associated with the hospital, so several patients...

God bless you! can you afford to look into other avenues like ambulatory care? or is the emergency room your kind of thing? Hi, ambulatory care isn't really an option for me. I hate doing home nursing. The paper work is a killer for me. And, on go...

I need help. I was having alot of trouble with my daughter-in-law and just couldn't figure out what was going on. Our relationship had deteriorated over several years from warm, close to hostile and lots of control issues. Being at loose ends, I s...

Thanks for all the answers and questions. I have worked 24 of the last 36 hours so haven't gotten back to you before now. I didn't give you alot of details about my DIL to keep my post short. As an ER nurse, I see mental health patients in crisis...

My experience with families in the code situation is when it happens without warning and they are already at the bedside. No time to waste a member of a rather small code team to usher them out. I have never had a bad experience. Recently it was o...

guy came in two nights ago...admitted up front to having a foreign body in rectum. even brought a duplicate of the glass cylinder bottle, rounded at presenting end, capped at the other end. he was using the one in his rectum to push in his hemorrho...

New overtime rules are murky Fine print sure to stir flurry of lawsuits By MARILYN GEEWAX The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04 WASHINGTON-This week, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will go to Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers how the nati...

New overtime rules are murky Fine print sure to stir flurry of lawsuits By MARILYN GEEWAX The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04 WASHINGTON-This week, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will go to Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers how the nati...

Local EMS calls in last night, code 3, cardiac arrest coming to an ER near me...well to me. Lady arrives, intubated, no IV access. Asystole on the monitor...all they got too. Family hasn't seen this person alive for over 2 hours. I pick up her ar...

I agree with what you are saying about the family, but what is the criteria? Rigor mortis had set in. I am ok that we went out and said "we did all we could do". But I am really asking, professional to professional, what criteria is set for when y...

I have re-read the article twice now and don't see any criticism of bush providing universal health insurance in Iraq...I only see praise for his doing that. It is only critical of his inaction on health insurance issues in the USA.

Have any of you had experiece using lidocaine patches? If so, what types of pain did you use it for. How often did the patches have to be applied? Thanks

Hands on care works best for me. I try to make it a back rub, but a foot rub works well if turning would only increase the pain or is contraindicated. Soft, geniune verbal sympathy is needed too. Unless I am super busy, I never give a pain med and...

When I was younger, I worked nights, 7 on 7 off with one 8 hour shift in the middle. I must admit to being grouchy when I first woke up each afternoon, but I felt alert by the time I got to work. The 7 days off were wonderful! Now we work 2 or 3 o...

During the flu outbreak in December, our Infection Control Nurse put a sign on the ER door for folks who thought they had the flu not to enter! Nice gesture, but I told her to move it to the visitors entrance.

I work in a small ER, but we usually refer at least a couple of folks a month for inpatient mental health and/or substance abuse. I have never had one turned down because of lack of insurance and most do not have it. I'm in Georgia...don't know abo...

Thanks for the post! I don't shop Sams or Walmarts because of their employee unfriendly policies. I had never heard of Costco (I live in a tiny, tiny little town miles from a big city) until a couple of weeks ago on another discussion thread here....

Alot of good points here on both sides of the argument. Some of corporate America is greedy. Some of corporate America still sticks to old fashioned integrity. Sam Walton worked hard to get his billions. But, I no longer shop at Walmart because o...

I called tech support for Andale counters (I use them on my ebay auctions). The tech support person had a heavy Indian accent and admitted to being in India when I asked. I gave him the same spill you did about resenting US jobs going overseas. He...

if I had to work a med/surg type unit I would be out of nursing for sure. I volunteered to come in and work med/surg one night last week because someone had called in. There were two RN's on, no LPN, no NA's, no ward clerk, no respitory therapist.....

I like Kucinich best...will vote for him in the primary...will support ABBB!!!! in the general election.

Another reason Medicare costs are going through the roof is the Pharmcay Industry friendly drug program just added to it. Our "fiscally responsible" Republicon-men made sure their good buddies and benefactors in the Pharmacy Industry would have plen...

Hillarycare isn't returning because it never left. After spending huge chunks of change to run endless TV commercials scaring folks with "you can't choose your own doctor, you can't choose your own hospital" the Big insurance companies adopted those...