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  1. Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    Guest372004 replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What is wrong with ending someones suffering? Is it because it is "not natural"? If I am suffering and there is no chance of survival with some quality of life, please give me the morphine. Please...

  2. Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    Guest372004 replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Maybe everyone here needs to agree to disagree? This is a touchy subject. But it comes down to the fact that the woman has the right to an abortion. Whether you agree or not, in this day and age it...

  3. Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    Guest372004 replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I guess then I am Pro Abortion according to some of the comments. I never had one and am grateful for that, but I still believe that a woman has choice in the matter. It can be a very difficult...

  4. Patient asking for something at the wrong time...

    Guest372004 replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    I love this! I would love to be able to say "this person is dying and we are working on saving, and you are obviously going to be still breathing this day, so you have no choice but to wait", and...

  5. Patient asking for something at the wrong time...

    Guest372004 replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Was with a ill patient and the 30 yr old perfectly healthy visitor asked me for some water. I just gave her "the look" and said very sweetly, "the water fountain is out the door to your

  6. Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    Guest372004 replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Saying that PP supports "the killing of human beings" is like saying "hospice promotes the killing of human beings". Not everything is perfect about either. Let us not forget that PP also promotes...

  7. Multiple drip administration

    Guest372004 replied to Sugarcoma's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    This is what I think. I think you ICU nurses need to start out at (U.S.) $150,000/year starting

  8. Had two bad nights in a row, new RN feeling defeated and discouraged...

    Guest372004 replied to nurseclairebear's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Now you have learned a good lesson. You are in charge. You know what is best. Most have given the best adivce. Very nicely let the tech know she needs to get him up every hour to the bathroom and that...

  9. Retired, now what?

    Guest372004 replied to sueff's topic in Retired Nurses

    If you are medically well enough, and physically well enough, the opportunities of volunteering with food/shelter usually provided would be fantastic. There is a whole other world out there that would...

  10. Managing stress during shift

    Guest372004 replied to charlie8025's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I wonder........what other jobs have this problem? How are they rated? I would think being in police in a big city could be stressful, as could EMT's. But hospital nursing has got to be way up there....

  11. Managing stress during shift

    Guest372004 replied to charlie8025's topic in Health, Stress Management

    This is a stressful job. Yes, sometimes it is a "good" shift but most often it is not. The best advice is to remember that unless someone is coding......go into a quiet spot, even if it is the...

  12. The happy policy

    Guest372004 replied to Tepidorchid's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wouldn't mind color coded scrubs if............they provide

  13. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Again, we do not have "hospice" but we have comfort care. It is the same as hospice basically. If we had hospice by law the patient would fall under a different code via medicare and it would involve...

  14. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    We do not have hospice at our hospital. It would not benefit our hospital financially and they cannot give up care to staff that is not employed by the hospital. We do not have hospice nurses. It sure...

  15. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    What a fantastic idea! Having volunteers sit by dying patients. As for reading scriptures? Well I think that the family needs to ok as the beliefs of the patient need to be kept. So, one could read...

  16. Nursing Strike

    Guest372004 replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in California Nursing

    As they say "S... Happens". Mistakes are

  17. Nursing Strike

    Guest372004 replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in California Nursing

    Ferge, I had a difficult time understanding what you wrote. Yes, patients are important. Do you expect nurses to take a pay cut, benefit cuts, because of patients needing to be hospitalized? FYI,...

  18. Nursing Strike

    Guest372004 replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in California Nursing

    Brenda you are 100% correct. I keep my nose clean, thus have been lucky but.....some of my worker friends who are so much smarter than I am, have been "worked on" by doctors which means that...

  19. Nursing Strike

    Guest372004 replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in California Nursing

    OMG TXRN38 are you management? I know nurses who have never been written up and are not the best, and I know nurses who are excellent but have had "bits of issues" and thus written up. And the beat...

  20. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Don't get me going on hospice. I find that hospice is useful in few cases. Most people at end of life do not need hospice unless they need a free use of a bed that is easy for the family to control....

  21. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Having a dying patient at home can be impossible for some. We cannot judge. Families are not educated early enough to know what is

  22. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have yet to hear of an acute care hospital accept "hospice" in the hospital. When a patient goes on hospice, the hospice team takes over. How does this work in an acute hospital? We have a...

  23. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    What I see here is a hospice patient in an acute hospital. That is a large part of the problem. With so much going on with surgical patients, etc. it is easy to not go into the room of the person who...

  24. A Changed Heart

    Guest372004 replied to jaelpn's topic in General Nursing

    This is just a very sensitive time in your life. You will get a harder shell eventually. Few are immune to suffering. You are very young and time will help. As others have said, counseling may be of...

  25. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    Guest372004 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Oh, I re-read and it appears she was not in ICU. Family ought to have been there already, or called.