lisasmom

I agree; I went from long-term care to correctional nursing. I feel 100% safer in prison than I ever will on the outside. I should have switched sooner.

I heard from an ex-instructor that Vickie Milanzo's class is excellent and expensive. She is a CLNC and works from her home and well as teaches. She told me it is well worth the money, but a lot of information in a short time. Vickie does have a site that can be visited after class for questions and information. Hope this helps. I am currently enrolled at UOPHX in the BSN program and when I have obtained my BSN, plan to complete the CLNC course. :)

I am thinking about teaching or legal nursing. Guess I could do both. Well back to work and thanks for your help. Helen

Yes I am at UOP. Thanks for the advice..............very helpful. It is just hard to limit to just 5. THANKS again. Do you plan to go into research post graduation? I have changed my mind at least 20 times. There is sooooo much out there to choose from. Helen :balloons:

I am in a class with an assignment to write about 5 key events of nursing research and there are about 30 listed in the text. I just want some ideas from someone else. Of course it all started with Florence Nightingale and after there seems to be so many that is hard to limit it to just 5. Thanks to you all for your help. :)

:) I would love to work with you, so sound like my kind of nurse!!!!

Believe me it doesn't matter which shift you work. I work days and the evening shift comes in and will chit-chat for about an hour before they listen to report. We can not leave until they are out of report and on the floor. Some days I would like to put them on the floor :angryfire

To repeat what etmx5313 said.....ALWAYS .say it again...ALWAYS fill out an incident report, you never know what will happen the next day or week. An incident report states what happened and what if .Oh say ... 4 days later someone asks you about what happened. Will you remember? Also an repoprt shows that you assesed the patient and either found no injuries or found any injury that you cared for.

To me it is all part of team work. I don't think a nurse should be busing tables if a patient needs her, but to help things run smoothly>>>>>>> I have bused many a table. I was a DON in a LTC and had the concept that I would not ask my staff to do anything I wasn't willing to do myself.

Phyrenrain, I misunderstood your guestion. This is long so bear with me. When I take care of a certain patient for weeks or month on end and they bring me somthing for me alone I usually accept small gifts and keep that to myself. I believe if they had wanted all of the staff to know they would have told them themselves. Most of the gifts have been cards but some have been candy, cookies, I even had one patient paint me a picture. I feel these gifts were given because of the care we gave not to insure that we give good care. I see no harm in accepting small "gifts". Hope this helps :) lisasmom

I have received many "thank-you" cards and that is all. They mean more to me than any amount of money ever could. :)

I agree with sb22, there is nothing wrong with teasing people. I love to laugh and joke.There is too much sadness in the world. We need more fun and funny people :rotfl: :rotfl:

VERY FUNNY :rotfl:

treddrn: :balloons: Congrats on staring with Phoenix. I am sure you will do well lisasmom

I recently moved from Iowa to Georgia and recieved my license in about two weeks.