livinthedreamRN

I think she was reaching out for help. Granted, not the best way to do it, but she may have been desparate. I do believe one profound statement from a stranger can save your life. I believe it because I've experienced it. Angels are everywhere.

Just the other day (a very bad, frustrating day,) I asked some of our senior nurses who have been working this same floor for over 30 years how they made it this long. Their answer was that it used to be fun....FUN???? They said it is so different ...

I think it is rude to come in to work sick/contagious. If you work on a floor with direct patient care and with other employees who can get what you have....PLEASE stay home. If one of us comes in with some sort of virus, it usually makes it's rounds...

WOW...I think you should find a new place to work!!!

Yea!!!! And don't forget practicing foley catheter insertion on each other!!

If a patient is on the phone when I enter the room, most of the time they hang up. If they don't, I will stand politely at the foot of their bed with a smile. They usually get the message.

I just have to vent!!! I'm at work today and I hear Dr. A complain to Dr. B that he received a written reprimand for using an unapproved abreviation for a drug he wrote for a patient. Then he proceeds to blame the nurse who took the order off becau...

They can't afford their pills because the drug companies are out to make themselves richer too....more greedy CEOs.

Just curious......you're in administration aren't you? I don't think any profession is worth 30 million dollars a year, including the CEO of the hospital where I am employed. Yes the more you learn the more you earn, but no one learns that much!

When in Rome........Doc!

If the nurse doesn't page the doc about the order, pharmacy absolutely will!!!! The kicker is this doc won't even call back when you do page him. We have to page him several times!!!!! FRUSTRATING!

ooops. read above!

It's all about customer service now. We have to worry about patient satisfaction scores constantly. I feel like this...If you came into the hospital sick and you went home feeling better than when you came in, your customer service was great!!! Now i...

I want to be the person who walks behind the elephants at Disney and pick up their poo! Mattress tester.

HURRY!!! CALL FREUD!!!!

Please...make sure you report alert and oriented, confused etc. Also very helpful is activity and how the patient potties. I know it sounds trivial, but if I have been off the past three days, it's great to know if they are incontinent, bedpan, bs...

HampsterRN did state "with permission".

oops. didn't mean to post this again!!

When my mother was hospitalized for complications from chemo, we designated one family member to receive info from doctors, nurses, etc. That contact person gave information to the rest of the family. That makes it so much easier all around. I give t...

We have discussed this and it will be our next course of action. Thanks

OK, this might take awhile. My 90 year old uncle,who by the way has never been married and has no children, therefore my parents and my siblings and I are very close to him, is having his birthday party today. My mother called me at work to tell me h...

I was wondering if any of you direct patient care nurses feel that the nurse administrators should put on some scrubs, say, a couple times a year or so, and really see whats going on on the units. I think once a nurse climbs the ladder to the tippy t...

OK, I'll probably get some negative feedback for this but here goes. I get angry when I answer a call bell to get someone on/off the bedpan and I ask the aide who is walking past the room to go out and smoke and she replies in her most abrasive voice...

You have extra people!?!?!?! You're lucky!

Absolutely get the post-ops up asap. As for the rest, our docs use activity orders i.e., bedrest, bedrest with BRP, up with assist, up ad lib...you get the idea. If a patient is not ordred to get up and I get them up and they fall, I'm liable. When a...