DedHedRN

Just trying to be a voice of reason. If you guys want to read more into my post then I’m actually saying or put words in my mouth I can’t stop you. But that’s OK I’m just gonna sit back and watch what happens. I’ll get the vaccine in eight years if i...

To lump every single nurse that raises legitimate concerns about a vaccine into a anti-VAXer category is alarming. I took Microbiology. I was a lucky one and my teacher was fresh out of biological weapons manufacturing. She was a really good teache...

Omg. Way to sow suspicion amongst coworkers. I wouldn't put being a serial killer in the top 100 reasons people get fired. What a way to cast a even more negative light on any nurse who has ever been fired. Now he/she needs to worry about fellow nurs...

Texas Ebola patient's friend has been told he can return to work as nursing assistant | Daily Mail Online What do you think of this? Texas CNA family is quarantined, but he is allowed to come and go, to work, as a CNA. While he lives with family, and...

No, I doubt you'll catch his Ebola.

"I told her I'd watch her patients while she went on a ten min break"

Quit.

When in doubt I tend to gravitate towards the "I'm crazy enough to show the #$%& up every day and keep a smile on my face look". What does that look like you ask? To be honest......a bit like an escaped maximum security psychiatric pt.

There are days that will make you cry. You will cry on the way home from work. After a while you might even cry on your way to work. Just keep on trucking and eventually it will all weave together to form something sensible. Usually after a year or s...

I work with a nurse that likes to write things such as, "Pt says that Nelly RN told her last night to take 15mg of morphine, and this SN informed them that it's actually for 5mg". "They complained that Nelly RN was rude, and they were not happy with ...

Stupid law. Really stupid. Sometimes I just want to beat my head against the wall and scream at the stupidness of things.

If you have a BSN non-acute nursing jobs that are not any of the jobs you mention above will be easier to get. If you have a ASN you might need to be willing to live in timbucktoo.

She was not hitting on you.

The hospitals are shrinking and pretty soon there will be more SNF, RCFE, and elderly home patients then ever due to our aging baby boomer generation, with this mass coming of elderly population where did you think most of the job openings would be? ...

I personally get a little rude at times, I think its from the constant stress that I have from day to day. I am expected to leave every single pt no matter how mentally unstable feeling like they just stepped into Disneyland. It usually means a lot o...

I feel like ranting a little bit here. I am appalled at the amount of times I come on after a nurse who put in a urinary catheter and I have to do it over. Let me go over the main reasons this happens. 1. They didn't see urine when putting it in. ...

These nurses are charting that there is no urine when they insert Foley and leave the home, telling family to call night shift if there is no urine. I get called in later because no urine ever goes into the cath bag. Every single time its because its...

Wow, thanks for opening my eyes to how bad this really is. I felt like the situation was pretty bad, but since this is my first job where so many of the RNs do not know how to insert catheters properly, I had no idea that this was not common everywhe...

I skip the nursing shoes altogether, they hurt my feet something awful. I go to several sports shoe stores, try on every shoe in the store, then buy the pair that is the most comfortable. Last time it was the Nike air. Nike Store. Air Max I feel lik...

They might do away with draw sheets, but you can always fold up a flat sheet and make your own draw-sheet, which I recommend that you do if you want to save your back. You can work around anything if you think smarter. No face wipes? Offer them tub ...

I think I smell a student. No, I would not give insulin to a person with a BG of 74, when the order says to give when BG over 140.

I also found myself doing this. What made me change my ways was a super compassionate nurse who had been working for 20+ years. I would give her report with my usual negative quips, and she would chime in every time with a very compassionate statemen...

According to medi-cal regulations even a osteopathic trained person can be a medical director, so I think it would really depend on who you have for a director.

"Pick me up! Make my bed! Get me some coffee! Don't make me lodge a complaint about you!"

Lets see, most common reasons for abnormal vitals that I have seen in LTC, could probably apply anywhere. 1. BP taken after pt upset over something 2. BP cuff upside down, to tight, wrong size. 3. BP after pt gets toe ran over by wheelchair, skin te...