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We carry a tackle box with lab equipment. (the day a lab is due the supplies are on the cart for pick up, pkg'd with pts name) Kerlix/abd pads/ 4x4 normal saline tape cath kit must be on a barrier, sealed, in date we have to have a contamination pack...

Its all about safety. Can they safely ambulate without stand by assistance at all times?You can mark the Oasis lower, and they can get better in a couple of days if they will work on their safety awareness- that you TEACH. We can go back as far as 24...

Worse case scenario; in a wreck, someone dies, they see your badge......hospital gets drug into a lawsuit. Unless it was before your clock in. Its for the agency you work for.

I love home health. I am single. I can not see myself in this field with children, nor, if I did not have a very supportive husband. I have seen husbands bring in the equipment, bag, computer and phone verbalizing very sternly "she will not be com...

Although nurses have = precious Limited time. You must address, by calling physicians, any red flags, or issues. Good doctors never let home health nurses wait for answers. I have one that I know who tells his staff to NOT to let us hang up without o...

I work, finally, with management that shows appreciation every single chance they possibly can. I work with a really good group of nurses in home health...the sweet nurses. There is not a Debbie Downer in the entire bunch...and I love, love, love tha...

Of course its "norm" to feel nervous about a job you expect to do well at. My imagination makes every patient much worse than they really are prior to seeing them for the 1st time. You know you are going to be pretty much alone in the field. Murphy's...

My "How to land a job within a hospital" story - I spent days sending out applications to anyone and everyone I possibly could:bugeyes:. I put a small photo of me and my kids on one resume :nurse:and was called from five different facilities. Then ab...

They get pharmacy to show you because they won't be able to do it "perfectly" you will see it so they get someone else to show you..PLEASE...don't shudder be brave. The "friends" on the floor have fought their fears of the lowly beast. I have had m...

Yes, I go back to one of my stories..whereas a doctor yelled at me and I was angered for weeks at him. I thought we got along on the floor. His odd behavior reinforced, to me, the reason why most nurses HATED him. I have a son in pre-med, has NO so...

oh hoe hoe! describing my first job. Lesson Learned: if they don't answer your questions...they don't KNOW the answer. So don't ask questions. 1. it makes you look lazy and ignorant 2. puts them on the spot because they are lazy and ignorant and don'...

So funny a co-workers "message received BONG de la BING" went off at work today and the Nurse Manager got on to her pretty heavy reminding her (again) about the cell phone rules (and here we are talking about it). Rules are rules - follow the rules, ...

If you leave on good terms, she may call you back. It happens around here. Stay and take the invisible route. She obviously doesn't need any more input - I'm sure everyone's squawking away in her office. Too many chiefs is right! But you could stay a...

I worked on a floor, where they would not hire another nurse over 60, but had one 59 year old on the floor, that had worked there 8 years, that was "in" with the floor manager and although everyone complained that she did not do her work, ex: ampute...

Hear Ye Hear Ye...Once a doctor yelled at me, I yelled back at him...my patient was asked and he refused pain meds over and over..but when the doctor asked of course he was "hurtin really bad" I had another doctor raise his hand and tell me "DO NOT ...

Case Manager, I worked in "the worst hell whole" said a patient that got to leave. Other patients sang the song Hotel California along with the CNAs whilst I worked there. My experience, and I'm a nurse w/2 years (YaY!!), with hospice...was an eye op...

The street smart trashy gals who lie to get free funding for their college, who told me put your car in your momma's name, rent a trailer, don't own anything - who could somehow afford all those cigarettes. The group of the smart kids that sit on t...

These preceptors did not want to be "Teachers" - nor do they have the "gift" or knowledge of what it means to become a preceptor. Students that are reading this...meet all the nurses you possibly can...YOU choose someone that YOU like. I had two abso...

Its a small community. I have found work though only part time, I'm with wonderful nurses, the way nurses should be working in a clinic. Thanks for asking....and your absolutely right. All those proceptor wanna beees, all those managers that listen t...

I am so burned. My experience with nursing has been so heartwrenching sad. I love nursing, work circles around some, I know I am smart - I was so new. If I could go back there and begin again. The first week their slang during report "appy's" Lap-col...

My experience. I am old..median age on my floor was 28. It was an eye opening experience..I mean reality was I found them to be very mean spirited, a pack of attention seeking back bitters, would rather point fingers at the newbies and gossip than pu...

A bad preceptor, and I had two of them, takes away confidence, destroys dreams, makes one feel like they have been crapped on, let down, stepped on, spit on. One of my preceptors got fired 6 months after graciously allowing me.."what's her name"...do...

Faith, from one 50 year old to another..I feel your pain! I went on a 2nd job interview..the staff liked me..the boss asked me about somone younger than me 1/2 my age that I worked with..in fact the nurse who took my job. I replied "I liked her"...I ...

I was not raised to act nor be anything like most of the mentors that I have been around. I have been so perplexed for the past 3 years I can't tell you because of the evil of the nurses. My mentor, during my clinicals during my preseptorship - made ...

Pup, you are so right. I have applied for a position that was posted at a hospital 50 miles away and when I got there it was a baited job oppurtunity.."oh that position is filled" "would you like to work on this floor". In my area you catch wind of w...