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This makes me think of my son because I've never worked peds. Imagine what his mother went through in addition to what the boy went through. How will this affect their trust in health care providers in the future? This is basic nursing at it's simp...

Being beat up is not your job. Seeing to the safety of this patient is. The way you approach late stage alzheimer's patients can go a long way to diffusing volatile situations. However, when all else fails....back off. It is perfectly appropriate...

Being beat up is not your job. Seeing to the safety of this patient is. The way you approach late stage alzheimer's patients can go a long way to diffusing volatile situations. However, when all else fails....back off. It is perfectly appropriate...

I wonder if staff had any input into this decision. Were you given an opportunity, as a team, to participate in the change? I'll also add that I was very grateful for walking rounds one morning I had report with the offgoing night nurse. As we ent...

That might work if he has a skill such as carpentry or mechanic. But if you are talking about his getting hired at new job everytime you change assignments, that sounds difficult.

Strongly agree. I nominate you president. Where do i sign up?

If telling your boss the truth is a problem, let it be your bosses problem. Once you tell a lie about it , it becomes your problem. If the job you are currently in is not as beneficial to your career as the job you are going to, that is a perfectly...

Try the midwest, specifically the st. louis , mo area. Lots of jobs out here, but i did speak with new grad RN who says she has had no luck getting the hospital job she wants either(she also works in ltc, and she agrees with the opinion that time sp...

Above poster is right. Most non patient care positions are based on nurses using their knowledge, experience, and expertise to enhance or enrich other services(business, legal or insurance consultant). But you don't bring much to the table if you ha...

Welcome to nursing. One of the most challenging aspects of our work is maintaining our compassion and caring of others in the face of situations like you described above. Sometimes it helps me to remember that we see people at their very worst. An...

It depends on the relationship of the nurse to patient. In general, that is not an appropriate way to address a patient you do not have that relationship with. I have seen instances where pet names can be appropriate. I have many resident's that ar...

The legalities of what an RN can be held accountable for will probably depend on the state of practice and all kinds of other variables. When I moved to management, found that the best move was to go ahead and get my own malpractice insurance. You ...

If you don't go back, you burn that bridge. Burning bridges is never good. Its true that you need nursing experience, but you also have to pay the bills. Will your non nursing job work with you? If so that's great. But if taking the job means you can...

All I can say is, GOD BLESS YOU! for the wonderful nurse you are.....but I don't know how to get rid of the smell

I definitely think you should say something. I mean, it's one thing to watch super nurse, i mean, new nurse jump over tall buildings with her own assignment. But I would have to set healthy limits with someone "taking over" my patient, and finishin...

Yeah, how do they manage to keep pt #1 on hospice? Where i work, they have to come off of hospice after so long if no decline. I know they review it every 6 months and things like weight gain and increased appetite can cause a pt to no longer be el...

Where do I start? 1. Require every manager to work a floor shift AT LEAST once a month. 2. Make backstabbing another caregiver a fireable offence. 3. Find a way to measure the number of times our patients are happy to see us coming and the positiv...

I would say that in the absence of an extenuating circumstance (such as the aforementioned ones), if you find you're regularly staying late to catch up with charting or what have you, then you need to change something or work on your time management ...

Canoehead is right. Address it first with nurse AN in front of a witness. You have to stand up to yourself. Lindarm is right. Documentation of dates, times, witnesses, and behaviors can only help your case. The supervisor does seem blissfully un...

I have no psych experience whatsoever and I haven't written a care plan in years, but what I read in your assignment was logical and valid. All 3 diagnoses seem relevant to this pts issues, and so far as I can tell, you are going in the right direct...

Just getting out of the same position myself. Have come to the realization that they will allow me to cover as many shifts as I let them give me. They will hold me responsible for as much as I let them pile on me, and I can be super nurse as long as...

Ok so Im sitting in my house on a gloomy saturday morning, it's raining outside and im reading all of these freaked out stories and looking at ghost pictures. I jumped 3 feet in the air when my cell phone rang and had to have my 12 year old escort m...

If you are truly that unhappy with your present employment, you need to change something. No one can make you happy but you. Never mind what the other nurses say about "get out while you can". It's not their license or decision. Sounds like you h...

Of course, cracking jokes about the other nurses lack of good judgement was not the best response to the situation. However, we all get frustrated. Especially when you are in a situation where you are afraid for the pt and irritated with the nurse w...

Did you get his phone number too?