manjaNurse

this does not happened to me. It was told by one of my much senior staff nurse. A patient chased her during night shift with a glass bottle and shouting that he wanted to kill her! Patient had history of violence and the hospital refused to admit him in the first place. She hid behind a curtain till he went away. The nurses were so relieved when he died, as he has caused a few serious injuries to other nurses.

It sounds as if you are burnt out. I do agree that nursing has changed its meaning...it is more like a customer service...the customer's always right. I have been in nursing for 11 years only and i'm 31 this year. I am not the type who can sit in the same environment for long, no matter how good it was. I like to gain more experiences by volunteering for replacements or upgrading. I would do nursing again. In my country, the pay is actually quite good. I have tried ICU, burns, medical, home care, palliative, development disability, and now school nursing. Each of the specialty I went to, I gained more experiences. I don think i'm suitable in ICU and palliative care though! I am so far feeling perfectly happy doing school nursing. I was happy too doing medical and burns, but I can't do 3 shifts work due to family commitments. I do regret that I do not get my advanced specialty training in medical/surgical though. I chose to be in nursing when I was 17. I hated my first posting and felt like crying for my stupidity to go into nursing. But one day, an old lady said 'Thank you' so very sincerely and that melted me...till now. It just takes one patient to remind me why I am a nurse. I really hope you will find the right path for yourself. Stay strong..

I'll never forget this - she said, "We don't necessarily do it for the pts, we do it to give the families time to say good bye." Wow! new perspective... mine - one man came in at the start of my shift from ER. Suddenly he became delirious and started to break in cold sweat. Vitals have not even been taken yet. I know he was going to collapse and through enough we did code blue even before admission. He didn't make it. another one was on a night shift. BGIT pt was bleeding +++ per rectum with malena and vomiting fresh blood at the same time. I can't remember for the life of me how we did d cpr...but he survived and went to ICU...whew...

yup yup yup...stomachache and headaches are very popular!! why don't i think of colouring books?! what a great idea!

When my infant had his routine immunisation injection, I was holding him and explaining to him what the nurse is doing and what will happen next. The nurse looked at me and asked, 'Are you a nurse too? I've never heard any parent explaining an injection'.

Oh ok i remembered one man! He had a lung transplant, not from a human, but from a pig. he did it in some country and seeked treatment in Singapore because he was not really functioning well. He was a famous patient, always in and out of the hospital and somehow always ended in my ward. He would press the bell every 5 minutes for EVERYTHING!! sometimes just to shout at you to go out! We all just called him a PIG...heheheh

A few times while I was on duty, the call lights beep on their own....from empty rooms or empty toilets....and the doors were locked from the inside! now, what's up with that?!

Oh God, I thank You for not having to go tru d worst like all of those nurses here!! my grossest - was doing home care a few years back. Patient refused BKA. I haf to do dressing. pt said put on a pail to 'collect' the pus that will be oozing out. i opened up the gross bandage, and big fat maggots started to jumped out and made some good 'plopping' sound into the pail! plop plop plop dey went.... my next grossest - a bgit pt decided to get really sick during night shift when there's only two nurses. he vomited pure blood AND passed out malena stools and fresh blood via anal as well!!. the whole room was full of blood and smelled of malena. poor patient though..it must have been horrible!

i have 4 cards/notes - Green: teacher to fill up, name n class, date n time, and tick the problem or write, and remarks to be taken seriously or not. Blue - from me to the teacher, what has been done etc (all has ticking columns). Yellow - from me to parents, what has been done and follow up care. sometimes i attached a pamphlet that i made on info on head injury etc. pink - for the security guards, alerting them to let a parent pass through the campus for parent to fetch child. i made via words and then just print.

does that mean each visit will be recorded twice? One in the log book and the other on their cards? That means I have a LOT of things to do now!!! Once the cards are up, should I copy each kid's visits from my logbook to the cards? oh gosh...

I just wrote everything in a logbook. each kid has their own medical sheet of cos, and the one with problems has a separate emergency plan. i want dis kind of system too so its easier to monitor their issues and number of times they comes in...

Thanks guys! I am lucky to get a good principal! She's backing me up. This teacher is not new but she has had problems in the past of being "unstable" (that came from my principal btw). She even told one of tthe parent who is a doctor on all those symptoms and that parent called me up. After explaining the real symptoms to him, he agreed that its not GE or anything. I have spoken sternly to the whole class this morning. If they claimed they are sick, they have to get me a doctor's letter. They are not allowed to stay home or send home without a doctor saying that they are sick. I've called two parents up today as the kids are absent and insisted that I want a doctor's letter. Principal has spoken to this teacher, but she's not stopping. She is still scaring the kids and she told them today she is going to sterilised the tables and the door handles. big sigh...

Hi all, I am from Singapore and I have never heard of this side of nursing though I've been a RN for more than 10yrs. I have worked in a residential home for the intellectually disabled before, but there is no 'specialty' cert or degree for this. I loved my work with them but I have changed to school nursing just so I can have more time to spend with my 3yr autistic boy. It's out of the topic a bit, but I need to ask - My boy tends to sleep whenever he was "forced" to be in a new environment eg new school, a wedding reception, new therapy centres, etc.....What can I do? Hope some of you can give me some pointers...developmental disabilities care and support group in Singapore is NOT well developed yet.

Hi all, Thanks for the replies on my topic "tiredness?" posted yesterday. Today the same teacher came to me and said 4-5 kids in her class are having stomachache and nausea. 2 of them were the same kids that she sent to me yesterday. Only one of them presented with slightly active bowel sounds. All of them has no fever. All of them has nausea but no vomiting. The teacher wants me to send them home. This is really pressuring me guys! I think the teacher is just being overly-emotional about this. She's exagerrating the whole thing and cried in front of the principal today! What can I do???!!!

Welcome back everyone! Hope all of you have had a goooood break! Current problem - teachers have been sending students who are tired or sleepy AND demand me to send them home! What do you guys do in this scenario? I did not send 2 kids home today. Send by the same teacher. the first kid freshened up well after 1 hour of nap. the second kid wanted to go home and rest BUT wants to come back at 4pm for her soccer match. ?????!!!!!