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so do any of you who share the dysfunctional family thing with me feel it has negatively affected you in nursing. I have a really difficulty time with relationships. After 32 years of nursing, I have just lost my 3rd job due to poor interpersonal ...

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[color=#b2a1c7]tiger, i am keeping you and your grandmother in my prayers... there is no excuse for what you are going through. you, when you are with your grandmother are a visitor. as a family member, you are not expected to be able to think straig...

thank you for starting this thread. i definitely came from a dysfunctional family. basically i consider having come from no family at all. it had defintely affected me positively and negatively as a nurse. having been a nurse for 32 years...i have l...

[color=#5f497a]i have worked both in and outpatient settings. yes, the change in orders does wreak the occasional havoc with orders written prior to admission, especially in the inpatient setting. however, we live in a benefits outweigh the inconvie...

evening shift isn't all that bad if you are young and don't have children. It is a lot easier to go to the gym in the morning and get all your stuff done before work. If you get in the habit of going to bed at a decent time like midnight, then you ...

i have to be the devil's advocate regarding even walmart has dress code because i support coded uniforms for patient's sakes. nurses are supposed to be "professionals" and many feel like forcing them into standardized uniforms takes away from that st...

with all the issues facing us in nursing, what uniform you wear should be the least of our worries!!! if it makes these older patients more comfortable and they recognize us better, then why not conform and do this little bit to please them. i have w...

One last note. For a lawsuit to be viable, there has to have been irreversible damage to the patient. Going one shift with UTI, if it didn't result in septic shock, is not irreversible damage. I think you are safe on this on.

Most professional nurses do not quit without notice. More likely they were let go. It is the policy at our hospital that other staff are not notified when staff are disciplined and are not allowed to talk to the other staff members about any discip...

Depends on where you live. I live in Indiana. There are no laws to protect your employment here. You can go in one day and they can look at you and say they don't like the way you combed your eyebrow and let you go and you have not recourse!! Of c...

It might be unrealistic to expect your manager to do actual patient care in and area that she is not used do working. More importantly, it might be a patient safety issue if she is not used to the medications and treatments those patients receive. ...

You seem to have misread the information. This student never said the nurse was hiding in a closet to text!!!

I grew up in Jacksonville Beach Florida. Lived there until I married at age 30 Loved it would go back in a heartbeat. I live in Midwest now and 20 years ago when I came here I took a 6 dollar per hour cut in pay and had to start paying state income ...

it never pays to cause ripples in the water unless it will prevent a tidal wave? the nurse may have had an isolated day of having to text to her child because the child was ill or some other major life issue. if she did not neglect or endanger the ...

one mistake is enough to end your career. students have way more pressure on them today than they did 30 years ago. one mistake and they could be tossed out of the program. just like one mistake of an experienced nurse could cost her a career. even i...

just remember, life has changed over the years...99.9% is unacceptable in nursing now. one mistake is enough to end your career. students have way more pressure on them today than they did 30 years ago. one mistake and they could be tossed out of th...

Other patients have orders sent the day before, why not LTC patients. Any changes in patient condition should be received with report on the day of arrival. Make it a practice to call sending facility for verbal report prior to arrival of patient o...

if what you are required to wear is the worst of your problems, then thank god for your blessings. it is evidence based practice. when hospitals have specific uniforms that identify the nurses the press gainey ratings rise. this is based on surveys...

I don't often offer answers that are not backed up with research.. You shouldn't give answers that are not backed up by research. So definitely research any of the answers that you receive here and have the references on hand for your professor...El...

Yes, it is often the case, but not all of us veterans are like that... I have been a bedside nurse for 32 years, and still remember how it feels to start and be insecure. I make every effort to help the "newbies" grow in their knowledge base and skil...

It isn't so much about the pay as about you opportunites. The BSN will afford you much more in the way of advancement and job choice. Many hospitals are trying to staff up to only having RN with BSN and so they will definitely hire a BSN nurse befo...

3 in a row = vtach... it is called non sustained now and most doctors don't get too concerned about it. As long as you chart it, though, it really doesn't matter if you chart triplet pvcs or 3 beat run of VT...Either is acceptable on the medical cha...

don't know the articles...but Americans are fatter than we used to be... for most people 90 degree angle works fine!!! Only reason to change that would be an emaciated person.