Loving Life

I work every other weekend if I work eight hours, I work every third weekend if I work 12s

I know of a nurse who developed this after injuring her shoulder from a patient. She lost a year from her life because of being heavily medicated, etc. My sister, who has Andersen's Syndrome that entails temporary hypokalemic paralysis with prolonged...

We do axillary temps on all heme-onc patients, rectal on those 2 yrs and under. Over two years, you do have the psychological aspect. We never do a rectal on an abuse child or heme/onc.

Bio-chem was bad for me too. I took it twice. There is alot of formula memorization. You CANNOT get behind. I had a difficult period in my life at that time and got behind. It was all over. You need a clear mind and stick with those formulas. I am be...

Priority Health in Michigan has been fairly good except for mental health, but they are improving. I had a corneal transplant and never saw a statement. I have no clue how much it cost! Of course co-pays go up like everything else.

I am a pediatric nurse of 15 years. I have done floor nursing all this time. I worked mainly with the bone marrow transplants and heme/onc population. I have been so ready for a career change but love to stay with children. I want to start a school n...

I work peds. heme/onc and general peds. We do get pulled (thank God it only happens once or twice a year) and I hate it. We either go to PICU (which I hate) or NICU or NIM. I would much rather go to NICU or NIM. I do not feel it's safe. We had 4-8 hr...

I'm from Michigan and we request a parent signature prior to administering. They are given a handout to read and they have to sign that they received, read and understand it and all questions were answered.

At our children's hospital only oncology docs administer IT chemo during the LP. All Iv chemo is done on the floor. Our chemo is triple checked by pharmacists and chemo nurse. On the oncology attendings can order chemo and no telephone orders are acc...

We don't use chloral hydrate as much anymore because it usually has the opposite effect. Many tests have had to be cancelled because the child did not fall asleep. Thankfully, we have radiology whose nurse will sedate during the day shift. We also us...

It is a fatty tumor. His just got so big. They automatically biopsied it. I just get a little paranoid when they don't biopsy things like that because I know of an instance where something removed was not biopsied the first time, it came back and wa...

My father had one the size of a football, had it removed and is fine. They did biopsy it and it's benign. I feel all should be biopsied. You can only be certain that way.

Has anyone attended Wayne State University's School of Nursing? I am interested in their MSN program for pediatrics, school nursing and/or community health. I would appreciate any info. Thanks. Also do you know if they have an extension school where ...

I just received my BSN from GVSU. They do not have a MSN for pediatrics and/or school nursing whereas Wayne does. I am going to see how many classes could be done online. I am going to take a school nurse class on school systems that can be applied t...

I agree. I work with cancer kids and have also had children die on general peds. Just love them and be there for them. Parents do cope with grief differently. They may be withdrawing early. You will be fine. That child will love you for it even tho s...

Nurses who do not rinse out their suction catheters after suctioning someone and lets it build up in the tubing and those who do not pick up their rooms.

The hospital I work at had a free marrow drive for the first 50 people. I took advantage of that. I work at a children's hospital bone marrow transplant/heme-onc floor. It is a great thing that you are doing. I see these families holding on to every ...

I am sorry to any of you if you felt I was casting stones. I was just concerned about some of the things I had heard. Like I said I never bailed my son out of trouble, not once. But I do love my son and it breaks my heart every time I go and see him....

I do believe he is a criminal don't get me wrong, but I feel he should be treated medically while in jail. Believe me, I have had discussions with him regarding killing someone and I would have a hard time if he did. I guess what I'm saying is that i...

I am a pediatric nurse whose son is in jail for his third DUIL and waiting for boot camp. He will go to prison if it happens again. He is only 23 years old. I know he needs to straignten up his act. I know drinking and driving can kill someone, but h...

I am also saying a prayer for all of you

We do rectal unless contraindicated under 2-3 years. No rectal temps on our pediatric heme onc patients.

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I love my Quarks I got at the uniform store.