Heather27

*Singing* I'm so glad I'm a Canadian nurse...........LOL!

I'm so sorry you had a bad evaluation this morning....it happens to the best of us... The thing to remember is that you are a GOOD nurse, and likely a great charge nurse. See, the problem is that you likely make your staff toe the line. That is goi...

WOW, M2B...as the others have said....you have a lot to learn... I feel so sorry for you, and, even more sorry for your residents, should you find it necessary to work in long term care in the future. I've been a geriatric nurse for almost 10 years,...

Catsrule...by friends and loved ones?? Sure...all the time. I don't mind a bit. Oh, and...surveyors..HAH...one MORE reason I like nursing in CANADA eh..LOL Actually..our accreditation was just renewed again...one of the accreditors comments wa...

YES, HeatherP...what you wrote above was my point EXACTLY! :) Now..am I the "other" Heather or are you? LOL

No no no, bigred...it's not the "dear", "Hon", or "nana"s that I object to!! It's the way my particular staff member treats my elderly residents by doing things like SPELLING words around them...re read my original post, hon. LOL Just kiddin'... :...

Alright..this may be a gripe more appropriate to another board, but... I have a staff member that consistently treats my residents like children. She talks to them like they're five. OMG, the other day...she ACTUALLY looked at me, pointed at one of...

Sure, Jane...families SHOULD take care of their own...what of those who CAN'T? It's sad, yes, to see the end of a life reduced to a few pictures and their favourite chair in their "new home"...but, I know, personally, our facility REALLY strives to ...

The only thing BANGING accomplishes is to wreck the med cups or package that the pill is in...I find that "rolling" the pounder thingy (mortar? pestle? which??) is more effective anyway...smooshes them up better...of course, I'm gonna have Carpal Tun...

No...it never gets "easier"...God forbid that there ever be a day when I don't feel sad at the passing of a resident. HOWEVER...I always remind myself that this is what I DO..this is what I CHOSE. I may be the last contact that person has on this m...

What did I get for Nurse's Week? Same thing as every week...I got screwed.. HAHA..kidding...lemme see..I got a votive candle and holder...I think it was from the dollar store...AND, it was from a "draw"...so not all the nurses got stuff... What'...

Well, personally, I thought it was hilarious. Thanks for sharin' that!! If we can't laugh, what do we have left??

Hi Stefani...EXCELLENT field to get into..I love geriatrics. Can I give you a word of advice? Don't go into your clinical all brushed up on "disorders" alone... Take a look at the residents from a non-nursing perspective for a minute...from a non-...

We have run the gamut of napkins, "bibs", whatever you want to call them. We have found that it is most cost effective AND most practical to use the terry-cloth tie-on ones. We tried the rubber-backed plaid ones from Aveda, but they didn't last lon...

Nurses' Week?? It was Nurses' Week?? What the....?? I guess my administrators didn't get that memo...

$1.30/hr...REGULAR pay for the first 3 hours if called in...time and a half for the rest, IF you have to stay. *sigh*

We used to bet on bili levels in the newborns on obstetrics...now that I'm in geriatrics, we bet on things like what kind of pinning the recent fracture will get... gluco checks... which family members will be the first vultures...I mean, MOURNERS, w...

We had a doc in our facility who felt he was God's gift to medicine. He STILL runs rough-shod over MOST of the nurses. He USED to do it to me until one day we were having a phone conversation and the chart was out of order, so I had to take a minut...

I have worked all three shifts. I KNOW I am grumpier during the day!! That's a Depends-full that days are busier!! My nights are WAY busy...I make them that way!! LOL Seriously, in LTC, a LOT of units are JUST as busy during EACH shift. My theor...

Well, you all...THANKS for your input. After some "discussion" -- okay, the staff circulated a petition amongst themselves against the idea and gave it to management -- the EOTM idea has been dropped!! They MAY go to feature each department on a mo...

THIS one just gets my dander up, all... I need to know if I am off the wall, here. The facility I work at has now come up with the BRILLIANT idea to have an "employee of the month". The person will be "chosen" by their peers...kinda like a nomin...

Judy...I love that website...You can ask anything, and SOMEONE will answer ya! Dr. Freedline has just added a bunch of new forums that should go active by the end of the month, and Liza Ovington is an AMAZING source of resource material!! Glad you ...

My son is in kindergarten, and supposed to get a HepB shot when school resumes in January. My question is..WHY? Is it really important? I just don't like the idea. (Stone me, I'm not a big vaccination fan, anyway...Long story, and not the issue he...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You had me hooked right up to "Polite physicians"!!! Then I KNEW it was too good to be true!! *sigh*

I would be SO insulted!! I would also be VERY loathe to count dirty needles...that is just stupid to me. Just my humble opinion, as usual... Heather