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My Mom was transferred from an inpatient rehab facility to a nursing home with skilled rehab. She has incontinence, but I was very shocked the nursing home facility has a non-diapering policy, so Mom urinates on a cotton pad on the bed. The nurse ...

The facility could not point me in the direction of scientific research to determine if air exposure non-briefs) vs urinating on a bed pads make a difference. My Mom wore briefs years before her stroke and never had an infection or skin breakdown, b...

Good question. About 10 years back the hospitals in our area had a massive lay-off and laid off many nurses with seniority or the older well trained nurses. They gradually replaced them with new graduates, so therefore, the trial and error knowled...

I have no shame in saying that nursing is not a very good profession. The pay is too low for the responsibility we have and the daily chronic abuse is beyond belief. I have been in this profession for 40 years. It has gone downhill from day one. ...

Sounds like a great job. I would go for it, $14.00 an hour, great money for a new LPN. Just educate yourself daily by going to all areas of the office and ask questions and learn how to run the entire office.

Detox by using foot pads is an interesting concept. However, I have seen physicians give too much meds and we had to detox the patient by "medication vacation, " and the Quacks goes on.

everytime i go into a room i state, " i am mrs. smith and i am a registered nurse." its pretty simple. i learned this from reading, "nursing against all odds."

A few years ago, or hospital paid big bucks for a consultant to come in to evaluate our department. The consultant company informed our managment that one person could do both jobs. Now our department is cross-trained and one nurse does both specia...

Location, Location, Location. If you start out at $25.00 an hour at my facility, in Alabama, then you would be overpaid by about $6.00 an hour. I bet my hat, you work hard enough to earn every penny of the $25.00 per hour as a new graduate.... I ...

Don't get me wrong, I have not been at the same facility for 35 years. I have been a traveler and made big buck. Now, I have responsibility for taking care of an elderly parent and had to take a job in the South where wages suck. I actually drive ...

Yes the pay really is that bad. After working 35 years in nursing, I make $25.00 per hour. Why should nurses settle for less. We all want a confortable place to live and a reasonable car to drive. We should be paid for our education and experience j...

Sign-on usually mean word is out about poor working conditions. Again research your location. However, sign-ons for a travel company can be a plus, they just need staff ASAP. But, again consider the location!

Nursing school does not prepare one for the reality of nursing. Nursing is no longer a science, but a freaking maze with time bombs at every turn. My advise is to try the OR. You do not have to spend much time with the patient because they go to ...

Your employer (management) is attempting to do a professional lobotomy on you, and using you as a scape- goat to control other employees. Please follow up with an attorney so the attorney can send a letter in your behalf. If your employer realizes ...

please write where others can read your progress notes and physician orders. patients die every day because of poor handwriting...i had a doctor this week write in the progress notes, none of the nurses (about 6 of us)could read his handwritting, ano...

i fear for the psychological effect this new nurse will have to deal with in the future.....it won't be easy. looks like she should be reimbursed for psychological damage, however, you should speak with an attorney to see what he/she will advise. i...

i spoke to a terminally ill patient that heard music that was not auditable to others. he stated he heard “twelve days of christmas”, another song by johnny cash, and three other songs over and over in his head until he knew all the words to the song...

discharge planning will consist of many documentation opportunities. it is a catch all for what the nurses on the floor fail to do...so your job will always be added upon. but remember, you are to assist the nurses on the floor, not do their job when...

Missing an order is bad. However, that doesn't hold a candle to poor physician handwriting. The hospital is responsible for appropriate doucmentation as outlined in the the Code Of Federal Reg

Only 5 patients? I want to work there!!!

On the floor I work, the poop odor is so foul after breakfast (9:00) and after lunch (2:00), that we can hardly breath. No ventilation is strong enough to vent out this smell. Some of the nurses put on mask and disposbale plastic covers over their ...

what you experienced is a text-book tactic from nursing management/hospital management that has beaten nurses down to the ground for decades. management is doing a professional lobotomy, to keep you in control. this is an example of "control" by hos...

after 40 years of nursing, i fully and honestly believe visitors should be banned from hospitals. along with tv's and telephones in patients room. if patients are sick enough to be in the hospital then they need a quite place to rest and heal. nur...

read the book "nursing against the odds" by suzanne gordon. weigh your past medical history and energy level against the challenges in the book and make your decision. the book is about nurses that are exhausted by heavy work, mandatory overtime, si...

She may still be considered a GN until the state gets around to informing the hospital she failed boards. Sometimes this takes several weeks. What she need now is an experienced nurse, like you, to help her get up to speed. She will make mistakes, l...