rudeRN

A gal at work had the same problem and switched gloves and that helped ALOT! She also uses cornhuskers. The type of gloves does make a difference.

I work nights and I do have an occasional glass or 2 of wine in the morning after a long shift. But, I live 16 miles out into the middle of nowhere, so the drive usually relaxes me. I am very good at leaving the stress at work, not worth the trouble bringing it home.

We haven't ever used skin prep at our facility, but betadine. How does skin prep work on tape blisters? Some of our patients have terrible reactions to tape after surgery, and it seems there is no good way to treat the blister.

We don't have a CCU at our Rural Hosp, but we have a Jehovah's Witness nurse who will not take care of a pt who may need a transfusion. I guess we work around it due to our small hosp and limited nursing staff. But, it can be difficult for the other nurses, especially when you have 4 nurses on the floor and 2 of them are LPNs who cannot start it and the other is Charge and has other duties. Usually it is not an issue.

She had a bad perm! Her scalp was fine, mostly having to goto work with bad hair was the issue.

My 1998 Corvette.....and travel.....and of course I LOVE to splurge on the kids and hubby!

"I burnt my hair" I honestly heard that one when I worked in LTC.

Definately suction...wouldn't you think that would be under comfort cares? That's what I would do, even though that is the only thing that really gives me the willies.

We were hunter green pants during the week and top is our choice. Weekends is free for all, only on sat and sun. I try to keep it unique, but tasteful. It is fun to see everyone's personalty come out in their style of tops.

...sometimes you need to have a sense of humor to keep from going off the deep end, especially now with insufficient staffing. On slow nights you can only do so much stocking and cleaning and charting, especially if your patients are taken care of.

LOVE this topic...I am night charge and am always looking for ideas to get my co-workers on those slow nights. One night we had a "on call" nurse sleeping down the hall, we taped his door shut. We also try to make mysterious sounds in rooms at night, like a call light going off and not actually happening, stuff like that. It really gets some of the nurses.

Do we work at the same place?? We did, however, get a bunch of flowers from the hospital board to all staff for hospital week. A simple Thank you would be welcome, especially when we have all been picking up extra shifts and working like mad for the past 6 weeks. We are 3 night nurses down, that is a lot for a rural hosp. Maybe an email would be nice...haha...easy enough, but someone would have to do it.

Small VACATION!!! That usually helps me. My family and I get away as much as we can, even if it is going camping for one night.

The other day, the accuity even said that we needed another nurse, but she denied we did, and she likes to follow the numbers it has on paper. Right now we are out 3 night nurses and we have 3 full time nights right now picking up the other shifts, all extra shifts are considered "hight needs pay". She has even said, before the "high Need" shifts were out there, that we need to not worry about the overtime, she just doesn't want people to work more than 5 days in a row, but it is ok to do 5 double shifts in a row, mostly talking about the 8 hr shifts. But Since I have been employed there, OT has not been an issue. Talking to her is like trying to nail jello to the wall. May seem to stick at first, but then it will all be gone after a min.