Davey Do replied to pharmanurse11's topic in General Nursing
About 30 years ago, I worked at a SNF and was amazed at the lack of professional communication between the facility and a local hospital.
On one occasion, a hospital nurse advised me to get a...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
Thank you for that update, sideshowstarlet, and I'm glad your day went well.
One of the difficult things about starting at a new facility is some of the training exercises, but I'm sure you will...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
Takes me back, the N S E W Conference Room, and how, like Will Rodgers said, "You never get a second chance to make a good first impression".
We are all representatives of our places of...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
There's something to be said about pheromones.
The mention of your orientation, sideshowstarlet, caused me to think of mine, in 1987, to a chemical dependency treatment program. For several...
Night shift plays havoc with our systems, Dtylee.
Having worked nearly half of my 40+ year career on the MN shift, I can commiserate. Our heath is much more important than money and needs to be...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
Interesting what you say about who you'll be sitting next to at orientation.
I'm getting vibes that this concept needs to be driven home to you and I sense that you are a very intuitive...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
It is written, "The only true sin is the sin of self", and often applies to caregivers. When we put our own comfort above that of those in our care, we commit a sin of self.
Those who we care for...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
THAT is a scary thought, lifelearningrn- for someone to have so much animosity toward another human being that they would want them to suffer. Scary, but it happens.
Some need to learn the "do...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
You have just described a situation, sideshowstarlet, where it's relatively safe to assume that no one would desire to be in that state.
In some cases, the loved ones don't want to let the...
A Human Comedy is defined with, "the whole variety of human life", and death is part of that whole variety.
This thread was inspired by @sideshowstarlet 's thread "The Light At the End of the...
Davey Do replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in General Nursing
Once we make the decision to allow other's opinion of who we are, or how we should be, less important than our own sense of self, that is, in essence seeing the light at the end of the tunnel....
Thank you for your reply, because I've considered updating that thread, "Profanity & Disrespect" but figured no one would be interested at this late date.
Rita- there goes that great memory...