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Amen to that! I have heard many times in various places about decisions not to treat UTI's in patients deemed terminal, and I have always been aghast. As you said, they are incredibly painful, and not just necessarily when one tries to urinate. I do...

Wow. Incredible. Kudos to you for what you are planning and for your concern. To me, it's unconscionable to let people suffer with UTI's and to not feed them. Most especially since it's obvious this poor lady is not even in any sort of coma. (In whic...

That's pretty funny! Although I am surprised it didn't occur to anyone to stick some old fashioned heavy duty cloth bandage tape on the box and write the name on the tape. We used to label all sorts of things that way.

I don't think I'd feel insulted, but it wouldn't make me feel appreciated, either. I like the sweatpant with logo actual gift idea. I would have appreciated that. Nurses week never happened until after I was no longer working at a hospital. In fact, ...

I did, although at the time, I was a student, and had already done my L&D/PP rotation. I didn't know any of the nurses in the L&D unit, because I went to the hospital and delivered during the night shift, so I didn't know any of them. I was o...

This happened in my family as well. My mom and her siblings shared the care of her mother late in life. At that point, she told me she never wanted to "force" this on us and she wanted to go to a nursing home when the time came. Many times, especiall...

Oops - thought I quoted the person who posted the original. This was meant for the nurse who drained her hematoma and needed months of wound care afterward.

Forgive me if I've posted this before. Our very first day of clinicals, another student came to me in distress, telling me she couldn't get the rectal thermometer to stay in place. "It keeps falling out!" I couldn't imagine how that could happen. She...

Oh, my, I feel so badly for you! Who would have thought it would take that long to heal?

Hopefully, your doctors have an efficient practice, know exactly how they want you to deal with phone calls, and will train you to do what they want. The physician I worked for had very specific things he wanted us to tell patients. He always conside...

Oh, hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh - I really needed it!

Good grief! Except for the faking, crying, denial and swearing, I thought you might have been talking about me! I became ill while scrubbed in during clinicals and had to ask the circulating nurse who was supervising me to take over for me. She gave ...

Totally off topic, VintagePN, but your avatar looks like one of my old supervisors! :)

In the 70's, at the Army hospital I worked at then, we had a princess of a Middle Eastern country as a patient for a few days. She was very polite to us, and was really no trouble as a patient. There was not a huge fuss over her, because we were supp...

I'm a little puzzled, because I wonder why the dividing line between being reasonable and becoming "hostile" is when the incoming nurse goes beyond checking the IV site and goes on to further assessment? I understand that it makes the process longer ...

Our floors would generally refuse to take patients during report time. If the ED would call near report time saying they were coming with a patient, we would ask them to either bring the patient 15 minutes before report, or wait till the end of repor...

That must be pretty far "back in the day!" When I took it, it was 2 6-8 hour days, and that was 40+ years ago.

Cleaning up after people's daily needs is just part of the job, but it IS part of the job. In some areas and some jobs, there may be others primarily assigned to help the patient with hygiene needs, or there may not. You will definitely have more of ...

My post was not directed at you or anyone in particular. Others brought the word "cadaver" into the conversation as an alternative term. I've been on both sides of the situation and I've seen both patients and families treated with respect and with ...

I'm sorry, the idea of talking about people on life support being "cadavers" or speaking of them as just being on "organ support" gives me the chills. I imagine families would simply flip out at having their loved ones referred to in this manner, and...

I have to say that frosts me. There is just no reason for that. I trained at teaching hospitals and I worked at teaching hospitals almost exclusively. I saw a couple of rather borderline "specimen" visits, but nothing like described by the first two ...

You're very welcome! I'm sorry that your family has not been very supportive of you. That definitely makes things a good bit more difficult. You will be in my prayers. :)

I'm sorry if I made it sound as though a grandparent was the only option - I didn't intend that. But anyone close to you, IMHO, would be a good thing. I know how it is to not have many options, and the times we could call on grandma were probably no...

I have a lot of regrets about time my child spent with others while I worked, and I was only working 8 hour shifts. We had several bad experiences. We did a lot of moving around during his early years because my husband was in the service from the ti...

Really stupid. My mom was in assisted living and often did not feel up to getting up for breakfast. In fact, one of the reasons we decided on assisted living instead of the senior apartments where she had a few, but not all, the types of service in a...