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I read an article on medscape that discusses some of our real generational differences. I think it would fit in well with this discussion. We are all different. Our age, experience, and upbringing do impact our professional practice.The article is we...

To me Unions really are just another task master and very controlling. We should be able to advocate for ourselves. Another thought is that nurses and staff would not only have patient rooms to turn over and clean, but there is an entire hospital ...

OMG. That is insane!

Unless I have mis-read the criteria for taking the exam, I believe that 6 months of experience in the position is a requirement.

GrnTea wrote: "Your mother is a mean and vindictive, perhaps damaged, person who doesn't care what her daughter is or does or feels so long as she can make herself feel better by making you feel bad. Seriously, what kind of mother is that? I can tell...

First off I would think that the mother you have described is a horrible mother and not a very compassionate or supportive "nurse" either. My mother was mentally ill, had years of ECT and depressive episodes and a light stroke eliminated any inhibiti...

With all due repect we all have to research and look up information throughout our life...so let me google that for you. :) Let me google that for you

Sounds like a complete case of total burnout. Burnout is the natural result of being totally overwhelmed by school, sick of studying, striving to live up to everyone expectations including your own inner personal ones, studing until the brain can't e...

It is often considered nepotism and not a good idea. If a facility is very large and the spouses can work on different floors or shifts, etc then it is not so bad. That said, our facility has an RN in the coordinator position who directly supervises ...

I had a little old lady seeing spiders crawling all over her wall.This was back in the day (early 80's) when you "absolutely had to" reorient confused little patients and NEVER ever ever act like their hallucinations were real. They preached that hot...

Last edit by nhnursie on Dec 12, '12 : Reason: posted before finished typing That is the cutest and funniest reason (guilty myself) for having to edit. Loved it!

In almost 30 years of nursing I have rarely seen a true case of "fire the nurse first" over a patient complaint unless there was an extreme error or managers were already looking for an excuse to fire a person. I have witnessed administration in faci...

If you are willing to work anywhere until you find a job you really want your chances are great. Actually they are great most everywhere for experienced nurses that are highly flexible. I see you mentioned that you have some revenue to fall back on o...

hi all, i just read a thread asking about older nursing interventions and it made me think of the older techniques that we really did use before so many modern meds and procedures. for a lower gi bleed we used to do strong tea enemas. the rational w...

LOL, I have to say that this is your fantasy and you can have it any way you want it. I love to write (but I am horrible at spelling) and I love to draw so I had thought that I would have gone into journalism or advertising.

on your #5...you know you've been nursing too long when .... your answer to the 5 year plan is to just "live long enough retire with my sanity intact.'

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i admire and support anyone who is able to stay home and raise their own children. there is no greater gift than the gift of time and presence. i would suggest if you can manage to work at least a few days a month prn some where then you won't lose y...

getting older has given me the chance to branch out into areas of nursing that i never thought of before (ie: discharge planning, employee health, occupational nursing, school nursing, education,infection control and prevention). i worked the medical...

paging may be part of the change that happens as technology advances. at one time no one had cell phones or pagers. (at one time the idea of skype could only exist as a sci-fyi thriller for the future) things are different now and with these advancem...

GrnTea, I realize that I could have looked up the medication and when I worked the floors and ICU I kept a drug handbook and the Merck manual on my cart. always. They were my Bible and the 10 commandments so to speak. Later when PCs and the PalmOs c...

Thank you Ashley. I never worked with babies or peds and I have been out of ICU and floor work for about 5 years now. I appreciate your answer and also appreciate that you didn't think I was stupid. :)

gross. like could he not just let the poor woman be sick and go without! he was a dog!

Esme I always enjoy your answers. They are solid, well grounded, and offer solutions as well as the reason. It is so easy to rationalize and push the issue under the table, specially if that one slight error no one was harmed, but there may be a pro...

You and me both. It was nerve wracking at the recent APIC meeting they started to educate on all the steps and the legal methods of handling just such occurrences.