westieluv

westieluv

Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice

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  1. Recommendation for comfortable nursing shoes

    westieluv replied to megster871's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have had a lot of trouble with plantar fascitis/heel spurs in the past when I had a job where I was on my feet a lot. I finally went to one of those high end specialty shoe stores that specialize in...

  2. Yellow Sashes for Med Passes

    westieluv replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Will doctors be required, then, to wear a yellow sash while writing orders so that they are less likely to get interrupted and write an erroneous order? Makes sense to me. What's good for the goose...

  3. Job Offer and Upcoming Interview

    westieluv replied to iowanursemom's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Me too. I have interviews with two different dialysis companies on Monday but I also applied for some work from home telephone case management positions with insurance companies. I have experience in...

  4. Question About Returning to Dialysis

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks, Chisca, that is how I feel. I actually really love renal patients and enjoyed working in dialysis. What caused me to leave in the first place was because the acutes environment I was in was...

  5. Best of both worlds?

    westieluv replied to Triedandtrue5's topic in General Nursing

    Some inpatient hospice centers are on 12 hour shifts. It may seem like this is an awful lot like LTC nursing, but it's different because the patients are not there for months or years, only days or...

  6. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I did resign a couple of days ago and have two interviews on Monday, one for the dialysis job that I described and another for another dialysis job, just in case. Life is too short to be...

  7. Question About Returning to Dialysis

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    No, the program that I was in worked like this: you were assigned to a specific hospital(s) starting at 6 am. You were also, unfortunately, on call for this hospital or a different one until 6 am the...

  8. Question About Returning to Dialysis

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    That would be awesome, I would definitely take it if offered. Better to repeat than to not get enough. Davita is also requesting a phone interview with me as of today. Does anyone who has worked at...

  9. How important is it to you to be a nurse?

    westieluv replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    At this point in my life, after being a nurse for 26 years and hitting my 50th birthday last year, I can honestly say that it is not important to me at all. That doesn't mean that I hate it or that I...

  10. Should I go from days to nights???

    westieluv replied to jes07's topic in General Nursing

    Are you someone who can sleep during the day? Do you think you could drive home safely after being awake all night? In fields like acute inpatient and LTC, I actually prefer the night shift just...

  11. New nurse on the floor

    westieluv replied to Tinkers33's topic in General Nursing

    You're right, you're not supposed to mix them, both for potential incompatibility and because the more medication, the less likely they will all dissolve effectively and the more likely you will be to...

  12. Nurses not taking breaks

    westieluv replied to scuffles's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am one who has skipped lunch when I was working because it was either that or stay over. I wanted to be home more than I wanted to sit down for lunch at work, so I skipped it, stuffed some food into...

  13. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    westieluv replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, babies even. i'm glad she got caught. Can you imagine facing your employer and being confronted with the fact that you told the foster parents not to tell the office that you hadn't been there?...

  14. Question About Returning to Dialysis

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoy acutes, it seems like something that you either love or hate. I am still in awe of the guy who trained me on acutes back in 2013. He had the best attitude of any...

  15. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    westieluv replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    Stealing controlled substances from your employer for either resale or your own use. I used to work with a nurse on a med/surg floor who was diverting. Back then the drug of choice was Demerol. He...

  16. Question About Returning to Dialysis

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks, Guttercat. It's not 100% certain that I will return to dialysis, I have a few other applications out there. A couple of them are with insurance companies doing phone case management from...

  17. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I am meeting with the dialysis manager next week...yippee!! So now...how do I walk into that interview and feel confident, as opposed to feeling like a loser for quitting my rehab job while still in...

  18. Help!!

    westieluv replied to leandrawoods84's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have worked in every facet of hospice nursing except for the 8-5 M-F case management role. The reason why is because I learned early on that 8-5 is not realistic a lot of the time. As someone else...

  19. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    westieluv replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    I'm curious how this was discovered. Did the patient call the agency and ask why they didn't get a visit that day, or was it discovered that they were in bad shape after she had facetiously documented...

  20. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    westieluv replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work with a nurse who stole prescription pads from the nurses' station and wrote scripts for herself with forged MD signatures for opioids. She lost her license when she was discovered. I...

  21. Terrified of working on my own

    westieluv replied to Sham_wow's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone feels this to some degree as a brand new nurse, but it sounds like yours is an extreme case. The patient scenarios that you gave examples of are very typical of patients on med/surg floors in...

  22. Did I make a mistake?!

    westieluv replied to MC1RmutationLPN's topic in General Nursing

    It's not because you're a warm body with a license. Read over your post again and reaiize what an accomplished nurse you are. Any company would be blessed to have you and they know this. Anyone who...

  23. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks so much, prayers are much appreciated right now. You bring up another point that I forgot to mention; the nurses have told me that if the nurse for the next shift does not show up, this...

  24. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Um, I've been a nurse for 26 years. I guess my problem, if you could call it that, is that the jobs that I have stayed at the longest certainly were not like this and did not treat me this badly....

  25. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm not a new nurse (graduated in 1990) but I honestly do not think it is demanding to ask not to be forced to work overtime or called every time I have a day off and begged to come in. If I...