2ndgenerationnurse

floating the ER one night when a young man came in with his eyelid glued shut ;O( seems his wife would put his eye drops in for him at night and had her bottle of nail adhesive next to his eye drops!!! he wasn't very forgiving:angryfire , though his wife could not have felt worse:crying2: ... we just wondered why the big boy couldn't have put in his own eye drops!!!

i beat all of you!!! i pay $804 a month! for a UPMC HMO plan, the ins. is for me, dh and kids. it has good coverage but it is sooooo high. it went up about $250 this year and now it is payed after taxes instead of before taxes like last year. :angryfire wish i could find ins. elsewhere but my dh is considered self employed and i only work prn. (as needed to pay premium, lol!!! NOT!!!)

rotfl:roll have you heard the one about the guy at the golf course.... he was golfing all day when a funeral prosession came by and he stops and takes his hat off and remains still and silent as they proceed... his friends watch and afterward comment on how nice that was of him. he says, "i figure it's only proper since i was married to her for 28 years." i'm married to one of those guys... good thing i have a sense of humor!:chuckle

i like the idea of having a pair of gloves in my pocet, for quick use and leave them there for that, using the box for the usual needs, i think i will adopt that idea... it would've helped in my earlier situation i posted. has any one on this board contracted a life changing disease from work or been injured on the job and now you are dealing with the reprocutions..... what would really happen if i was unable to return to work due to this?... can we count on our hospital to compensate us... or do we have to force them? how about our peers.... would they stick by us or move on? say if i was drawing blood from a femoral line following all of the proper techniques and my pt kicked a knee up at the wrong time... i was stuck through my gloves and contracted aids... what then?

i think you are right, but hind sight is 20/20... also you may think about your hospital's rules a different way...you can't sue them for workman's comp etc if you get exposure when you don't follow their ideally written guide lines. we work in the real world and we can't always expect people to keep their blood, sputum, etc. etc. to themselves just b/c we aren't gowned and gloved and masked!

Krissy NY vbmenu_register("postmenu_801069", true); Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Age: 32 Posts: 52 Entire unit quarentined I have shared that I am a new CNA and began work at a new facility. I was on the second floor and then placed in an activities based program and now have been moved to the 1st floor. I now realize the reason I am on the 1st flor is that they are all on isolation and those who worked the floor with senority were moved and the newbies put on. I was only there two days and I developed a severe cough, fever, sweats, chills and have been out for the past three days and finally feel better. I sware the place sounds like a kennel with them all coughing and I still sound pretty bad myself. I called to say I would be back tomorrow and they told me I must return with a Dr note (although I have no insurance until 6 months) to work and that I will continue on the 1st floor. I have to gown up for 6 of those residents....ofcourse since I am new I get most of the isolations..feedings, turnings, etc. I feel this job is costing my health and my Dr visit for my note will be $130.00...half my check (and I missed 3 days) Whoever told me CNA was a good way into healthcare was very wrong. I am considering a new field ASAP. Krissy thanks krissy, hope you don't mind my bumping it to this post also... and i hope you are feeling better soon... and don't rebound!!! welcome to nursing! i actually started this thread for someone who needs our support b/c of getting sick on the job and will be a long time recovering... i'm sure all of us can relate to the fear of getting sick as well as actually getting sick on the job and not compensated.... etc.

cold bedpan complaints!!! great point!!! lol:rotfl: :rotfl:

if it takes a badge and uniform for humankind to use common courtesy then lets hand them out at birth! (or is that what we get when we get our birthday suit? lol :chuckle ) why does the 'bad guy' set us off into such a generalization about our whole community. even when i have a bad assignment, most of my patients are kind and polite. so most of my thoughts should center around the good patients i had.... i know this is ideal, but that is how i choose to live 95% of the time. ( i have bad days, too, lol:p ) can't we all just commit to make a difference and be the catalyst that sets off a world of good will toward men? then we all would live in a community with ramdom acts of kindness being common place. don't forget the good people are the majority!!! are we not????

Hospital ban for abusive patients search for this thread... in fact i'll go bump it so it will be new for today... it will give you all hope that a wave of standing against nurse abuse is coming. :)

------------------------------------------------- hospital bulletin: ------------------------------------------------- in an effort to hold the line on escalating medical costs, the hopital is reducing the number of bedpans now in use to one (1). all patients will be assigned a number, and when your number is called, it will be your turn to use the pan. your number is listed below. do not forget it! #697 ********************************* i found this on a card in the local dollar store and posted it on my locker at work. it disapeared... i don't think the management appreciates my sense of humor!

never attribute malice to that which can easily be explained by stupidity..... or a bad day, or a distracted mind, or a brain burp, or...... we all have our stupid days when we just don't feel like the pleasantries of civilized life... so if you meet someone like that, read them... if they seem to need their space... be kind and give it to them... if they look lonely or down ask them how they are doing and actually hang around for the answer, sypathize with them b/c we have all been there. think about it gang... the cashier that is not in such a good mood may have been the one that just had to listen to a cussing out for 15 min. just before you got there. and your manager could have all of your complaining pts on her mind. and if we all go about bashing the entire human race then we will all get no where and perpetuate the whole crabby society that is painted here. so lets give eachother a break... i could meet you at work or play and we could be eachothers chance to brighten the world up. one at a time a friend of mine was walking down a deserted mexican beach at sunset. as he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. as he grew nearer, he noticed that the man was a local native and he kept bending down, picking something up, and then threw what ever he picked up out into the water. time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean. as my friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. my friend was puzzled. he approached the man and said, "good evening, friend. i was wondering what you are doing. " i'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. you see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. if i don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen." "i understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. you can't possibly get to all of them. there are simply too many. and don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?" the local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "made a real big difference to that one!" i never do phony! but nothing is phony about actually taking a moment to say hello.

hey adidas99- to your signature "you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. " i have to tell you that after i had sinus surgery my ENT Dr. was cleaning my nose with his little suction tool and he was concentrating sooo hard soooo close to my face that i just had to laugh... to which he replied that he likes to say... "you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but only I can pick your friends nose!"

i'm just not sure that any product is as good as the hospitals antibacterial stuff (am i wrong?)... and i am afraid most lotions will just hold on to bacteria in my work place... i have used my hospitals lotion product that is antibacterial but their new product (they changed a few months back) just doesn't work very well at all and stings to boot! i like your work routine... though i don't think that most of us would put out enough effort to swab the john :) but thanks for the tips!

how about what our job does to our hands! the cracking and stinging with each wash and the need for that instant soap when we are in a hurry or in a bad way... never enough lotion to mend them on the run either... i am always glad when i get my couple days off, just to heal up the cuticles forget the manicured look!

i lost my first baby, very bad Dr., went on the pill as a newly wed, and ended up diagnosed pregnant too late. it was the middle of the night and i had been told to go to bed and hope the labor pain passes, i held the tiny limp body of my child, face a way from me and let go of it in the fright of having such a tiny thing in my hand that shouldn't be, it slid down the toilet and was gone but not forgotten. i almost died b/c the dr. didn't even do a d&c and i kept hemeoraging at home with fever and chills as my young husband tried to care for me through the next night. i ended up meeting the OBGYN that delivered my next two children in the ER and after 4 pints of blood i recovered physically. 24+ yrs and i still feel guilty, like if i had only known then what i know now then i would have 5 kids instead of four and maybe even a son, i have only dtrs. (i teach my daughters better) but i have come to understand that someday i will meet this little soul i carried for too short a time and get to really know him/her in heaven. and after all, our little ones have been spared the sorrows of this earth, they got to leave this place still innocent and new and never having to experience some of the horrorable things life can bring to light. we are the only ones hurting, they are in peace and safety. try to give a bit of grace to those asking stupid questions.... they are searching just like you, for answers to questions that we will never find here.... but most importantly they are trying to reach out to you... but don't know what to say and so they struggle to say something; and after all it is better than saying nothing. that is what i dealt with, no one even asked... i was left to deal with my loss feeling that no one even wanted to remember that my baby was real and valid. God holds our babies in the palm of His hands and he will bring us peace if we trust Him to let our babies know we are here waiting to hold them too. then we must go about living the way God would have us live and we will indeed see them, they are gone from here but will never be forgotten by HIM. God bless you and your family coral

does the plumper do pillows? that wouldn't be too bad!:chuckle sorry couldn't resist!

i worked at methodist hosp of dyersburg my first 2 years of nursing. it was a good place to work but also a small community hosp, like yours. i worked on the geriatric/pediatric floor and in the nursery. i would go back there if i ever lived in the area again. how about st judes? it is an awesome hosp and it should have plenty of work opportunity. the history of the hospital itself is very interesting and so the stance of pt first care should make it a good place to work. check them out! http://www.stjude.org/

i asked my pt last night if he knew what year it is; he replied, "1999" to which i said, "no it is 2002" :chuckle may i adapt a saying my husband likes and say... when orrienting a confused pt make sure he is not equally needing to orrient you!:rotfl:

a month or so ago i walked into a confused pt's room to answer a ringing IV pump to find her pumping blood into her bed from her extracted central line site. she had pulled it out leaving it hanging on by it's suture and had lost quite a bit of blood so it was everywhere. of course i grabbed up her sheet and put pressure on the wound and called out for help. i was in the thick of it and without gloves!!! we secured the wound after getting gauze and holding pressure, removed the suture and placed a pressure dressing... of course we all wore gloves except when i first came in and took action... no time for gloves when your pt is in danger! so i washed and washed and it seems that i had no exposure my body couldn't handle.... but it is still so appearant to me that our job requires us to accept the high risk of exposure as routine and we are not compensated when our job does make us sick. so if we get TB or AIDS or Hep C will we loose our jobs?

don't ever ask a woman when her baby is due unless she has told you she is pregnant first!:imbar nuff said!

i have had sooooo many skin tests but never possitive... but it always worries me b/c it is something we could be exposed to and not even know it... and be infected with and not know it, worse still!!!

we are exposed to the sickest people in our world just as an expected part of the job... despite aseptic techniques, contact isolation and isolation when we know we need it, and our best efforts to wash, wash and wash again.... there is still extreme risk of exposure and contraction of disease in our work environment. i know i brought home a stomach virus last year! it seems that everyone of our possible flu's came in with typical viral fever, n/v, and just needed 24 hrs to recover! (please doc send them home like the rest of us!!!) i had about 10 shifts with multiple patients like this, but the one i think gave it to me was the one i couldn't get to wake up. she was just being sleepy on last rounds in the morning and i needed to get some blood. i nudged her as i spoke her name.... she finaly woke and breathed thick morning breath right into my face... i was talking and got a mouth full..... gag. :angryfire thankfully i took care of myself, and isolated a bathroom for only my use and didn't give it to anyone else in my house... i was so proud of myself for that... but was i ever sick!!! there should be compensation for us when we get that kind of job related injury don't you think? so i want to ask: are you sick right now? and can you share what your going through? have you been sick b/c of work and want to share some advice? (you could get an annonomous log in name if you need to)

i embarass my kids quite often... in fact they have a little book of inside family jokes, most of them are quotes of stupid things mom has said... here is just one such event.... remember when taco bell was giving those little dogs with purchase, the ones who talk... well i was ordering in the drive thru and asked ofr one of those dogs... the guy said, " which one would you like?" i said, "I think I love you!" my kids were rolling:roll and i still had to pick up my order! :imbar

i call the day i got my total hysterectomy.. "the day i got all my worries removed" but i have four girls 23, 21, 18, 15..... pms time is not a fun time of the month in this house x4!!!! LOL:chuckle and then not! and then maybe some bickering:rotfl: and then... well you get the drift. the things we girls put up with!

i can only make it to page 10.... don't want to see if you mentioned my weakness... gangrene.... i have already had enough to keep me on a soda cracker diet for a week...i think i may not even keep that down. i've seen some things.... but man not this bad!!!:chair: