LPNnowRN

At least two pots per day. I justify it because I use half milk in every cup so it's healthy calcium intake. I can drink coffee and go straight to bed, no problem. Love the picture--I always joke about needing a coffee IV!!

I kept mine and have loaned them out to other people taking classes--there are just a few that I refer to all the time, and I constantly buy more references ( Introduction to Clinical Neurology by Gelb is good! and a short book). There are just a few I have given away.

I know from exerience! Blocked off my common bile duct with a gallstone and had acute pancreatitis. Six day stay until discharged the day after my lap chole. Dilaudid works, but always made me throw up. I never asked for phenergan because I didn't want to be labelled a drug seeker, LOL!, but when the nurses asked I always accepted.

Woot!! You ROCK! State is stressful and you did good, pat yourself on the back!

OMG--pop came out of my nose on some of these!! OK, in to give meds to patient, scan bracelet, try to open little pill blister pack and flip it under the roommates bed!! I'm on my stomach crawling under the bed to find and retrieve it, apologise with a red face and tell them I'll be back with a new pill. At least it was metoprolol and not some outrageously expensive med...but I still had to explain to my charge why I needed a new one out of Pyxis...when I got to the crawling under the bed part that's when she lost it!

I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett. Anything Frank Sinatra or Doris Day. Big band music.

I can only hope that when I'm in the home they let me play Metallica and watch Star Wars and The Matrix on TV!!! Rock ON!

I am 48, and I do regret that I don't have that 20 years that other nurses have. I feel like I have much less time to achieve my dream job by getting my BSN or MSN, getting my Med Surg experience. I feel a time crunch because Med-Surg jobs are scarce around my area. I'm in LTC and really love the relationships, but feel the need to keep expanding my skills. I find myself being drawn to cardiac stuff--I've taken 12 Lead ECG Interpretation and I think I want to eventually end up on a cardiac unit, but that means a drive of an hour or so in my rural area. I don't think I'll ever leave the floor, but worry about my stamina ten years from now. I have trouble pushing my regrets aside and looking forward and doing what I can to get where I want to be. I also worry about balancing my wants (money for advanced degree for me) against those of my middle school age children and what they want to accomplish in their lives.

Our med techs know more pharmacology than I do--can instanly tell you about whatever obscure med just got prescribed. They are amazing. That said, take each person and evaluate their skills--not all people are the same!

What?!?!?! Only four days????

My nursing home was seeing low census over the summer and we figured out that the new ALF in town was starting to take residents that would normally come to a nursing home because their census was only 18 total. The residents we ARE getting were formerly kept in the hospital...it's like Med-Surg with 25 people. IV vanco x 2, morphine pump, urostomy, new colostomy, huge wound dressings, wound vacs, 4 fx's, TKAs, THAs, ect....I think the people in the hospitals on Med Surg used to be in ICU, and the ICU people must have not survived in the past. Crazy.

LOL!!!

In my last job at 15-20-ect... years of service we had a catalog that we could pick something out of....I still sleep on my two feather pillows!!

Way back when I was working as a CNA I took a resident to the toilet--obviously no one had toileted him in a while because he pooped out, with great difficulty I might add, a hard stool the exact shape and size of a soup can! I had to break it up in the toilet to get it to flush.

Not this topic AGAIN!!!