streetbob66

streetbob66 specializes in Psychiatric and home health Peds..

Latest Activity

1. 1st Nursing Cartoon caption contest - win $100

   streetbob66 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

   "See doctors really are God just spelled

2. Discouraged by family that doesn't understand

   streetbob66 replied to tmow86's topic in General Students

   Remember "Dreams are where we put our work clothes

3. Need advice on job offer

   streetbob66 replied to CKS's topic in General Nursing

   From what I understand an employer or former employer either cannot or will not say anything negative about an employee to a potential employer about you. You have no reason to tell the recruiter or...

4. Are you going to work tommorow in the big storm?

   streetbob66 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

   I live in Illinois and have worked at the same hospital for almost 16 years, this is the first time that I was scheduled to work when a storm was going to hit. I have driven in bad weather many times...

5. Being forced to rethink my views on fibromyalgia

   streetbob66 replied to casi's topic in General Nursing

   I have also been diagnosed with fibro and have been having a terrible time with it. I have taken all the recommended medications and none of them helped. I still go to work everyday and I am working...

6. How to teach an experienced nurse

   streetbob66 replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

   When an employer check refernces from another employer the pase employers cannot say anything negative. I have heard my managers say many times in the past "if you can't say something good you don't...

7. How to teach an experienced nurse

   streetbob66 replied to canesdukegirl's topic in General Nursing

   I have had to orient several nurses over my 15 years of nursing. The one's that have already done the job are the worse at times as they already think they know it all. If you are responsible for...

8. Excited for psych clinical!!

   streetbob66 replied to decembergrad2011's topic in General Students

   Though I went right into psych and do not regret it I would encourage you to get one year med/surg experience first, I have worked a pediatric home health case that was very much medial and my psych...

9. Excited for psych clinical!!

   streetbob66 replied to decembergrad2011's topic in General Students

   Doing my psych rotation in school over 15 yrs ago made me decide to be a psych nurse and that is what I still do today. What you are allowed to do as a student just barely touches the surface of what...

10. which specialty does this describe?

    streetbob66 replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    Try psychiatric nursing inpatient, you have some of the patients there for a couple of weeks and because of the nature of mental illness you see many of the patients many times. Nurses get to do...

11. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    streetbob66 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I have experienced many unexplained things while at work but the one I want to share is of a personal manner. My olderst son who is almost 13 at the age of 3 on the night of December 7, 2001 caught on...

12. Some crazy/funny things that patients did.

    streetbob66 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Ok where should I start. Right now I have a patient that says he drinks wookie milk, how one milks a wookie I am not quite sure and I am not going to ask. I have met Jesus, Moses and a naked man that...

13. Some crazy/funny things that patients did.

    streetbob66 replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked on a psych unit for over 15 years and the funny things said by the patients and the staff are way too many to even mention. It is like being part of a sitcom without the high pay. The...

14. Discouraged by family that doesn't understand

    streetbob66 replied to tmow86's topic in General Students

    Follow your heart and lean on your husband for the support that you will need. Most people do not understand the dedication it takes to be a nurse and a good one at that. Nursing is not something that...