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i am so sorry you are going through this. have just gone though the same myself. take it from me you dont want to continue with this environment. Sooner or later it will affect your work. I had a difficult decision to make. I got the heck out of that...

Just my honest opinion only ok. if something like this is stressing you that badly. Please dont take the job. Or make the move. Not until YOU are sure that is what yyou really want. Hugs tiggertoosassy

Dear SICU nurses-- i just wanted to write this letter of gratitude to you and your collegues. My husband spent from the 15th of february until this morning in the SICU unit. He passed away this morning. I just wanted to thank SICU nurses for all t...

I can feel your pain. Just lost someone I loved not long ago. I know what a journey it is to go on and it can be a very lonely one. Am learning every day how to go on with life. It is not an easy thing to do, but, it must be done. My young 29 yea...

Wow!!! You definitely have potential. I like a new nurse that really isnt afraid to jump in there and get her feet wet. Also like a new nurse that has the want to in order to learn you need to ask questions. Great resources are here for the aski...

The nurses at the facility I work at are also having fallen victim to this type of treatment by management. We are all suffering because of it. Most of us are single people who have no other income to rely on . There are employees who are unable t...

sorry i didnt know where to put this but here goes i recently wrote that i had to decide to place my husband in a nursing home for health reasons well today the unexpected happened he has been bacl in the hospital since thursday i went up yesterday t...

i would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you for the words of wisdom and prayers and condolences sent thoughout this trying time for me. it will be an uphill battle for me as i enter this journey i know i will have up day...

this thread permits me to say my peace at this time as recently as this week i have been on the other side of the fence so to speak. My husband went into the hospital on the 12th of february, ended up being intubated early in the morning of the fif...

My dear friends. It is with great saddness and heavy heart that i am letting you all know that my love of my life passed away just before 0830 this morning i know that he went peacefully i was not able to get to the hospital in time for him to tak...

my dear friends it is with much saddness that i write this as of this morning my husband was made a DNR by the doctors they have pulled his bipap and started him on morphine his condition as deteriorated such that the doctors felt it was necessar...

now more than ever i received word tonight that my husbands condition continues to deteriorate he is starting not to have any output tomorrow i will be talking with his doctor to see exactly what his prognosis i feel that he will tell me that it i...

update today-- well it has been three days now since my husband was taken off the vent so far vital signs have been stable he has been verbally responding and following commands staff informs me that his respirations have been labored at times he w...

hello my friends just want to update you on my husband they pulled the endo tube today around noon sats have been in the mid 90s this afternoon he is now breathing on his own with o2 via nasal cannula instead of a mask i went to see him this even...

i guess i spoke too soon this afternoon was so happy about the progress my husband was making i got a call about an hour and a half later from the hospital they were going to have to put him back on the vent they said he was not waking up very wel...

just an update on my husband he is still holding his own at least i went up to see him this morning color is pretty good when i can find him beneath all those tubes and some bruising they did a ct scan this morning they say he is not talking as much...

let me give you a personal experience my husband has moked for over 50 years he has ended up with copd, chf the works sunday morning he went into respiratory arrest while in the hospital and ended up on a vent i saw them intubate him not a pretty...

hugs to u my friend as others have said it is not unusual to walk into something previous shift failed to pick up on remember you are a good nurse you did the right thing

the previous posters are correct just my 2 cents protect yourself use common sense take care u are ok

hi there i have had recent experience with the unna boots for my husband have spent the last month or so with it i was taught to wrap around and around starting at the bottom and working toward the top this is also how i have seen it done on my hu...

hello my friends-- wanted to share some good news rearding my husband first of all i would like to thank each and every one of you for your prayers they have been my source of strength for the past few days now for the fantastic news the hospital c...

thank you so much i can feel the prayers strengthening me i called sicu for a update at 740 pm cst dopamine still going to keep bp up reading at 106/61 sedation turned off for 30 minutes to assess he followed commands, squeezed the nurse's hand to ...

would you all please add my husband and i to your prayer list i had to make an extremely difficult decision tonight my husband has not been doing well at all lately he just got out of the hospital today had been diagnosed with afib, chf, among othe...

yeah i got a couple for ya one is a friend of the DON "she's the best nurse" yet she gives hard candy and bubble gum to NPO tube feeder cause he dont want her to feed him and another claims she's like a daughter so she goes to sleep on duty even st...

may your holidays be full of blessings and happiness as mine have been joyful happy holidays everyone