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Hello Everyone How many you know a nurse or health care professional who stutters? How does it make the listener feel? Do you view that person as less intelligent or incompetent? These are a few of the questions I ask myself on those days my stutte...

A speech impediment/stutter are all in the same. Thanks for sharing your story with me.

Yes I do...thanks

The off going nurse says, I'm sorry before she gives you report. You can hardly hear the nurse in report because the nurses station is full of organized kaos....

Hello All I have a confession to make. I am a nurse who stammers. Most people may or may not know that I stammer because for years I have done thinks to cover it up. Like use fill in words for what I want to say. Use the "um" in between my phrases so...

Most of the tiime, no one knows I stutter..I think we are harder on ourselves then people are.

When I watched my nephew come into the world. He was delivered by a midwife and since then I have wanted to become a nurse. I am not working in labor and delivery as of yet but that is my ultimate goal. To help bring life into the world. My calling ...

It's good to hear so many positive responses from my fellow nurses. As I said I was almost ready to give up because of my disability. (serious face) But I would be letting the situation defeat me.

KJ STARLING. That's what I was thinking about doing, just giving letting the other person know. That's a good question, Ill ask him if it's covered.

Lol, that's a good idea for the work place. I may have to put that in my locker at work. But my anti-stress, is a bottle of wine, a soothing bath & a night full of excercise...wink..wink...

I wouldn't tell them right now.

Wow, I am speachless right now. I never knew it was so many nurses with the same issues as myself. My whole life I have avoided jobs that require me to speech in front of a lot of people but I have always known that I wanted to become a nurse. Crazy ...

I am a new nurse in LTC and I feel the same way. Unlike you, I have been in orientation 2 mths and I am not ready to be on my own. I feel I can handle the load when everyone is baseline and nothing major is going on but if something hits the fan. Im ...

I have to see it

That movie just slipped my mind. Because of my busy schedule I have not be able to see the movie yet, but I plan to see it on my next day off.

Chin Up Wow, its good to know that I am not the only one out thier..lol. I'ts a difficult situation if you let it control your being as a person. But I have done more then what I ever thought I could do. One of my goals is to teach health because I l...

LPM WEEZY I pause mid sentence a lot of times too,

patient 1977, I agree with you when you say that. Thier are times when I am stressed, and not of those stressful situation have affected my job as a nurse at all. Thanks for the encouraging words. My son is 2 years old, so I am working is speech dev...

Hello I was hired as a inexperienced nurse in a LTC facility and I am stressed to the max. The patient to nurse ratio is unreal. I am on orientation, and not once have a left on time. Thier is so much to do and so little time. I am so afraid that thi...

Hello After what seemed to be a hopeless journey, I finally passed my NCLEX examination & found a company that was willing to hire an inexperienced nurse. I am so happy for the opportunity to practice and learn as a registered nurse. I have been...

I agree with making friends with the CNA/CMA because they do help you out a lot when it comes to patient care. Well I am working on a rough draft for my own census sheet, since the facility doesn't provide one.

No we don't have a patient census sheet. I was thinking about creating my own, because I really need to organize myself. I have a small child at home, so I can't afford nor do I want to stay several hours after my shift is done. Thanks for the advice...

I was in the same situation. So I decided to get a NCLEX tutuor. I posted an Ad in my employeers daily news letter and someone responded. Basically what the tutur did was go over Patho of each and every system. He helped me break down the system and ...