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A fellow nurse has relocated here (West Coast) from the East Coast, and we work critical care together in a pretty large hospital that serves a lot of the state (meaning, we get our fair share of exciting cases). This nurse (lived and worked in NYC) ...

I'm looking around for a change of scenery and I saw an opening available in a speciality clinic associated with the medical center I work at as an ICU nurse. The reason I'm on here asking for some insight from you all is that I've been a patient at...

I had a well-spoken, educated woman as my patient. She had this pretentious vibe to her, but I found her to be polite. That is, until I explained that cath care needed to be done and the rationale behind having to do it.As I'm performing the cath car...

Wonderful! Thank you!

EXACTLY! I feel like your statement describes the entire situation in a nutshell! I think some people who replied missed a key point that I guess I should have elaborated on: she was perfectly capable of doing it herself (to clarify, she was definite...

I witnessed my patient have "tremulous" legs for about three seconds. I had some serious doubts that it was an actual tremor; it happened when I pulled his blanket off his legs, and I thought at the time that his legs were shaking that little bit bec...

But with that plan, you're assuming that she'll actually read the policy. You know, like she was supposed to BEFORE she "changed" the dressing. Haha.

Oh, I just remembered something I think I should add. If you've already been doing this, wonderful, but if someone else is reading this and is being harassed, I wanted to stress the point to you that you should document everything! Like, seriously,...

I really hope your meeting stops this goon's acts right now. I can understand how co-workers get comfortable with each other and they crack off a rude joke every now and then, but most people tend to really stop in their tracks and start behaving the...

A nurse I once worked with was upset one day because payroll found out she erroneously got a wage increase. She had known that she got the raise and wasn't supposed to, but she kept quiet. Someone in payroll eventually found out about the mistake. ...

Thanks everyone! I feel better knowing you all agree with me. I've never been "in trouble" with the patient advocate office before and I'm glad you all support my view on the matter. The more I think about it, the more annoyed I get. And the more ...

Just last weekend, I extubated my brain dead patient. As you would expect, prior to extubation, he had no purposeful movement, no localizing, not posturing, etc. A few minutes after extubation, as his sats were dropping and he stopped breathing, it a...

Pretty darn interesting... I'll present this to my unit's nurse educators and see if we can get a dialogue going on what is ACTUALLY best practice!

Just letting you know that we use CHG wipes in our ICU's. We use them when inserting lines, on blood culture draws (AND on the blood culture bottles), and lab draws. We just don't really use them when pushing IV meds; we use alcohol wipes instead. I ...

I think all of us here would use some common sense and NOT post stories about male, underage patients that reflect poorly on us as the nursing professionals who care for them. Whatever a creepy pedophile wanted to hear about, I really doubt we would ...

For me, it's confrontational family members or patients who get right in my face, point fingers, and yell at me over things I cannot (actually, NO ONE, for that matter) can control. I think an adult yelling at a professional who's doing their job to ...

My husband is a nurse who works at a different hospital than I do, and he been there a few years. We're just biding our time until he can find a job at a different place. The stories he tells me about what he has to put up with makes my hair curl. I ...

Thanks, everybody! All your comments really contribute. To clarify, DH documented something along the lines of, "Hospitalist paged a second time per Code Team/ED doctor's request. Hospitalist called unit approximately 5 minutes later, stating over p...

I couldn't find a thread related to this topic I'm bringing up, so please forgive me if there is a thread floating around here. I'm wondering if any of you in your experience of nursing (or even LIFE, for that matter) ever heard a little one describ...

Your story reminds me of one I heard: A doctor who worked with my mom would borrow a stethoscope every time he'd round in the hospital, then leave, forgetting it was around his neck. He'd get into his car and just throw it in the back seat with the d...

I agree with everyone and then some, but I did want to mention that the nurses you work with would be raked over the coals if they worked with my current nursing crew, and how things are being run at your hospital are NOT acceptable in the least. I w...

I'm with everyone else! Someone on this site posted a HORROR story in which they were verbally offered a job by a hiring manager, so they comfortable enough to give two weeks notice at their current job. When this person called the new place asking ...

My dad's a superintendent at a prison and has been for years. We're amused at how similar our jobs are sometimes (dealing with patients/inmates, the politics of the facility, preferential treatment of some, etc.). He's found himself doing "triage" (l...

My first thought was, "Jeez! What a lousy night!" My second thought was, "Was there a full moon last night??"

The exact same thing has happened to me countless times. I've had many Spanish-speaking patients in their 30's or 40's who have an okay grasp of the English language, but they have children who speak both Spanish and English very well. As soon as the...