schroeders_piano RN

With nursing informatics you wouldn’t be dealing with “annoying” patients, but at times you would be dealing with annoying co-workers who don’t follow simple instructions and are having conversations while you are on the phone with them. What about b...

I used to be a Med/Surg Director in a small, rural hospital. Generally, Med/Surg units in rural areas will have times of low census during the Summer months. Most units rotate and take turns for low census days and there is always at least one nurse ...

I spent far too much time of my career working in areas I hated simply because I was offered the job. I’m a darn good ER nurse and have years of ER experience, but I have never really liked ER. If you know you love Peds and thats where you want to be...

38 and 17 years as a nurse

I’ve been a nurse for 17 years with a large portion of it ICU and ER. I have worked in Level 1 trauma centers to community hospitals to rural, critical access ERs where I was the only nurse. For the most part, the rural ER was like working in a clini...

Not your circus. Not your monkeys. You know nothing about the care this person provides nor the mindset or situation that led her to post what she posted. As others have suggested, delete her and move on. You are not the social media police for her ...

The part of you that feels like you should mind your own business is the part you need to listen too. Why would you want to jeopardize someone’s job?

I live in Southern Illinois and FNPs (new grad and those with primary care experience) are hired to work in the Acute Care setting frequently in my area.

I had a little 90 year old lady say, "I need to empty my pocketbook." I searched for her purse for 30 minutes before I realized emptying her pocketbook was her polite way of telling me she had to go pee.

Could you make a progress note stating what the patient did and that you were "firing" him as a patient? The progress note goes with him with his medical records and the new provider can see what happened. On a side note, why wasn't the cops called?

With me it was dependent upon how many times I had seen them in the ER that month. If it was their 20th visit for HA, backache, abd pain, etc. I would say, "On a scale of 0-10 with 0 being no pain and 10 feeling like you were ran over by a semi truck...

I know that this is a novel concept, but why don't you sit down and write your own paper.

I used to always say, "You're going to feel a little prick" whenever I drew blood or started an IV. I didn't realize what I had been saying until a 90 year old woman looked at me and said, "Honey,don't beat yourself up. If what they say about a man'...

I wish you the best. I understand completely. I've been a RN for 8 years and this is going to be my last year. My goal is to be in a different career by 2013. Good luck!

My employer must think I'm a lush because everytime they call I tell them I've been drinking. It immediately stops all phone calls from them for the rest of the day. If I didn't tell them that, they would just keep on calling until they have laid eno...

Sometimes travel nurses are used to cover a medical leave for someone or to help cover vacation time. In these cases they only need a nurse for a short time and that person needs to be experienced. I did some travel nursing. I was brought in to cover...

If you are getting this upset over not getting the "respect that you deserve" in nursing school, how do think you are going to feel when you are actually working as a nurse? Just because you have a nursing degree it won't garner you respect on the fl...

When I was putting a foley in a drunk 19 year old college boy he kept saying, "Isn't it nice? " To which I replied, "Well, I'm having a little problem finding it. I guess they grow them small in this part of the county." Shut him up real quick.

I haven't seen this mentioned yet. How high did you pump your cuff up to? Maybe the 120 was the diastolic reading. I've taken care of many patients with pressures of 200's/ 110's-130's. Which that would then be an emergency.

I just hope when I'm an old man in the nursing home that I can rise to the occasion if it ever presented itself. I think I would be too embarrassed to go ask the nurse for a viagra or a condom. All kidding aside, just shut door a leave them be.

Heck, changing lightbulbs, mopping floors, and doing admiting functions after 2300 has been part of my duties for years. We joke all the time that in the hospital I work in why do we need the ancillary departments. Nursing becomes Purchasing/ Centr...

It took me 20 minutes to figure this out. Then it was funny.

As a former nurse manager, anytime someone stopped into my unit uninvited to solicit a job, they were told to go to HR and fill out an application. After that, that person got moved to the bottom of my list behind those that went through proper chann...

I've been in healthcare for 10 years and had always worn Dansko clogs. I would swear by them. Last year, my old pair finally wore out and I purchased a new pair. The new pair absolutely KILLED my feet. After a little research I found out that Dansko ...