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Hello, I am an RN with 6 yrs experience. I am in an accelerated fnp program at my state university. I work PRN night shift at a local ED and have a 3yr old and husband. Feeling a little overwhelmed but trying to muck through the best way I can. ...

I have to say, as a former nursing student, staff nurse, charge nurse, and sometimes preceptor, I have seen nurses eat not only their young, but their co-workers and even their supervisors at times. It seems like there are just some people out there...

I went to Cmcc and graduated in 2005. I felt I got a good education from CMCC. The instructors were very helpful and the clinical experiences were interesting (our clinicals were mostly at Central Maine Medical Center, D'youville, St. Mary's, etc)....

Not really this week, one was sick, the other was at FEMA training, and we were also down a nurse. But we made it through .

Guys no joke I had a 16 yr old with her 3mos in my clinic and the baby's name was Dolly, which is cute but the girl said she named her that "because she's my very own babydoll!" Sad isn' it? And I wonder, does La-a (Ladasha) have a brother named ...

We have two CNAs with phlebotomy training do our labs and we also draw some labs ourselves depending on the amount of labs or if we are working up an STD pt.

Hello, I am an RN currently residing in TN, but my husband and I are considering moving back to New England, possibly to the Portsmouth, NH area. I am curious as to how the NH nurses feel about the pay and nurses' union support in your state. I kno...

Hello, Iam an RN currently residing in TN but my husband and I are considering moving back to New England, possibly to the area around Boston. I am looking for any advice regarding where to go for a job with good benefits, pay, and schedules, possib...

Hmmm, not getting any results here. I would really like to hear from you NH nurses. This is one factor that can make a difference in where we move to. Any help is appreciated.

Hello, I am an RN currently residing in TN but looking to move back up north, possibly to the Lehigh or Lancaster area on PA. I'm looking to get any advice about where to apply for a good job with benefits, good pay, and a flexible schedule, plus to...

There are nights I come home from work and feel like calling in for good before my next shift. I have had bad nights run through my head over and over again (Tyleonol PM is a great thing). When I very casually asked a long time RN who I trusted in ...

Oh, so many favorites! Let's see. My-Primary-Doctor-is-the-ER-doctor patient Mean Drunk (male or female) Redneck trash-talking woman (the type that think snapping their fingers gets them attention) The oh-so-popular misdiagnosed bipolar(actua...

While all nurses see problems with patients' health caused by their own poor choices, none to me is more heartbreaking than when it affects infants/children. It is so easy to get angry and furious at them and most of the time they are in such denial...

I was a bottle fed baby and while I'm not the smartest or richest person by far I don't think I turned out too badly. I fed my son breast milk and supplemented formula for the first two weeks of life, but I didn't rest enough, hit the baby blues HAR...

I can't help but feel that a lot of these women are so uneducated about their options and are so desparate for some kind of family unit they take whatever they feel they can get. The men seem to prey on this too. I don't think it's subconscious eit...

ANyone ever have a goth chick as a patient? They can come up with some good ones. Most memorable was a girl in my graduating high school class named her daughter "Shiktriga"-some kind of Romanian name for female vampire. When I worked in a peds of...

An earlier poster stated that c-sectioned women "bounce back" to their pre-pregnancy shape earlier than vag delivered women do. Pray tell how, because after eight weeks, my body is in "Snapdragon" condition--half of it's snapped and the other half i...

1. Press Ganey (goes without saying) 2. Drama Queens/Kings 3. EMTs who don't know how to start an IV and have fluids running through an infiltrated line. 4. Restarting IV sites on pts who came in via those EMTs (they stuck me in the ambulance,...

I forgot this one in my first post: We hear from the PD there is a bad MVC on a well-known curvy road. We've had pts from MVC's on that road before, rollovers, going too fast that sort of thing. We get incoded that they are bringing three DOAs an...

Congrats to you. I tip my hat to you because I can't handle being a SANE nurse. Have a hard enough time as it is doing my regular job, not going to add the stress of evidence collection and seeing kids assaulted to that. Good Luck!

I like the variety and the fact that I come away from every shift knowing I learned something new. I love some of the other nurses and paramedics I work with and since this is a small town, I know just about every cop, sherriff, and EMT in three cou...

Older male pt, comes in via EMS with c/o vomitting blood. Had eaten spaghetti that night. That was mixed in to the emesis. I couldn't eat Italian for a month. 50 yr old construction worker came in with EMS doing compressions. Was Purple from the...

I fell for the story that if you explain rationales to a patient when coming up with interventions they would be more likely to agree to try them. *snort* . Whatever. Most of the time I don't get two words out when the patient asks why we are doin...

Hello: I just had my first baby in June of this year. I work noon to midnight in the ER but around the time I was one-two months pregnant (I didn't know until 10 weeks along) I picked up extra shifts on the overnights. I had worked nights for a y...

This is like my third post: Don't shoot a carpet staple into your finger, claim workmen's comp, come into the ER and then throw a fit because your job requires a drug screen with injuries. It's not my job to know what your company's policy on drug...