caregiver1977

I was reading a thread last night that brought up the subject of staff wearing scrubs who are not nurses, but being mistaken for nurses. I have noticed that this is not so much at my local hospital, but at my local state health department everyone we...

Is it a good idea for teachers to have a classroom pet, especially one that has fur? I am talking about animals like rabbits, hamsters, guineas, etc. Aren't some people allergic to animal fur? Is this only an issue with cats and dogs?

My district starts for students Aug. 10. This is almost a week later than usual.

I just want to point out that there is a difference between praying aloud in behalf of a patient and standing silently while someone else prays. I don't think a nurse should be forced to do either, IMO. I don't pledge allegiance to the US flag, or an...

My school allows treats, but they can only be store bought. There is a seafood ban at my school, but it was so poorly enforced that most people didn't even know about it. But you asked about birthday treats. .. I work at a school, but not as a nurse....

This is just a question, where do these students go? I am not disagreeing with your policy, btw, just asking a question. I would say that I hope it is somewhere where the student isn't "on display."

Ok, stop the press... You mean they actually asked for 7 orgasms!!! I'm sorry, but didn't that patient just sexually harrass the nurse, the nursing staff, or whomever the request was aimed at? What if this had been a man asking for 7 orgasms in ord...

In my school district, the problem is more of WHAT will the child change into rather than WHO will change the child. In my school district I have witnessed the teacher assistant helping to clean up a child, but this is SPED. I honestly don't know w...

I am just glad you care enough to help. My dad became terminal when I was about 2nd grade and died the summer before I entered 7th grade. Through all that time the school(s) couldn't have cared less.

Kache Money No joke. Yes, it is pronounced Cash Money. Somebody has been watching too much BET...

I am glad you have that attitude. Some nurses do not. I think your hospital is more progessive than the local one in my area.

Sometimes teachers or teacher assistants just bought food for a hungry kid at the school where I worked. We didn't want them to starve all day while decisionmakers haggled over what to do. This didn't happen often.

The only minor problem I have with continuous EFM is that it doesn't give you chance to go to the bathroom exactly when you need to. Sometimes when you are laboring, things happen too fast for a nurse to get there with a bedpan in time (and how comf...

Oh I am certainly not saying that all Caucasian patients are being treated great, but minorities tend to be treated worse (am I not saying all the time). Some of the shabby treatment I pointed out was actually done by black healthcare professionals!!...

You are right, and the people who have said that I was probably closer than what I thought to a seizure. I really should not have waited until Monday to go to the doctor; I should have gone to the ER. I didn't know better (then).

Okay, I have to bite...what is so ignorant about what I said? Just because you have never seen it happen?

I am glad you have never seen this and I hope you never do. It still happens.

And I don't want to be seen as someone who brings race into everything, but at some hospitals, especially in the South, black patients who want to ask intelligent questions about their healthcare and medical treatment are treated very, very badly. I...

I couldn't have said it better. God bless you!!!

My b/p was 220/115 at my prenatal appointment and I didn't even know anything was wrong!! I just thought I was a little swollen. I had been to work that day. I intended to go to the appointment, and go back to work!! Needless to say, I was immedia...

What are some of the worse complications you all have seen when a woman does not control her gestational diabetes? What is the worse that can happen? I am really curious about gestational diabetes complications; not complications of a woman who ha...

I had a teacher last year that would send her students to the nurse for ANYTHING. Since I was the assistant, I had to walk these kids to the nurses office. This particular teacher wanted me to take this student (who was usually clowning and faking)...

In my ignorance I didn't even know people could LIVE with a BG of 1620!!! I had a church member die because hers went into the 800s.

I almost fell out of my chair when I read this. I guess it is not that surprising. I once worked a job where my manager designated a person in our group to plan her birthday party, and told us she wanted a leather coat for her birthday. We actually...

The only reason I think I got "pitted" was for the staff's sake, not me or my baby. There I am, laboring happily along with great contractions, no pre enclampsia, and all of a sudden a nurse rushes in and jabs pitocin into my IV. I am almost 6 mont...