vickster

There is no comparison...doctors are not like BIGGER nurses, it is a completely different job.

Yeah, that...! That horse is dead!

Take your resume to a service that helps with resumes, it could have mistakes in it that are turning off employers--if you resume has even one mistake in it, it will end up in the trash.

I cover 43 residents in LTC--it is insanity!! That being said...in my opinion, a new grad should NEVER be hired as a charge nurse. If you feel like you're not ready, maybe you're not...not your fault. You just need a few notches on your belt before you are in charge! Best of luck, how awful to be so upset and sick. You should be enjoying your new job.

yikes!! good for you!

Why don't you take him in for a skin test?? You can bring an orange in to the office and the doc can prepare it and give your son the scratch test and you will know either way. Although, for an allergy to develop you generally have to be exposed more than once, n'est pas?

HA! That just happened to a co-worker at our LTC facility! She is an aide, and was HORRIFIED by this daughter's request--she said absolutley NOT! It is kinda weird, I wouldn't want to do it either...and I used to be an esthetician!

I wouldn't do that...it is passive aggresive and toxic. Be upfront and polite, people will walk on you if you let them! Whenever people at my workplace complain to each other about people that are always late or calling in sick--I always say "good on them! If management will let them get away with working whenever they feel like it, then go for it!" It's the old, give 'em an inch thing. If the night staff aren't on the floor by 2305 I give the key to the supervisor and just say, my relief isn't here yet, here's the key. And I talk to them when I see them--but honestly, sometimes they are always soooo late, I never see them! :angryfire

I was just thinking that...I also would have jumped on the stomach pain with some gravol--fast. (Is that wrong???) Life is too short to be that miserable...

LOVE IT!! That is sooooo true...

I work shifts as an LPN and am doing my BScN ful time--and I have two cats. (Jasper and Owen.) It's fine, but!!! 1) Most cats cannot be trusted to feed from a full bowl all the time, they will over-eat. Esp. house cats. They should be fed a measured amount BID. 2) They need their litter really clean or they'll go crazy. 3) They need to see you--my Owen will pee on my scrubs in the laundry basket if I work too much. (He will also pee on my bed if I'm dating someone he doesn't approve of, but that's another story...!) 4) I'm confused as to why an older dog needs less attention than a younger dog? I think it's the other way around. I think a cat would be okay if you were still home to feed it BID, and a dog would be fine if you get a dog walker. (which may sound silly, but my cousin has one and it's a god send...the dog sometimes prefers the walker and she will even feed it once in a while. All those 12's you'll be working, you can afford it! Plus, you have more days off when you don't need them.) I'm glad to see someone doing some research before rushing into an emotional descision based on the puppies in the window! Kudos and good luck!

Normal saline is isotonic to blood...0.9%.

I agree Andrea. I've heard that too, and apparently sex under water does the same thing. (Ooops, who knew??):heartbeat

I think wht most of "us" mean to express is the frustration at a family that could not express their love to a woman as she lay dying, or even just sit quietly with her...she was alone-with her nurses. Nurses that are HUMAN, by the way, not devine entities of peace and healing sent from the heavens. Humans, that are allowed to be frustrated, ticked-off, uncomfortable or creeped out-if that's how THEY feel. That was a bad, inflammed situation, let's try to understand what everyone was feeling.

Yikes. I guess you feel bad because you have a soul, and you watched a woman die without her nutty family by her side?? Not sure about that one, I'm shaking my head...hmmm. Maybe they were in denial about how sick she was before she died?? But it sounds well communicated. Maybe you cried because you were so flippin' creaped out you didn't know what else to do!!