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It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortur...

Anybody else feel like you're just not as caring and compassionate as other nurses? I think of myself as a caring nurse and I try to do the best I can by my patients. I love it when I leave at the end of a shift and I feel like everything was done we...

So why didn't you talk to her about it before you ran off and tattled on her? How do you know she didn't give the med? Are you one of those people who pours over someone else's charting in hopes of finding something to get them in trouble for?

She was telling us how we were going to be forced to wear uniforms from now on and how she was going to give us each a whopping $50 through an online website to spend on their crappy product. Another ridiculous attempt to increase HCAHPS scores. I as...

I've gone back to school to get my BSN. I knew it would involve a lot of nursing theory and writing papers, but I figured I could handle it. After having to read and write about Watson and Ray and all this caring nonsense, I'm ready to pull my hair o...

Wow, thanks for all the great replies. Many great points made here. I thought for sure I was going to get flamed. Exactly. That's why I say nursing is a necessary evil to hospital administrations. They need us to continue churning out revenue but ...

workingharder: You're right, I agree with you on both your original essay and what you actually wrote. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I can't help but think there must be a way to give nursing a chance. Maybe we just need to find a way to give...

I know, I don't know exactly what the solution is either. I think we need to start with billing for nursing care, but how do we do that? I read a paper about linking diagnosis related groups (DRGs) to an assigned nursing intensity weight (NIW). The m...

Money. 3 new grads just got hired to my ICU. I was told by my manager that there is a government program right now that pays HALF of a new grad's salary while on orientation. That's a lot of money saved paying an experienced nurse for the same time p...

So just got transferred into my hospital's ICU after 5 years on the med surg floor. It's been 2 years since my hospital offered a critical care course. I am so glad I got accepted out of about 20 other applicants, but I can't believe how nerve wracki...

"If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger." I believe that was Conan the Barbarian Love that guy.

Write incident reports every time this happens. Make sure to include full names, times, every detail of what was said. Document, document, document! As others have said, get infection control involved. Contact them through email if possible to have i...

It's time. I've been an RN working med surg for 5 years. In all that time, I never had the desire to go back to school. When I interviewed for ICU at my current facility, they asked if I was planning on getting my BSN. It didn't affect my chances bec...

I completely agree with what everyone else has said. Your charge nurse was out of line, if she thought she could handle it than let her take the patient and let it be on her license. You should write her up. There's a lot of important things I learne...

Wow, no wonder you're so nervous. That's a big transition from psych to ICU. Sounds like you're working at a totally different company too, which is a whole new charting system you have to get used to, different policies, docs you don't know, etc. Ha...

Wow, that sounds exactly like me! I couldn't agree more with you on everything you said, there is a lot of wisdom in your response. That's a good tip on taking home the report sheets. It's better for me to look up specific things than it is to try to...

Yup, my dad's a carpenter and my brother's an electrician and they each make about 25% more than I do. I tell my dad all the time that I should've been a carpenter...

Thanks for all your replies. I'm glad to know I'm not some heartless meanie haha. :) I don't know if I could do it around the kids though, to all of you who deal with that every day, you have my respect. After he had the ngt put in, the patient was d...

Unfortunately the only way you're really gonna get good is experience. Just keep sticking when you get a chance, you'll get better as time goes by. In the meantime, here's some of the little tricks I use if they're really a hard stick. -Act confident...

Thanks, I feel a little more normal now. I agree with you, I would have liked a little more medication, but this patient's doc is notorious for being stingy with the sedatives (I can't say that I blame him.) We were lucky to get what we had :). You'r...

This is really weird because I've never had any cause to do it, but one of my biggest quirks is that I always draw up iv pain meds in front of the patient. Some nurses will draw it up outside of the room, waste the proper amount, then go in the room ...

I can't believe how many people here are in favor of bedside report. It's obviously something thought up by a person who's never touched a real patient. I guess for ICU it's ok, but I work nights on a med tele floor with a lot of psych patients and l...

You're getting lots of great advice. I also struggled with report when I was a new grad. I hated giving report with a passion! It didn't help when some of the nurses gave me a hard time and asked all kinds of questions that I didn't know the answer t...

You've got to be kidding me. At my hospital, everyone from lab techs to unit secretaries have helped me boost a patient. Anyone who works in a patient care area is responsible for caring for the patient as long as it's in their scope of practice. Boo...

Yup, I work med tele with a lot of patients on legal holds. Well, one day about 3 years ago one of them escaped during shift change. We called the cops and gave a description but they never found the patient. It's a crappy feeling when that happens. ...