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....but I'm a student having trouble understanding

You are a very caring and loving daughter who took care your mother at home rather than turning her over to a nursing home. My mother is 90 and stays with my youngest sister most of the time with monthly weekenders with me. If I was retired, I would care for her more. I dread the time I see these ulcers appear, if ever. We plan to have hospice care for her when the time arrives.

Online RN2BSN programs are nothing but loads of reading, researching, and composing papers every week. Plus there are many extra projects you will be required to fulfill such as power point presentations, voice threads, online classroom discussions in a virtual classroom, and peer response discussions backed up with scholarly citations. I'm 60 yrs old, graduating in 2 months with my BSN and working full time, I can say it was NOT easy. My employer paid 3/4 of tuition. If you really want it, you will have to WORK for it.

In SC, a 60 year old can receive free college education provided there is room in the class AND you may only be employed on a part-time base

FYI : if the joint commission ever asks you how you clean your scrubs, you had better tell them you wash them EVERY night in hot water, with no other other family members clothes! Put them in the dryer as well. This is a true JC question that came up @ our hospital.

Go to Oprah

Thank you, I am going tomorrow for a so called charge nurse inservice : leadership and the charge nurse Objectives: 1) identify 3 characteristics of a successful leader 2) identify at least 3 causes of chaos on the nursing unit 3)state at least 2 methods to decrease chaos on the nursing unit I will be bringing up these circumstances you mentioned as I'm sure if I didn't , they would not be broached.

Who r u directing this quote to?

I am sorry you were hurt to that point of a meltdown by that filthy patient. Another commentor said something like...oh, you should not have let your self get emotionally involved, stay neutral...that is such a contradictory statement! All the nursing management and the whole profession like to tout how caring and compassionate nursing is. To me, you would have to be a little STEPFORD nurse to practice in a manner where "you dont get emotionally involved ". I think when the crazy called you FAT probably took you over the edge. Nothing can hurt a woman more than being called a fat f##k. Take your Fmla, and know I am sending peaceful thoughts your way.

Ms Idiva, I left a nice job that I had been driving 30 miles to daily for 20 yrs. my new job was about 10 mins away and I thought my world had finally pinnacled. When the economy turned down so did my new job. Low patient census has become the norm requiring me to use up my sick/vacation leave so i could make my mortgage and bills. I went through the saddest part of my career. Here i was in the latter part of my career, very experienced and still healthy but feeling totally useless and sad that I had probably made the worst career move of my life by transferring to this new facility. Using all my vacation time when I was called off,I went from total job security to job insecurity. I am still in that situation it's hard for me to be enthusiastic about anything. I too get thank you letters from my pts and recognition but I feel numb. I find my self praying for my shift to end each work day and to let me get through it. I miss my old friends from the other facility and haven't bonded with anyone here. I have gotten totally disillusioned with nursing and cry sometimes when I think about how much I use to love nursing so much only to find out in the end how it has crushed and saddened me.

I have shoulder length hair. Way back in '94 I was required to pin it up during clinical rotations. I now understand my clinical instructors were trying to engrain in my mushy brain an understanding of why long hair dangling around pt care is soo unsanitary! I have always seen nurses having to lean over their pts to change bloody dressings, clean goopy trachs, or bend down to inspect their rectal are and all that free flowing hair draping on the pts gown or bed rails. EEWW! To this day I wear my hair UP in a nice twist and wash it EVERY night after work. It's just totally unsanitary to have hair hanging down !

Right on, Sista!!!

Please go into info tech rather than bedside nursing! All I ever do ( ! ) is wipe, clean, wipe, clean. The stench is so bad even after 16 yrs, I gag! Especially the explosive diarrheas, the gross soup bowls between the legs that only a Yankeur suction could handle, but the worse case?? It's when a patient who is totally capable of wiping their a$$ would ask a perfect stranger to do that for them!

I am sick of it all. I am at the point of hating nursing :/