Yiggs

Fellow nurses, is any of you a Life Coach or Health Coach. If so where and how did you get certified. Also, are you getting clients. My intention is to ultimately use my nursing knowledge, experience and skill as a life coach in the next couple of y...

Hi Patrick, congratulations on your soon to be converted e -book. Do you still own the rights to your book or you sold the rights to the company who is re packaging your book. I am also thinking of re-doing my book Heart Talk as an e-book. Did you...

Congratulations! I too think you should stick to one shift as it's difficult for your body to regulate your sleep cycle when you are going from one shift to the other. I have worked both shifts at different times and I like each for different reaso...

Nurses, how many of you have ever made a medication error. I don't know if the system will allow us to answer yes - no, almost or never.

I felt real compassion for you after reading your post. Seems like you feel "lost" now that you are out of the nursing scene. The profession really grows on us and to a great extent defines who we are over the years. Nursing is like being in a mar...

I have worked on all different units in the hospital at which I work. When I just started a couple years ago it was very common for patients to be restrained, including elderly confused patients. Patients are still being restrained but not as frequ...

`I am also for pressing charges! Most of these patients know exactly what they are doing and saying. It seems sometimes we present ourselves as " a sacrifice" for patients and act as if we are at their mercy. I think this talk about "the customer i...

Why do you sound so disgruntled? I thought the whole thing was really heart warming and inspirational. It is true what's related in the post! Most of us Nurses do put our lives on hold and make sacrifices to ensure positive outcomes for our patients...

Hi Tlancio, thank you for your insightful response. How long is the holistic course you mentioned, more than a year if one already has a Bachelors Degree and can one do this course on line? Yiggs

How do you feel about nurses discussing spirituality with patients who need emotional support, especially those who express feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and suicidal thoughts?

Cosmicmama, how long have you been practicing. How long was the course and was it very expensive. It's an area of interest for me. Do you find building a clientele easy. Yiggs

I feel very badly that this happened to you. The reality is, 'first impression is lasting.' I hardly think the job offer for which you were a no call, no show will reconsider you. As the other poster said, send a thank you card to the other job wit...

Good idea! I think your idea is more than feaseable because you have experience in almost all areas of the business. Also, your current job will be an asset. As you go to these places to do your job, look for areas that need improvement and look for...

Congratulations on being so proactive and ambitious. I wrote a book a couple years ago titled, "Heart Talk." How To Express Negative Feelings in a Positive way. I had a press release in the daily paper with my picture and a narrative about the cont...

It is unfortunate that this is the reality in most long term care facilities. The unfortunate thing is that the people who get the brunt of the neglect are the residents who happen to be someone's mother, father, sister, brother, child etc. None of ...

How would you deal with peers/coworkers who talk down to patients and are obviously rude and disrespectful to them?

Couldn't you work week-ends only or work two days a week and have someone watch your kid(s). I feel your pain! The last thing you want is to loose your skills - make sure you keep renewing your liscence and your BLS/ACLS. Also, try to read nursing ...

Sorry about your "mistake." I can't see why they would fire you, it's not like the patient has an allergy to the medication; the medication had the opposite effect on him which happens a lot with elderly people. At least you can give the doctor a f...

My advice is always to start out in medical and get some experience under your belt. Having worked in medical and trauma for sometime, and having transferred to Psych recently, I can tell you that the best place to start is Medical and get some good...

I think you could do very well in Psychiatry but you should first work in Psych. as a pool/prn nurse to see what psych nurses do on a daily basis and to see if it is something you would be interested in doing. Although you said indirectly, that you a...

What does your business entail? I think it would be easier to advise you on marketing ideas if one knows what service you will be marketing. Although I don't know exactly what you will be doing, it seems you will be providing a service to a particu...

How do you determine what to charge for your service and did you charge per hour. Did you have packages of educational tools you give out. yiggs

The Small Business Association is a good start; they actually will coach you and review your plan as you go along. I started working with them on a business plan I was working on and they were resourceful. You could go online to the site and select m...

I am very interested in being a Nurse Entrpreneur and I have been checking out this site frequently but very little posts or update are usually on the site; also, most of the posts get no response from readers or a moderator. However, I am intereste...

My hardworking, compassioante peers, what is the one thing you will absolutely not tolerate from a patient?