lady constance

I would like to remind all of my fellow nurses, that at home we CAN do 18- 20 hour days ( because we CAN and DO go pee when we have to, we can grab a snack, drink a beverage), WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO EVER be forced into that kind of slavery at wo...

ACCCCKKKK! I thought i was smart enough to know all management tricks--( been a nurse 32 years). Nope. The disorganization i work for quickly placed a mandatory 24 hour work week to qualify for benefits. LOSE YOUR VACATION ! ( mismanagement c...

and one more..... a young lady had just had some surgery on her insides... the doc said " demerol and dilaudid for her" when the patient had sufficient presence of mind, she said " why did that man come over her and say damn-it-all and dildou...

here are a few for yah.... eons ago, i had a dementia patient on a neuro floor..... as i did my rounds, checking each patient and room , i heard this constant HISSSSSIng sound...thought. " well that is odd"...and checked the flow of O2.... it wa...

tell me that you had an MRI.... sounds like a pinched spinal root to me... you need a micro surgeon who can spot in impinged spinal root.... forget PT.... pay for the MRI out of pocket.. you are too young for this kind of debilitation................

i am showing my age, but when yah get a patient from the OR who comes to you intubated or sucking any plastic device, yah need to be able to know when it is a good time to pull plastic.... and unless you understand weaning parameters,NIF,neuro/...

there is a saying in alanon.... look where you stumble, NOT where you fall.... what this saying means is that, we all do fall... but if yah desire to stop falling, LOOK WHERE YOU START TO STUMBLE... all the clues and signs that you can look bac...

yah wont get paid. yah get a chance to see if you can stand it. they get a chance to eval you.... some places do this even to current employees seeknig a job in a different department....

personally, i would get your manager involved in these cases....they could be a litigation issue.... your manager needs to step up to the plate.... ask her for suggestions.... and on a side note, when i have a patients like this, i ask before l...

the ADN programs will not go away easily...why? because the cost factor... in the locale where i live the salaries of starting nurses is 40,000/ year... the cost for the education of an ADN is about 10,000 here..... if your education costs ...

ericsoln--- i love reading your posts.... :) cant say i have ever been in danger of physical assault.. unless we are talking about patients who are out of their mind or simply cant reason ( either because they have never been able to, or we have re...

do yah want to stay annoyed? what can YOU do to remedy the current problem... and i mean changing yourself --because you cannot change another..... what needs to happen so that you are not so annoyed????

do yah plan to stay a victim? or become a victor?

truth..... but people will be able to say " i know ONE professional nurse" and hopefully they know you by name...... take the challenge for one week and put your heart and soul in it... then get back with me....LOL

ummm quite a few.. one stands out..... sick icu patient--17 year old ... pressure so low, we emergently placed a venous line femorally----- and once the levophed was going, BLOOD was pulsing up the tubing.... probably the only reason the patie...

19 miles. 30 minutes... but i leave 40- 45 minutes early...cause of the sick/tardy policy..... cause i aint gonna hang because of failure to accommodate traffic patterns

and i want to add.... you are a walking bill board..... people know alot about you by the way you handle yourself..... what does your billboard say? mine says this: fun, kind, professional. experienced. supportive.mercy. love. fufilled

think about this ericsoln..... perhaps it is the way you carry yourself while doing your duties.... it is your aire of professionalism.... how you dress, how you command or lose respect by your countenance and attitude..... when i go into w...

ahhhh... 27 years later, you learn to answer the phone like this: " oh , i am so sorry that i cannot say yes... i have __________ that i must attend to today/tomorrow). i will pray that you find some one" and yah smile while you are saying this.......

interesting..... in my state, i am not sure you can take boards if you have a prior felony conviction.....andi have no idea what would happen should one be convicted of a felony.... used to be , years ago, a person had to be of high moral char...

i have no answers nor a clue to how one would find out.... but i would be very interested in the answer....so keep us posted :)

that would be one of the questions you willbe asking your nurse who orients you.... she ought to know the answer.... personally, i prefer religoius institutions versus secular ones... they seem to treat thier employees better....( but i am sure...

i hear yah about the negativity.... rules 1. no one can make you feel anything.. you CHOOSE how you feel by the thoughts you think 2. no one learns a whole lot when being screamed or yelled at... mostly you learn that person is angry, has issu...

Geiokhae------ hey, i dont quite know what to say. usually they pick people to orient you that are some what open , friendly people.... i dont know your age or back ground, but some how or another, you might want to gently ask the nurse who is ori...

yah--we have a few really good nurses that are in the same position.....a one minute clock in late and BOOM!-- sadly the boss seems to forget when she used to have to clock in and was minutes late and simply did not clock in just wrote her time...