Antikigirl ASN, RN

Mine was just updated yesterday! I use to work in an ALF for 4 years and went back to Med Surge for various reasons to long to tell right now (old members may remember the many reasons and helped me to choose med/surge again...I still thank you all f...

So just yesterday some family members of a patient came to the nursing desk. I was there charting and just overheard the converstation. Typical orders from family...make sure she gets dinner, make sure you don't let her out of bed without help, give ...

Excellent and totally utterly agreed! Another odder one I would add is some people get a wierd feeling...called "impending doom". I hear patients say "I am going to die" and have learned to totally believe they might just and keep a good eye on them...

Jessie I hear you LOUD and CLEAR sister! I even joked saying that we should go back to the days of the roller girls at the old drive-in's...can't do it all unless we have a faster way of conveyance! LOL, even my supervisor said "holly cow that would ...

Oh goodness...I still feel like an idiot on this one. Okay, so I was doing an assessment on a patient and going through the motions...when we got to urination he laughed at me and said my school wasn't doing much to teach me anything...I was quite p...

Typically I would go causal nice...no jeans or scrubs...something nice and fits well on you. Typically I will check out the place beforehand, and see what the other employees wear to work. Then I may go one level above that for an interview. Or I l...

I have no probelms with it, and so far none of our male nurses have either. Holly cow, we have people with piercings in plain site, tattoos too, and some of us have been wearing our hair funky...so beards are no probelm! I have a nose piercing but I...

Thank you so very much for the comment on me writing...and my first reaction in my head is one I tell my patients from time to time when we talk about charting and paperwork. "If I knew I had to write so much, and deal with so much paper...I would h...

LOL! Most of my patients would have added vodka to that lemon statement! LOL!!!!!!!! Oh that is just too crazy! I don't know what I would have done when I saw that...but I know I would be laughing!

YES!!!!!!! With the advent of the internet...many laymen feel they are savy in medical and question EVERYTHING you do! Not to mention that trends have gone towards hotel or even home like atmospheres for looks and comfort...but didn't think about m...

Sorry...but I feel the same as the OP. I will chart what I found, did, and everything...and if the facility chooses not to put it as a perm part of the chart fine...but that is a lawsuit in the makes! If a facility lets me render ANY care of another...

Actually...it is kinda funny. Take a look at two of my posts from today. One had to do with something that makes me question why I am a nurse...a family that asked why we nurses were giving their loved one clear blood (see "scratching my head")...and...

Oh MAN...one of my worse lazy person that wouldn't lift a finger for herself story takes a gross cake award! Seems this lady..yes obsese...had chronic yeast in the folds because she wouldn't lift a finger to do ANYTHING for herself, and still felt sh...

One of my favorites was in RN school. I was going to witness a cardioversion done by this very top notch doc. Okay I was told as nauseum that I was to remain perfectly silent, blend into the walls, and do not move, breathe or anything. I understoo...

I hear you sweety! I said the same thing! But a wise nurse once told me in RN school...you are a baby nurse till 5 years in, so experience the good and bad and learn from it till then and by year five you may really honestly have a clue to whats goin...

It is odd though...I was taught to not question a nurse outright, that they are professionals and know more about what they are doing than you do. If I had seen something like that...I more than likely would have taken a closer look (but not touchin...

Nurses that do consider money as part of their career path are being smart investors in their personal time, financial responsiblities, and right in line with ethical work standards! I don't get this stuff about nursing being one of the few careers ...

Here you there! I was working as a sunday school teacher when I decided to go nursing...and particular of interest to me was midwifery! For some odd reason, they knew that I would be leaving their services eventually and where I had never had a prob...

Its funny about banana bags...I have had patients ask me how the urine gets all the way up there against gravity...I teased one that was a pretty funny fellow and said I had it on a pump...LOL, of course I let him know that was a joke and told him wh...

I tend to see things a bit differently on the financial side of the choice of nursing as a career…just as many people have their own twists on it to fit into their lives. All are just as valid to me… I have always been one to give all of myself towa...

I am busting a gut laughing! Oh guys that is just tooooo good! Banana bag!!!! LOL!!!!!! Yeah...infuse one part clear blood with 30cc's of red food coloring to equal one unit of PRBC...easy! LOL!!!!!! Oh and that student...what, once around the bo...

my unit...which is a med/surge tele..and I float down the hall to tele does things this way...and it seems to work well! We recently switched from scattered 8 and 12 hour shifts to strictly 12 hour shifts (yes, we lost a lot of great nurses that had ...

I really believe the answer to that lies within the individual and factor heavily on your own personal goals and character and location location location!!!! For some people this has been a long standing dream, and certainly has its benifits for mi...

This is an excellent question, and one I wished I had asked myself or had someone ask me when I signed onto being a nurse. I got a grant to become a nurse after having my child. The midwives and nurses adored me and said I had a natural nack for it,...

I am with the majority here...she wants to be a nurse??? Well what an eye openiner she is going to get! Some people are just like this...and we work and treat them! Best get your reply messages at the ready! LOL! Man I have a million of them now!