sonnie

deespoohbear, I am an assistant director of nursing, infection control nurse and staff development nurse! My duties include supervising a 40 bed rural hospital at night, educating nursing staff, precepting and mentoring new staff, developing competencies and managing the infection control for our hospital. In my spare nursing hours I author policies and procedures, teach in the community fill in for sick or vacationing staff. I have the respect and cooperation of all of our nursing staff and our medical staff. My associate's degree has done me well!!!!! HAVE A WONDERFULL DAY SONNIE

The funniest thing I think I ever heard was a young handsome resp. therapist tell an elderly lady... " honey put this in your mouth now suck don't blow!" He was assisting her with her incentive spirometer

1)RN 2)13 3)Pacific North West 4)yes 5)pretty much 6)yes 7)exceptionally 8)yes 9)yep, that would be me 10)yes very much 11)No 12)a 30 minute lunch and 1-2 15 minute breaks 13)nights, but because of my other jobs can be found at work at any time 14)we get every other holiday off and try to give staff either the night before christmas and new years if they have to work the "holiday" 15)against 16)no I feel it is unethical to hold patients hostage like the teachers hold our children hostage with their strikes 17) Since I am a working nursing supervisor it is my job to make sure people take their breaks, but that is the problem, sometimes people won't take a break.

Let's not stop with the BSN as the entry let's make the MSN the entry level so we can really call our selves "professionals". As you all know MD's have a BS in something but have post grad training and that must be what makes the difference!!!!

Let's not stop with the BSN as the entry let's make the MSN the entry level so we can really call our selves "professionals". As you all know MD's have a BS in something but have post grad training and that must be what makes the difference!!!!

Yes it's true that you may only have 1 or 2 patients in the settings you described, and yes you can sit there wide eyed and stare at them. What do you learn? You learn 1 or 2 major systems, and how to take care of the problems of those systems. What you don't learn are skills like time management and priority of care. Medical-Surgical nursing is a great way to see the world of nursing. You get a variety of disease processes to help you understand each system. You learn what to worry about and what can wait to be worried about. You get a very good education in lab values and various procedures in short you get hands on nursing. New grads are desperately trying to figure out where they fit in the web of nursing and med-surg gives them a good idea of what will be expected of them on the units. I would rather have a nurse who started out on med-surg with maybe less critical patients move on to the sicker patients on the units. The m/s nurse will have a better understanding of why this patient is as sick as they are because he/she has seen the lesser degree and knows the difference.

Yes it's true that you may only have 1 or 2 patients in the settings you described, and yes you can sit there wide eyed and stare at them. What do you learn? You learn 1 or 2 major systems, and how to take care of the problems of those systems. What you don't learn are skills like time management and priority of care. Medical-Surgical nursing is a great way to see the world of nursing. You get a variety of disease processes to help you understand each system. You learn what to worry about and what can wait to be worried about. You get a very good education in lab values and various procedures in short you get hands on nursing. New grads are desperately trying to figure out where they fit in the web of nursing and med-surg gives them a good idea of what will be expected of them on the units. I would rather have a nurse who started out on med-surg with maybe less critical patients move on to the sicker patients on the units. The m/s nurse will have a better understanding of why this patient is as sick as they are because he/she has seen the lesser degree and knows the difference.

I remember glass urinals, (I have one!!!)glass syringes(have one of those too) stainless steel bedpans that always seemed to be kept in the freezer. When a hot water bottle was a red rubber vessel that was used for everything from warming babies, to comforting gassy bellies. And don't forget when patients stayed for 3-4 days for a T&A!!!

hollykate Try a product called Zout. I have found that it takes out just about everything I can manage to get myself into!!! It works really well on betadine and so it should work on the benzoin. You may have to treat it a couple of times but it should work. Sonnie

I have to agree with trauma4us. Each patient and family member is/are different and you really can't have a blanket statement. I have worked ER, OB, M/S, OR, CCU and just about everything in between, but when my husband needed surgery and the surgeon wanted to know if I wanted to watch I said no. I knew what they would do and I didn't feel like I could handle seeing my hubby on the OR table. It was hard enough to go to recovery immediately after the procedure and see him so pale. I knew that it was sometimes normal but yet it was concerning. Children are a different story all around. Sometimes parents are a god send and other times a royal pain. We assist with circ's and sometimes the fathers want to watch, I will always try to talk them out of it but some still stay. I tell them I will answer questions before or after but not during a procedure. I hope this helps. It is an individual choice.