leilo0 BSN, RN

leilo0 has 12 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Medicine, Geriatrics, Ambulatory Care.

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1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   leilo0 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a Catholic teaching hospital and the original building was built in the late 1800s. I've heard stories of patients seeing a faceless nun nurse wearing a habit during nightly rounds. I used to work in the medicine unit and would rotate...

2. Extreme anxiety no longer want to be a nurse

   leilo0 replied to Katiejef's topic in General Nursing

   The only cure for me was leaving the bedside. At 8 years in, I still dread going in to work, still sleepless before a shift, still felt like a sinking ship going in. I thought the problem was me until I switched to outpatient. I still get paid almost...

3. New grad RN, absolutely hate nursing

   leilo0 replied to Ashley Karanja's topic in General Nursing

   Your daughter is quite an admirable, responsible young adult! I wish I had the same courage as she did and did not buy in to my mother's own pressure to find something stable and 'well paying'.and convinced me to go in to nursing. Until now, I still ...

4. New grad RN, absolutely hate nursing

   leilo0 replied to Ashley Karanja's topic in General Nursing

   I worked befside fulltime for years. I don’t know I managed. Whew! Then when I got the guts and a part time position twice a week showed up, I grabbed it. That only held me out for two more years until I went casual and even doing one shift every mon...

5. New grad RN, absolutely hate nursing

   leilo0 replied to Ashley Karanja's topic in General Nursing

   Curious as to why would you want your daughter to go through that knowing what you know about nursing? There are other jobs out there that make decent pay, even better than nursing without the negative stuff people couldn't put up with about this job...

6. Who cleans the poo?

   leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

   This is exactly what I'm getting at. It's the small things that culminate to a lot of things. The onus is always on the nurse and you're pulled away from doing your actual job. And so, in paper you are a nurse but a good part of the day, you're a por...

7. Who cleans the poo?

   leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

   This is exactly my point. I've seen comments pointing out that this incident seems complicated for housekeeping to handle but this isn't rocket science. I had sick patients that night that Iwas watching over, meds to give, charting to be done amongst...

8. Who cleans the poo?

   leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

   Your facility must have better toilet paper than we do. On top of being rendered ineffective when it comes to pasty formed poo, it also has the tendency to clog our bathroom toilets so towels were the way to go and I can use my feet instead of gettin...

9. Who cleans the poo?

   leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

   I've had gloves rip on me so yes, I feel the need to double glove. feces was all over the side rails so I gowned up just in case. I tried not to go into the poopy details but it wasn't just a matter of solid poop on the ground. It was on the bed, the...

10. Who cleans the poo?

    leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

    Seeing the general response from everyone, I think I can guess what the answer is

11. Who cleans the poo?

    leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

    Haha. I have not heard of that phrase but will have to use that on my coworkers! I think one of the issues we have with our profession is how broad our scope of practice is and we can't set firm boundaries as a result. As nurses, we'd be hard pressed...

12. Who cleans the poo?

    leilo0 replied to leilo0's topic in General Nursing

    The patient was not on any isolation precaution but it was everywhere and I wasn't going to risk making contact. lol, I don't mind clearing a good part of the mess but I feel its' almost unreasonable to ask that no evidence should be left behind

13. Who cleans the poo?

    leilo0 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Providing hygiene care when a patient soil themselves is a given but what happens when poo appears in public areas or shared spaces? The other day, I had a patient lose control over their bowels warning, graphic description* This patient stood u...

14. Multiple CNA's refusing assigned task

    leilo0 replied to Dawnkeibals's topic in General Nursing

    Too many reasons why our working standards are below par compared to other healthcare professionals and I wonder how we got to this. I see PTs and OTs work with assistants that are exclusively assigned to them and they never work with patients alone ...

15. Be Healthy: 10 Self-Care Tips and Tricks for Nurses

    leilo0 replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your reply Melissa. I read your article through a header under "Tips that will save you from burnout" and with that premise, it did struck a chord. Your article on its' own is helpful in reminding us the importance of practicing self-ca...