shopgal RN

I am an LPN on a LTC Vent unit and when I started my job I was married, not happily, I had just found out that my husband was cheating while I was at work. I went through the seperation and then it was like a meat market with all of these single guy...

My Uncle passed away from "complications from pick's disease" and it was 5 years after he was diagnosed and he was 54 at time of diagnosis. It was like the confussion of Alzheimer's and then with neurological problams like he would want to pick up h...

I am always in charge of the cooking for every holiday and get together which I love, but I always just try to cut little corners with the things we all love to eat. I use skim milk and low fat cheese and I can't believe it's not butter in all of my...

A friend of mine calls hers her "Lucy" and when I was younger, we were taught that it was your "do-do" whether you were male or female and so for awhile when I was little I thought that we were all the same because everyone had a "do-do" On Sex and...

Before I became a nurse, I was a pharmacy tech and we had a drug seeking mother and her son amazingly enough had all of these ailments that she needed to come and pick up meds for him and we always knew that they were for her because she was higher t...

Well done to the noc shifters! Better yet, our meetings are scheduled at 1:30pm.. always. I quit going, I keep saying that when I work from 7p-7a, no meeting is mandatory at 1:30 in the afternoon. :zzzzz My other favorite thing is when you wa...

What's up with the car thing too? My friends have Chevy, Portia, Monte Carlo (Boy) and they just had a girl named Lexus. Wrong, wrong. I think that it's funny too when people get married and their name is funny. My friend's grandma was "Erma Jean...

One of my instructors told me to give up the 4.0 idea because nursing programs are so compact that you need to just concentrate on one or two classes and get the As in those to keep your GPA up and settle for the Bs or Cs for the others and so I got ...

I work 7p-7a and I get out of there between 7:30-8:00am if I am pretty well prepared and start my last med pass on time and don't have any major catastrophes. I have worked noc shift for years and the only thing that is bad and this is in every faci...

Yeah, our protocol is no more than 30 min before infusion and then a 30 min to 1 hour window after infusion. We always draw them 72 hours after the initial dose.

Oh yeah, the one that still grosses me out is the dying cancer pt smell, that one gets me still. The other one that causes me to step back is the smell of when you have to burp a g-tube and they have like a lot of air and it goes and goes and you're...

Spit and sputum used to just make me gag and want to ralph, so where do I work, Long term ventilator unit! Now I could care less! We have all of these pts that have signed waivers that they know that they aspirate everything but they don't want to ...

I used to work in a nsg home that had a new part that was only like 4 yrs old and the old part that we called the "getto" that was about 40 yrs old. Wierd stuff always happened in the getto part. Like we had a pt that was dying and we had gone in t...

I am well versed in C-diff, it seems like all of our pts come back from the hosp with it and then if they have it, no matter how many times we explain handwashing and contact isolation to the CNAs, magically, the roommate always ends up with it. As ...

I was married to a man who's career was nothing medical and it was so hard to talk to him because he didn't care when I would come home and be so drained from having a pt die or a really stressful night. He totally didn't understand and didn't care ...

I worked in LTC as a CNA for several years and now as a nurse, I work on a long term vent unit. My pts in LTC it was hard, but I could say, "Well, they were old and lived their lives" and be happy for them, etc. To say that it was ever easy, no. B...

I subcribe to Nursing 2005 and AJN (American Journal of Nursing) and I find that AJN is the one that I enjoy more. It has articles that nurses write and I just enjoy it more, it applies a little more to your everyday. When I was in nsg. school, a f...

Long Term Ventilator Unit, State of Kansas, I work weekend noc 7p-7a shift, one nurse, 2 CNAs and 18 Vent pts, it's a little overwhelming at times, because with 18 vents, you also have 18 g-tubes and 18 IVs, and usually some heavy duty wound care. N...

That's AWESOME! Yes, we'll take her, I have an ex-husband that that method of punishment would be appropriate for! :rotfl:

I work at Specialty Hosp. of Mid-America with the Vents in Overland Park, KS. Our facility is also big on education and so if there is any kind of cert. that you need or CEUs, they pay you to go, I mean pay for your class and then you clock in and g...

I live in Kansas City and I make $18.50/hr plus differentials after that and I am full time with benefits. Our PRN LPNs make $22-25, but I applied for some agency jobs this week and I was only offered $18 at one place and $20 at another and I am als...

I've worked noc shift as a CNA for 5yrs and now as an LPN for 2yrs and I have 18 LTC vent pts with 1 RT and believe me with 18 IVs, and 18 tube feedings to watch I barely take a break. And of course all of my wonderful co-workers think that we just ...

That's just wrong! :rotfl: Do people just hate their kids? How can you look into a sweet little baby face and say "Gonarhea." Maybe the disease like changed her life or something. :rotfl:

My biggest support was my mom. Yeah, my husband was so supportive that he packed up his stuff and left me one day while I was in clinicals with 6 wks left to go in school, a**h**e. We got to write up a thank you speech that one of our instructors r...

Durable Power of Attorney, The person that you appoint to be in charge of you when you can't speak for yourself. We have to listen to what they want even if it goes against the advanced directive, which sucks.