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Do you love them or hate them? Do you think they are doing a better job than general practiotioners, when it comes to a hospitalized patient? I happened to love our hospitalists and I feel that in most cases the care of the hospitalized patient is b...

What happens? What is your role? What do you say? What is appropriate? Any interesting stories on this subject? Thanks! :)

46 y.o. IV drug user infected with botulism. Spent cca. a month at our facility, on a vent, completely paralyzed including his face, with 0 muscle tone. I'll admit that it took me a couple of days to realize that he is not in a coma, but all in ther...

Please, please, bare with me. This is a horribly long rant. but I would really appreciate your opinion. A year ago there were staffing cuts in the hospital that I worked at at the time. I survived the lay off, but it were the two nastiest, most stres...

...And that's exactly what I'm planning on doing. I have a quite consuming life outside of the facility. Thanks!!

...Not quite yet, but keep having your fingers crossed for me :wink2: Thanks!

I thought I owe you guys an update... I just spoke to our DNS yesterday to hear what's new. According to her, out of the seven nurses that were on night shift, two are moving to evenings and two are looking (or allready have) new jobs. Which leaves m...

I have this one pt. who I really like very much. He is an about 80 y.o. quad on a vent and has been in the facility for years. His mind is so sharp and he so hungry for company, conversation and any kind of information, yet he has no one to visit him...

I'm sorry that you feel attacked. That was not my intention.

This might come as a surprise to you, Gompers, but I also do not discuss religion with anyone, especially not it the workplace. I don't approve of any employees (or anyone actually) imposing their religious views on anyone else, and eventhough I conc...

Thank you Miranda! I've been reading your posts for a while and I admire your intelligence end eloquence. What an inspiration!

Thanks for your input and your suggestions....but... A).... I never said I'm religious. B) As I stated earlier, the man really likes to READ. Why do you assume that a book on tape would be a better idea? And why inspirational stories? I'm just curio...

Once, I crushed a Dilaudid pill for a pt. Then I realized I took it out of the wrong bingo card, that belonged to another patient. It was on night shift, everyone was busy and there wasn't another nurse around to be a witness. After all the Dilaudid ...

Oooops! Is this one time likely to get me in trouble? :chair:

When I was in nrsing school I got to watch a foot amputation once. Aside of the fact that it was tragic, very gross... and very cool A fem-pop bypas was even cooler... How they opened the whole leg up around the bone, as if they were opening a boo...

Yup... Agree!

Thanks for the great insight. I appreciate that!

Thanks so much for the support, CrunchRN and everyone else! I did talk to the DNS briefly. ...As far as reassurance goes, she did tell me, that she'd "most likely" go by seniority, if we cannot come to a concensus amonghst ourselves nad she also sai...

No. If the NOC shift runs from 11 to 7, istead from 7 to 7, that eliminates the heavy 2000 med pass, that required the three nurses on the floor. The rest of the night in my opinion is manageable with two nurses. I see the management's point there.

I actually found the wording of the article quite respectful and truthful except of the phrase "lower skilled" as the writers were setting themselves up for a misunderstanding... They could have found a better phrase, but it is evident what they ment...

Why is noone responding??? I'm sitting here anxiously waiting for a suggenstion or comment from someone. Is it really that unbearingly long? I'm so sorry... I shortened it a little. (I know, not enough.) I'd appreciate anything, as I'm getting so ...

I really really appreciate everyone's thaughts on this, the pros and the cons. All of them, without exception are valid. I would like to point our one thing though. In this case me wanting to give this gentleman a gift is not just because I desire t...

The books on tape are a great idea. Someone asked how he reads if he's a quad. He has a kind of a "book stand" that goes on his bed side table. He asks us to pull the bedside table over his bed and to put the head of his bed up. Then he just asks s...

Sending it through the mail is a good idea. I'm currently not a church member.

I've seen this so many times and I am pretty tired of this. This nurse comes in and first of all has nothing good to say about any (mind you ANY) of the other nurses that work on our run during the week. She didn't forget to say a little "spicy" in...