Jewelsforme

I read through this and it sounds like you were set up to fail, not to succeed. You should not have received more than two patients and ask questions until you are either retired or dead. I don't know why this happened to you but it's definitely not ...

I had a daughter with a trach. I hope it's ok to post about this. Trach suctioning I could do without breaking sterile tech in my sleep, and did as she was a "wet" trach and sometimes the nurses called out sick. For some training on our MedSurg floor...

Dear working with ptsd -- Please do not give up. You are humble enough to admit your own challenges. Go forward and know the rest of us with challenges or disabilities keep going one foot at a time. Each one of us does the very best possible at all t...

Grivet, thank you for your opinion. Proves oh, so much. Hope you feel better soon and I wish you well.

I know Hancock. I even was flown to Honolulu to see an endo. So sad, she just kept asking me if I had diabetes, and had no clue about adrenal insufficiency. I asked her about the axis and she gave the the freaking deer in the headlights look. She tol...

I understand. It is not known because it is rare. With extremely low cortisol, mine was 1.7 at the time, the heart cannot function correctly. I had to do quite a bit of research myself because even physicians would have the deer in the headlight look...

Well, let the attacks against us roll. I was not in the ER for chronic pain. I was having chest pain and needed a cortisol infusion since the home I'm injection did not stop the arrythmias. I limp because yes, I also have chronic pain. A truck hit me...

I forgot to thank you Anna - for treating each patient as a human, regardless of what we did for a living. I never had the time, nor desire, to dig up any personal info of any patient unless it may help me to care for them. I knew some day I could be...

In a word, yes. But we value each and every single one of you who do not pass judgment on us, because we are in a very weakened and vulnerable position now and adore those of you who truly care about us. But the ones who show they care, even for the ...

No, we do not go in "ready to be angry," at least most of us who are chronically ill, unless we are called names like "psych patient" when in fact we are a GI bleed or other REAL physical ailment that needs help. I get mad when I am smiling, quiet, s...

I'll drink to this. You certainly hit this nail smack dab on the head. I used to be a MedSurg and Hospice nurse. I was the nurse that patients asked for by name, even in our hospice community. Man, I thought I would work until I was a little bent ove...

Beccalyn175, each nurse is very different from one another. However, for those of us who have a heart, compassion and care for each human even after we clock out, that is what a debriefing is for. Do they not have those for you at your facility? It i...

When you say you are "one" class away from "being an RN," are you saying you have about 4 credits before you can take your finals, then take the NCLEX? I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Can you help me out? Thank you ♥

Jealousy rears its ugly head. They sound jealous. You just do your best without discussing how good your grades are or that you passed the NCLEX first time etc. You'll get past this and remember a whole lot more practical information to use in critic...

Are we making serious positive headway utilizing I.T./Computer Charting in patient care, or are we also creating more or larger problems using these electronic charting systems? 1) Name at least three positive outcomes you see utilizing electronic ch...

Hi, my last child did not have a suck/swallow. She remained in NICU first 5 months of her life. She initially had gavage feeding of my pumped breast milk thru NG tube. Prior to discharge she had a Peg tube placed. She also had a trach. But I spent ev...

Grinds my gears. Hmmm. We have to work in sometimes a close environment to one another, so I'm positive each of us can do something that grates on others. Yes, the "I am the greatest thing that ever lived and breathed" attitude is very difficult to s...

1. Put the patch between shoulder blades. Invest $34 for a box of 100 Tegaderm (sheesh to your facility for not doing this already). Still disappearing? 2. Get one member of administration to implement 'fake' this room is now under video observation...

Watching paper charting convert to computer charts over the last decade or so has brought some real pros but also very real cons. For example, the current hospital has implemented a system that went online over the course of about 3 years, with the l...

Whoa, the "G" word. No need to explain. I was raised in the military, married military and received "care" in military hospitals. We have a dear family member who was placed in a state hospital in the early 60s which has since been shut down due to a...

You did the right thing. Never mess around with an asthmatic. They can turn so fast and so bad on you that you may not get to 911 or the ER, praying you can get an ET tube down if you happen to even have one with an order and are skilled/proficient a...

I hope you have a strong lactation services dept/lactation specialist where you all work. They will set him straight no matter how large and empty his ego tends to be.

Anything can happen, although we hope not. With the very best laid plans and with our eyes literally on the patient, there will be moments our eyes cannot be on the patient. And if we take a break perhaps the next person may not check as frequently a...

If you work at a very good institution, they will find a way to accommodate your limitations. I've worked with an RN in a very busy MedSurg who only had one hand and no prosthetic on the other arm. I've worked with a blind nurse confined to a wheel c...

Congratulations. You must be floating. I know I was elated. Enjoy the journey!