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  1. Brother with testicular mass: possibly cancer, please help

    nursejanedough replied to Rileycat's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone familiar with someone who has or had cervical cancer? Family member just diagnosed a couple of days ago. I know nothing. Being an old psych/LTC nurse, I have no advice, etc. to give her....

  2. tattle tell

    nursejanedough replied to daisie's topic in General Nursing

    kday, you are right. There are a lot of nursing jobs out there that are wonderful. If you were talking to me about quitting if you dread your job, etc. I quit a long time ago. Well, a little over a...

  3. tattle tell

    nursejanedough replied to daisie's topic in General Nursing

    As an RN in Long Term Care, Nursing Home, etc. here were a couple of my complaints. I had a resident that loved her baby. (It was a plastic doll), but this resident really thought it was her baby....

  4. tattle tell

    nursejanedough replied to daisie's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds kind of rough, daisie. I used to be in LTC (my favorite kind of nursing). I don't know if we had a "spy" when I was working last, but that would have been hard. I was already trying to...

  5. 13 hour shifts

    nursejanedough replied to kewlnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I am a RN and a recent patient. I had hysterectomy and was in about two days. As a patient, it was nice having the same nurse almost all day. The only time I was scheduled to work 12 hours (7pm to...

  6. What is a real nurse?????

    nursejanedough replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    The absolute best nurses I have ever worked with were LPN's or LVN's. Especially in LTC. I am RN with Associate Degree. Just because I had one more year of 2x + 6y x 5h = (who the hell knows), does...

  7. True ER stories

    nursejanedough replied to Kel Cardaras's topic in Nursing Humor

    MartyL, that is hilarious. Ouch, on that vibrator surgical removal. My good friend was an ER nurse years ago, in fact, she was one of Elvis's nurses. I keep trying to get her to come in here to...

  8. Nurses caring for Nurses(PLEASE REPLY)

    nursejanedough replied to candicemark's topic in General Nursing

    Let's take care of each other. I remember working as a nurse extern in surgery and that a nurse made a potentially lethal mistake. (Believe me, it would have caused death.) She caught it in time, but...

  9. NBC nightly news

    nursejanedough replied to teamrn's topic in General Nursing

    Is there any registered nurse in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, or Tennessee (that works in LTC - non mangagement) that makes more than $20.00 an

  10. How do you work with a ***** ???

    nursejanedough replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Sirens, if I was still a psych nurse, I would have to chart that you have homicidal ideations. Just kidding, really. The older I get, the less I know or understand, it seems. I love that Andy...

  11. Eden Alternative

    nursejanedough replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Ya'll are right about the Eden "thing". I still think it is a good "concept". When our facility first heard about it, we all thought it sounded good. The activity director was going to try to start...

  12. Eden Alternative

    nursejanedough replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    First of all, I am not Nurse Jane. If I quote scripture to anyone it is to me, cause man o man, I really need it. But getting back to the Eden thing. All I know is what I saw on 20/20 or 60...

  13. How do you work with a ***** ???

    nursejanedough replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    P.S. I mean most nurses are women.

  14. How do you work with a ***** ???

    nursejanedough replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Most nurses are women. I am a woman, but I understand PMS and hot flashes, etc. I was horrified when I saw all the petty crap that floor nurses were giving to their ADON and DON. I was an MDS nurse...

  15. How do you work with a ***** ???

    nursejanedough replied to soundsLikesirens's topic in General Nursing

    Tim your response was cracking me up. It is true. Some people (bully's or bullies) need to be taken aside and just let them have it. I have had to confront two bullies in my life. The first one, I...

  16. what are my legal rights?

    nursejanedough replied to spitfire's topic in General Nursing

    I have a humorous reply. I think. I was telling my sister today about some of my horror stories of working short staffed in LTC. She said, "I would have called 911!" I laughed and then I thought...

  17. How your staff knows you care?

    nursejanedough replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    All the little perks we give CNA's, sweet notes, notes to supervisors, cookies, baked goods, gifts on holidays, nursing assist. day, etc. are great. I did it and I could tell it really meant a lot to...

  18. Eden Alternative

    nursejanedough replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I still think it is a wonderful concept. The residents do love plants, animals. And they love children and babies, etc. Everyone has been working to the "bare bones" syndrome for so long. I have...

  19. Cover-ups aka bibs versus cloth napkins

    nursejanedough replied to km rn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Our LTC facility used those terry cloth bibs. We tried to call them clothing protectors so as not to embarrass the more "able minded" residents. They were big and would cover lap. They worked...

  20. Eden Alternative

    nursejanedough replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yes, the Eden thing sounds really good. More plants and pets in LTC, etc. I like it. We had a meeting for 6 months on getting birds (in cages) on our facility. But it came down to - no one had time...

  21. ltc state survey problems

    nursejanedough replied to terriv's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Tim, good answer. I have seen a lot of "questionable" documentation since I have been doing legal chart reviewing. I feel like I am watching my 4 year old doing something that she thinks no one else...

  22. Catching Hell

    nursejanedough replied to [email protected]'s topic in General Nursing

    OK, call me a Southern redneck, or whatever, but if someone was talking to me and said something like, "allocation of resource decisions", I'd say, "Huh? What in the hel...? I think MollyJ, you must...

  23. LTC careplans

    nursejanedough replied to megs1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hi, what is MDI? I would like to tell my friend (the person that took over my job - MDS (Minimum Data System) coordinator) about your careplan computer system. What company and what does MDI stand...

  24. Survey: Do you work short staffed on a daily?

    nursejanedough replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Spacenurse, I hope you weren't specifically talking to me on your response. If so, please read again. I NO longer do LTC nursing. At the end, I said I was staying over to help with my residents. No...

  25. Almost Red

    nursejanedough posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    Miss C was one of the residents of the nursing home I worked in. She had Alzheimer's but sometimes she was quite lucid. She was short, cute and funny. Much to the horror of her family, she would sit...