cardiacfreak

I'm salary and work on call 7on 7 off. I normally average 25-30 hours per work week. So for me salary is better than hourly or visit pay.

Bringing smelly food like tuna and then throwing it in trash for everyone to smell....ugghh.

I have used "explosive" before. The patient was having diarrhea and when he went to sit on the BSC it just came out full force, spraying all over the room. As a hospice nurse we are taught "to paint a picture of decline" explosive was as descriptive as I could be!?

I have only been fired once and it wasn't a nursing job, I was working in my husband's detail shop, he fired me!

If I need my derriere cleaned I would appreciate a delicate hand instead of a rough hand. If I need CPR PLEASE don't be delicate, I need you to push fast and hard. Most little ol' ladies say, "You're being to rough!". So they would probably love you!

Kids and babies scare the H E double hockey sticks out of me! When I worked Progressive Care I was assigned a 6 y/o that got into Grandma's metoprolol and amiodarone, I traded her for the trach patient in isolation who was on the call light every 1/2 hour. The kiddo was fine all night but I wasn't taking any chances and didn't regret my trade at all!

I've had a few epic fails, but the most memorable was with a bottle of mucomyst. I was a new nurse and was trained to inject air into the vial and then draw back medication....nobody told me not to inject air into the mucomyst vial....Yep, mucomyst shot out all over me. I changed my scrubs but it was still in my hair, and nobody wanted to sit next to me for the rest of the night. Another epic fail, I was the only nurse in the nurses station and had eaten ham and beans for supper, just as I let out a loud long sound a GI doc walked around the corner and said, "That was impressive!". I no longer where scrub pants that don't have elastic, I was running to a code (back when we actually ran) and my scrub pants came untied, of course I was leading the pack.

I have no insight or advice, I understand your situation. I think you did what was right for you and please don't feel guilty. I do adult hospice as an on call nurse, I had a death visit for an 18 y/o boy and that is the hardest visit I have ever had to take. I have much respect for all of the pediatric hospice nurses out there, I know I couldn't do it. Hope you have a better week. (Since this is a public forum you may not want to use your real name.)

1. Definitely a maintenance issue unless it's just unplugged 2. Depends if you work nightshift or dayshift. I have plunged many a toilet in my time. 3.Again maintenance unless it's unplugged. 4-6 Call maintenance. 7. Hand them the remote unless they are unable to push the buttons in which case do it for them. 8. I try to troubleshoot 9. I'll do it if I have batteries.

Me too! I grew up in the 80s and I hope some one will play Prince, hand me a Coor's, light me up a Marlboro and let me reminisce!

1990-1992 LTC #1 1992-1995 LTC #2 1995-1998 Private Duty and part time LTC #2 1998-2017 Acute Care Hospital same floor the entire time but became ANCM the last 8 years. 2017 to present Hospice.

Any changes in taste or smell, poor appetite, changes in her nails, hair, or skin?

When your patient states he can only take meperidine.

I don't know if I should respond to Davey Do or Silverbells or maybe Daveybells or Silver Do.

Maybe you should see a therapist.