Jacci59

1. RN 2. 40 yrs 3. South East 4. could be better 5. Have none, am part time 6. Too many short days. Would prefer long days and less of them. 7. NO !! 8. NO !! 9. No 10. Yes, Love it !!! 11. No 12. Rarely 13. Days 14. All of them 15. no opinion 16. No 17. I work part time in home health. There are many days that I work only 4 or 5 hrs. Would like to see more organization sothat I could do a full days work 2-3 days a week, instead of 4 to 5 days a week just a few hrs a day.

"It is exactly that.An assembly line of cash flow.Your patients are no more than a widget that needs processing.The more widgets they can process,the more money they can make." Boy, did you hit the nail on the head. why is it taking the powers that be, so long to figure this oneout, or are they just too stupid ?? I have said all along that this is the bottom line cause of the Nursing shortage. Who has any power over these CEO's who are doing this?? I'd love to know.

Thank you so much, NRSKarenRN... I really appreciate your taking the time to spell it out for me. I do remember the SMA12, but it had been so long since I dealt with it that I had forgotten what all tests it involved. you have solved my problem now, and I will write it down for future reference Thanks, Jacci

Thank you so much, NRSKarenRN... I really appreciate your taking the time to spell it out for me. I do remember the SMA12, but it had been so long since I dealt with it that I had forgotten what all tests it involved. you have solved my problem now, and I will write it down for future reference Thanks, Jacci

Thank you, beano !! I had not dealt with lab tests much in the last 15 years, and when I went to draw this one,I was curious. Thanks, Jacci

Thank you, beano !! I had not dealt with lab tests much in the last 15 years, and when I went to draw this one,I was curious. Thanks, Jacci

I am just curious as to what tests are done with a Complete Metabolic Profile. ?? If anyone can tell me I would be most appreciative. Thanks

I am just curious as to what tests are done with a Complete Metabolic Profile. ?? If anyone can tell me I would be most appreciative. Thanks

Where do we start ??? I am retired after 25 yrs of service,to one institution and draw a pension of $274 a month. I have been a nurse for 39 years If I wasn't back working, and married, I could not afford to pay for Health insurance, let alone, a home, utilities etc. I 'd love to have the money, now, for all the overtime that I GAVE to the institution that I worked 25 yrs for. I wouldn't have to work as much now. Jacci

You won't believe this, but I knoew a woman who also used it. she used to spray it on her back for her back pain. Somewhere, I have heard someone say that it does help!! I have not tried it thought. I don't think anyone could stand to be around me with smell !!!...............Jacci

Hi Auntielolo, I see this is your first post. This board is a sounding board for nurses. Most are not able to sound off at work, and need somewhere to vent their frustrations. I would problably be a good idea for you to read only those messages that are not from those nurses who are venting. there are many items on this site that are of interest. You do not have to read the negative ones. OK? Thanks

Dear Zee, It sounds like you do not have musch cooperation from your anesthesia department. I would call what that anesthesiologist did, abandoment !! If he could not respond, he should have sent another one of the anesthesia staff up to the unit, with the needed drugs, if you did not have it on the unit. When I retired from the PACU, we were starting to be inserviced on ART lines, which is actually the only thing that we were not that familiar with. We did take care of patients on vents, etc. I truly believe that each hospital must set standards of care for patients following anesthesia, who are ICU bound. Each unit must work together in this matter. There will be times when acuity of either unit may change these standards. One such case int eh Unit was mentioned by you. In that case, if PACU was not up to their a-- in alligators, then they should have been able to keep that patient who was fresh post op. We had a situation in PACU where we had 3 of our 4 nurses tied up with a patient who developed Malignant Hypertension. A case like this takes at least 3 nurses to care for the patient until the crisis is over. There really needs to be a general understanding between the 2 units, and a commeraderie,so that the 2 units can work together. It seems that in too many hospitals there is just the opposite. We need to put ourselves in each others shoes, and show a little understanding of each others problems. Hope that this helps a little..........Jacci

There are good and bad points to this idea of ICU recovering pts. I am a retired PACU nurse, and we were not ICU nurses where I worked. There many facets of ICU care that we were not that familiar with, such as ART lines etc. For that reason, most patients that were going to ICU after surgery, went directly to the unit. If a patient was still intubated from the surgery, because they were not reversed, they never left the OR until they were at least breathing on their own. A pt who is still intubated is much safer than a patient who is not, under those conditions. So it shouldn't matter to ICU if they are or are not intubated. Our theory was that the patient would receive better care by the ICU nurse who knows about all the different lines. The person performing Anesthesia should be in close contact with you anyway, as far as any medications are concerned, and should leave you orders for any meds needed. Many of the meds we used in the PACU were also used in the ICU, with the possible exception of Fentanyl, a very short acting drug, for pain, but also used sometimes with induction. I must add that ours was a fairly small, but growing Community Hospital. Our ICU nurses always liked to get their own patients, they felt that they could take better care of them than we could.!!

Cargal, Al I can do is ask you a question, following what you have said about the Healthcare in the US.................Are you in the executive offices?????? One of the CEO's who are making the big bucks that we are all complaining about? I really can't imagine any other reason that you would say what you have in this post, and others. Jacci59

I have to agree withwhat the others have said. I had a vag hyst16 yrs ago, and they left my ovaries. I was up and going even back then within a couple of weeks with no problems. I would STRONGLY reccomend that you go somewhere for a second opinion. Somewhere that there are highly trained physicians with the most up to date information. I say this because I don't know if you live in an area like I do, but for decent medical care, I must travel 125 miles away, as where we live, there just is not the medical care that I wass used to before we moved back to this area. Most of the docs we have here seem to come here if they can't get a job elsewhere. there are some apparently good, but not enough that I want to have surgery here, or have any dire problem taken care of here.