LittleTwinStars ADN, BSN

Not sure if I can post here, but Traditions Health is looking for home health staff, particularly LVNs, for the Houston area and down to Galveston. The pay is good, the workplace is very healthy, you get a company car with all expenses paid that can ...

Any state that has the yee-haw "tough on crime" mindset loves cracking down on nurses by using the slippery slope argument of the killer neurosurgeon in Dallas. They don't see how toxic and petty most reports are.

Florence Nightingale herself said, "The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower." Empty cups cannot give, and self preservation is not selfi...

Are there any nurses in very prominent positions as advisors? Cori Bush of the Congressional House of Representatives comes to mind as a good candidate.

We managed to take actions against ITT Tech and The Art Institute, and even University of Phoenix was dropped by some entities.

I keep a couple puppy pads in my bag to lay stuff down and sit.

I need to wear 3/4 sleeve shirts under my scrubs, as I get cold easily and I don't like rolled up long sleeves falling down. Over a decade ago, I bought a bunch of 3/4 sleeve boatneck knit tops from Old Navy, but they have long gone threadbare or hav...

I just started a new night shift ICU job, and got to know my coworkers. Fast forward a few shifts. I'm tired from consecutive shifts, there are less questions for me to ask, and I'm concentrating on my work. I said "Not now please, I'm trying to stab...

I just started an ICU job at a small hospital in the suburbs. My previous job wasn't TSICU, but definitely acute with lots of sepsis and withdrawal cases that taught me to think on my feet. In my new job there's an ER and ICU, but neither are acute m...

My new job requires hunter green scrubs, which already kind of limits brands available. My favorite scrub line (Radiance Flex) does not carry this color, can only be found in a few stores, and is being discontinued . I know that Cherokee makes hunter...

My hospital works closely with a law firm, mostly risk management and preventative stuff. I chart carefully, and am used to getting called in at this point because they are proactive rather than reactive. In fact, they commend and thank me because I'...

So you want to be treated by dumb nurses?

I've never been hair tested, and I think it's only done to confirm a history. I've only done urine. From what I've heard about hair, they pull out a hair rather than cut off a chunk. Don't worry, and drink plenty of water before the drug test.

Ugh, what a privileged jerk. I don't usually wish pain on others, but I think that people like that could use a bout of kidney stones, a back labor, a broken bone, a throbbing back muscle sprain, etc. to give perspective and hopefully empathy. I onc...

My rules of report time: 1) If you are being unbearably rude, then I won't take or give report until you are able to act civilly. I can wait. 2) If I am giving you report, please don't constantly interrupt with questions. You are filling out your bla...

If you have the energy to whine, then you're going to be fine!

Highest was in the 7s. She was a dialysis patient in her early 40s who really had no other issues than the fact that her body destroyed its kidneys. She was perfectly fine, chatting, laughing, marveling at how her K level went up when put on the hosp...

1) Grisi brand Sulfur Soap/Azufre Jabon. This particular has sulfur and lanolin, other sulfur soaps can have ingredients like salicylic acid, but I've found this to be the best for my acne prone, body acne prone, ingrown hair-prone, keratosis pilaris...

I once had a patient accuse me of being a racist b---- against people of her ethnicity. After I ignored her, the hypocrite then started screaming that she was glad that we [racial slur for Japanese people] got the nuclear bomb, and that she hoped tha...

I've been told that before, and in my head, I say, "Yeah, I'm going to be a 'mean mom' in order to ensure that they don't become nasty, selfish brats like you." Thank goodness that cartoon-style thought bubbles don't exist.

I accidentally glued my hand to a penis. Hehe, you scrolled down because your morbid curiosity and shock got the better of you. Don't worry, it was on the job. I had a stroked out patient with a sacral decub who couldn't have a Foley due to yanking,...

A 90 year old sassy old lady patient said it best, "Ya can't cut off their n*ts. Ya gotta cut off their heads."

You're in a tween stage of life. There will be many. First I shed the friends from high school, then I shed the friends who resented me for building my life and I got sick of their slacking and complaining. Now I'm shedding the people who are still "...

Oh, I know that there will always be people scrying my charting, not just PIs. What tripped me up was that the legal nurse consultant told me that I might be followed IN PERSON by a PI. I know that I'm boring and mostly safe, but it tripped me up to ...

I'm not usually superstitious, but I totally believe that full moons equal insanity, and the the S and Q words should never be uttered. The last two days have been insane, even for a place with lots of alcoholism and geriatrics. I got punched in the ...