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  1. RN starting new position with mentally ill in LTC

    healer_energy replied to SusanS44's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    :uhoh21: Hello ! Have you had experience in the psych field. I must presume so. I work in a locked demented ward and we are getting more and more psych diagnoses which are mixed in with the otherwise...

  2. Interfering with other nurse's residents

    healer_energy posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have an issues with a certain nurse at work who gets into everyone's business. I'll call her Mary. I finally had to speak up. Some weeks ago I had a dying patient who was fairly young. I spent some...

  3. Signing things you didn't do

    healer_energy replied to dinkymouse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    This reminds me of the time I started working in a nursing home and I was new to the field at that time. A nurse gave me report and handed me some notes on her assessments for the Med A's. telling me...

  4. Weeding out of nursing students

    healer_energy replied to Tweety's topic in General Students

    I have been a nursing instructor, and I taught the A$P courses. And yes, the students tell me it is the hardest. But it is also the first for most of them. Nursing courses in general are so much more...

  5. What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

    healer_energy replied to PMHNP10's topic in General Nursing

    Let me list the ways..... Surgery/Surgical - inflicting pain, horrible docs, holes in people. OB - exploding yelling mums. Peds - just too painful AIDS - too terrified. I am always interested in the...

  6. sure is quiet in here

    healer_energy replied to NursesruN's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to Bennington and SVMC. I live in Hoosick Falls, just across the border in NY and have worked twice in SVMC [it was called Putnam Memorial then]. Right now I am in LTC. It seems that you could...

  7. Do You Have a Bad Back from Nursing?

    healer_energy replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a large person with no abs and getting on in years. I have nursed for 25 years. My injury which must have had no bone involvement occurred pulling up someone from standing at the top of the bed...

  8. How do you get into RN massage?

    healer_energy replied to angel21's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I have been a nursing in various settings for 25 years and have been an LMT for 3 years. I also do energy healing, I have a Master's Degree in Nursing and I have been an educator. I desperately want...

  9. Mature Nurses over 50

    healer_energy replied to Su360's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I'm 60 and I am in LTC. I only work 2 days a week, 12 hours. The rest of the time I do massage, energy healing and I am a poet. I am trying to break into the field of alternative healing in the...

  10. How Long Will You Nurse?

    healer_energy replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think nursing is like many other jobs, or even sports. There is a damage factor that attaches to it. But we carry on, anyway, those that find it appropriate to their lives. I think that a sustained...

  11. How long is your shift report?

    healer_energy replied to gizzy76's topic in General Nursing

    I guess our report takes about 20 mins and we are often reporting on 37 people on one unit. But I do enjoy the interaction and the opinions about the often complex behaviors of the demented folks....

  12. Hospital infections on Good Morning Amercia.

    healer_energy replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I have heard a statement by a mother whose son died of a hospital infection. I guess there is a new Mother's against Infections group starting up. I am not sure if that is the right title. And so...

  13. Do you wear some type of support for your legs to prevent leg cramps?

    healer_energy replied to JNT'smom's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yes! Oh yes! your bylines are wonderful Out here in the boonies of New England.... yeah! bacteria. And as transplant from Europe, citylife, I see it.... I am it now. And my spelling, Oh weill....

  14. Do you wear some type of support for your legs to prevent leg cramps?

    healer_energy replied to JNT'smom's topic in General Nursing

    I am just wondering if you are a new nurse or have not been working lately because I think it takes time to get your legs hardened up again. But for myself I wear one over the varicose viens on one...

  15. How Long Will You Nurse?

    healer_energy replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think the poll tells us much because so much depends on the age of the person responding. But the posts are interesting and I am in there with the ones that will work till at least retirement....