psalm RN

I am curious if anyone has any ties, professional or personal to the Rome State School in Rome, NY, for the mentally retarded, from the 1950s to early 1070s. I think that now it is a home for the deaf, but I may be incorrect. One of my patients in ...

I live in Southwestern Michigan. I saw an ad for Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids area doctor, named Scot Free, M.D.

This is very interesting. I thought it was always a school for mentally retarded, then for the deaf, and now a prison. Was there a behavioral unit also; is that why you were there? I always wondered about meal times, because my brothers ate so fas...

Thank you for your post. Would you be able to tell us why you were there as a patient, and what you are doing now? My brothers were mentally retarded and there from 1958-1972; then they were relocated to O.D. Heck.

LOL! good for you! I used to like to wear a white scrub dress and white hose now and then to shake things up.

...when their living in filth spreads to the rest of the neighborhood, even minutely, how will you feel? It *is* an awful feeling "turning them in" but in most states you are able to do it anonymously. Or if you must give your name, the agency can ...

...if you read this whole thread, you will see I initited it. Look back to what is posted; there are the addresses, and phone #s of a couple of leads. The daily newspaper may be a good idea to check but there can be $$ charges for it, maybe not. (...

When I was in nursing school in 2000 I met some very masculine male nurses who wore Batman printed tops or Nascar that they had made for them. It was well received by the patients on oncology. The Pooh print cited above for a man? Why not a solid r...

Not blaming them...but documenting who did what, who helped with what.

When I was orienting on a new job, I got the impression that no matter what I did wasn't enough. One day I asked my preceptor, after she complained about something I didn't do HER way; "Is there *anything* that I do correctly?" It stopped her cold....

I feel for my SCC patients, because the pain is real. Some self-medicate and then come in with what they call a crisis but all the tests are wnl...so the docs have to decide if the pain (which is real) is from something else...psychological, etc. B...

Cherrybreeze, I sometimes feel like I should have a tee-shirt that says "I Survived Endometriosis". From the time I was 14 til my hysterectomy at 31, my "cramps" and subsequent pain every day of the month were debilitating.

I wear the support knee highs at work and then the athletic arch support socks at home and to bed. Otherwise, my feet ache. I do excercises for plantar facsiitis. Elevate your feet at home when possible.

Hugs & prayers for you as you return to work. It was hard to go back to my med/onc floor after being with my brother in ICU when he passed.

I used to wear scrub dresses with a tie belt that was mandatory unless pregnant. Had to wear hose and slip. i would much rather wear scrub tops and pants. More modest and comfortable with all the contorting positions I find myself in on a busy flo...

I hate to give IVP nausea meds when my patients insist on eating greasy fast food their fam/friends bring in. I suggest they "work with" their bodies by eating nonoffending foods to rest their tummies.

Check with your state Board of Nursing.

One morning( I work nights), I got a call back from a doc. He was very kurt and obnoxious because i paused before I started reporting on the patient in question and he started to berate me, calling me incompetant, and I said "Doctor, I have 3 charts...

When I was doing my OB clinicals there was a Dr. Attilla Kiss, MD.

Is that Carl Bush, who used to be an Army doc?

Sometimes the person may be clean but their clothes aren't laundered properly (not enuff detergent to get the odors out) or not often enough. I have an acquaintence that has a fungal smell to her. It's her dirty clothes on a clean body. No one in...

That happens to the best of them. I always think of an accident or illness; but when it is a known occurance or MO, it is rude and uncalled for. Hope things go better.

When my brother was dying in the ICU and my dad was asking the nurse all kinds of questions having nothing to do with his care I said "Let the nurse check her other patients, Dad". He looked shocked and said, "She has other patients?" I blame that ...

Read the chapter objectives and the summaries before you read the chapter, to see what is highlighted. Stay awake in lecture. Eat, sleep, breathe...

Exactly, but we are ALL nurses and if our duties for patient care put our charting on the back burner and we need to stay late to chart, we should not feel guilty...and we should get paid. It's part of patient care, after all.