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Any advice welcome and appreciated. I have had a difficult time finding a nursing job I enjoyed. I recently found my nursing happy spot in home health. I enjoy the independence, the flexibility and the one on one with the patients. I finally fee...

Hi everyone, Thanks for your responses. I left hospital nursing and won't look back. I will be looking for a new home health job. I enjoy the work, unfortunately my employer was going through financial difficulties that I have no control over so I...

Wow, I guess the attack is on me now. I only tried to respond in a kind manner to someones question! And to the person that asked me why I called it a "required government injection" is because I am required to take it and it is manufactured by the...

I am really sorry that so many people left rather rude comments to your post. I can understand someones hesitance to just accept a required injection. As a matter of fact if someone would have told me 20 years ago that I would be accepting a requir...

Well, that is the reason I left hospital nursing. I felt like one of those plate jugglers at the circus. I was under so much stress I had to start taking medication. Finally I had to leave for my own sake. You are right on track!

"Hmmm? I can see how this can happen. Any suggestions on how one can present oneself as a nearly blank slate? Interesting... Thanks for your thoughts." I started my nursing career at 48. I trimmed my resume to just highlights of my pre-nursing car...

Thanks Caliotter3. You're right. I am concerned about what will happen to my patients but my caseload is low right now so why add to it.

Addressing the charting part of home health. I try to do most of my charting in the home as I am speaking to the patients. I do my medicine reconciliation, check for med interactions, document my vitals and assessment questions while I talk to the ...

Well all I can say is that I live in Florida and I lived through hurricane Irma and many other hurricanes. I do have an elderly mother and she was without power for 1 week in the aftermath of that hurricane. I evacuated her myself at my own expense...

So we criminally prosecute the 4 nurses who were working that day with a patient nurse ratio of at least 35:1 ???? There are a lot of people who "should" have done something but the ones that finally called 911 are the ones we ARE prosecuting!

Also where is the Florida Nursing Board on this issue. Do they refuse to protect us or provide any legislative protection bills for healthcare workers who are caught up in disaster situations? Are we just out there with our hineys hanging out when ...

I am so tired of the State Attorneys criminally prosecuting people who show up! If you are a deadbeat employee who disappears when disaster strikes then you live to see another day. Lets not forget, the employees who showed up were working under th...

What about the patient families. Sometimes it seems like the patients families don't want any responsibility except to hire an attorney and collect a check when something goes wrong. Why didn't family members pick up their loved ones? I know I wou...

Wow Hosier that's a great idea about the dog safety! I could extend that out to horse safety and how the properly handle small animals like rabbits and chicks. And of course hand washing!

I have always answered my exit interviews honestly and professionally. I don't know if it ever helped, but feel better for being honest and it also helped me get some stuff off my chest so to speak.

I agree! One nurse should never demean another in front of patients! We should function as a team. Besides how does it look to the patient? They loose confidence in the facility I am sure. If one nurse has to correct another nurse it should alwa...

I do PRN nursing work. Recently a facility I work at has gone to only purchasing medium and xtra large gloves ? and the cheap ones with no stretch at that! My problem is I have large hands. I usually wear a large glove. I can fit a medium in a ni...

Congratulations on competing those prerequisites! So my advice would be to come up with some basic points about yourself and what has interested you in nursing and write them down. Also write down anything you would like them to take note of. Writ...

“Sir! Sir! I am doing my hourly rounding, please wake up and tell me if you need to go to the bathroom, are in pain and let me check your position. Also please note on your hospital survey that I checked on you hourly!” Thank you.

I am not sure what part of Florida you are in but Florida is a nurses paradise as far as I am concerned. You may have to search around and take possibly a night shift but many facilities are so short of nurses they will be happy to have you. Don’t ...

I would see if you can schedule a sit down meeting with your preceptor and possibly manager. Tell them that you are getting the feeling that things are going downhill and you would like to get some feedback so that you can be more productive. Then ...

Hi Jordan! It may take some time to get used to your shift. I have worked day shift, night shift, 8 hrs and 12 hrs. It usually takes my body some adjustment period until I loose that zombie feeling when getting used to a new shift. Also, you shou...

Update - I reported to OSHA and they contacted my facility. My facility of course told them that they supply the gloves and they immediately purchased gloves in all sizes. I politely went PRN instead of resigning and found another job. My new job...

My side gig is hobby farmer! I have a small 5 acre farm that I am working on developing into a business. I have a mammoth donkey that I ride, a horse, a mini horse,miniature zebu cows, chickens, rabbits, a cat and 4 rescue dogs. I would like to ma...