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Was once called an Ugly Mother F**cker by a two year old. Was sooo surprised by what she said that I askes mom what she said. Mom looked up from her cell phone and said, "Oh. She said Ugly Mother F**ker." And when mom told me that. The 2yr old lite...

Late to the conversation. Anyhow, our hospital policy is to not leave the deceased alone until they are taken to morgue. We take turns as nurses sitting in with the deceased and family members mourning. We make sure the body is not manipulated prior ...

Have to agree with all of the others with regard to the heavy physical demands of the job. Just to give you some hard numbers, my coworkers and I like to compare "miles walked" each shift. I would say it averages around 7 miles/12 hr shift. That oft...

YEESSSSSS!!! Thank You!!!

Pediatric Critical Care nurse here. Seeing babies infected with pertussis turning blue and struggling to breathe has reinforced my pro-vaccination stance. Same with measels encephalopathy and meningitis. These diseases are real. They are life threat...

Hey, as an adult, in my own home, I'd be ****** off too if someone told me I couldn't have a cup of coffee just because it's 2am. I'm just sayin. Think about it from their point of view once in a while.

I have over one hundred friends that are nurses on my FB page and you would never know it. NOBODY mentions ANYTHING remotely work related, no matter where any of us work. It's just understood. You don't do it as a professional.

Oops. Duplicate post. Had to delete it. Anyway, good luck again. Their behavior sounds wrong and illegal (although I'm not a lawyer). Don't give up yet. Give em Hell.

I'm so sorry you are going through this. It sounds horrible. Have you considered having a lawyer write a letter to the Dean of your school stating that, if the harassment doesn't stop, you will take legal action and maybe go to the local news. I wo...

Even worse when it's parents or other family members while visiting a sick kid in a children's hospital. We just call security. I can imagine it's a bit different when its a consenting adult patient NOT in a children's hospital. Just seems wrong e...

A scalp lac will heal eventually (even without staples). Thats what those of us in the ER call a distracting injury. When you focus on something nonlife threatening. I would have sent her to the ER because she passed out and hit her head, period. Li...

Is she signing off the meds?Charting the dressing changes and flushes to g tubes? Just curious.

"Go back to preschool. Get out of the gene pool." Weird Al. Almost spit my coffee out! Too funny.

Please don't be so hard on yourself. In the big scheme of things, this wasn't catastrophic. You obviously are bothered by it and my guess is you will be more mindful of normal ranges of vs for the different ages. That is what is important here. Peds ...

What a poorly written piece of fluff (No offense, just very hard to read due to poor grammer usage). Nursing is so much more than just compassion. Many people can be compassionate and never cut it as a nurse. Nursing is a SKILL. A multifaceted skil...

I agree with you 100%. I see a lot of this at my job. Everyone is "good friends" and then all talk about each other all the time. Drives me nuts. Best practice is to be friendly, have some laughs along the way, keep your personal business your own, ...

If you don't know what you don't know, how can you expect strangers to know? Seems to me like you need to put a little more effort in on your part before asking others. Just my opinion.

We do it a lot in peds. Small veins collapse with the vacutainer or with a syringe. Best to just drip the blood if you want your specimen.

I had the same experience as PedsRN did. Dreaded my peds rotation before doing it. Then fell in love with it. For all the same reasons. Been at it for 15 yrs now. What area are you thinking about and why?

Nothing but respect from me to you!

Two ladies that I know went through an associate degree MA program a few yrs back. They were told a lot of the same by their school. I was very skeptical about it right from the beginning. They were promised, by the program recruiters and teachers, ...

Who did she plan to cheat off of for the NCLEX exam? Seems to me, if you cheat your way through nursing school, then you have no knowledge base at the time of the all important NCLEX. Then what??? Advice to cheat from someone who couldn't even mak...

And just ALWAYS keep in mind that airway/breathing is to kids as cardiac is to adults. Never under estimate how quickly a kid can turn bad on you, even with just asthma or bronchiolitis. A happy wheezer can only compensate for so long without interv...

Check your policy at work before just calling in on that weekend. I know our policy is that if you call in sick on a day you were denied off, it's a write up. I realize it feels unfair to be denied the time off, as you've expressed how important it ...

We have actually had security get involved when people are noncompliant with no video/picture policy. It is not a public place (for profit hospital. Not sure if that makes a difference). Yes, the patient has an expectation of privacy. But I don't t...