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I don't mean that I work in SICU I mean that Transplant patients go to SICU where I work!!

When I read TICU I thought that it was Trauma ICU as it is my hospital. The transplant patients go to SICU which is Surgical ICU where I am. I guess it is a good idea to type it all out!!

I think we work the same hospital! SO much gets put on the nurses- way too much! I was a CNA while in school at the bigger and better competitor, that is also Magnet, across town. I dealt with a lot of the BS while the nurses could nurse. The cul...

I've never been asked this and if I were to be I would laugh out loud and exclaim "NO!" There are tons of reasons probably #1 being that I don't have the brain power to be a doctor! I am more than ok with that too!!

You did the absolute right thing!! You also need to help your co-worker (and her future patients) by letting your manager and/or educator know what happened so that she can be taught how to take care of a patient with a need like this.

I feel very strongly that the courts (or administrative law entity like the BON) should NOT mandate anyone to attend anything that has spiritual overtones. It's fundamentally wrong but I'm not sure it's going to change anytime soon. At the very lea...

This is a tough one. I think that MSF should take the vaccines and think of other ways to protest. There will now be 1 million people who won't get vaccinated but Pfizer will still be doing the same things. The only thing that their stand influen...

Make sure that you ask for a business card from everyone at the interview and send each of them a thank you letter within 24 hours!! Mention something in each letter that you and that particular interviewer discussed. It can be hard to remember if...

I work for a union facility but our union- SEIU Healthcare- is terrible and only cares about collecting dues and not the workplace conditions. We get screwed over by management all the time and nothing happens. Union is not always the answer.

I'm not in palliative care/hospice but I think this is a cut and dry that it was his time-and nothing that you did hastened it. I was there when my mom died and she received morphine that helped her not harmed her and when she died it was her time to...

I get that an ED doc could file a complaint about a patient who was brought in as the Advance Directives were DNR/DNI/No extraordinary measures/Do not hospitalize but I had no idea that one could be filed for sending a screaming-in-pain patient who h...

It seems to be from reading on here that when someone fails multiple times, it isn't knowledge-based but anxiety-based. Look into that. GOOD LUCK!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats RN!!!!!!!

If you don't try you will never know!!! There are several things that you can do to help yourself: 1.) Get formally diagnosed and have official documentation so you can go to your school's Student Support Services and receive accommodations to level...

I've worked in other fields (public school teacher and fundraiser) besides nursing and hav found that there are more bullies in the nursing field than the others which were also mostly female. Yes, teachers can bully each other and it's been written...

This thread was inspired by the topic "Do you still have time to cook after a 12 hour shift?" Have any of you tried a food service like this? I've read some reviews but want to hear from NURSES. Are these services too time-consuming for a nurse wh...

Also look at the others sources too as ATI books have errors. I used ATI and this is TRUE not slander, libel or defamation.

This was awesome!! It's ok that she's not a Nurse!! I've never even heard of Home Chef and am shocked to hear the Blue Apron did so poorly in your friends opinion! I didn't know that your choices were so limited either! Thank you and also your f...

Right???? After I made my post, I thought of that so...... THANK YOU TO YOU BRAVE POSTERS!!!

I wonder if you can pre-cook everything, freeze it then heat it up when you are ready?

Thanks!! There was a place like this that I used a few times several years ago but it closed. It was fun to pre-make your dishes with other people!!

Sometimes I get real, real fancy and add a European flair: I open a jar of peanut butter AND Nutella.

....and unclogs PEG tubes.....

I used to be a milieu therapist in an inpatient child/adolescent psych facility and never had anyone close to the amount of self harm that she is doing- this is including our 16 and 17 year-olds. Her treatment plan clearly isn't working and needs adj...

Viva, you know they don't really watch for the dancing, right????