MissyWrite

NJ and NY have instituted a policy of placing health workers into mandatory 21-day quarantine upon their return from West Africa if they came into contact with Ebola patients. This new policy is a reaction to unfounded public hysteria surrounding Dr...

In "the jumble" (and it's not a jumble at all) of what I've written, it is VERY CLEAR what my position is.

Not one person who was against the quarantine responded. I asked the question in several posts, for weeks, and no one answered. Sometimes, silence is loud. Very loud. What disappointed me most is that nurses were acting like uneducated lay persons. ...

The company you work for should have nurses who only do admissions. They are VERY time consuming and there's a TON of paperwork, and the family is usually in crisis mode, understandably. I can't understand how anyone with other responsibilities could...

Congratulations on landing your hospice job! Hospice inpatient units typically have patients who are already part of the program and are receiving intermittent care in their homes, but are suffering from worsening symptoms (such as pain, nausea and ...

There's a lot of horizontal violence in nursing, and in health care in general. BUT the atmosphere vairies a lot depending on the unit or facility you work in. It's hard to make an informed choice as a new nurse, since you don't know what to look for...

I'll address the workplace bullying you're experiencing. That's what it is, plain and simple. These older, more experienced nurses are doing nothing to help you become a more competent, confident nurse. In fact, they're doing the opposite. The eye r...

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Get out now. Seriously. There are plenty of careers where you can help people and not be run into the ground. Nursing is great...except for the workload, the stress, the exploitation, the shift work, and the hazards involved, including violence, bull...

I've had a few people say things like "I've got this symptom and that symptom, and I've been to four doctors, three were specialists and one was at the Mayo Clinic, but they don't know what it is. What is it?" And when I don't know, they're shocked. ...

"“I agreed to whatever,” he said. “They didn’t show any leadership or support to me and they had an opportunity, as a nursing school, to act like a medical community, and they didn’t...They instead decided to pander to fear and hysteria,” Wilbur sa...

I know you said you were going to accept the offer, but just in case you haven't yet, I think you should reconsider. Unless you're destitute, don't do it. The VA will still be there in a couple of years. Night shifts + sleep deprivation + 2 children...

True, there must be damages in order to win a suit. Mental anguish, perhaps?

The conditions you were expected to perform your job in were deplorable and unacceptable, and it put patients at risk of serious harm. You are set up to fail in deplorable conditions like this. The fact that YOU are being blamed is inexcusable. If ...

ljrn135, How about... BE AWARE….and Care Bullying: is the purposeful attempt to control another person through verbal abuse - which can be in tone of voice or in content such as teasing or threats, exclusion, or physical violence. Bullying is the m...

That's all Prissy does now, too. If she ever turns down my bed, I will run screaming out the door. Another thing she did during that time: My mom said the worst time for her was in the middle of the night, when she was alone and couldn't sleep. Unbek...

Several years ago, my dad passed away after a battle with prostate cancer. Since I was a hospice nurse, I took care of him and then stayed for a while to help my mom through a period of disabling grief. Two nights after he died, my mom walked into he...

Once upon a time, way back in 1987, I was a travel nurse with a cushy job on a telemetry unit in Hawaii. I worked night shift, and this particular hospital allowed nurses to sleep for two hours (with pay!) during our shift. The unit I worked on had o...

She fell off the radar completely, it seems. But while digging, I found an interesting article by journalist Susan Gordon about how Brianna and other health care workers who speak out about problems and dangers in the workplace should be rewarded, no...

Amazingly powerful words. Thank you.

I HAVE THIS VERY SAME NIGHTMARE!!! and I, too, am retired. It doesn't happen often, but when it does I am shaken. Sometimes in this re-occurring dream, I haven't even seen *any* of my patients at all. Waking up is such a tremendous relief, as is the ...

*** Sine no one else has answered this question after numerous posts over 2 weeks, I will answer it myself: 1. I never even thought about it. Like, it never even crossed my mind. 2. It hits too close to home. After all, it could be ME who cares for ...

I have a question for those here who favor quarantine, that has so far gone unanswered: Dr. Craig Spencer is hospitalized with Ebola in NYC. The nurses and doctors caring for him are not quarantined. At the end of their workday, they go out into the ...

EXCELLENT! I hope they're successful.

A cold hospital of SNF can be a serious problem for the elderly, because they can develop hypothermia at a temperature of 65 degrees.