Better staffing ratios! More nurses = more time/attention devoted to each patient. But, i think that would involve increasing the perceived value of nurses. You see, the majority of the work I do...
The husband of a patient with dementia was spending the night at the bedside. The NST and I walked in to turn her just in time to catch him backhanding her across the face, hard enough to knock her...
Elysianna replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor
I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one having these dreams! Do you suppose it's a nurse's version of the dream about not going to class all semester and having to take the final (possibly while...
I feel you, asjohnson02. I've been working as a nurse for 6 months, and still feel like my shifts are spent scrambling, trying not to miss anything, struggling to keep up. I see the experienced RNs...
I learned the joys of caring for a patient with factitious disorder/Munchausens. When my obs patient with a long history of admissions for nonspecific ailments was due to be discharged the next day,...
Elysianna replied to FloridaLpn2015's topic in LPN, LVN Corner
One of my good friends wears the hijab, but when we did psych rotations in nursing school, she modified her head covering for safety. Instead of wearing her scarf around her neck, she wore a modest...
Elysianna replied to MomAndSonInMD's topic in General Nursing
I switched from an entirely different career of more than 20 years, and I was very successful at it, so being an RN is a pay cut. But the old job was just that - a job, with no passion or enthusiasm...
Oh, hppy, I'm so sorry. Grab a slice of cheesecake or something decadent, and try to allow yourself to breathe that sigh of relief that's down in there somewhere. She's safe now, you've done the right...
Hi, Jules - thanks for answering! It's for class, but I'll be using these med cards to study for the NCLEX as well. Mostly, I'm trying to figure out what's most important in med knowledge for the...
Hi - this is my first time posting a topic, so please be gentle! :) I'm down to my last two semesters of nursing school. (Hooray!) One thing I've never gotten the hang of is narrowing down my study...