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Man, while I obviously never put in chest tubes, I drop sterile things all the time. It's why whenever I know I'll need sterile gloves I always bring two pairs. At least! It's hard to imagine my colleagues telling me to get it together for dropping s...

Get a palliative care consult first and foremost. The average hospital doc has no idea what they're doing when it comes to palliative medicine. You need an expert on board. Palliative care is about symptom management and quality of life - it doesn't ...

I have the "should we consider a DNR" conversation with families and patients all the time. I am nearly always very blunt when describing CPR, but I'm not mean about it, if that makes sense. I don't sugarcoat anything. I explain very clearly what CPR...

If it were me I'd take my chances on being annoying, because it sounds like you really want this job and it's a good fit. How desperate are you, financially, to start work? Would you be okay if this thing didn't pan out and you gave up the home care ...

Not a school nurse but I too am addicted to lip balm. I have been since I was a kid. I distinctly recall when I was nine having at least six tubes stashed in my desk at school. Now I have a tube in my purse, in my backpack, in my coat pockets, in eve...

My rule is that I call in sick if I can't stand up, or if I can't control one or more of my bodily fluids. I think I did take a sick day once years ago when I was interviewing for another job.

If I were a nurse working in that nursing home I would likely be very skeptical of supposedly being trained by someone who had eight months of experience and a master's degree in management. I'm truthfully skeptical of master's degrees in management ...

Oh good lord. The same company that wouldn't hesitate to throw you out on your butt with zero notice and for zero good reason is the same company that gets upset because you failed to tell them a full month in advance that you wouldn't be working for...

I've asked myself the same thing, OP, except that it was "can home health nurses do more for patients coming from hospitals with stage 3 pressure ulcers that they definitely didn't have before admission?" Often they get referred to us for something c...

I personally loooooove charting direct quotes from clients who are being purposefully mean to me. Not sure if that's an accepted practice where everyone else is, but at my current job it's welcomed, fully spelled-out curse words and everything. I fin...

(Obligatory disclaimer: not an APRN, just a regular RN) TONS of my elderly home health clients have young family members that will either outright steal their opioids or "trade" them for "something better." They're happy to give away and receive pill...

You actually didn't make that clear in the thread at any point at ALL. You asked a hypothetical question about "what would happen if your ex, who is a terrible person, ended up on your unit because the universe has a funny sense of humor?" Which ever...

As many others have said, I would request a change in assignment, more for their privacy and comfort than mine. It's an ethical concern. Now if, like you mentioned, there were a person that looked up my workplace via a registry and used that informa...

Sometimes! Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to work in, like, a nice little bookstore in the hip part of town during usual business hours where there are few bodily fluids and much less angst. That usually doesn't last more than a few hours o...

For the record, I too am a nurse in Canada, and I know how it works. Health care facilities are FUNDED by provincial (not federal) governments and run by smaller regional health authorities. It's not like my tax stub says "Employer: Canadian governme...

Just to be clear, it's not her employer that she's in trouble with, it's her regulatory agency. In the US it would be the equivalent of her board of nursing.

Honestly it depends. I'm often not calling on behalf of a doctor, I'm calling for a patient who doesn't have the life skills to wrangle their own prescriptions or services. Once I did "press 1 if you're a doctor" and when I identified myself as a com...

I work in the community but we still work 365 days a year doing something similar to home health. It has been a difficult year, we have lost many of our community members to overdose and the crisis is continuing unabated. Usually we don't do anything...

OP, I would consider first that the responses you get here are from an exceptionally small sample of people living and working in a very specific culture, so don't base your business plan on their answers. Or mine. But anyway. I might be more likely ...

It sounds like you are on the fence. If I may, consider getting some counselling to clarify your decision as to whether or not to give birth. Even just talking it over with a crisis line or something might help. Often women's health clinics also offe...

Man, can we not do that generational silliness around here? That bit wasn't even relevant to your post.

Stuff happens! What's in the past is in the past. You apologized to your supervisor who sounds like they understood and accepted your apology. I assume now you will be extra extra extra careful about checking your schedule with the app they mentioned...

And if I may - wear a mask, because those toothbrush bristles flick all over the place and the last thing you need is soapy fecal matter on your face.

Not only did I dislike my med/surg clinicals, I disliked ALL of my clinicals that happened in a hospital setting. So once I graduated I went to work in the community! NBD. There are lots of jobs out there. Finish school and you'll find one that fits ...

Clients who care less about their health than I do. Like, you came to me for wound care in the hopes of healing your disgusting gigantic lower leg ulcer, right? And we agree that I'm not a fairy godmother? So you might actually have to do things lik...