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Tooooooootally different story in Canada than in the US, which is where all of these previous replies are coming from. OP, if your manager says you're fine then you're fine. Your college is not going to rip away your license because you mistakenly th...

As a student I got to observe a total knee and total hip. Both were very, very cool to see as a student. They let me scrub in for the knee and hold something in place (I can't remember exactly what) and help close the incision even. I was very lucky ...

Do other home health nurses really use "nursing diagnoses"? We learned about them in nursing school, I've been in home health for five years now and haven't used a single one since.

Back in my day (the early 90s) this PSA did all the education we needed:

Crap like this is why I'm surprised when folks say they don't want unions. That sounds horrifying and I'd never put up with it in a million years.

We had a 105-year-old gentleman, functioning just fine at home, kept being referred to home health for chronic disease management by his GP, despite not actually having any chronic diseases. And no, aging is not a chronic disease for the purpose of s...

I agree with this. I think there's a big general idea of "it's okay, nursing will do it." Physio not available to walk the patient? Nursing will do it. The phlebotomist is backed up? Nursing will do it. No unit clerk available this afternoon? Nursing...

Yeah, if you hate nursing then by all means, get out and go back to accounting. I don't really get how you can be just totally stuck in inpatient psych though. Have you looked at community mental health teams? ACT teams? Intensive case management tea...

I wouldn't mention anything to a stranger unless I was pretty sure they were going to die more or less immediately. Friend or family member I have a lower bar for minding my own business so I might speak up sooner. But generally I try to mind my own ...

I mean, the "way" is for you to go to nursing school and graduate. You will not be allowed to write the NCLEX without information submitted directly by a school to the BON. They will know that you didn't graduate from there. I would suggest that it'...

This is something I looked into a long time ago around the time I graduated high school. Hands down, RN is the way to go. Far more job security, more flexibility in terms of career (what if one day you wake up and realize you hate kids?!), and way wa...

I hear you. That sounds completely frustrating. That would be an incredible ethical problem for me.

I mean, you guys gotta do what you legally gotta do. I get it. Report, have meetings, whatever. But jeez, is that ever the best way possible to ensure nobody ever comes to talk to the school nurse about sex ever again!

She did everything right. She handled the situation as well as she possibly could have. Security did not step in because they almost certainly would have gotten themselves also arrested with charges of assaulting a police officer, if not shot. I hope...

My vote is that you did the right thing, 100%. Very little I would've done differently other than maybe push to avoid unnecessary testing (like you mentioned) and I might not have done the BPs, but then, I work in hospice so it's a different setting....

I don't know, guys, I felt pretty glamorous with an elbow-length glove on, digging impacted stool out of my cursing, aggressive home health client the other day. While his care aide looked on in horror and sympathy. Did I mention it was like thirty d...

Just to clarify, typically calling someone "a queer" would still be (for many folks) considered offensive. It's the turning it into a noun that's the not-okay bit. These days it's used as an adjective.

Sorry, you haven't worked in eight years (EIGHT YEARS) and it's discrimination because nobody wants to hire you without a refresher course? Not only that but it's the WORST kind of discrimination? You are not living in reality, my friend. Is this for...

I probably would inform the family kindly that our goals at the moment are for comfort and that taking a set of vitals that the patient might find uncomfortable or disturbing probably wouldn't yield us any useful information. I would ALSO, though, ex...

I don't have advice for you, I just want to say that your working conditions are complete BS and your management are incompetent idiots. Staffing should NOT be your job. You are a NURSE. You did not sign up to be a staffing clerk as well! And for you...

Lots of my nursing school classes were on the top floor of a smallish university hospital, so I spent a lot of time drinking hospital cafeteria coffee. Like, a lot, because one day one of the very sweet and motherly cafeteria ladies took me aside and...

I mean, yeah, OP is dependent on that medication to not have seizures. I mean, good lord. Do you tell diabetics to take a good hard look at their insulin dependence? Jeez.

This was sweet. I mean, not the part where his kid gets sick. You can tell how traumatizing it was for him and his family by the way he's three millimetres from tears the whole time. But the fact that he found out, remembered, wrote down, and individ...

I find it interesting that if Jon had come in and complained that he hadn't gotten a wink of sleep all night and was just so tired that nobody would've batted an eye, even though practising fatigued arguably presents a significant risk of harm to pat...

I initially missed that this was in the school nurse forum and thought we were talking about hospital food. Reminded me of the short time I was on a stroke unit during nursing school. For the ones with difficulty swallowing who needed pureed food the...