nurse_shelly

I'm currently breastfeeding my three months old. I was taking care of a patient on chemo precautions for taking arimidex earlier today. I was helping her to the bathroom and she accidentally had an incontinent episode and urinated on the floor. I'm pretty sure I accidentally stepped on it, but I'm not 100% sure if any urine got on top of my shoes and possibly soaked in because the top of my shoes are a mesh/breathable material. I'm very hesitant to breastfeed and thinking of pumping and dumping. How long is it OK before I can breastfeed again? I also didn't even think about it, but I flushed the toilet with her urine. Is it possible that her urine droplets could have gotten into the air and I breathed it in?

My cousin's wife who works from home with an insurance company as a nurse. She highly recommended me to get a job working from home with an insurance company because she loves it. So now I am highly interested and have been looking. However, I noticed that all of the job postings are for full time positions, M-F. I'm on the fence of applying because my husband and I just got married and we want to start trying for a baby soon within the next few months possibly, and I would like to work part time hours when we do have our first baby to help raise him/her. I don't mind working full time hours now until then, but do you guys know whether insurance companies would allow their employees to cut down to part time hours like in hospital jobs? Or are they pretty strict on you maintaining full time hours? If they're pretty strict on employees maintaining full time hours, I'm thinking of just staying at my current job because they are more flexible in allowing us to cut down our hours. Just wondering because it seems like there are virtually no part time jobs for remote nursing with insurance companies?

Hi, I have recently been mandated at my job to work an extra 8 hour shift. I was working my 10:30pm-7am shift, but they mandated me to work an additional 8 hours, 7am-3pm. It wasn't technically my turn to be mandated because there were other nurses working with me that were less senior. Our rules on mandation are based on who's turn it is and seniority. However, I was the only one working an 8 hour shift and my other co-workers were 12 hour shifts. They had an 8 hour shift shortage for day shift and the charge nurse mandated myself because it made more sense than mandating a 12 hour shift person. (12 hour shift worker can only work 16 hours max at my job). I'm afraid now that every time I work an 8 hour shift, they're going to mandate me to work extra because a lot of my co-workers work 12 hours. I asked my boss about this and she said she was going to look into this. I haven't heard anything yet, but wondering how this is handled at your guys' workplaces? I'm just afraid of not being able to care for my dogs. My husband works in another state every other week and wasn't home when this happened. I was luckily able to find someone to let my dogs potty and eat, since it was a weekend, but I'm afraid of it happening again in the future on a weekday when everyone has work or school.

I've been looking to apply to a new job. I've been at my current job for 3.5 years now and am just burnt out on working nights and am afraid of it affecting my health in the long-run. I've asked my boss months ago about working a days or evening position and haven't heard anything since then. We've been short on nights, so I'm probably going to be stuck on nights for who knows how long.. Anyways, I've applied to a home health nurse position because I've always been interested in working home health! I saw there was also a Home Health Nurse Liaison position available in my company as well, but it only offered a very brief/generic description of the job. I am curious to know what a Home Health Nurse Liaison job entitles before applying for it? Would it make sense for me to work this job if I have no prior home health nursing experience? (The job listing says it doesn't require it, but prefers home health RN experience). Thank you, just curious what this job entitles?

I am a new grad nurse working at a post-hospital rehab facility. I'm still in orientation with 4 more days (only 10 days of orientation x) ), but I worked one day by myself with 10 patients. It went well, but something popped up in my shift with one of my patients and I asked the Nursing Supervisor about it... It wasn't something critical, but I thought it was strange. When I asked the Supervisor about it, she kind of disregarded it immediately like it was silly. It just concerns me in the future though because what if it is a critical situation (not emergency) and the Supervisor disregards it again? I work the 3-11 shift and I'm concerned if I call their doctor for orders they won't pick up and will be sleeping and I noticed the on-call NP has hours until 9 pm. If something happens past 9 pm without anyone to call, do I just call 911 and explain to them the situation and whether or not to send them to the hospital?