Garden,RN ASN, RN

I believe you, and they are coming down too hard on you. Of course, the sleeping is not good, but night work is very hard, and you are in nursing school which is brutal. This will pass. Get your ct results, etc, make sure all that is OK. You might ju...

No, absolutely not. The only ones that should have their pay cut are the administrators making 14 and 15 million dollars a year. Nurses earn their pay with blood, sweat, and tears, and for others. Sadly the ones that have sucked the life and financin...

I would say no and others that feel the same should make their voices heard, like you have. Thanks for sharing.

I don't because it's just not clean. I don't even like pouring the pills out on countertops for counting. Having said that, I was dropping things, not just pills and not just at work. It ended up being a health issue. When it started, I didn't know ...

I read that and it's terrible. Those fees are outrageous. It does sound like excessive punishment, and for something that is legal in so many states.

That really depends. In the schools there are differences. For example, in the schools where I worked, there was staff that had been trained to administer medications and cover the clinic. Some worked directly with the students and were invaluable in...

You can pull it back and out of the way, but if you are going to bend over and get close it has to picked up. It's just not clean all around.

As someone with long hair, I almost always had it up, but definitely out of the way. That should be common sense, though.

Unfortunately, I cannot credit the author. Whomever this person, I am grateful that he or she shared. " It is a privilege to care for the sick. It is an honor to be present when humans are brought into this life and when they leave."

"Are those guys outside my door waiting to take my body?"

Someone in my household was just diagnosed with active TB.

a smiling patient trying to change the channel, again.

It is acceptable and it is exactly the right thing to do. That is a part of "First do no harm". Lack of sleep is likened to being intoxicated. Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally p...

Based on the information you provided, the best thing for that patient, would have been to be able to transition with the assistance of those that had become her teachers, family, and friends. That would have been good nursing care, addressing the c...

She is probably envious.

Everything you said is true, but what would happen if the RN's and/or LPN's just start saying no? Hmm. It would not be tolerated and could even end up with licensing actions. I don't know of any job where you can just say no. It happens all the time ...

No, as it not allowed , but the profession should do some honest soul searching as there are many reports to it's therapeutic benefits. This is a newer area and the laws are still in the making. There are even questions as to working in the industry....

I agree with you 100%. With the excuse of "teamwork" the overlap of duties creates these types of situations. We are expected to put our licenses out there and be responsible for the actions of others weather we like it or not. We should not be resp...

I made it through the "Female conditioning" even though I usually avoid that stuff, but when I got to "Men rule", I just couldn't continue. I just won't even bother. Give me a break.

I went into nursing later on after having worked in the business world. Most of the time what I wanted to say. " Why is so much of health care set up in such an inefficient way?" " "Why are we documenting so many senseless, mindless, unnecessary thin...

"If I believe that rules are always made for good reason". First of all I don't believe the rules are always for good reasons. In fact there are many solid examples to the contrary. I am sorry that you believe that you are not a free thinker or analy...

Since this is a forum for nurses, I am working off the assumption that we all understand there are patients too vulnerable to speak for themselves. I would think those patients have bigger concerns than someone calling them by an endearing term. I am...

No It' doesn't bother me one bit that nurses are being kind or affectionate to their patients. If the patient doesn't like it he or she will speak. What bothers me is that you aren't minding your own business and for some unknown reason have made you...

They are pretty unhappy too.

I have been a nurse for 20 years and they still do it to me. We have a bullying problem in nursing, bottom line. This is just one more example. In other fields only your supervisors get to judge your work, in nursing, many nurses seems to think it hi...