Camillemm

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1. Med Error

   Camillemm replied to Rada's topic in General Nursing

   I am sorry this happened. But please realize nursing is a human driven profession. Humans make mistakes. Your director 's response goes against everything we are taught as nurses about medication errors...... honest errors are ultimately learning ...

2. I don’t want to work extra!

   Camillemm replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in General Nursing

   1. I never answer a phone call from work when I am at home. Never. 2. When at work and am asked to work overtime I say no. I don't give excuses or explanations. Just, "no, sorry, I can't." 3. Never volunteer for extra shift. Ever. ...

3. First Few Weeks on Unit and Feeling Overwhelmed

   Camillemm replied to BDluvsNursing's topic in New Nurse

   Just give your body time to adjust. I guess it depends how old you are too. In my 20s and 30s my schedule was 6, 12 shifts in a row and then had 8 days off. I did that schedule for years (ICU) While working those shifts I would just work, eat and ...

4. Teacher Issue...

   Camillemm replied to CarlyCastaneda's topic in School

   Been a school nurse for 26 years and an RN for nearly 40. It happens all the time. We often joke about how we are going to send the students back to class with a note about how to teach math. Let it go. What's it really matter? You let the paren...

5. Got Fired From My First Nursing Job

   Camillemm replied to Lynker's topic in General Nursing

   As an experienced RN I have to say that the 2 examples you gave are pretty basic skills and should have been taught in nursing school. The Epipen has directions right on the packaging, as most who administer it are lay people. I would think their co...

6. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

   Camillemm replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   No I don't. But California is a state that spends recklessly on programs that ultimately keep people dependent on the government to survive; and as a result has no money to fund things that the government should be focused on for the good of all. T...

7. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

   Camillemm replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   California aught to be it's own country. I've been a nurse for 40 years and have never seen rationing of care. When I worked at a large teaching hospital in VT, years ago, we always would get patients from Canada, because under socialized medicine ...

8. It's Time to Tell the World about ICU Nursing

   Camillemm replied to MICURN6339's topic in MICU

   I've been an RN 40 years, did 10 years in ICU and still it was my absolute favorite speciality. Loved loved loved working ICU at a major teaching hospital, never had more than one patient, all our patient were obviously critically ill, intubated, sw...

9. Heparin Error

   Camillemm replied to rnash679's topic in General Nursing

   No worries, us old timey nurses remember when it was routine practice to flush peripheral IVs with heparin. Don't be so hard on yourself.

10. Wilderness Medicine

    Camillemm replied to CamperNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I would suggest looking into the Indian Health Service. Some stations are quite remote...the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Canyon De Chelly to name a couple locations. When I was looking to move to the southwest from VT 30+ years ago, the Indian Heal...

11. Constantly Making Mistakes

    Camillemm replied to Blueb's topic in General Nursing

    All nurses make mistakes, we are human. You recognize when you've made an error so you obviously know what you are doing wrong. Concentrate on the task at hand, without thinking about what else you need to do. I have been an RN for nearly 40 years...

12. MD saying I didn’t do something

    Camillemm replied to Gigi27's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is why documentation is so important and why it is stressed in nursing school. Document everything and just the facts. As long as it's documented and you notify your supervisors of what the doctor said, then it is out of your hands and I would ...

13. Is it normal to hate my job this much?

    Camillemm replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    Why did you go into nursing to start with? What changed? Maybe you are not working in the right place. When doing acute hospital nursing the hospital you work for makes a huge difference. Are you in a teaching hospital? I did bedside acute hospi...

14. Burned out, Hate nursing

    Camillemm replied to Nash32222's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a RN for nearly 40 years. Spent the last 25 years in school nursing. You need to quit and find your passion. I work with nurses who hate their job, it's stressful for everybody in that situation. I have been blessed to have had a grea...

15. WHY do so many people hate nursing? Sigh.

    Camillemm replied to RachealAnne's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't say they weren't nurses....my point was a RN will frequently say I am an RN whereas, in my experience a LPN or CNA will introduce themselves as a nurse, blurring the distinction for the public. Media does it too when reporting they think "a ...