CeciBean ASN, RN

I had a temporary colostomy for 4 months after a partial colectomy where the reanastamosis failed. I hated it. Then when they did the reanastamosis I got a temporary ileostomy for another 4 months to allow it to heal properly. I hated that even more ...

30 years in grade in all kinds of units, mainly critical care/stepdown, and I've pushed Ativan a zillion times. Slow push is recommended. You did the right thing, helped her relax enough to let go. So often anxiety about leaving us behind makes our d...

I'm retired now (thank all the gods and goddesses!) but all that toxicity COMES FROM ABOVE and filters down. There is one word you need, and that word is NO. When I worked PRN I used it a LOT, especially at one hospital. I am a past master at it. ...

Silverbells can do this, but since, as she noted previously, there seems to be some favoritism at play in regards to this nurse, it's possible that things would go badly for her if she did. I would suggest that she might need to be the one with one f...

No, no, no, and no....unless you absolutely have no idea what you want to do, and most of us do when we graduate. (I made a big mistake and paid dearly for it, but that's another story.) I ended up where I probably should have been in the first place...

I worked for an agency that at one time leased a bunch of vehicles and required us all to drive one of them, even take it home at night. The nice thing was that they provided oil changes etc. The bad thing was that even though we had to record mileag...

I hated my first job in a big regionally well-known hospital (that I thought I would love) and ended up resigning after 4.5 months. I was so burned by it that I didn't work for 3 months. I then went to work in a smaller local hospital, but foolishly ...

EXACTLY! Seems like someone else fell down on the job...or got busy and just forgot.

I got fired from my last travel job on Christmas Eve. It wasn't exactly my fault either. I'd been pulled from the unit I normally worked in--there were 3 travelers and it was not my turn and I said so, but whatever. So I went where they told me and s...

It kind of depends on the hospital. I worked in a couple of hospitals on cardiac medical units where the ratio was 4:1. In one of those, the unit was divided into pods where there were 4 rooms. The other was a standard floor and the ration was 5:1 on...

Absolutely this. When I was new (and being bullied by my preceptor, but that's for another thread), I was trying to hurry because said preceptor was literally on my heels. I had two IV piggybacks of the same antibiotic, same dose, same time, differen...

I worked in home health from 1990-97. When I first started, home health and hospice were together. There was a pretty seamless transition if one of our patients was made a hospice patient; they had the same nurse, the same aides, everything. They ju...

Sounds like a smart move. When I'd been a nurse for 20+ years and had a pretty solid cardiac/tele/ICU profile in my pocket (and was leaving my then-husband) I decided to become a traveler. I never regretted that move. I traveled for 3 years and loved...

Yes, hospitals absolutely ARE abusive employers! The farther away I get from them (now retired 6 years, volunteer work only) the more I see it. At my last job, I had joked with a co-worker about calling in on a certain shift because my gentleman frie...

I understand him wanting the social distancing, however if he is not showing supportiveness in other ways it may be time to re-evaluate your relationship. Is he still calling, e-mailing? sending flowers, or doing little thoughtful things, or is he ...

I kind of wonder if that's what I had earlier this year. Symptoms were similar but not as severe. It lasted about a week. It was before this "wave" though.

I put in several years in a Top 100 Heart Hospital. I loved it there. And boy, did I learn stuff! Sadly, because of financial mismanagement, that hospital no longer exists. ? I kind of saw that coming about the time I separated from my late ex and w...

So why not just keep them in the stock room, for heaven's sake? Most places I've worked, the stock room is only accessible with a code anyway.

Especially when they're your manager. This has actually happened to me! Aside from that, and preparation, let's please get AWAY from the "business model" of nursing. In fact, let's get away from it in the whole healthcare profession, please. We are s...

One hospital I worked at as a traveler had a year-long internship for new grad RNs, which I thought was great. When they got out of that, they were ready for anything that came their way. One was getting out of her internship when I was there and the...

I made a terrible error when I was a fairly new nurse. It was partly because I misread a doctor's handwriting. He had written an order for 10 mg. of Vistaril to be given to a severely vomiting child, but to this day I will swear it looked like 100 mg...

Heck no! I started traveling about that time, and I found that most travelers are either in that age group or quite young and without strings. Some of the older ones traveled alone, maybe were widowed or divorced, others with retired spouses. I had ...

I graduated from nursing school in 1986. Out of the 104 students in my class, 5 were male. The only gender bias issue I noticed was that the guys were not allowed in the delivery room, which I thought was weird, since the OB/GYNs in all the clinical ...

I agree pretty much with everything that has been posted. I'm retired now, but the "nursing shortage" was predicted many years ago when I was in school. So was the BSN-only. And my thoughts about that, after 30 years in the field, 28 active, are this...

OK, here's my POV. If, during initial rounds, for instance, I would find a patient lying in poop but otherwise in no distress, and the poop wasn't all over the bed, I might tell that person I'd be right back to help get them cleaned up, *or* ring for...