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Yes! Now that I'm 63 I'm doing one on one care with a little boy who is total care. I work night shift and i snack all night and watch tv. I've done everything else in nursing. Old and tired. But I wouldn't recommend it for a new nurse. You need to u...

Why are we making this an issue? Aren't we judged enough? Now we need the fat police on us? We don't get breaks, no bathroom brakes. We run our entire shift. Let's be kinder to each other and not judge

When I was in nursing school there was a student that graduated at 59. I thought that was really old at the time Now I'm going on 63 this year, been a nurse for almost 30 years. I wanted to be a nurse so bad I could taste it. Best decision I ever mad...

When I was in nursing school I wanted to be a travel nurse. I did, went to several states, even got to work at Johns Hopkins. I've done everything in nursing I ever wanted to do. I was well suited for short stay and PACU. I did small town ER, ob, pe...

There is always going to be a need for LPNs and ADNs. This fight has been going on for the almost 30 years I've been a nurse. Next topic

I get really upset when I hear a mother speak of her newborn or very young child as "stud" or "sexy". Where does this come from, thinking the child is sexy?

Seriously? You've been a nurse for 25 years and are just now going thru this? I dealt with this on my very first nursing job 28 years ago. They either lie to your face, or lie by omission

I have felt in all types of nursing that it's not your sex that is important. If you are doing your job and acting appropriate nobody cares what your sex is. Women have been giving men per I care for centuries! But if you go "ew" when you do your c...

don't they give kayexalate per rectum anymore? Works like a charm. Especially when there are no veins

don't they give kayexalate per rectum anymore? Works like a charm. Especially when there are no veins

My sister and I are both RNs. She has a BSN and I have an ADN. When we graduated I trained her in our first job. I was hired first. She didn't know how to do an admission assessment for starters. She is a very smart cookie, but my nursing education w...

You are lucky! I was the sole RN with a med aid and 3-4cnas for 50 residents

I too recently binge watched nurse jackie. I was mesmerized by her, sorta looked up to her. On the surface she is a great nurse, her co workers do not know about the drugs. But as the show goes on, she becomes a different person. We see her spiraling...

Also, I was the nurse for three different schools in my district. It was busy and every second was busy.

I was a school nurse for awhile. The kids took a dose before coming to school. Then we gave the noon dose, parents gave the third dose. Sounds like the parents aren't coping well. Maybe the kids need something physical to do after school rather than ...

I wanted to work as an LPN and take a year off between LPN and RN. I worked at the VA and told them I was a student and had clinical certain days. They scheduled me for those days! And I wanted to work Night shift and weekends. They couldn't let me w...

In my 27years as a nurse I have been fired a few times. Maybe 5-6. It is not a career ender. Most of the time it was a job I hated. Stupid reasons. Last time was a couple of months ago where my boss lied about something. It often seems to me that the...

I used to work in the recovery room and we had hooks that held our ivs. I had blood running on a patient and pulled the bag too hard. You guessed it! The tubing came loose and a unit of blood went everywhere! I was mortified, but my patient took it w...

I agree. Not looking for romance at work!but when I first became a nurse ignorant people would think I was gonna meet some hot guy that was my patient. How dumb. We take care of people at their most vulnerable times.

You are lucky to be so well staffed! I worked long term care in a local nursing home where I was the sole nurse with a med aid and 3-4 cnas for up to 50 residents. We started out two nurses but went down to one for approximately 18 months. When I com...

Same here. Saw bad stuff happening at a nursing home. Staffing really bad, no authority over cnas. Got fired. I was unemployed for a month, by in the long run best thing to happen to me

The nursing home I worked at for awhile paid a med aid to take the online continuing ed classes for other nurses so every body was up to date. How illegal is that?

We had a small town hospital that my whole family, i.e. mother, step dad, brother would be treated at. The care was so bad when My daughter went in for an open chole she called me crying. They were trying to pull her out of bed by her arms. She was i...

I do get it. I fought a love hate relationship with my abusive mother all my life. It never goes away. Good luck

New grads can be just as bad. And they work boxnightift. I had a new nurse who decided to change a very brittle diabetics insulin doses. I knew because he told me. I immediately told the doctor and DON.