moldyoldyrn

Not going to really give you an answer but just a few thoughts. 1-the rehab job lets you set a schedule that fits your family now. If you take it then you have time to learn more as an RN and simply delay for a little time moving to a more challengin...

Who uses pens any more with computerized medical records? I am sure there are a few places that have written records but so few. Why not a meal break, provided by the facility, you know pizza or sandwiches? I have thrown away so many "gifts", pens, ...

Why not just offer your sincerest apologies? Would be easy to ignore her and just go on about business. I often wonder if people who say things like that realize how Unprofessional is sounds and is. Met some like that in my practice. They never had a...

RNs are so under valued especially in schools. Kids need a nurse, so may kids have terrible home lives and RNs can only help them. We need more.

Just like so many places that serve populations no one wants to deal with, understaffed to the max. No one cares if you work yourself to death and no one cares if the patients get any kind of care. Despite what most people think if someone in any fac...

I had a wide range of reactions when EMS was called to various facilities that I worked in. I called EMS for transport on a lady having chest pains and the fire trucks and everyone responded. They listened to her and to us and had the best attitude e...

Good old med-surg is hard and tough. After you have worked med-surg I think you get more organized and it teaches you about coordinating care, setting priorities, the sort of thing that everyone needs. Nothing negative about wanting ICU and yet why p...

I would check out with the other students and find out if there are others in your situation. If there are and these changes are causing a problem for all of you then take yourselves, all of you and present your concerns to the school and ask for hel...

Seek help and depending on the state you are in you may be able to claim against workers comp. It's called a stress claim and you have to prove the reaction you are experiencing is related to the incident. Sounds simple but can difficult to prove. So...

The last patient I had on a Clinitron was a young diabetic who was in renal failure and was broken down from waist to foot. She wanted to live so bad but had never cared for herself the way she should have. But we took good care of her. Unfortunately...

Amen. I worked with some who "hung out" while I worked and intervened with their patients because there was a need. I will not let a patient be neglected, ever. I was considered hard nosed because I said anything to the new RNs. They could have come ...

I spent 43 years stomping the halls doing direct care, doing clinical education and caring directly for patients. I tried admin and fled, yes fled back to direct care. I have a BSN and Masters and am retired now due to orthopedic issues that stop me ...

Being with only those like myself is very boring. Diversity is the core of creativity and richness in life. I will not live in a world nor a place that is not diverse. I love all the opportunity and newness that meeting different people brings. Neil ...

I have always maintained that one should ACT like a Nurse rather than "look like a Nurse". After all anyone can buy scrubs or white costumes at a costume store. What matters is that we perform like a nurse. Telling people what you are and having a bi...

In a word NO.

Th smaller picture looks like the autoclave we had on my unit at Grady Hospital back in the early 1970s. It had become defunct but we could heat our dinners in it if we had time. I do remember mixing all of my IV meds on a pediatric unit for kids und...

I was a Navy nurse for 12 years. It was one of the best jobs I ever had, actually probably the best. The education I got was astounding (I had my BSN when inducted, got my Masters on duty), the friendships were everlasting, I got to travel just about...

Never will forget when I discovered a white cream shoe polish and could get rid of the Sani-white and the chalky junk it made. My shoes were so clean and white and no one paid attention. That was when I was in the Navy and Sani-white was sold by the ...

Amen. And there are many out there who cannot "recognize and intervene" and some do not want to do that. Here is my take tough, these new grads need support for at least the first year from some RN who is competent and can help them navigate the shoa...

I think we hit the mark on the "fun topic". what a hoot.

I am wondering if anyone ever threw back? I would have been tempted.

Where i first worked we made 0-2 masks out of dixie cups for our peds patients. No such thing as a peds mask. It worked though.

Do I ever miss my white clinics. Sigh, they were hard to polish but beautiful even when worn out.

And knowing how to vent them properly so they would flow. Can't tell you how many times I had to correct that problem.

Epidermal clysis, they are bringing that back some places as a way of gently hydrating fragile people. Who knew, I remember reading about in my text book, that big pink volume that was updated every year and was a standard for Med-Surg Nursing course...