Chinesedog

I gave Demerol about a year ago, I got Phenergan IV 7 months ago during my c-section. I think I did a Carafate slurry once or twice but I mostly remember everyone on the giant bottles of the messy emulsion. One thing they stopped briefly after I became a nurse were chest restraints (Posey vests) How cool were those? Your bedhoppers would be tied in their beds! We also had a class on tying each other up, because wrist restraints weren't considered a bad thing. Now we just have to run everytime the alarm goes off, which is 2 million times per shift. Oh, and full side rails! They got rid of those when someone got their head caught in it. Soap suds enemas and my least favorite, which I never figured out how to deal with- cloth adult diapers. I mean, I was told to thoroughly wash them out after each patient like a giant baby cloth diaper, but who has time for that? If I sent it to the laundry unrinsed, can they just put it in the washing machine, and will it come out sans poop? I still have to serve alcohol stored in the med room which we get prescriptions for, really crappy cocktails in little plastic cups.

All I know is, if you take an EMF reader to a place such as a nursing home, certain rooms will be full of activity. If you think your patient is hallucinating, use the meter to check out the room, I verified that yes, there really was "something" sitting in that chair she kept talking to.

When you are in clinicals, you are working under another nurse's license. Not one, but two nurses brushed off the incident as nothing. And the third is telling you to drop out?? If anything, the two senior nurses should be held accountable. If they want you out of the program, they need to fail you, not tell you to drop out, that's ridiculous. But as a student nurse, I was also at the mercy of the nastiest people who never made me doubt myself or cry so much in my life. Honestly, you should have been taught several times about bloodborne pathogens, and if you were aware you pricked yourself, you should not have given the injection. Unless you had a very virulent communicable disease, which I'm sure you'd be aware of, a fine insulin needle is unlikely to transfer it to the patient. In any case, I'm sure the patient is fine.

Simply report, and follow your facility's protocol- unless a situation arises which could point to you being accused of the discrepancy. In that case, it may be in your best interest to seek employment elsewhere as a worst case scenario. Davita?? That's funny you mention that, my former nursing instructor who had her license suspended when she was jailed for substance trafficking ended up getting a job at Davita. Maybe they are second-chance employers.

There is still a nationwide shortage of nurses and it's only getting worse. I don't know what states you mention that supposedly have more than enough. A few years ago it was in a crisis, they were importing nurses from the Philippines and Kenya to work for minimum wage, live on site, even long enough to get greencards.

I don't know about you, but years before the ACA went into full effect there was a multistep transition we had to go through. It changed our entire operation a bit. The first thing I learned as a nurse was "costs, costs, costs" and how area hospitals were going out of business because people just don't pay their bills. I was told to admit Medicare patients first because they paid the most. Every place I worked freaked out about us using extra pieces of gauze and cut corners to dangerous levels. All of these problems were the result of decades of financial healthcare disasters. If you remember the HMO movement in the 80's, that failed and led to the need for ACA. With the ACA, we can't be denied due to pre-existing conditions. My employer cancels our insurance if we go below 20/h a week for two weeks in a row. With my chronic illness child, she would have lost her insurance and I'd be bankrupt soon. I rely on the ACA to have insurance that doesn't cost 4 figures for the both of us. I haven't had to attend the "omg, stop using so many supplies" meetings in years nor have I been asked to go home as little as an hour early to save the facility money. Financially, the ACA is helping a lot. Keep in mind premiums have been going up long before the ACA, they aren't going up because of it. Please don't get rid of ACA because certain people are on a crusade to do it. My tiny girl needs her mama to not lose the house over her hospital bills.

Yes, in some places in the US you can get certified as a ... (example) pediatric nurse, but it's not necessary. All you need to be a psych nurse here is to get a job which involves psychiatry. Also, if you venture beyond LPN it really helps to get your BSN. Interesting about Canada, because with recent events here I'm longing for a travel assignment leading to something permanent.

And don't worry much about FMLA. It's illegal for them to fire you for being pregnant. I never took my FMLA, I just said "I'm having a baby and will need some time to recover". Nurses are hard to find and expensive to hire. If you have infertility, it's not like you can plan to get pregnant anyhow! Your diagnostic treatments prior to IVF and the meds they have you on will be worse than the actual pregnancy anyhow. I wish you luck and all the strength in the world. Just be warned, even if this is successful, it will NOT be easy at all.

hmm, vintage post. I just joined and the posts are ancient, but I see a reply from about a month ago. I will say that the best way is to quit being a nurse and work for Bank of America. their version of Aetna pays for IVF. Or take an awesome, life-changing vacation to somewhere like India and have it done for only $1000. I mean, no matter where you have it done you have a good chance of not getting pregnant, get PGD and with the money you spend, you'll also get an awesome vacation. I'm sick of the US and its greedy healthcare system. No need to save money either. Fertility clinics all have financing. The longer you wait, the less likely you'll have a baby.