Social Anxiety and nursing vs RT

Hi all,

I am hoping to get some opinions on my dilemma. I am currently trying to decide weather I should pursue nursing or respiratory therapy. I am in my 40's and have decided to go back to school now that my kids are older. I have suffered from so

What is the most complex clinical procedure you had to do in your career?

3 As a student in her final year, the most complex clinical procedure for me has to be cleaning and packing a wound. I did this numerous times during clinical. What about you? Routine tracheostomy tube change (but at the request of my pulmonolgist who

Are Nurses First Responders?

1 Hi Guys,

I recently entered a contest for my wedding on Facebook and was selected a a finalist among Police, Paramedic, EMT etc. I am just interested to find out if we would consider Nurses to be First Responders? From the moment patient enters any

Falsification of Documentation?

2 I have a quick story and then a question to ask my fellow nurses... I am a wound care nurse in a LTAC hospital and have been with the same company for the past five years. Our company has hospitals all over the country. A little more than a year ag

patient being discharged on coumadin

When you are working with a patient who will be d/c home on coumadin, is there a coumadin clinic in your hospital you have them follow up with, or do you make them an appointment with their PCP? Also, when you give the prescription to the pt for coum

safe assignment

lately we have been short, although it seems that this may actually now be a trend. So everyone is upset and says "this is such an unsafe assignment.

My question is, is this now a new trend? I mean, I know being "understaffed" ( i put

Desperately in Need of Guidance: Deciding Between VCU & University of South Florida

To provide a little background, I was recently offered admission to both the accelerated BSN (ABSN) program offered at VCU and the second degree BSN program at the University of South Florida. My dilemma stems from the fact that made the decision to

Tips to supervise Cna's?

Any tips for a new lpn charge nurse at a snf to supervise cna's? What are some common problems and solutions you had to deal with? never worked in a LTC but I have mentored many nurses. The first thing is to know what they are allowed to do by law. F

Pts without insurance getting d/c on insulin

For Pts that are in the hospital and require insulin therapy but do not have insurance...who is responsible for trying to get them some sort of medical assistance to pay for this? The social worker or case management? Just wondered how this situation

Nursing as a career

I am a high school senior and I have volunteered at the local transplant hospital for three years until I was hired as a non certified nurse assistant. I started helping sick children and loved it. I really got interested in NICU nursing. I thought w