It's that time of year...Christmas stories

64 Christmas is coming. Half of us will be schlepping the halls.
This time of year always brings back one particular Christmas on duty.

First rounds , I am assessing a patient whose name was Jesus, a Mexican-American patient with a common first name

Speaking of vomit

When one of my patients' vomit I usually give zofran and try other measures to help ease their nausea. Since vomiting is frequent with our post op patients I usually do not write a note in the chart. However I'm now wondering if I should chart some

Lost Person Needs Some Help

This may sound redundant. I managed to get a nurse upset and get reported for something I did not know. I also get the run around.. I want to make sure I know what I am asking as well as doing.
Here are the questions I ask when I am new to a unit or

Anxiety about diseases

Does anyone ever get paranoid about catching terrible diseases at work? I have a terrible fear of hiv and hepatitis c. Over the summer, I started an iv on an HIV+ patient and have been so paranoid that I touched something. I know I possibly touched t

Bathroom? What's a bathroom ... ???

10 Oh, what I'd give for 10 minutes of quiet solitude in a bathroom during a shift as a Nurse. I thought all Nurses were immune to bladder issues. It's taught in Nursing school, right? Nursing 101: How to keep your bladder from exploding for 12-16

Project: Nurses send us your videos for a Happy New Year compilation

This is going to be fun, I hope we get all kinds of videos from around the world! allnurses.com gets traffic from almost every corner of the globe every month! I'd love to see messages from nurses worldwide!

Healthcare gadgets--- Where DID that name come from?

2 All,
I am on a list for legal nurses and we got talking about why some gadget or other was called what it was called (in the context of OR documentation-- what really happened/was the stuff being used appropriate).
As conversations do, we wandered

Have to Request to Cut My Hours...

I recently began working at a beautiful LTC/AL/Memory Care facility and really enjoy the job. The down side is that I have to walk a TON during my ten hour shifts and I am no longer a young nurse. As a result, I am having exacerbation of old issues w

any career changers?

How many careers did you have before becoming a nurse?

What careers were they and what drew you to nursing? I started working on my nursing degree fresh out of high school. So I never had a previous career per se. While in nursing school I worked as a

Making the Most of a Working Christmas

So true that people can not always understand why you have to work either Christmas or New Year depending on which one you like but I also see new nurses coming into the profession that can not understand why they have to work.As you said people get