I promised that I would bring you the weird thing I saw when I worked ortho. For the first six months of my nursing career, I was a house float. Many of the new grads were forced to float because St James was a Union shop where you had to bid for a shift. While …
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I went through some old journal stuff and started looking at the things 20 some years ago when I was first a nurse (an LPN) Its scary to see some of these patient stories in print, still all this freaking time later. Back in the dark ages when I first became an LPN (this was …
Credit: Nurse.org As I lay dying… In my travels, Pax and I (Pax is my service dog) went to visit the gang on the old ward and have coffee and deliver an apple crisp the hubby made to a couple of friends. For real these 2 kept me laughing and held me up when …
I had the worst kind of patient consult the other night that I have been trying to wrap my head around. When the provider obtains a history on a patient, it seems like we ask you everything but your hat size. Many patients feel like they've answered these questions 100 times, and you may have …
