tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post7617691604643238332..comments2023-06-14T03:36:55.988-07:00Comments on Head Nurse: Strange Surprise, Endless ScienceJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520599099436383317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-24707504884961732182009-04-21T02:10:00.000-07:002009-04-21T02:10:00.000-07:00Jo,
Your blog makes me feel your frustrations yet ...Jo,<br />Your blog makes me feel your frustrations yet I can tell there is still a lot of Caring and hope left in you. You have a good handle on education. Maybe you should shoot for becoming one of those faculty members our profession is so short of!<br />I want to encourage you to please continue to write your thoughts and feelings from your Nursing experiences and save them. I wish I had done that. I only saved a few intense ones I experienced over the years. I never dreamed they would all end up in a book. With today's convenient self-publishing abilities, this is a realistic goal for you, too. <br />I have been working in Nursing since 1979 so I've experienced my fair share of challenges, growth and frustration. Have you noticed that nurses take really good care of their patients and their kids but badly neglect themselves and each other? I'm hoping that the blogging trend puts nurses in a better habit of helping and supporting each other.<br />Working 30 years in Nursing makes me feel so old, yet eligible to share some sage ideas in a book. You will be, too!! I thought you might like to know about my book. It is called Nurses Are From Heaven. <br />Thank you for all your contributions to our great profession and may God bless you in all you do. I appreciate you. If I can ever help you with anything, please let me know.<br />Christina Feist-Heilmeier<br />author@nursesarefromheaven.com<br />http://NursesAreFromHeaven.comChrishttp://nursesarefromheaven.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-77644305428724134372009-04-12T12:45:00.000-07:002009-04-12T12:45:00.000-07:00My mother-in-law is an LPN (soon to be an RN appar...My mother-in-law is an LPN (soon to be an RN apparently too) and she really annoys the crap out of me in medical situations. Her son, my husband, suffered a TBI and has epilepsy so we've been in and out of medical situations together. <BR/><BR/>She went with him to a recent neuro appointment and she just cannot WAIT to say "I know because I'm a nurse." And then she started demanding all kinds of blood tests and stuff to be done.<BR/><BR/>Ugh. So I feel your pain. She is a pain in the butt regarding stuff like this. <BR/><BR/>(And frankly? She's not that great of a nurse either. She would make up the stupidest things to be worried about, and just after reading a few things online about TBI and epilepsy I knew more than she did. She claimed that every time he had a seizure he would build scar tissue on his brain.)The Shannon Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17342030773791155351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-66484822633984345772009-04-12T09:53:00.000-07:002009-04-12T09:53:00.000-07:00I work in a surgical ICU and just had knee surgery...I work in a surgical ICU and just had knee surgery. I told my surgeon I'm a bad nurse to myself, and he laughed his ass off. I can't wear the nurse hat AND the patient hat at the same time. That's my lesson.Carolinehttp://brainscramble.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-31869175298100246572009-04-12T05:39:00.000-07:002009-04-12T05:39:00.000-07:00Bravo. I spent half of last night floated down to ...Bravo. I spent half of last night floated down to the ER, where I spent half of last night trying to pretend that my husband wasn't in the corner bed, opposite my assignment's, with Chest Pain and a blood pressure of 220/150. I love the ER of my humble hospital. Since census was down overall, when they finally got all the blood-work back and his BP down he got to go home, (he had a heart cath two weeks ago, which was basically ok) and he will be going to the cardiologist on Monday, the house supervisor just let me take him home, so I could monitor him the rest of the night. It's hard to be a nurse, and still be a wife...you can only wear one of those hats at a time.GingerJarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264306220362474678noreply@blogger.com