"Bad Patients" - A Labor of Love

Who was your last "bad" patient? Mine was ThreeTimes an Hour.

At least,that was the average timing of my patient ringing the call bell that night. Often times he rang more (rarely less), leading to a night remembered as one of the longest shifts of my nursing career. All thanks to a pesky prostate and an elderly gentleman who required assistance to stand.
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A HUGE Thank You to allnurses.com

I first started "lurking" the threads of allnurses.com back in the spring of 2009 when I was a junior in college/my first year of nursing school. I didn't become an official member of this site until June of 2010.
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50 Resolutions Nurses Should Make for This New Year

Some may think that resolutions are just a good way of setting yourself up for failure, but they can be very helpful in furthering your nursing career. Although you may make personal resolutions, you may want to make a few professional ones, as well. Here are fifty suggestions for what you can work on in the coming year.
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The Gifts of Nursing

Nurses spend most of their careers giving to others...they continuously give of their time, their minds and their hearts as they provide the best care for their patients, often with little or no formal recognition for a job well done. Being a nurse can be mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting. Not once in a while, but every day. However the gifts of nursing remind us why all of our giving is worth it in the end.
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Why I love my job

We hear a lot of complaining and discussion about why people are dissatisfied with their jobs, the state of nursing, etc. So I thought I would post something uplifting. Please feel free to add to the thread with your own uplifting stories.
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Tips for doctors

Hi all, I'm a med student doing clinical rotations and have seen a pretty big gap in knowledge from doctors regarding the nursing workflow and the best ways to get things done efficiently.
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[Toon] Bathroom? What's a bathroom...?

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 hours while at work. Is this you?
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