nurses are vastly underpaid and vastly unappreciated!

[RNDreamer]

Not sure if my spelling is correct but this is exactly what Rosie O'Donell said on The View this morning. And the model who was on the show said that her mom should be making what she makes as a model, while she should be making what her mom makes as a nurse...Hooray for nurses, and CNAs!

[DarciaMoonz, LPN]

I wish more people were aware that we're not ignoring you or minimizing your needs, but we can't always stop in the middle of something to get to them the moment you ask. Case in point, there is a particular patient who thinks that she is supposed to be first for everything. I have explained to her, that I have three people on insulin who need their blood sugars checked, and need to be treated first because they may need insulin. Her reply "well smoking starts in a few minutes, so I need my meds first and my cigarettes". My silent reply is something that I would probably be banned for (heehee), but I just continue what I was doing and she waits, and gets upset, but I think that I am right priority wise. I told her that we need to switch places so she can see what it is like having so many people wanting to be first and the amount of stress we go through, she laughed and said my job was easy. I laughed with her because she has no idea:-)