PACUpleeze

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1. Weight loss for nurses

   PACUpleeze replied to tortillaRN17's topic in General Nursing

   I am doing the Eat to Live plan by Dr. Fuhrman. He's got some great ideas. Not so much about calories but about the nutrients. Those that follow him call it the Nutritarian diet. I have lost 10 lbs so far, though that is a by product as I never reall...

2. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

   PACUpleeze replied to workingot's topic in Career Support

   I'm certain that crap doesn't require a sedative and a spit hood.

3. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

   PACUpleeze replied to workingot's topic in Career Support

   Oh you'll be able to tolerate it...but just for a short period of time before you move to a side of nursing that doesn't have to deal with the crap (IT, Research, etc). That's the difference in a called RN and an RN that also has the money motivation...

4. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

   PACUpleeze replied to workingot's topic in Career Support

   Why does it have to be a calling? Are mailman called? Are garbage men called? No. Is only nurses that have to wear the martyr hat and be "called " to get yelled athe, disrespected, violated and trashed by families and management. And then..we are not...

5. Areas of nursing you would NOT like?

   PACUpleeze replied to Nursetobe25's topic in General Nursing

   Don't want no kids, don't want no lady parts...got my own, thanks very much. I never thought about it when in school because I didn't have a clinical in it, but LTC. May be the biggest NO my nursing career could ever shout. Being in the ER and PACU,...

6. Patient's threatening violence

   PACUpleeze replied to josephadn's topic in Safety

   I can't believe it's gotten to where this is even a question. It's sad you have to wonder if it's OK to demand not to be hurt.

7. Burned out and hate nursing

   PACUpleeze replied to RN1023's topic in Stress 101

   I do agency PACU at a surgery center and the manager there told me "My family would literally have to be on the verge of being homeless before I went back to hospital..and even then, I'd rather sell Mary Kay first!" Lol. I thought that was hilarious....

8. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

   PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

   Depending on your life situations, part of the country and hours worked..it really is. I mean, in Vegas, I was a new grad, no kids, student loan payments of $260 and making $60k a year with no OT. minimal OT put me at 70k a year. Pretty good. As I ha...

9. Is money everything in this profession?

   PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds horrible. That's like Cartoon horrible. Your corporation is my worst nightmare. Wouldn't suffer that for a second. I would go back to insurance adjusting if they were my only choice!

10. Is money everything in this profession?

    PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I do nothing fraudulent to make my money. I simply use every pull I have to make sure I am paid the most per shift. No doctor gets a lecture when he calls back call team for OR and PACU to do a midnight surgery for non threatening cut to the finger,...

11. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    Really??? I didn't know that!! Thank you!!!! Fine, whatever makes you feel better.

12. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    PACUpleeze replied to nikkole318's topic in Relations

    I did ER for years, so I can't even tell you all the things people said to me. Most of them were black, like me, so I didn't get a lot of racist stuff, but when I first moved to PACU, I recovered this guy that was sleeping the entire time I did his i...

13. Is money everything in this profession?

    PACUpleeze replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't really understand how taking all the opportunities offered to an RN to make more money is "milking it". Only RN's get indignant about those that want to make more money. No doctor, lawyer or CEO goes to his colleagues and goes "Man, you guys,...

14. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    PACUpleeze replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    Waaaaaay ahead of you. No legal marriage. Won't be no legal marriage. Like I said, mama didn't raise no fool! LOL. Dad's girlfriends' money does not factor in to FAFSA..I checked;) I love those kids, but I made a conscious choice to remain child free...

15. Nurse Resigns by Sending 'I Quit' Cake to Her Employer

    PACUpleeze replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    Was she supposed to not mention any of the things that were actually happening there and say that it was like working with rainbows and unicorns? That is not badmouthing, it's telling the truth...which ain't pretty.