When I was 27 years old, and several months into being a new grad I enrolled in the CANDO school of hard knocks (Chemically Addicted Nurses Diversion Option, although now it is called Alternative To...
I had also married a narcissist, and he gradually controlled every aspect of my life. As a new grad if I came home late from work due to the myriad of things that can happen in bedside nursing (a...
I have an autoimmune disease and I am pharmacologically immunosuppressed to help keep my symptoms under control, so I have an unbreakable no touching rule. I don't shake hands, I don't hug outside of...
3ringnursing replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing
Boy do I know a few that fit neatly into all of those categories and never got what they deserved back in the day. Glad to know many are now being held accountable for letting their ego monsters out...
3ringnursing replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing
It WAS pretty funny. As I tend to be rather childish in my humor too I made a mental note of what constitutes a toe nearing the line, and actually running past the line. He was a really nice guy and a...
3ringnursing replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing
Excessive pranks. I knew a really nice, funny guy who was an RN on the cardiac floor of a small, sinking hospital I worked at about 20 years ago - he was always doing outrageous things just for a...
3ringnursing replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News
Some people are very disturbed privately and are adept in hiding it for a length of time - it just flies under the radar it until their weird comes exploding out of the closet in full spectrum...
3ringnursing replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing
I work with a gentleman who calls in often with "a touch of something" . Hmmm ... that sounds legitimate. The rest of us don't look forward to be pounded into the dirt the numerous times this happens,...
I never said I was "young and pretty", but I will readily admit I had been young (then) and very clinically inexperienced. What I actually said: "She hated that I had the ability to assign...
I believe many of us may have experienced feeling uncomfortable, or in some way emotionally threatened in various degrees in the work place at one time or another. Does it qualify as bullying to...
OMG. Girl, welcome to nursing - under appreciated and at times psychologically abusive ("Thank you sir, may I have another?" - if you have no idea what this means watch the movie Animal House). No,...
3ringnursing replied to JustMe567's topic in General Nursing
I was approaching 30 during nursing school and had no children yet, so I timed my pregnancy to be able to deliver after graduation. My EGA was approximately 7 months when I graduated, and I was 2...