PintheD

PintheD has 15 years experience.

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1. Terminated from first nursing job!

   PintheD replied to ILNurse728's topic in General Nursing

   I don't have any advice for you. Just want to say I am sorry that this has been your experience. Keep your head up! Any wise COB's have any advice for our fellow nurse?

2. How can I make an impact in healthcare?

   PintheD replied to mintkiss's topic in Activism

   Study Healthcare Policy. A nursing degree would not be the most advantageous for your goals.

3. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

   PintheD replied to Polly Peptide's topic in NP Students

   CNA as your only clinical experience to an advanced nursing degree? Reputable program? Who is going to hire you? I am afraid for your patients. Im afraid to get old.

4. Nursing: The Highly Skilled Customer Service Representative

   PintheD replied to gleanns's topic in General Nursing

   I walked away from the bedside in 2011 after coming to the realization that this insufferable Patient Satisfaction nonsense wasn't going away. After fourteen years as an ICU nurse from New York to San Francisco I had learned a thing or two. All tha...

5. Nursing: The Highly Skilled Customer Service Representative

   PintheD replied to gleanns's topic in General Nursing

   Not surprised at all, OP, to read that you are a Nursing Director. I knew that before I finished your post. How? Your voice is so out of touch with a nurses reality. The disconnect hurts my head.

6. Nursing as a second career

   PintheD replied to katieike's topic in General Nursing

   I am a second degree/second career nurse. Next year it will be 20 years since I graduated from nursing school, seventeen of which were spent at the bedside. I wish I could get those years back. Nursing crushed me emotionally and has practically de...

7. Is it me? What happened to nursing?

   PintheD replied to Burlshoe114's topic in Professionalism

   I have seen the same. Enough of being treated like a naughty child while shouldering the huge responsibility of fellow human beings' welfare. How did this happen? The current acceptable treatment of nurses in the US is healthcare's dirty little se...

8. Ch, ch, ch, ch... changes. What are your long term goals?

   PintheD replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

   I, for one, am interested in the original topic of this thread. Guttercat took the time to start this thread with the intention of having a discussion regarding nurses' goals in light of changes in nursing. It seems things have been derailed here. ...

9. Ch, ch, ch, ch... changes. What are your long term goals?

   PintheD replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

   Guttercat I couldn't agree with you more. The landscape is changing before our eyes. Very soon we are going to pay the cost of not having a unified voice. Dana Beth Weinberg wrote Codegreen in 2003, a very fine study on what she labeled the "dism...

10. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of patients suffer from "comprehension" issues. Could be the stress of illness or could be a general inability to process information. The trouble (clearly stated in my post) stemmed from me sharing with a patient what the MD should have explai...

11. Nervous

    PintheD replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations!!

12. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    No interest. I'm done, totally defeated. It's been a long time coming, now I am a nursing cautionary tale. I'm going to concentrate my energy on finding a job outside of the hospital and ideally out of nursing altogether. Sorry everyone for spewing...

13. Peri Cares

    PintheD replied to jlenamae's topic in Student Assist

    Why do you teach them this? In the real world I have never seen this done and we were taught the same nonsense in nursing school. I'm not going to waste time fiddling around with a poop filled washcloth - it's disgusting, unnecessary, and a colossa...

14. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, Altra, I read the first sentence of your reply and started feeling all warm and fuzzy. Then I read the paragragh that followed... Why are you offended by my mindset in approaching my job? Are you a bedside nurse? Specifically do you work med/s...

15. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    "It just makes me cringe to hear someone say that they will stop communicating and reduce him/herself to a task monkey." - ALTRA AllNurses GUIDE Monkey? Who said anything about being a monkey? Oh, you did. The cheerleader for communication is a n...