KenH

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1. Resigning after 3 months

   KenH replied to sarah620's topic in General Nursing

   Do not give up, If Your manager and co-workers believe in and like you that is 75% of the battle. Two jobs in two years you may not have transitioned from being a student to professional Nurse, it takes time. Give yourself a break you can do it. Try ...

2. Would you report possible diversion?

   KenH replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think I have ever personally heard or heard of second hand that any nurse was glad, happy, relieved at being caught and didn't mind the personal, professional and financial cost at the time and after they were caught. As you say you forced t...

3. Would you report possible diversion?

   KenH replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   Most if not all of these nurses that are diverting narcotics see themselves as VICTIMS when they get caught and have to face the consequences of their actions. These Nurses are TORTURING their patients, If you don't report them, you are complicit in ...

4. The film: Vaxxed.

   KenH replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

   Even in the modern world some of us live in, Medicine is still practiced, YES Practiced, people want guarantees, perfection, every drug, every procedure, every vaccine, every day there are negative side effects to life. I remember in one of my pharm...

5. My Burnout Story

   KenH replied to jk2185's topic in Stress 101

   We all need a healthy way of coping, or a unhealthy one will find you. Sounds like you never developed a professional persona, no one can handle daily personal death and suffering without it breaking you. somethings have to be kept at arms length. Yo...

6. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

   KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

   I think you should start a new thread, please copy and paste our conversation ,all of it and let's see how that turns out for you. Would you feel I was harassing you if I did.I think it would be better if you did.

7. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

   KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

   I would disagree with your statement, there are many people who choose to risk life and health for other people Nurses, EMT,Paramedics, Police,Fire fighters ect ect Some times There are penalties for our actions, some times we feel it's not fair, ok...

8. Separate being Family vs Nurse

   KenH replied to Mommy_RN1211's topic in General Nursing

   Mommy_RN1211 There are many different levels of frustration you are and will continue to go through. As a family went through this recently with a family member, It got to the point that it was all consuming and effected relationships within the fam...

9. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

   KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

   ActualNurse ,The more you post, you are turning into a specific Nursing Caricature. I can only see you by the words you post; it is hard to gauge people on what they write because we all tend to read our own interpretations into other people's words....

10. Separate being Family vs Nurse

    KenH replied to Mommy_RN1211's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to say this, but there is no way you can be objective about the care of your father. As a new nurse you know too much and don't know what you don't know. The only way your father will get the care you think he needs is to take him home and care...

11. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

    KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

    Yes we all know that the smartest Nurses are the ones who had the highest GPA in collage and are the creme de la creme of the nursing universe , as far as taking someone's license,that's right up there with making someone non rehirable, hmm Respect. ...

12. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

    KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

    :)This has totally gone off the rails.:) I believe that Nurses are held to a higher standard and being a Nurse is a privilege, and with that privilege comes personal responsibility. When YOU accept employment ,you are entering into a personal contrac...

13. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

    KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

    I was just thinking that communicable illness” is very ambiguous at best, How many nurses would be left to work if all the nurses stayed home with a cold sore, common cold, MRSA, C-Dif ,thrush, let alone the chronic Illness's Hep's a-z, through H...

14. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

    KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

    I Really think you should rethink your communicable illness” thought process, nurses work every day with and around co-workers, public, patients with communicable illness. As far as personal job choices, everyone is responsible for their own choice...

15. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

    KenH replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

    For every job I have gotten, I had to sign an offer letter of acceptance, and go through orientation and sign off on the policy and procedure book, I not sure why everyone is so surprised,Some jobs require working any day or shifts, others job don't....