Nurse_Wretched

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1. Stop the drama

   Nurse_Wretched replied to GitanoRN's topic in Relations

   I have a coworker who is a drama queen! She loves to pick on the weekend staff and tell us how everything is done better during the weekdays. LOL I walk away and do my job as it should be done. She has just been promoted to a managerial position. I w...

2. Nursing sucks

   Nurse_Wretched replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses have to do their job until the point at which they are satisfied and happy with themselves! Management will never be happy because their jobs suck far worse than any of ours. Be thankful you are a shift worker! My boss works 50+ hour weeks, ra...

3. New Grad with an interview at the prison

   Nurse_Wretched replied to olliesmommy1005's topic in Correctional

   Wow! Sounds like this job will be yours if you want it! I have profound respect for anyone who can be a cop and still love humanity at the end of the day... I've worked in so many different places and all of them were looking for technical skill as w...

4. In LTC as a float RN

   Nurse_Wretched replied to myviefolle07's topic in Geriatric

   The patients in LTC are being taken advantage of... Facilities repeatedly understaff and try to gloss over it when the families are around. They aren't fooling anyone. They like to try to guilt you into believing that: 1) You are the only one who has...

5. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

   Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

   Dayum! This weekend sucked! I don't know where to even begin... The entire schedule was an epic trainwreck! LOL I'll explain... Very few of my coworkers want to work weekends so several of them call off ALOT. I only work a few days a week and I am g...

6. What is your opinion on "For Profit Hospitals"

   Nurse_Wretched replied to Little Panda RN's topic in General Nursing

   I agree, Bklyn_RN. It's unethical. The for profit hospitals/medical facilities hold the nurses to the highest possible standards while taking the low road themselves... The ironic thing is that any nurse they have deemed as worthy is too good to work...

7. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

   Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

   Nursing homes often smell like barnyards! LOL When I worked in LTC I would put perfumed lotion under my nose at times. Haha. I still remember the 104 year old patient who stood up from her wheelchair during church service and exclaimed loudly (with a...

8. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

   Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

   Yeah. I worked a double on Christmas day 2011 + a double on New Year's Day 2012 + a double on my birthday 2012 after getting snowed in and stuck at work. After working a double on my b-day I got stranded at work and walked in the snow for an hour at ...

9. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

   Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

   Holiday weekend noc staff... Haha. Ya'll really know how to up the ante on that one! LOL

10. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

    Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

    I had a job like yours, JenLPN001... I loved it there! Everyone did everything. One day I made bkfst, lunch, and dinner for 50 people because the cook had gotten into a car accident. I charted, I passed meds, I talked to clients about anything and ev...

11. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

    Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

    It's always the nurse's fault... LOL Polio, the civil wars, Pompeii, Hurricane Katrina, sucky institutional food, rectal prolapse...blame the nurses! Muahahahahahahaha!

12. What is your opinion on "For Profit Hospitals"

    Nurse_Wretched replied to Little Panda RN's topic in General Nursing

    Mostly, though, I have worked for non-profits... And it hasn't always been heaven! Trust me on this one! Some of them constantly understaff and blame the nurses for it. I last for 7 months at one facility many years ago. They were supposedly an LTC b...

13. What is your opinion on "For Profit Hospitals"

    Nurse_Wretched replied to Little Panda RN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for a for profit LTC just after graduation... The care was sub-standard at best but I loved my job there! The patients were a unique bunch of folks. We had everything...drug addicts, prostitutes, young disabled folks, elderly patients, sever...

14. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

    Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

    Been there, done that...we do staff parties and all of that crap. Corporate pep rally meetings too. Eeeeeeewwwww. LOL All of that is fine and well but we need to staff correctly because it is a matter of patient care and that is why we are there! It'...

15. Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!

    Nurse_Wretched replied to Nurse_Wretched's topic in Relations

    And, yeah...I'd work more just for the heck of it if my job wasn't so taxing and abusive... I worked alot in my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd jobs. I loved my job then and it wasn't an issue. None of these jobs exist anymore. Too bad. I had a boss who I adored a...