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1. Does anyone else have the everlasting cold?

   confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

   I know this board can not offer advice. My nursing unit that I work on as an RN has had many staff members have this virus. I was wondering if it is crossing state lines and things. Sometimes these illnesses crop up in other places. I was just cu...

2. Does anyone else have the everlasting cold?

   confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

   Allergies? Are you kidding me? Fever, cough, thick sputum and all most everyone on my unit has it. Thank you, but no thank you for the "allergies" advice.

3. Does anyone else have the everlasting cold?

   confused101 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello all! My unit has this cold thing that starts out as a upper respiratory thing then it lands in your lungs with think yellow sputum. I'm talking chunky. My whole unit has got it and this is the 2nd day I have called off. I didn't call off f...

4. Patients that are hospitalized because of a dare...

   confused101 replied to NsgChica's topic in General Nursing

   On our floor we took care of a pt. that had to go to surgery to get something taken off of his penis because of a dare. The pictures were quite interesting. It took another look at plumbing that week.

5. Why no nursing love from Grey's?

   confused101 replied to thisgirlsanurse's topic in General Nursing

   I thought the very same thing. I do watch the show and also yell at the TV when it is so obvious. I HATE it when they mispronounce something. Sometimes it is so simple! I know what is real so I try to nevermind it. Just like movies, no one can j...

6. How to start a work diary

   confused101 replied to cinja's topic in General Nursing

   I did a work diary my first year of nursing. I put down room numbers and some details like couldn't get a iv or whatever. Never names and enough vagueness that you might know, but no one else. I still do it, but not as much as I should. I think i...

7. An answer to them calling everyday!

   confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

   Agency comes and goes. At one time no agency and last month they had to let one come in for hours. Float pool is on our floor alot. I know most of them by name and face.

8. An answer to them calling everyday!

   confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

   Sometimes they will switch some days around such as work today and have Saturday off or whatever. It will be a stretch for incentive pay which is $10.00 roughly on top of your hourly pay. The new schedule is coming out and I hope that it isn't as b...

9. An answer to them calling everyday!

   confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think you understand. I do say NO everytime. I was trying to get a solution to help with this system. That is all. Thank you for some things that help you in your hospital.

10. An answer to them calling everyday!

    confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    Amen!

11. An answer to them calling everyday!

    confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    Not enough people scheduled! Sometimes people are sick, but usually that is covered by the house r/t short time period. Sometimes they are good about calling in the morning for night shift, but the other day it was two hours. Most of the time us n...

12. An answer to them calling everyday!

    confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I tell them no all the time. I have not gone in once in several months. I like the solution about the available days and calling 5am or 5pm. Something has got to give.

13. An answer to them calling everyday!

    confused101 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello fellow nurses, I love the people I work with and my floor that I work on now. I work three 12's a week. Lately I have been scheduling them three in a row. A handful of us do the same thing on this floor. I have been off for 6 days due to...

14. Hershey's Chocolate moving to Mexico affects all ER nurses

    confused101 replied to ffearme12's topic in Activism

    I'm boycotting Hershey's now! My money can go to someone else that makes better chocolate.

15. "Love notes" reappear in a staff meeting

    confused101 replied to confused101's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all. I thought this can't be the only person who does this. I mentioned it to some of the people who where there are one of them said, oh yeah so and so had one. It's amazing. I didn't get good sleep r/t to some of that stuff. I'm dead...