As one who has been a nurse for a long time and have been a manager, I've had this happen more then once. One time in particular was a nurse whom I actually fired for creating a hostile work envirement. She used me as a reference without checking wit...
Excellent topic, thank you for bringing it up.
I'm 57 years old, single, and have been giving this much thought this past year. I would love to retire. right.now. but realistically can't afford to. I am single and did not start preparing/savin...
Yes! I feel this way about bedside nursing too. I've been a nurse since 1995. The beautiful thing about nursing is there are soooo many different jobs we can do. I've done acute care in different areas. I'm good at it, but to be honest, I've alway...
When I worked the floor, I always answered the calls/texts or called them back. If I didn't want to work I told them "No, thank you for asking though". No excuses, no reasons, just a polite and firm no. If they try to badger, just rinse and repeat ...
I completely disagree with the notion of just putting up with her behavior. We need to get away from allowing nurses to eat their young. We need to get away from turning a blind eye to bullies. That behavior is simply not OK. It is not OK in the ...
My recommendation would be to buy a home near your husband's work in the less expensive area.
There are so many nurse jobs, maybe you can get another job closer to your new home.
I have done long commutes before. For me, it depended on the...
familychick replied to MickeyJ's topic in Career Support
Just in case you are not able to read that PM I will give you my contact info here at work. I am the Supervisory Clinical Nurse (Unit Manager) of the inpatient pediatric unit at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, NM. This is an IHS facility...
familychick replied to MickeyJ's topic in Career Support
Hi MickeyJ, Shiprock is a town on the reservation. I live near the reservation, not in it. The little city where I live seems to be family friendly with lots of activities. I just moved from one town to another a couple of weeks ago and really lik...
familychick replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing
Well, personally I don't drink or smoke (now that is just plan stupid) or do any type of narcotic, but only because I don't like the feeling. I do not understand why it would do any harm in smoking a little as long as it is out of the system prior t...
familychick replied to NEnglish's topic in Job Hunt
That sounds like a rough way to grow the much needed tough skin of a nurse. The reason you gave sounds very reasonable to me. I have been in management and in charge of hiring (and firing). I would not have batted an eye at that. Honestly many fa...