metowe

metowe

Member
  • Content

    15
  • Visitors

    1,142
  • Followers

    0

About metowe

Latest Activity

  1. When you ask that question, I wonder what motivated you to start this web site Brian? If you had to, would you go back to the frontline? Many, many, many Nurses state they could not and would not. So no All Nurse has not made me a better Nurse. It ha...
  2. Ok guys. Does anyone ever consider who mandates all the charting and locks on every door and drawer imaginable. Morse Falls, Braden and Insulin Administration. The Joint Commission does. No one challenges their mandates or question their authority. (...
  3. Why is no one documenting how bad it is on the fronline? You being a consumate realist obviously sees the truth behind this situation. Once people have alleviated the stress from their own life (ie. changing positions) they no longer view the problem...
  4. What is being said over and over again in different ways. Is.......you have to at least have a BSN to get out of the Mosh Pitt of back breaking work and mental fatigue. All our new graduate Nurses (BSN and Associate degree) are being thrown into the ...
  5. Your story of how you feel after a 12 plus hour shift is exactly how millions of other Nurses feel. My husband gets it now, but it took 10 years of marriage and the publication of my frustrations for him to get it. The only way to survive is not care...
  6. The reality is, no one knows the stress bedside care givers go through except the person experiencing it. Had you known what the 'job' was really going to be like you may have chosen differently. Now the reality is; what else are you going to do? All...
  7. ICU nurses attitude toward med-surg nurses

    I disagree with meandragonbrett, one of the reasons for the shortage is Nurses are treating each other disrespectfully on a regular basis so 'just letting it roll off your shoulder' technique is never going to improve the current work environment. Nu...
  8. ICU nurses attitude toward med-surg nurses

    I float to all floors in the hosptal ICU, Med Surg, and some whacky post ER holding depo. You all speak truth.......It is about mutual respect. I have seen a ICU nurse brow beat a med surg nurse expecting him to have ICU information. I've also experi...
  9. Ten Things I Love About Nursing

    I met a NP that was active in the Nurse empowerment Washington march in 1995. This Nurse quotes "I would work as a restaurant server before I would ever go back to the bedside". I hear quotes that parrallel this "I miss the hands on care but could ne...
  10. Ten Things I Love About Nursing

    Impetus to change is limited by the current social stucture. What needs to change is the enumerable policies, paper work and work flow processes added in the name of safety. http://www.centerforajustsociety.org/press/forum.asp?cjsForumID=1134&nav...
  11. Ten Things I Love About Nursing

    Both the quotes at the end of your blog are a testimony of your continued attempt to do the right thing if not just for your patients. Your conscience is clear and you forge foward. I realize there comes a time in ones life we must choose our battles...
  12. Ten Things I Love About Nursing

    All the things that are posted about 'what one loves' is correct. The things that Nurses 'hate' about the profession is never dealt with on the professional level hence no action plan. Talking about a problem for which one can see no hope of fixing, ...
  13. Nursing, is it really that horrible of a job?

    What remains unseen is the reasons people view 'caring' to much as a detriment. Because I care to much I found myself continually frustrated and angry. When I searched for the reasons behind my own dissatisfaction I initially was at a lost. I wrote a...
  14. Nursing, is it really that horrible of a job?

    Nursing has a way of refining a human beings character. The true nature is seen when pressed on all sides. People are leaving the bedside due to the things you mentioned. The reasons written about the shortage are not the reasons people leave daily a...