LilyBlue

LilyBlue

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LilyBlue has 10 years experience.


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  1. Do new graduates RN's get ,easier patients?

    Nope. In my world, they dumped the harder patients all on me because I didn't know any better. I would wonder why I was running around like a headless chicken while my coworker sat there doing crossword puzzles and occasionally smirking at me.
  2. Just need to vent about my exasperating coworker.

    She sounds unstable. Slippers to work? I would definitely have a convo with the nurse manager.
  3. Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

    I definitely think it reflects badly upon a professional (any professional) if they consistently mispronounce words. It's irritating to people, number one, so they get a fingernails on the blackboard type feeling, regardless if that is an appropriate...
  4. Drying up breast milk

    Those shots etc are not done anymore. When your milk comes in, avoid breast stimulation as much as possible. If you get uncomfortably full, hand express a tiny bit to comfort. do not hand express so much that your breast becomes soft - this will ecno...
  5. Patient Satisfaction: Where Does it Start?

    I don't know, but I am completely sick of hearing about patient satisfaction and having management lay it on MY shoulders. If management was truly concerned about patient satisfaction, they'd have a lower ration than 1 nurse to nine patients. They ju...
  6. In answer to you original question - a government that values big corporations over healthcare for every citizen.
  7. What do you love most about nursing?

    I have four days off a week!!! :)
  8. Is Toradol still used after a C section?

    I was given Toradol when I had a 6 mm stone blocking my ureter and causing hydronephrosis, and it helped tremendously until I could get lithotripsy. They gave me Dilaudid prior to that, and it made me feel so loopy, and so nauseated, that the pain of...
  9. RN's are getting burnt out why?

    I have the same hope...with more men coming into the field, I think benefits will start getting better. We also "get called off when not busy" (read: when there would be "only" 5 or so patients a nurse with every nurse there) and we have to take our...
  10. Holy cow, I am so sorry. If I had ANY other income I would seriously tell you you could have my job...bad as my job is. I'm so saddened that we desperately need nurses yet no place is hiring! What in the world is wrong with this country?
  11. Anyone else tired of this?

    There is ZERO recession proof job. If an economy completely collapses (as other countries have experienced) you might have a job but that doesn't mean you'll get paid.
  12. Nurses working harder than doctors?

    I will admit I definitely have no love-fest with most doctors. My hospital seems to foster an environment that encourages physicians to treat nurses poorly (or at least tolerate it well). Many nurses who come to my hospital from different areas can't...
  13. Nurses working harder than doctors?

    I am the first to admit I don't understand the ends and outs of being a physician, and I greatly respect them and know they are incredibly driven and work hard. That being said, I sometimes feel that they rarely if ever put themselves in the nurse's ...
  14. Nurses working harder than doctors?

    I don't know about whose job is harder, but I know that ours is more tedious. If the doctors had to be the one to get every diet coke, take every menial complaint, and talk to the families everytime they have a question, along with wiping every patie...
  15. help, short staffed, at wits end

    Hmmm. Sounds like your husband is more concerned with you bringing home the bacon than being supported. That's an entirely separate issue but I can tell you that will not improve, either. I'm sorry you re going through this.