Funny girl

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1. is anyone else stressed out?

   Funny girl replied to jrbl77's topic in General Nursing

   I have been an RN for 34 years. When I was a new grad I had time to give my patient's backrubs and actually get to know them when I worked Med/Surg. The downside was there were only 2 or 3 of us on evenings for a 12 bed ICU/CCU unit. Today I w...

2. You know you work nights when.......

   Funny girl replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

   When you are actually hungry at 1am.

3. 7000 fatal med errors last year-where are theses nurses?

   Funny girl replied to supportneeded's topic in General Nursing

   I almost made a lethal error when I first started working in ICU... This was back in the 70's. The RN's would give respiratory treatments with NS. I reached for a vial of NS, was called away and put the bottle down. Upon my absence someone picked ...

4. Wanting to make this nightmare get better

   Funny girl replied to tryingtomakeit's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I would definetely leave. I worked L&D for two years back in the 70's.....Show's how ancient I am. I left because of similiar staffing issues at that time. One week after I transferred to the OR a mother coded. There was only one RN on at the...

5. Holmes Regional in Melbourne

   Funny girl replied to Cerebrum's topic in Florida

   I get all my uniforms and shoes online. You can save a lot of money!

6. please vote--change career mid life?

   Funny girl replied to 2bNurseguru's topic in General Nursing

   :balloons: Gabbie you need to take a chill pill. Why do you assume she doesn't care for her patients or people in general? Do you initiate all your correspondence with " I love my patients and the whole world. So what if I get pooped, peeded, vomi...

7. Any Ocala, Florida nurses here??

   Funny girl replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in Florida

   :welcome: I live in the Leesburg area and work at The Villages Regional Hospital. It's a beautiful hospital;but, I can't say it's the best place to work. No attention is paid to acuity of the patients. We are always begging the pharmacy for...

8. Telephone Advice

   Funny girl replied to Funny girl's topic in Florida

   I was thinking of returning to home care if I could not find a phone advice/triage position in Florida. I was a home health case manager for several years. The very thought of working in a hospital turns me off...I would rather sell t shirts on the...

9. Quality/Length of Call

   Funny girl replied to kst's topic in Triage

   I have worked for three different call centers in northern california. we are also under pressure to cut the length of our calls to fit "the national standard." I am not sure who sets the standards but different call centers do additional things ov...

10. Quality/Length of Call

    Funny girl replied to kst's topic in Triage

    :angryfire :angryfire

11. Telephone Advice

    Funny girl posted a topic in Florida

    Moving to Central Florida... Can anyone tell me who employs telephone advice/triage nurses???? I am an Rn from California with 33 years experience... our advice center gives advice for Family Practive, pedi, IM, and Ob-gyn... I would like to continue...

12. Where are the advice nurse positions?

    Funny girl replied to NurseDeeb's topic in Triage

    In the SF Bay Area the largest employers of telephone/advice Triage nurses are Kaiser, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Children's Hospital in Oakland.