Bloodman

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1. Upsate on trouble-making co-worker

   Bloodman replied to 2shihtzus's topic in General Nursing

   I have worked both in teaching and in care-giving and have been victimized by gossip in both settings. It doesn't seem to matter how gifted one is intellectually or hard one works. I was often thought of as both, but there were co-workers in each set...

2. DON threatened the Nursing Staff - pending Dennis landfall

   Bloodman replied to pensacola_LPN's topic in Geriatric

   This is the problem in nursing to begin with. You have people too ignorant to realize when something is illegal. No one can force you to report to work 2, 3, or4 shifts in advance. Are they paying you for all that time? Probably not. Here's the solut...

3. Help with "Bait & Switch" tactics at new job

   Bloodman replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

   Your story is nothing new. Similar things happened to me also. They lied to me about the floor availability for jobs, and then wouldn't let me leave the cruddy floor I was on after a year even. Nursing is all about deception. Facilities deceiving the...

4. Dr. Phil today

   Bloodman replied to eak16's topic in General Nursing

   You guys are all hilarious. You're all mad at the cheating guy, but surely the mistress nurse knew all along that he was married. I worked the same shift for over three years and saw unmarried, pregnant nurses roaming the hallways (and using co-worke...

5. I was punched

   Bloodman replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

   This is one of the big jokes in nursing. Every facility I've worked in covers up employee incidents, so they don't have to pay workman's compensation, number one, and so they don't get publicity for the incident, number two. Facilities don't care abo...

6. Rude and crude RN

   Bloodman replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

   The main problem here was bashing this one guy's behavior to such a degree, when nursing is 95% made up of females. Most of the time I worked as a nurse, I heard inappropriate sex talk from females, always initiated by females, and always overlooked ...

7. Rude and crude RN

   Bloodman replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

   I think alot of people on this thread are over-reacting. The other side to this situation, besides females that harrass without consequences, is patients that grossly misperceive what male nurses are doing. I've merely walked into patient rooms simpl...

8. Rude and crude RN

   Bloodman replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

   I find it humorous that a male nurse is actually singled out to the degree spoken of here. 95% of nursing consists of females,yet I found many of them to be inappropriate over the years with absolutely no consequences. I've been inappropriately hugge...

9. Just got canned!!!

   Bloodman replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

   The bottom line in nursing is the bottom line. Administrators don't care about anything or anyone. Nursing will never change until laws are made or changed to protect nurses. The first thing that needs to happen is a national union. You have no power...

10. 12 hr shifts/8 hr shifts

    Bloodman replied to prunepie's topic in Career Support

    I would avoid bringing a doctor note either before or after you get hired. You simply get hired at a facility that does not impose overtime or mandatory shifts. I did this and it worked fine for me. I do believe they will secretly discriminate agains...

11. King/Drew nurses were ordered to lie and key drugs weren't given. Criminal inquiries

    Bloodman replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism

    It's outrageous that people on here are suggesting that nurses should leave and go somewhere else. This is exactly why nursing is the way it is. Everyone runs out the door to another job; because, nursing jobs are a dime a dozen. The problem here is ...

12. 12 hr shifts/8 hr shifts

    Bloodman replied to prunepie's topic in Career Support

    There are other things to consider that you're not thinking of prune. Don't work on a floor with 12 hour employees, if you are an 8; because, they will manipulate assignments into giving you the worst assignment patientwise. You will arrive for work ...

13. Fear of Med mistake preventing me from going into Nursing.....should it?

    Bloodman replied to wonderfulmom's topic in Career Support

    The only time you have to worry about med errors is if your facility doesn't like you. Then they'll use it as an excuse to get rid of you or write you up until you quit. Meanwhile, you'll see error after error committed by others that are covered up,...