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1. How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

   giveface replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Relations

   I think for me the frustration comes in where it is well known that a certain nurse (be it either category) is very lazy, the nurse manager is well aware and anything documented just falls on deaf ears.

2. Highest nursing burnout areas?

   giveface replied to magn1jes's topic in General Nursing

   I think every practice area has its pros and cons, some more cons than others, obviously. I've done med/surg and psych. I have to say that med/surg workload was just not feasible and it burned me out after not too long. But psych also has its chal...

3. How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

   giveface replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Relations

   I am the charge nurse responsible for a busy unit with a team model and I encounter this on almost a daily basis, as do many of the other RNs in charge. It really disgusts me how SOME of the LPN staff members can be so lazy and be grudge me because ...

4. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

   giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Relations

   I've worked with both female and male borderline PDs. Some of the females have been abused, but same are highly intelligent and in my opinion strongly embrace "the sick role" and don't seem to be willing to function outside hospital even though in m...

5. Well just the other day I posted careeer suicide......

   giveface replied to Ernurse2012's topic in Emergency

   That's crazy/funny, "Have you paid all your state taxes?" What on Earth does that have to do with one's eligibility to be a licensed nurse (provided there are no related criminal charges steming from same)? I am in Canada and that is pretty much th...

6. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

   giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Relations

   That is so true. Obese patients get most upset over dietary restrictions as inpatients, not medical or nursing care. Of course, obese patients still deserve excellent care. I had to deal with insulin gtts once, OMG! so complicated. It was for a alc...

7. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

   giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Relations

   Honey, if the shoe fits, wear it. Lol. And, it is a statistical fact that I think 75% of borderline PD diagnoses are in fact female, possibly higher.

8. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

   giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Relations

   Hearing a clang at 6AM to walk down and investigate only to find a 70-year-old psychogeriatric woman squating and forcfully urinating into a large stainless steel wash basin, filling it to the brim while white knuckling her walker, and when you ask w...

9. Please quit wasting my time: Interview Advice from Hiring Manager

   giveface replied to Teacher Sue's topic in Job Hunt

   Ditto. I lasted 8 months at my first job and just couldn't tough it out any longer: too unsafe and too disrespected!

10. Nurses: Oppression Can Stop With You

    giveface replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

    I for one am totally sick of the in-fighting. I am a male and have been a licensed RN for over a year now and although the working conditions (work load) was intolerable at my first job, my current is intolerable due to the nurses tearing each other...

11. So Down, Any Career Advice?

    giveface posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi All,Here I am again. I've been a licensed RN, BScN here in Canada for a little over a year. My first job right after graduation was an 8 month stint in a small medical/surgical unit, dangerously understaffed with no support workers and a large p...

12. End of shift blessings

    giveface replied to Brian's topic in Rock

    Enough said! I can't stand this lollipops and rainbows should be spewing out of our mouths mentality that so many nurses seem to have. Ours is a tough profession and it takes a big person to resist the overwhelming urge to correct people's unruly beh...

13. What is the point of becoming a nurse?!

    giveface replied to newRN121's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I don't know why so many of the responses here are reeking of the need to give the OP a "reality check". The OP is stating that she/he has fears about entering the nurse labour market, that's okay! You were there once too. Nursing isn't a guarante...

14. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Professionalism

    I disagree and feel that it is being nosy, stirring up trouble and spying. As I stated earlier, unless I am posting privleged info (which I never do), than what photos I choose to put up, or what political or ideological whatevers on my profile are ...

15. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Professionalism

    M point is only that why should you have to make and maintain two separate facebook accounts (second one under a pseudonym), simply to enable this misguided concept that employers have the right to spy on us in our personal lives, they don't have tha...