Interesting post. I, too, have been told I was "not a good fit." Can anyone define ?? And WHY, (please WHY) would anyone want to be a ("nurse") notwithstanding my 33 years in this "profession". ? Need I "roll over","sit", "fetch". Oh yeah, it's YOUR,...
jelptex replied to Scarlette Wings's topic in General Nursing
Gotta love the old "black&white". Worked everytime. Easy, cheap, effective. Banned by endoscopists though !! (NEVER turn your back on someone with a "scope) !!
jelptex replied to Scarlette Wings's topic in General Nursing
I remember starched white uniforms, backrubs, fresh ice water, cookies& flowers at the nursing station, AND.... Please and Thank you were common in the patients' lexicon. Along those lines...I never could spell very well. Wrote "hospital" instead...
jUST, exactly, WHAT IS A NURSE? ASK THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Your petty egos and inflated sense of SELF denigrate the profession. Been "in it" too long...and have my share of misery, to let this triviality go unanswered.!
jelptex replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations
Interesting comment. Perhaps it could be expanded to include "nurse managers", nursing directors, nurse administrators, nurse "educators" and ALL of their non-clinical ilk. At the risk of "flaming" from my non-clinical colleagues... BEEN THERE LATELY...
jelptex replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations
"role model"? Since when is one's choices (even if deleterious to oneself) considered a factor in job performance? Especially if it does not impact in any way one's performance. Hypocrisy (me:NO) Pontificating (you:yes)
jelptex replied to ladybugsea's topic in Massachusetts
"Frowned upon...?" Why should a licensed, experienced, RN NOT be allowed to work as a CNA? In a tight labor market, perhaps this represents a realistic (though undesirable) choice. MD=RN=LVN=CNA. What "qualifies a CNA" when someone with more experien...
be verry, verry careful. fear rules the employment marketplace. retribution rules "management". it's a minefield out there. tread lightly, or boom ! (unemployed via principle) ...
Hi !! Just got home after the most ridiculous assignment of my (33 year) career. As an agency nurse, I accepted an assignment at at local nursing home (night shift). Bottom line --- 58 patients (that's right 58 !!) on my floor. Only RN in the facilit...
Why do we do this? After 33 years as an RN, I humbled, disaffected. discouraged, ... Running out of "dis" word It's a J.O.B. I have become the very person that I've despised in my career... Wouldn't give a plug nickel for the "newbies".