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  1. Nursing blues.. :/

    I too have had this same experience, I am in medsurg, and many days I feel as though I will not survive until I become "mean". I feel like when you are nice you are taken advantage of. I hope you find a supportive place to work for in the future, and...
  2. Please help a student nurse

    Yes, play nice with others. One of the most shocking things that I have learned is that nurses do not support each other like they should, and until we do, we will not be able to advance like we want to.
  3. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    The law states that the employer has the right to offer the mask option, and mine does not. The point I am trying to get across is just because you get the flu shot it does not mean the patients are protected. It is not 100% effective. if they did no...
  4. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    It is not the matter of getting the flu shot. It is the false belief that it is 100% effective.
  5. Casting Nurses for the Walking Dead

    LOL
  6. I am in Texas, and we have a lot of new grads from California here because the unemployment rate is so high there. Right now, we are way overstaffed too. I don't know where this nursing shortage is that they keep reporting. Maybe the patients think t...
  7. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    And I think they are using the same strains this year that they have the past three, and they were the wrong strains the previous two years
  8. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    That is both sad and scary. I heard something similar from a pharmacist also. And that same pharmacist shared the same frustration with me about the 100% immunity myth.
  9. Would you become an RN again if you had the choice?

    Well stated!
  10. Clinical awakening

    That was an awesome story. Brought me back to nursing school, and the frustrations. But also reminds me why I love being a nurse. Thank You
  11. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    What people seem to forget is that even though you get a flu vaccine, it IS NOT 100% that you will not get, or pass on the flu. They have to predict and pick the CORRECT strains! That is so frustrating to me that people think, and teach, that the flu...
  12. What color do you wear?

    At the hospital I am at, it depends on the position. We wear navy blue (RN), LVNs royal blue, telemetry red, and on and on. I think this is much easier on everyone so they can easily recognize who is who.
  13. New RN in med/surg internship

    I think this is very normal! It also depends on how busy the unit is, how it is laid out, and how good your resources are. There are nights when we are all running way behind on meds and everything else, and this includes awesome nurse that have year...
  14. What is your nurse-patient ratio?

    I work on a medical/surgical floor, and the hospital has no step down/progressive unit (that is us too). We have 38 beds, and 5-6 patients per RN on days and nights (because it is just as busy on nights on my floor!). But, on days they have 3-4 CNA'...
  15. "You look tired"

    It annoys me when they add in the " I didn't think you guys were so busy here, especially on nights." I have actually had a patient say "they run you here like scalded dogs"