ABitterPill

ABitterPill has 12 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg.

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1. Burned out already

   ABitterPill replied to LaceyRN12's topic in General Nursing

   I was burned out by the time I got out of school!!!!! LOL!! Find what you LOVE and be happy in what you're doing.

2. I quit my Home Health Nursing job!

   ABitterPill replied to pcbnurse's topic in Home Health

   Sounds similar to my experience with home health! You absolutely did the right thing. How long had you worked there?

3. Psychometric Verbal Reasoning Test

   ABitterPill replied to cm8816's topic in Career Support

   My question is why? How is your correct answer going to let them know whether you are right (or wrong) for the position? I'll have to do some research.

4. Gentiva Home Health Bremerton

   ABitterPill replied to RN250's topic in Career Support

   I'm not from that area but worked at Gentiva Home Health in my area for a month & a half. My experience was not a good one, everyone was nice enough but the orientation was horrible. I had no home health experience at all....my orientation was t...

5. Iphone Apps for Home Health

   ABitterPill replied to NursefromMarrs's topic in Home Health

   Thanks for the list of apps--very useful information!!

6. No clinicals RN-BSN program

   ABitterPill replied to StillsmilingRN's topic in Online Learning

   I was interested in WGU until I found out that they grade as pass or fail only, no GPA so if you are planning to continue on to say DNP and have to apply to another university, your classes will not be accepted..making all of your work a waste of tim...

7. Why do Critical Care nurses look down their noses at Med-Surg nurses?

   ABitterPill replied to marisatheresa's topic in Critical

   Just reading through this thread caused such anxiety in me from memories!!!! I could never understand why this was happening and it was something that drove me absolutely nuts! The ER nurses and the ICU nurses both act like they are sooo much more in...

8. "Difficult" Patients

   ABitterPill replied to Vespertinas's topic in Relations

   I agree, I always give a little more TLC to those that have given the prior shift a hard time, most anything to get me through my shift w/out incident and to make them happy. But there are those that are just miserable people and are determined to ma...

9. Night shift syndrome

   ABitterPill replied to SweetsRN522's topic in Stress 101

   I've worked night shift now for over ten years and all can tell you it is still not easy. Working 3 twelves is not easy and the older I get the more intolerable it all becomes. The best things I've found is to eat healthily (you can really pack on th...

10. "Difficult" Patients

    ABitterPill replied to Vespertinas's topic in Relations

    CodeTeamB: Do you have a "sane" nurse manager?! Cause, if we try the "scary nurse pants" thing on our floor and a patient or family member expresses the least little thing about it, we're reprimanded...leaving me to wonder, just how much abuse is a n...

11. Student Nurse Nightmare-Help!

    ABitterPill replied to RNFiona's topic in General Nursing

    I know this is an older thread but I have to put my two cents in on this and that is: It has been my experience with male student nurses and male RNs (with the exception on 1 over my 12 years of nursing) that they ALL act like they are the "big roos...