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  1. Why Can't Hospitals Offer Shifts Other Than 12 hr. 7 to 7?

    Twelve hour shifts are great when your in your 20's, 30's and maybe even your 40's if your lucky, but 50's and 60's----gets alittle tricky!!! When I was in my 20's and 30's I could work 5-12 hour shifts in a row with NO problems, now I'm getting clos...
  2. Nurses and smoking

    I just want to say that I really dont want to be a nurse anymore!!! For 20 yrs I have taken care of my patients with intelligence, compassion* and have always been nonjudgmental * as I was taught in school!!! How in the ---- do all of you call yourse...
  3. Night Nurses: Why Do You Work Nights?

    I work nights for a different reason. I dont really like having to turn my clock upside down most of the time but the people on my night shift make it worth it. Coworkers on days drove me crazy, really dumped on me. I actually went to nights per my r...
  4. Total Knee Surgery

    I'm med surg nurse and here's what will happen. When you come back from surgery to the floor you will either A) be relatively pain free for a while or B) yu will be in alot of pain and doc will either order pain meds such as darvocet, vicodin or dem...
  5. recent colonoscopy experience

    Please ask for diprivan for sedation. It burns like wildfire going in but the instant it hits your out. Personal experience talking. I awoke and felt like I had taken the best nap of my life. Was not groggy or anything. No discomfort whatsoever and ...
  6. dysfunctional management and workplace politics

    Our administrator owns his own airplane and between a 250-400,000 dollar home!! Yet I was once told that his definition of working "short" would be different from mine! Let's have a "call in the administrator night" !!!??? What do ya say? Sounds like...
  7. Advice For The New Nurse Entering Med-Surg

    First of all--keep calm. Dont let yourself get overwhelmed. Med-surg is just that, med-surg. Alot of information to gather and learn. You will experience patients with a wide variety of problems and scopes of health issues and post ops. Possibly may...
  8. I'm a nurse on a busy med-surg floor. Last night we started out with 15 patients and 3 nurses. Not to bad, so far... 1-RN 2-LPN's, 1 lots of experience, the other almost nill. RN used to be the asst. DON, not real used to working back on the floor...
  9. If you can show me a program where I could get my RN in "6 little months" I will jump on it!!! The accelerated LPN program here is one year after you get your prereq's, no breaks, a full year. I work nights 7p-7a fri, sat and mon. I have talked to my...
  10. I'm not bashing anyone's degree... Just because your a BSN doesn't make you a good BSN or just because your a LPN doesn't make you a good nurse or if your a RN doesn't make you a good RN!! There are exceptions within our profession and it needs to be...
  11. Hello everyone! I'm new to this forum but am a 20 year LPN. I work in a small rural hospital on med-surg. I have worked in OB also. During my tenure, I have taught new RN's just about everything. Why does the nursing profession fail to see that what ...