I don't think it is legal to call oneself a "nurse" unless they are actually a licensed nurse, RN or LPN. Calling Yourself a Nurse Is a Crime, No Less In WA state it's pretty common unfortunately for MA's to do phone triage in clinics. It's consider...
IMHO, while the letter writer's language might be a little frustrated and harsh, I largely agree with him. I'm a female nurse. I'm more on the side he describes. I see, often, management applying the tactics of "divide and conquer" to their great adv...
"It was a terrible review, out of nowhere, with no suggestions for improvement. Stuff like 'you administer medications safely, but you struggle with iv starts sometimes, so you are not progressing as expected.' " This seems odd to me. "You struggle w...
Interesting how the term "essential employees" seems to be a mandate to treat employees badly and with absolute disrespect... such as sending a person home after they have made the effort to be there, not allowing bathroom breaks or meal breaks... un...
Wuzzie, agree with much of what you say, but disagree in that I find it appropriate that the oncoming nurse publicly humiliated the new nurse. What age are we, are we in grade school? I have worked with (many) nurses who get frustrated when we are un...
I think I would have been out after the HIV stick. Hope you are ok health-wise. In my opinion, most of the problems in healthcare are caused by bare-bones staffing as a way of doing business, by management that is willfully ignorant and concerned onl...
I agree, the stereotypes just need to die. Am a nurse and massage therapist, have been asked occasionally by morons if my massages have "happy endings" or similar type questions about nursing. But not often, thankfully. I just chalk it up to the deve...
Have you thought about dental hygiene? Or would you be able to work as an RN in oral surgery, is that what you meant? I have a friend who obtained ADN at age 60. She had a previous degree in an unrelated field. She landed a job (had 2 offers) in a sm...
This really is lovely and poignant, and for me, wistful, I guess. "That the days of not knowing your purpose are over." That, for me personally, is the part that made me feel wistful, sad. After 14 years as a nurse, I have not really felt that abou...
IMO she did the right thing, as the one responder mentioned, the hospital is quick to throw the individual nurses under the bus, often after staffing is inadequate and workflow too overwhelming for patient safety. Cripes, this kind of stuff can cause...
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Oh god.... I will be a different voice here, but I say LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE, get the hell out of dodge. It sounds absolutely awful. I would say it sounds like the Southeast, but I live actually in the (supposedly liberal) Pacific NW, and in our rural c...