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If you have a choice, then congrats!! Lately most people don't.

This is brilliant! Are there any down sides? Is there any feedback from the floors and specialists regarding overnight shifts?

I'm really thinking that all of these first time posters are the same person, even maybe the OP.

I found that I went through a period of "all patients are entitled drug seekers" but that fades away to something more tempered. I feel like compassion returns after a while. Naïveté? Of course...

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The other scenario I see a lot here is a disgruntled family member trying to get others to be equally righteously angry. Let me find a quick example and edit it in... Here. ...

On the unit? Which unit? That implies she's in a hospital. She would have been wheeled to the ER and treated. Other than that, I agree that yelling and screaming demands constitutes an adequate...

I thought about this and re-read the original post. The MD must have been called because they came to the floor after 30 min, which as we know is about the norm for a "please check this guy out"...

Is the other nurse new? Even if she wasn't, did she feel freaked out and sort of freeze up and hope it would get better on its own? Where I work, people jump in to help each other out. If someone...

I wish there was a LOVE TO DEATH button... hee hee We got t-shirts with hospital logo on it for "Nurses/employee Appreciation Day".

I love nights So MUCH! When my kids say "I have a thing at school, can you come?" the answer is always "yes!" (2 elementary kids, husband home at night and family is out during days.)

You beat me to it! I went looking for a comment section on the article to say exactly this. Also, article said this on the side panel: "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles charges...

Well that's just stupid. If anyone asks, just say so.

I sleep under a shady tree in a hammock in my back yard on nice days. It's unbelievably refreshing.

No, it's not your fault. Assessing and interventions are the nurse's job. Your job is to get and enter info and let the nurse know the family is concerned. When the family asked for a different...

Thanks guys. I'm not feeling as bad about it today. I'm definitely done with work parties, though.

I suggest to have a blank lab sticker on the back of their badge with frequently called extension #s (pharmacy, lab, CDU, radiology, whatever). Then I show them mine. :) Saves a LOT of time...

In work related situations I can be like iron and hold my ground very well, but in social situations I have a deep and serious phobia that I might put my foot in my mouth, for example company picnics...

Best: Being thanked by a previously critical patient. Worst: miscarriages and crying moms... then having to do the ppwork with them about it.

She is a nurse? Or medication trained aide? Then it is her own write up. At the time of the med error you need to show her the report protocols so she can tell the MD it happened and get orders. ...

I agree with netglow and pedilove. I don't volunteer, but I don't lie about it either. I always cringe when people ask where I work because I don't want to look at rashes or hear about their...

Try posting to the general nursing discussion or nurse manager board. You might get more answers...

Because I have faith in my fellow professionals. I'm sorry that you think so little of yours.

I stand by my statement. Any new nurse will occasionally get flustered when they have put their foot in her mouth. OP was laughing at her own foot-in-mouth moment.

I doubt you'll get an answer. Most people come here to be anonymous and vent about work.