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To the fellow healthcare workers: Treat each other with dignity and respect. Thank each other. Recognize each other. Why do we need a week or a day at all? I LOVE LOVE LOVE this article....

Hey would you please go a little deeper into your last paragraph, dirtyhippiegirl? I am very interested in some deeper thought and clarification of this as I believe I know what you are saying and I...

Well a lot of bad writing, poor use of punctuation, poor word usage, misspellings, and ignorance about how to use a homonym/homophone, etc, etc come from the dumbing down of primary education in the...

Yep and another overused word is "actually"....sheesh!!!

PROUD2BANLPN, Learn how to be uplifting and supportive to a fellow human being instead of kicking someone when they're down. People like you are also out there in the workplace and thus not...

This posting should be sent to ACHA, AHRQ, TJC, all 50 state capitals, local congressmen/women, Wash. DC, CMS, and every other healthcare regulating agency in the books....

However, watch out for the devil in the details....

I also would have never spoken to anyone who is employed by that MD other than in a professional manner. Please do not 'admonish' the OP on this point as she already explained her reaction to...

The article was very good. I am very empathic to the plights of the addicted and treat ALL of my patients the same regardless of my feelings about how they are doing damage to their gift of life. I...

Thank you, neverbethesame....

Please do not use the word "all". Thank you.

You cannot and should not use the absolute word "everybody". Thank you.

No one is belittling your placement. Truth is not the same as belittling. Why do you think that? And why do you not have a choice/consider yourself powerless to do the best thing for you - in the...

Hi! I am not sure why you are doing a preceptorship from LPN to RN in an OP wound care clinic. Normally, this is done on a medical/surgical unit in order to give you a solid foundation for...

I correct fellow nurses and doctors quite a bit when they are talking about something grossly outlandish that they know nothing about, have not kept up with current practice, or are just plain wrong...

NO TEGADERM. NO TELFA. NO ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENTS (skin tears do not tend to be or to get infected, why add abx??!). NO other adherent dressings. Keep it simple for the simple skin tears (most of the...

Letters like this one should go to State, CMS, AHCA, TJC, and all those other regulatory agencies we know and love so that they can start fixing this mess and do the right thing. SMH.

That would be "faze", not phase. lol

I don't think that you "stair-stepped" at all! Any and all jobs and life experience fits into being a nurse, and how you travelled your path does not matter; matter of fact, you have been enriched....

Living beyond your means is a poor choice. Having children that you cannot afford is a poor choice. I do not like paying for other people's poor choices when I did not make poor choices. Thank you...

Then don't use "over the top prose" or be so dramatic!!

Candy stripper? WHOA! How about candy striper? Ya. Better.

Oh and as I go along and read more comments like the ones from who I already thanked...I want to thank you all too. I say "ENOUGH" to abusive, bully, and vicious behaviors in nursing.

Hey RyanCarolinaBoy, Squatmunkie brings up some excellent points and has an opinion (just like YOU have an opinion); therefore, there is NO reason for you to "hate on" Squatmunkie! Do you realize...

OMG, MotherRN, i cried when I read your posting. I can relate, but with "different" stories. So wrong. Thanks for getting it out here; i am one of the few who listen and understand. I really still...