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Yes, I had a nursing instructor ask me "how would you like a nurse like you taking care of your mother"? Exact words and will never forget them. I am a thorough, caring, and compassionate nurse of...

We have peer reviews where I work and I don't believe they effect our raises. The first year I was a nurse I had a nurse of 30 years write on my evaluation that I looked up too many things. Then I...

I don't know who determines these "safe nurse to patient ratios" but I hope the people that do never end up being cared for under such terrible conditions. I love your words of "compassion is not...

Hi all, There is an opening at my hospital for an oncology/surgical nurse. I Need a change from my unit where we get a lot of detoxers and the confused. I want to apply but feel this will alert my...

Great idea to double check the meds. Nursing is so chaotic and busy it can be easy to enter the wrong thing due to being pulled in 5 directions at once. I wish all patients had nice up to date lists....

Everything is the nurses responsibility. From the med list to not having the right cable channels to food not being delivered to MRI not wanting to stay and do the MRIs. I love when phlebotomy asks...

I don't mind the people from the nursing home because at least they come to the hospital with a copy of the list of meds they take at the facility. It is accurate and up to date unlike 75 percent of...

Cut down from 32 to 28 hours. Would cut down to 24 if I could afford it. Too much stress. Hopefully will get out of med-surge to something outpatient. Or I would like to cut down to 24 hours for the...

Stress eating at work and after work and not getting regular breaks to sit down and eat. I have lost and gained back the same 25 lbs. 3 times in 4 years. Can stand to lose another 10 pounds. For me,...

If all departments are complaining that is telling me all disciplines are overworked. The stress from the never ending demands makes us cranky.

Hi all, I have an interview at a community health center for a 10 hour a week position as an STI nurse. It is a position to support the health centers HIV department, specifically within the...

What is a CMS measure?

It is also a way to get good nurses fired due to "opinions" that are uneducated on what good care consists of.

These patient satisfaction scores are just a way so Medicare does not have to pay out. This among other things is driving me out of the hospital.

Hi HouTx, I am now considered a part time employee at 32 hrs a week and would still be considered a part time employee at 24 hrs a week. Right now the hospital is remodeling the 5th floor and we...

That is hilarious. What a great memory you have. I love that song too but it is not why I chose the name.

Sounds fun, I love the elderly. I would much rather take care of a 90 year old than a 40 year old. Different generation, different demeanor and less demanding. I worked in LTC for the first 6...

Thank you Viva, I have read many of your posts and enjoy your writing talents. I know it will not get any better. I am surprised I have lasted 4 years. Did not think I would last a year with...

I can count on 2 hands the number of uninterupted meal breaks I have had away from the floor in 4 years. Still have to punch out though. I am done with bedside nursing as soon as I find a way to get...

Hi all, I dread going into my job due to the stress level I have when I am there. Even just walking on to the floor with all of the call lights, telemetry boxes beeping, occasional yelling out...

Farmer at heart RN, It would be multiple patients per day and I know a nurse who works there. She said it was a lot of paperwork and she did a lot at home and that Docs would be calling her at...

Thanks all who replied. I think I will look at a different avenue to get away from the crazy hospital. That is just too much for me.

Hi all, I have an interview for a Home health company next week. I am a little leary about the paperwork. I keep hearing about how nurses have hours of paperwork to do after they get home and that...

I also hate my job. I have been a nurse for 4 years in a med-surge floor. The constant stress and liability along with the micromanagement of charting are driving me too the point of just quitting. I...

Thanks for all of the replies. I did not get the job but it is OK. The job was for telephone triage which I would have hated. I like to hands on care of my peeps. It was not advertised as a telephone...