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You're welcome. :) Loved your post. Thanks Wheels! I hope I get some respectful/appreciative patients this weekend.

We don't give it until post-op day 1. One time, a nurse in PACU gave my patient 150 mg and I couldn't stop shaking my head. I had to transfer her to ICU because she was gushing blood and having a...

I think it becomes a burden when non-magnet material journeys to become magnet. They add all these expectations without consideration for our crappy ratio. Leads to resentment. I'm experiencing this...

I feel the exact same way. With a BSN and three years of experience there's got to be something else you can do. School nursing? OR? Maybe go part time until you can find something else. Perhap, take...

Yeppers.

Couldn't agree more!

Just say, "no." Do not give a reason. Do not collect $200.

I should add, you didn't do anything wrong. Your supervisor is a dimwit.

Due to the customer service push, we're expected to write all PRN pain medications on the patients' whiteboards. Both the last time the medication was given and the next time it's "due" should be...

For school, I need to interview an ANA member. I have searched high and low around my hospital and cannot find one ANA member. I've asked people in management, called all the nursing supervisors on...

We had a grandfather in our nursing class. He was in his mid-sixties.

That customer sounds just like a patient. This waitress won't escape this attitude by going into nursing. Just substitute, "not getting a good comment on the press-ganey" for, "not getting a tip."

I've had mine since 2007 and I've had the same experience. Had a Dell, and it only lasted two years. I'd highly recommend a MacBook. Just make sure you get an external hard-drive and back up...

Sounds like a bad system. At my hospital, they have a pharmacist down in the ED who takes a medication history. If the patient is a poor historian or reports something that seems off, they call...

No, it's not.

20% of the time. For every five days a week I work, I usually have one good day. I stay because I'm getting good experience. After I finish my BSN, next May, I'll have three years of med/surg...

YES! They always do this. At home they were taking two percocet 10's for fifty years. Now you've ripped apart their body and ordered two norco 5's. Not going to cut it. I'll be paging your rumpus...

NO. (That was me practicing. Not saying "no" to your post.)

No Big Deal.

30 minutes uninterrupted to do whatever I want. If you try to interrupt me, I might rattle off a state law or gently slam a door in your face. Punching "no lunch" if I don't get my break.

AWESOME!

I don't think we are mandated HIPAA violation reporters. I'd just give this "friend" a heads up and tell him/her their status may violate HIPPA.

I do things pretty similar to turnforthenurseRN and it works out really well. I'd like to cosign her advice.

I'm pretty good at winning these peeps over but it takes a lot of effort and drains the life out of me. Sometimes, I feel rewarded and pat myself on the back. Other times, I get mad at myself for...

I agree with llg, easy peasy.