What did someone do that you knew to get fired or kicked out of school?

[Roland]

I've heard it said that most nurses who get fired are released for drug abuse. Do you find this to be the case in your experience?

[KRVRN, BSN, RN]

Do you mean that these were negligent parents, or do you mean that they weren't given all the details concerning their baby's death? As much as I understand that some babies die, and it is almost NEVER because the hospital staff didn't do everything within its power to save that baby (NICU nurses rule!), if my baby died, I sure would need a full accounting of what happened, when it happened, and how and why. I'm not sure that could happen if the nurse took the hospital up on its suggestion that she leave until the investigation was complete.

Who said anybody died?

:uhoh21:

In rereading my first post, I see that I said that this nurse had falsified V/S for a shift on a baby. I guess I should have said that we deduced that she had falsfied the baby's temps. I have no idea if the other V/S were falsified or not since they were all WNL and he baby was alive, not dead.

[LydiaNN]

WHOA wait! The baby didn't die!

Okay, I see. I took the "baby was found ice cold" literally. This makes sense to me now.

[mhull]

i used to work with a nurse who would call out sick at least once a week -- sometimes two hours after the shift started and from a bar! twice that i know of, she left in the middle of her shift and didn't come back. she'd "go off on" someone with amazing regularity and become increasingly shrill and incoherent. and once she aborted herself in the employee bathroom. she kept her job for a year before she went on "administrative leave" with pay for nine months. union hospital, working for the state.

aborted herself????? what do you mean aborted herself, something like a "coat hanger abortion?"

[z's playa]

Aborted herself????? What do you mean aborted herself, something like a "coat hanger abortion?"

Yeah...what on earth does "aborted oneself" mean ?

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

aborted herself????? what do you mean aborted herself, something like a "coat hanger abortion?"

she left behind the bloody coat hanger and a trail of blood to the elevator.

ruby

[z's playa]

she left behind the bloody coat hanger and a trail of blood to the elevator.

ruby

oh my.... :stone

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

students are kicked out of school generally for failing classes/clinical.

nurses can lose their jobs for many reasons. drug abuse is only a small part of those that lose there jobs. other reasons that i have seen include multiple/serious med errors, abuse mental/physical of patients, undependability (read:too many absences/call outs). quite frankly, here in the south, nurse managers may write you up for not wearing makeup or not wearing enough white, anything that they want as fewer hospitals are unionized.

more often, the employees that are not liked by management are "run off" through excess floating, undesirable assignments, lousy schedules rather than being fired outright.

due to the shortage, however, i see more bad employees getting kept on staff....which tends to make everyone miserable. one bad apple can truly spoil the whole basket.

pathetic, isn't it? they seem to have "gold card status", coming in late, only half doing their work,then proceeding to take long, leisurely lunches and leaving early, while the responsible ones are left to do their work, too. this is only one of many reasons why i am leaving my present job and going to work for a temp agency, where i won't have to worry about being slammed with someone else's work! :angryfire

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

Exactly! And I want Lancome. Only the best to make me look "fresh".

I want Bare Minerals.

[fotografe]

How about an on staff makeup artist to get your faces on?

If a facility is going to suggest i wear makeup, i suggest they buy it for me.

Or start making the men wear it too.

[fotografe]

I was recently married and visiting my very feminine in laws. I very carefully packed a case of new makeup. Each morning I got up and dutifully put on what I felt like was clown makeup. Even my husband commented to me about how much I was wearing. I was about to go to a party with my SILs. I had even put on extra for the special occaision. With a look of horror on their faces, they asked if I was going to put on any makeup for the party. LOL I rolled on the floor.

The posts about the makeup were a hoot.

But I agree.....for MYself only, I look like a ghost without it.

Now, if my job wants to buy it for me I would have no objection.

I did have one co-worker fuss at me once, saying I should wear makeup everyday to work. I told her I do get up and put on makeup everyday.

She tried to argue with me and say I didn't.

But ya know, here in the south, in the dead heat of summer, when it get so humid, makeup can slide off of me like oil. I told her that was what was happening. By time I got to work it was mostly gone.

[z's playa]

How about an on staff makeup artist to get your faces on?

Now yer talkin'! Install movie star lights around the locker room mirrors! Have those makeup artists on standby waiting in front of the med cart to blot our noses because golly.....those sick people in ICU sooooooo....care what we look like!

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

And the makeup thing is just a lot to ask for, for some. Even with the hypoallergenic products out there, there are some people that are allergic to those.

I would feel sorry for any employer that has the beans to suggest i wear makeup.