Retriever5280

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1. I called in sick today, they didn't accept it.

   Retriever5280 replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

   The day I can say good riddance to nursing will be the brightest day of my life. Professionals? Hardly. We're treated worse than waitresses. Please, if you can, do yourself a favor and flip this field off for one that has sanity and a modium of r...

2. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

   Retriever5280 replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

   Knowing what I know now, I would seek a hands-on jobs like HVAC tech. No way would I enter this field again and be managed by the typical frumpy, incompetent managers that are the majority.

3. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

   Retriever5280 replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

   Always found it interesting that the Susie Sunshines in nursing wouldn't lift a finger to help others while touting how much they "love" nursing. Had a 445 lb patient. I asked for help to change his bed...NOT ONE person would help. Team work is g...

4. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

   Retriever5280 replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

   Plumber, HVAC tech, electrician....all pay GREAT...and are less stress and strife than nursing. I personally wish I would have started my own business in a trade OR mortuary science. Fields that have millions of people in them are often taken for g...

5. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

   Retriever5280 replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

   Spot-on Feelix!

6. I Am Absolutely Miserable Because I Hate Being A Nurse

   Retriever5280 replied to PerkyWallflower10's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing has been degraded to a waitress with CPR role thanks to hospitals marketing themselves as hotels with chandeliers and player pianos in the lobbies. Patients then visualize nurses as their personal concierge. There are many DECENT fields for...

7. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

   Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Ohio NP: Spot-on! I'm thankful for the knowledge from nursing...it keeps me away from conventional medicine. Also glad there are many career paths for women that are exponentially better than wiping butts which is really most of what the job entai...

8. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

   Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Everything these days seem to be a scam, doesn't it? Everyone is trying to scam everyone. Actually, not a scam--insurers have the right to know how a vehicle is being used. You're a much higher risk driving more miles, in dense traffic, and scurr...

9. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

   Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   amoLucia Specializes in LTC. 4 hours ago 3 hours ago, Retriever5280 said: Home health seemed liked a good alternative until I found out that auto carriers require business insurance cause you're using your car for work. If you're ...

10. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Home health seemed liked a good alternative until I found out that auto carriers require business insurance cause you're using your car for work. If you're in an accident on work time and you didn't tell your carrier you were using your car for work,...

11. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The player pianos and chandeliers in hospital lobbies don't help either, offering an impression to the public that nurses are concierge service. We've now been denigrated to waitresses with CPR. I don't mind helping people; I do mind disabling the ...

12. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Many excellent people have left nursing due to the pompous martyrs in the field. Nursing seems stuck in 1950, with managers that believe strongly in Theory X management in which you work from a stance of everyone is lazy and trying to get out of wor...

13. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    SPOT ON Leonardo. Many of us do "get it" but there are ALWAYS the few who tout their disdain for those who speak up as going against the "calling" or "dedication" or other nonsensical junk.

14. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Just saw listing for travel CNAs and medical assistants. Interesting.

15. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Retriever5280 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Ohio NP: I never recommend this field to anyone I like--LOL. If I had all to do over again, I wouldn't touch this field. Happy for the knowledge from it, but think it has little pay for what's expected and much struggle and strife from horrendous ...