elilbitz replied to VeraciousRN's topic in New Nurse
Actually, I found nurses with 2 - 5 years the worst at doing their best to make you look worse than they! and nurses with more experience to be the ones who have little patience - usually the ones who are not happy with the way managment is handling ...
elilbitz replied to VeraciousRN's topic in New Nurse
I don't believe there is a 'stigma'. There is a Reality that SOME seasoned nurses eat their young. I don't believe it has to do with nurses forgetting what it was like starting, or lack of compassion, or whatever we have thus far thought might be 'la...
elilbitz replied to elilbitz's topic in Medications
Thanks for your reply ~ I was never alerted that anyone responded. For the record, the facility has no pharmacist. It is a small addictions hospital that is run by an addictions doctor who also takes on that role of pharmacist...and is also accountab...
I am an addictions nurse working with the new Suboxone Film. It comes in only 2mg or 8mg strengths. The administrators of the hospital are requesting the nurses cut the 8mg flim strips into half to make 4mg doses. Apparently this is more cost effecti...
This IS so wrong! There ARE still more male MDs delivering babies and they certainly don't get the boot! That charge nurse was exercising her personal view and not professionalism. Best of luck to you.
I see it as a great opportunity for leadership! FOR ME if anyone ASKS for help, I DO it if I am able ~ ESPECIALLY if the instructor asks ~ then I don't see where I have the room to decide if I feel comfortable with it or not. It was also a compliment...
I've also heard and seen good looking people discouraged from going into nursing in the first place. The 'Discouragers' stating the job isn't 'glamorous' enough for them! I think some people find good-looking people too shallow for the job. So not fa...
There are too many nurses out there already who are not in it as their calling ~ and have been throughout history. That is exactly what motivates me to get out there all the more! (2010) I wish 'to be the change'. (Ghandi, not Obama!) Where I live wa...