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  1. can of worms-smoking

    do smokers really take more breaks. maybe this should be a poll. seems to me that it is not really more breaks, just more smokes. i.e., when someone has to be walked out to the car, stop afterward and have a smoke. when something has to be walked...
  2. never doubted until i actually failed an exam. then i just got stubborn. i had a very hard time in school, but am having a blast being a nurse. sometimes i can't believe how well i get paid for this job that i love............
  3. Chronic Tardiness

    i agree, i think that people are late for the things that they CAN be late for. i wonder if these same nurses were late for the interview that got them hired. my friend who is spanish tries to use her culture as an excuse for being late to things s...
  4. Deprovera side effects

    was typing a ranting tirade about BC and men, but i know that nobody wants to read it. so, food for thought. if men had to take a pill in order to have sex with us, "would they".......or would they make us use the drug free alternative. think abou...
  5. Really need some advice about orienting/vent

    thank you for your kind response to my post. it was just food for thought. one more thing that i thought of after i posted last night is this. this is not an excuse for their behavior (which i find appalling), but could be a reason. at one of the...
  6. Chronic Tardiness

    management needs to be aware of this, and something CAN be done. at one of my jobs if one is 5 minutes late the staffing office is called, so that they can call a replacement. i would like to see people docked 15 for anything past the time they are...
  7. Really need some advice about orienting/vent

    don't think i understand the reason that they would send you to a med-surg floor, if everyone is clear that you will be on OB. med-surg is not understood in 7 days. at the risk of being unpopular, are you sure that your attitude during this time is...
  8. 3 - 11 shift

    i think i am weird.....by first grade my kids were able to get themselves up (cool alarm clocks). eat (cereal and milk, no cooking or knives allowed), and out without me .....of course we carpooled.....so, i get home about 12, have a set routine, hot...
  9. Nursing Student

    if you want to do it, do it.......i was afraid of needles, got over it.....i mean petrified....some smells still gross me out, but white flower oil under the nose helps. you will probably see hardly any blood (er excepted), more bodily fluids other ...
  10. Insomnia

    careful with the melatonin....read up on it
  11. Do you nurses get breaks?

    am typing with one hand......breaks....yes....but only the dinner break, not the 15's. as far as the 30, i don't wear a watch and i don't watch the clock. some days my dinner break is short like 10 minutes, and some days it is an hour. at my med-s...
  12. Send Good Thoughts

    not yet. she does this once in awhile. i'm hurt that she doesn't even care how my surgery went.....thanks for the positive thoughts....i love this bb, you guys are great.......
  13. preventing burnout

    read a very good book about this. i talked about the stages...in recognizing that right now you are in the honeymoon and i can't remember the other 5 stages, but one is disillusionment and depression. the previous ideas given will help.......
  14. Send Good Thoughts

    have a big cast like thing on my lefthand, so typing all with the right....slow...that is why the a is back. the horse is fine.....
  15. Send Good Thoughts

    thanks again for all the kind remarks.......vicodin makes me sick...