CSARmedic

CSARmedic has 12 years experience and specializes in ICU and Dialysis.

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1. Letters after name? FNP, APRN, etc

   CSARmedic replied to futureeastcoastNP's topic in NP

   "what dictates the letters after your name when you become an NP? " Ego...

2. Do Mean Girls make Mean Nurses

   CSARmedic replied to CSARmedic's topic in Relations

   I agree entirely only because that I think that nurses have only recently figured out what the problem was and has been. I don't restrict my analogy to just the term bullying as it is also unprofessional conduct and/or just plain rudeness and disresp...

3. Do Mean Girls make Mean Nurses

   CSARmedic replied to CSARmedic's topic in Relations

   OK. I get the gist of all of your comments. Yes, I was generalizing and yes, it is the sum of all of my experiences and is not to be taken as a characterization of nursing as a whole. I was just asking a question. Now, Let me back up a bit and put m...

4. Do Mean Girls make Mean Nurses

   CSARmedic replied to CSARmedic's topic in Relations

   I've kept my license but I'm a full time student and work as a paramedic

5. Do Mean Girls make Mean Nurses

   CSARmedic posted a topic in Relations

   [h=1]Are mean girls getting meaner? Teens open up about bullying[/h]http://www.today.com/moms/are-mean-girls-getting-meaner-teens-open-about-bullying-8C11417897?ocid=msnhp&pos=1 I just read this article and starting thinking if some (many) of the...

6. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

   CSARmedic replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you but it doesn't make me feel any better about the situation. VERY frustrating. I think you'll be praying for quite some time. The (generally) non-confrontational nature of women precludes any sort of sort of "revolution" by nurses. Males, ...

7. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

   CSARmedic replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

   CHEAPER nurse is all they care about! And that's all that matters. He who keeps the business (hospital) profitable is the King! You don't get it - THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT NURSES! They don't care about Flo and her history, they daon't care about how ma...

8. Sorry state of Nursing ...

   CSARmedic replied to Howardhughes's topic in General Nursing

   I couldn't agree more with you Howardhughes. I've walked away from nursing twice and now I'm giving it another shot as an APRN student but nothing has changed. This behavior is so ingrained in the culture that it will never change and it's more than ...

9. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

   CSARmedic replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

   Guttercat, you are one of the very few people (nurses) I've come across that has a clue to what's going on in nursing: Nurses are putting themselves out of business. The nursing profession does not have a rosy future and the administrators of Vanderb...

10. Advice for a potential second career male nurse?

    CSARmedic replied to Iwannabea...?'s topic in Men

    Don't do it. There are more ex-male nurses or male nurses who hate the job than I can count. Go into heavy equipment operator. Better pay, no bureaucracy, better working conditions and time off. oh, and REALLY effective unions.

11. Med error- manager told everyone at meeting and made me explain

    CSARmedic replied to veronica123's topic in Stress 101

    Gee, another lousy nursing manager. Man, how rare!

12. Bullied for reporting a med error by another nurse

    CSARmedic replied to StaffNurseMcS's topic in Safety

    The first thing that occurred to me after I read your heading was "How did you know it was a med error?" Are you the charge nurse or just another "really involved colleague" i.e. nosy. In all the places I've worked, I've never had the opportunity to ...

13. How To Spot a Workplace Bully, Part One

    CSARmedic replied to rn/writer's topic in Relations

    I'm a 6'3" 200 lbs male that's been bullied many times in my 15 years in nursing ( I think my tormentors see my size as a sort of challenge). I'm very male (not gay) and have been in the Air Force since I was 17 so I'm a juicy target for a female bul...

14. What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    CSARmedic replied to almost30's topic in Relations

    Hear, Hear...Thank God...finally someone's said it.

15. Discrimination towards male students? Need advice.

    CSARmedic replied to Dabuggy's topic in Men

    Having been exposed to and been a victim of sexual / gender based harrassment in the workplace, I would advise to press and finish your training but not to forget the experience. Chances are it won't be the last time you will have to deal with it. Yo...