familychick BSN

familychick has 29 years experience as a BSN and specializes in a little of everthing.

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1. Being Asked to Give References for Someone You Don't Respect

   familychick replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   As one who has been a nurse for a long time and have been a manager, I've had this happen more then once. One time in particular was a nurse whom I actually fired for creating a hostile work envirement. She used me as a reference without checking wit...

2. Are You Working Past Retirement Age?

   familychick replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   Excellent topic, thank you for bringing it up. I'm 57 years old, single, and have been giving this much thought this past year. I would love to retire. right.now. but realistically can't afford to. I am single and did not start preparing/savin...

3. How do you guys do it for so long?

   familychick replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

   Yes! I feel this way about bedside nursing too. I've been a nurse since 1995. The beautiful thing about nursing is there are soooo many different jobs we can do. I've done acute care in different areas. I'm good at it, but to be honest, I've alway...

4. New RN Age

   familychick replied to Kooper48's topic in General Nursing

   Not even close to too old. This is a great age.

5. Acoustic Shock

   familychick replied to scrabblern's topic in Triage

   I have never heard of this either. Thank you for the information. I am going to read up on this. I hope you are able to get the help you need.

6. What do you do when Work calls on your day off?

   familychick replied to Joe V's topic in Humor

   When I worked the floor, I always answered the calls/texts or called them back. If I didn't want to work I told them "No, thank you for asking though". No excuses, no reasons, just a polite and firm no. If they try to badger, just rinse and repeat ...

7. Patient Entitlement

   familychick replied to Joe V's topic in Humor

   Patient/family member Entitlement is the A#1 reason why I left bedside nursing, and why I'm seriously considering leaving healthcare altogether.

8. Preceptor is a bully....

   familychick replied to Hardhands's topic in General Nursing

   I completely disagree with the notion of just putting up with her behavior. We need to get away from allowing nurses to eat their young. We need to get away from turning a blind eye to bullies. That behavior is simply not OK. It is not OK in the ...

9. Driving 1.5 hrs (one way) to work. Good idea?

   familychick replied to NewRN_SW's topic in General Nursing

   My recommendation would be to buy a home near your husband's work in the less expensive area. There are so many nurse jobs, maybe you can get another job closer to your new home. I have done long commutes before. For me, it depended on the...

10. Grad in May + IHS obligation + 5 year old

    familychick replied to MickeyJ's topic in Career Support

    Just in case you are not able to read that PM I will give you my contact info here at work. I am the Supervisory Clinical Nurse (Unit Manager) of the inpatient pediatric unit at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, NM. This is an IHS facility...

11. Grad in May + IHS obligation + 5 year old

    familychick replied to MickeyJ's topic in Career Support

    Are you able to receive/read PMs? I sent you one with my contact info. If not, we will figure it out.

12. Grad in May + IHS obligation + 5 year old

    familychick replied to MickeyJ's topic in Career Support

    Hi MickeyJ, Shiprock is a town on the reservation. I live near the reservation, not in it. The little city where I live seems to be family friendly with lots of activities. I just moved from one town to another a couple of weeks ago and really lik...

13. Nurses smoking weed?

    familychick replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I've never tried anything edible with it in it. How about the cookies?

14. Nurses smoking weed?

    familychick replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well, personally I don't drink or smoke (now that is just plan stupid) or do any type of narcotic, but only because I don't like the feeling. I do not understand why it would do any harm in smoking a little as long as it is out of the system prior t...

15. Is this a problem?

    familychick replied to NEnglish's topic in Job Hunt

    That sounds like a rough way to grow the much needed tough skin of a nurse. The reason you gave sounds very reasonable to me. I have been in management and in charge of hiring (and firing). I would not have batted an eye at that. Honestly many fa...