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  1. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

    Sadly, I think this is a result of the nurse training system being reduced to college classes instead of on the job experience. I started out as a CNA in a nursing home for 8.5 years in the 1980's. This gave me valuable experience in dealing with too...
  2. New Nurse, Med Error = Lost Job

    I had been a CNA for 10 years, and an LVN for 15 years, I have worked in rehab and SNF and both are some of the highest patient loads you will have with very needy patients. I have worked a lot of Per Diem due to my needing Sundays off to attend my H...
  3. Need Career Advice

    Have you looked into being a phone triage nurse? That could give you time to take care of business. If you spread yourself too thin, that could be treacherous to your health. I ended up in the ICU with a mega duodenal ulcer, I needed 5 units of blood...
  4. Am I too stupid to be a nurse?

    Have you tried home health? They are one on one and much better in spending time with your patient.
  5. New Nurse, Med Error = Lost Job

    Pushing nurses with understaffing and overburdening is so common, how do we explain? THIS is why the average nurse age is in their 40's, the young ones get disillusioned when they are forced to speed up beyond human safety. I only know it helped me i...
  6. New RN Can't Handle the Unit. Is this Normal?

    Sounds like all nursing homes I have been in, only 60 patients or more , no RN on duty making me the Charge nurse (LVN), and none of the other LVN's have recorded their IV cert on their license. SO I'm running all over a 199 bed facility taking care ...
  7. Achieve test prep?

    I just signed up with them, and It sounds like they have been rethinking their management- they do have actual classes of 4-6 weeks (one 3 hr class a week), which I don't really need as I am a very good reader and just did an online course for Precis...
  8. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    I've worked with a lit if male nurses and usually they are wonderful. They are more compassionate than many men in more traditional macho men jobs. I've only met one who was gay. He was my DON, and was the worst manager I'd ever met. Not because he w...
  9. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

    I am an LVN and have worked mostly SNF, rehab, psych, jails, prisons and a little acute. I am lucky to have 10 years experience as. CNA and I value that highly. I think it has been very important for my success in organizing for high loads if patient...
  10. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    You mean YOU don't count narcs? I have not seen that go away any place I have worked yet.
  11. Do women find male nurses attractive?

    I have worked with a few dozen male nurses. Most are more compassionate than the average macho male, and that's good. I've only met one that was gay, he was my DON and he was surprisingly mean, as that was not my usual experience with gay males. (I'm...
  12. Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    The docs should clean up their own dang mess. Agreed but they think they are God, and gone to boot. However, I have worked with an otherwise dear male nurse that would open his diabetic needles and other supplies in the supply room and leave his pa...
  13. Hard Truth of Nursing

    I quit in 1988 (CNA) as I was moving to go build my house I had worked so hard to pay for doing all the overtime I could in 4 departments; nursing, kitchen, laundry, housekeeping. I thought my mother selling our Santa Cruz house (she came with me) wo...
  14. Social Media and Emotional IQ

    I was a CNA in the 1980's and developed a lot of my character in the one SNF just through persistence and learning teamwork and learning to love my pts. when I returned to nursing in 2006, I was shocked at the filthy language CNA's and nurses and eve...
  15. dealing with rude doctors?

    Working NOC's it's a challenge getting the NP to answer the phone or call back. (A woman.Sadly).