cheesey_mcflavius

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1. Patient Care And Customer Service Are Not The Same!

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   It's all part of the plan, serfs! bankrupt the hospitals, bankrupt the insurance companies, then have big brother step in and take over. You don't like it? Well, we've got plenty of indentured servants who are willing and ready to step in to tow the ...

2. New Grad Pay in Texas?

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to born2circulateRN's topic in Texas

   Being a new grad, I make 6 bajillion/hr, with night shift diff of 20 centillion dollars, plus weekend shift diff of 90 quintillion holiday shift-diff of 10 trillion centillion dollars.

3. Nursing Dissatisfaction

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to quiltr's topic in General Nursing

   quiltr, meet bottom of totem pole. bottom of totem pole, meet quiltr.

4. The Nursing Shortage: A self-inflicted wound?

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to dzadzey's topic in General Nursing

   We should be thankful to our masters that we even have a job in this wonderful environment.

5. The 'look' that people give you...

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to theatredork's topic in Burn

   If you like doing 3-4 hr full body dressing changes, leaving the room drenched in sweat, that's great. Double kudos if you enjoy spending all that time with people who burned themselves smoking crack.

6. Geez...they're dropping like flies!

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to Annachu512's topic in General Students

   Haha, get used to wild kingdom. We started out with 110, ended up with about 25 after 4 yrs, and that includes a few that had to retake from previous classes. I'd start getting to be buddy-buddy with the smart people and bringing them cupcakes and bu...

7. Wow They Are Really Serious - smokers not hired

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to LemonIndiscretion's topic in General Nursing

   Welcome to freedom and democracy. When they make you take the mark of the beast, be sure to tell everyone it's for the public good too.

8. I couldn't believe what I was hearing!

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to sra27's topic in Relations

   I see this as typical family/visitor behavvior. If you go elsewhere--restaurant, hotel, third world country slave plantation--people don't complain as much as visitors/family complain about nurses. It seems like they intentionally look for things to ...

9. You know you're a neuro nurse if.....

   cheesey_mcflavius replied to Elenaster's topic in Neuro

   You know you're a neuro nurse when...temp = 103, wbc = 21, pt is having course crackles, and coughing up yellowish phlegm, and doctors diagnose it as neurogenic fever while waiting 3 days to show positive cultures.

10. This is getting ridiculous!!

    cheesey_mcflavius replied to sunnycalifRN's topic in MICU

    We ran out of normal saline. Had to have someone go make a run to another hospital.