ORNursetobe33

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1. Why did you choose nursing?

   ORNursetobe33 replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

   3 12's, scrubs and a ponytail. And I am paid MORE to work at night......a shift I LOVE anyways!!!!! Everyone wins! I am a good nurse, but it wasn't a calling.

2. Breaking Free From Nursing

   ORNursetobe33 replied to HealthyNurse's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think OP is looking for praise, I think she is looking for others she works with to advocate for her patient like SHE does. I know exactly what she is referring to. You are the stand alone in keeping your patient safe and it gets tiring and t...

3. Cringe worthy follow up Note

   ORNursetobe33 replied to MrChicagoRN's topic in Job Hunt

   I love when people berate "humans" for their "deplorable" actions as if they are not human. Newsflash: you are one of us. And yes, a follow up thank you is pretty standard these days and I know, for a fact, has gotten me hired more than once. But hey...

4. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

   ORNursetobe33 replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing

   Hospitals still pay RN's in the teens per hour? That is a shame! 1. NV 2. 1 3. Cath lab 4. 34/hr (+5.00 per hour on call and 1.5 time when called in) 5. Differentials based on what time a day or night or weekend we are called in 6. No union

5. Standing up to my charge nurse prevented a mistake

   ORNursetobe33 replied to 002rn05's topic in Safety

   It's funny to hear so many nurses on here advocating for the "patient" against written orders, yet in the real world all you get is *crickets* when it comes down to it. Even from charge nurses.

6. Standing up to my charge nurse prevented a mistake

   ORNursetobe33 replied to 002rn05's topic in Safety

   OP don't listen to most of the nurses on this thread. I will be nice and call them naysayers. You did the right thing and I am sure the doc agreed. Had you just done the draw your charge would not even do and the patient had some negative outcome the...

7. Its official! I am leaving nursing.........

   ORNursetobe33 replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

   I envy you very much. I am constantly finding myself shaking my head more and more at the things I am seeing day after day in my job and its scaring me to death (How does one send a patient home post appendectomy with no bowel sounds?). I am going to...

8. Bad Job Market? Be a NURSE! (Insert eye roll here)

   ORNursetobe33 replied to BloomNurseRN's topic in General Nursing

   I really don't see how it's anybody else's business why someone got into nursing. If they are capable, can do the job and like the money....then it suits them. Not everybody gets "called" to be a nurse. No one works for free....

9. Circumcision

   ORNursetobe33 replied to TexRN's topic in General Students

   Glad you guys chuckled, I Thought you guys might enjoy! Poor parents, condemned if you do, condemned if you don't. There is always a controversy over something. Makes me feel better about my decision to refrain....

10. Circumcision

    ORNursetobe33 replied to TexRN's topic in General Students

    Funny story to lighten this up. When I was in high school, one of my good friends had a kid that she chose not to have circumcised. people raised their eyebrows but no big deal. He turned 17 two weeks ago and came home from summer basketball league a...

11. tatoos & piercings, part 2

    ORNursetobe33 replied to amoLucia's topic in Professionalism

    I don't give my tattoos enough thought to sit around and regret them all day. I was thoughtful with mine, in where they are on me and what they are and I wouldn't change them at all. Except for one that could have been done by a better artist, but it...

12. tattoos/piercings

    ORNursetobe33 replied to Swellz's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Because EVERYONE follows policies and procedures to a tee! Our ER nurses and EMT's look like a multicolored punk rock show. I think it's kinda cool. When a patient is coding the family doesn't give a crap what the nurse looks like. I can barely...

13. New Grad States & Relocating

    ORNursetobe33 replied to jeangarc18's topic in Job Hunt

    Las Vegas will hire new grads. Our healthcare and doctors here are so backwards that they can't wait to get new grads and start corrupting them and telling them what to do. It's a substandard medical system, but new grads will clear $58k a year with ...

14. Second career nurses: Do you like nursing better?

    ORNursetobe33 replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    I use to work in a field where your only options for employment were large corporations. I thought that every time they freaked out about something stupid it was wasted time because "We aren't curing cancer or saving lives or anything". SO i quit tha...

15. Finding employment with an associates degree...

    ORNursetobe33 replied to sjg8412's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Where I work, the hospitals are hiring ADN's...if they are needed. The first wave of new hire BSN's (like myself) all quit a particular floor in my hospital, and all the new hires after that were ADN's. I am not sure if that was just a coincidence, t...