LaurenBoog

If I had a choice? Absolutely part-time. I just had a little one and I am dreading working full time, even though it's only 3 days a week! You could always work "officially" part time and then pick up a day or two on the schedule to cover any extra expenses. That's what many of our part time nurses do. That way, they aren't obligated to work extra unless they need to.

Sella turkey-ka sounds like a delicious italian dish.

Of course she wasn't going to die...the hospice nurse closed the window!! Sheesh! That's how I keep all my patients alive!

I had one of those piercings during my senior year of nursing school/clinicals. I put a clear plastic stud in during clinicals...didn't make it any less obvious in my opinion, but none of the nurses or instructors said anything. Now I see nurses with nose rings at my hospital. I think the hair/piercing issue depends on the work culture of where you are. Most workplaces say "no" but the manager may not enforce that policy. At my hospital we are not supposed to wear hoop earrings or dangle-y earrings....but no one enforces that. If you are so adamant that these things are a part of you, that's OK. You may get passed over for an interview based on hair or piercings, but it probably would not be a workplace culture that you would like anyway.

In orientation, my preceptor was showing me how to hang tube feeding. It was a special kind that she had to request from dietary (wasn't stocked on the floor) and when it finally came up at the end of shift, I spiked the wrong part of the tube feeding and it went all over the med room! On New Year's Eve this past year, I was trying to call for a stat echocardiogram for a patient, but the telephone operator misunderstood what I wanted and ended up sending a urgent page to all the hospital bigwigs that the state had come to survey the hospital! We started getting phone calls from all these random people asking what was going on....no harm done but I felt so stupid having to explain to my nurse manager and DON what I had done!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Who is supposed to cover your assignment after you get sent home? Staffing is so tight, I just never see this actually happening. Sounds like a scare tactic.

i wouldn't pay for any more of her schooling. she is an adult...if she wants to jump from career to career, she should do it on her own dime, not mom and dad's.

I am just the same way you are! I was considered very smart throughout school, but get me into "real world" situations and I ask so many questions and have to be walked through everything. I have tons of respect for people who may not have gotten the top grades but have awesome leadership skills or prioritization skills. They are usually working circles around me, while I am still figuring out how to turn the computer on, etc. My advice is to be honest when you go for interviews (there's your strength/weakness question) and when it comes time to be paired up with a preceptor. Your managers will appreciate knowing in advance how you learn and what challenges you might have.

His message is very inflammatory and seems aimed at stirring people up. The only nurses who are lobbying to be called doctors are ones who have.....received their doctorate degree. We afford that respect to professors and others who have their doctorate. This guy is jumping into an issue that he has no right to be in. He is tying it into the whole health care debate, which he knows will stir up emotions as well.

Like the other posters have said, I would just go along with your CNS and make an action plan for yourself. It is snarky to send that e-mail right after your "disagreement," but you will waste too much energy fighting it or worrying about it and you will look like the lesser person in the end. Plus, she can always just deny that she had any hurtful intentions toward you and that the timing of the e-mail was coincidental. You sound like you are doing a great job. We all have crazy days and we all forget things... Laurenboog

I have known several people who failed a class or semester (usually due to unforeseen circumstances such as death or illness in family) and later graduated. If nursing is your dream, keep at it, even if it means taking a semester off or switching to a one-night-a-week program. Good luck!

I don't think it is "crazy" or "scary" that the OP feels this way. What is scary is that some people feel this way, embrace it, never question it, and let it affect their patient care. Kudos to the OP for actually examining her feelings and being honest. She sounds like a thoughtful person who will be mindful to NOT let personal bias affect nursing care.

My former manager was awesome, I really respect her because she actually was a tech on the floor, then a staff RN, then the nurse manager. You can't ask for more than that! She had done the job, she knew the job, so she did not tolerate B.S. When I was new to day shift, and really had not interacted with her much, she stood up for me in a he-said-she-said situation in which a patient's family member lied and said I had said something that I did not say. She sent a letter to administrators defending me, stating that although I was a new nurse, I was very professional and had never received a complaint, etc. I was very thankful to her.

I completely agree with you about the patient being too unstable for CT. The reason I went was because the surgeons ordered the CT d/t massive abd. distension, and the pt. was doing so poorly anyway....I just figured that the pt. would definately die if the CT scan was not done but if the CT showed a "fixable" problem, perhaps the surgeons would attempt surgery (assuming they would take the risk of operating). No one was pressuring me to take the patient, I just was hoping the CT would give the team some information to work off of. At that point, this patient was very sick but the team had not been able to pinpoint the cause of the situation.

I don't think it is just an age issue. I actually AM 25, and I can't keep up anymore either!