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  1. Feeling immense guilt for past mistakes

    lorias replied to dergs's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who has felt this way. I too sometimes feel guilty for past med errors that I didn't own up to, but this was in the past and thankfully they weren't really serious ones...

  2. Feeling bad

    lorias posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been feeling bad the past few days since a resident at a LTC where I'm a nurse died unexpectantly on my shift. When I say unexpectantly I mean she was not in the dieing processl, not that she...

  3. Feeling bad

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you amoLucia. I also thought Missa's comments were out of line. We certainly did not just let the resident die and to say she hopes our facility gets sued was not

  4. Feeling bad

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    Yes she was a Do Not

  5. As a Nurse, is it normal to be pushed around doing different jobs at the place you work?

    lorias replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I know. It is sickening the way the nursing "profession" isn't like other professions. At the same time we get into trouble when things don't go the way others think they should. I did not go to...

  6. As a Nurse, is it normal to be pushed around doing different jobs at the place you work?

    lorias replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    There's a difference between doing duties that are on your unit such as passing out trays to the residents or helping them to the bathroom because the CNAs are busy than filling in for the laundry...

  7. As a Nurse, is it normal to be pushed around doing different jobs at the place you work?

    lorias replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree that the nurse should be doing the job of a laundry person. We didn't go to school and go through all the hell we went through to be told that we can do the duties of a non-skilled person....

  8. Performance improvement plan woes

    lorias posted a topic in General Nursing

    I want to know if this is the correct way to evaluate a new nurse. I have been a nurse for almost 4 months and was put on a performance improvement plan because of med errors and according to my...

  9. Feeling discouraged

    lorias posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I work in a LTC facility and am in charge of 35-40 residents, which is my first job as a nurse. I have been off orientation for 2 1/2 months and last week found out that I am on a 2-week...

  10. Performance improvement plan woes

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    That's my point. The goals aren't specific. It's vague, like work on critical thinking and decision making. The person guiding me is treating it like an orientation, but also reporting back to the...

  11. Feeling discouraged

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I have six and a half years contract with the nursing home. I have a former classmate who had the same contract, but got another job somewhere else who paid off the

  12. Feeling discouraged

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    We also have a med aide, but this person isn't a nurse so I'm responsible for that person in the same way I am for the CNA's. Why we can't have another nurse rather than a CMA is beyond me. Would be...

  13. Feeling discouraged

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    To be fair, I usually have 5 CNAs to help me and most of the residents don't require my constant attention, but nevertheless I am responsible for 35+ residents. I do feel that I have been treated...

  14. Performance improvement plan woes

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    Over the two weeks I have another nurse following

  15. Feeling discouraged

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Nursing

    Yes you are right. This experience has opened my eyes to the fact that this is serious business and I have to look at everything as important. I need to take responsibility for myself and protect my...

  16. Spouse of nurse

    lorias replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    My husband is on disability and so brings in less than half what I do. What difference does it make who brings in more? A marriage is a team, you pool your money and make a budget and live off that....

  17. Open letter from New Nurse to Supervisors, Experienced Nurses

    lorias posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for about three months now, two months out of orientation. Last week I had a meeting with my DON that has left me rattled. While I don't think she meant to demoralize me (and really...

  18. Women's Right to Choose

    lorias replied to River&MountainRN's topic in General Nursing

    So what circumstances would your mother have had to have for it to be ok for her to have aborted you. It's easy to pick and choose who deserves to be born and who doesn't by the ones who have already...

  19. Secretly breaking contract

    lorias posted a topic in General Students

    Hello, I would like this blog member's opinion. One of my classmates, like me, signed a 5 year contract to work at the hospital that is paying for our nursing education. Now my classmate is going to...

  20. Secretly breaking contract

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Students

    I don't have a problem with her breaking the contract by paying the money up front rather than working off the contract. I think some on this forum have misunderstood my point. My problem, and I'm not...

  21. Secretly breaking contract

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Students

    Well I guess I've been put in my place by others on this blog. Kind of surprising that no one can see this from another point of view. But on the other hand not surprising since honesty is in short...

  22. Secretly breaking contract

    lorias replied to lorias's topic in General Students

    Except that my classmate has involved me because she has asked me to keep this all a secret. And because she is stringing the hospital along they can't hire someone to fill her spot. If it was all...

  23. Dismissal from nursing school without failing any course

    lorias replied to Beebee18's topic in General Students

    Maybe you and sister had a bad attitude. If you have the mindset that every non black person is racist than that's what you'll see. And it's not only black people that have difficult everyday...

  24. Dismissal from nursing school without failing any course

    lorias replied to Beebee18's topic in General Students

    Maybe you and sister had a bad attitude. If you have the mindset that every non black person is racist than that's what you'll see. And it's not only black people that have difficult everyday...

  25. Older Students - 40 +

    lorias replied to rabiamirou's topic in General Students

    I'm 47 and have two semesters left to compmete my RN. A classmate of mine