Littleblackdog ADN, BSN, RN

I have "RN" after my name, and believe me, some (not all, now, I said "some") NP's and MD's treat us like we are too stupid to go to the bathroom without falling, too.

Seriously? This is actually an argument where someone believes that a patient in a hospital should be able to keep a gun at his bedside? No. No. I would in fact refuse to care for someone with a gun in his room (unless it was a security guard, of c...

Can't say I have ever had any sort of sixth sense at all. You certainly have some colorful stories to relate because of yours. Fascinating!

Hard for her to stay safe, given her work conditions! Everyone, repost this on FB and get this letter read!

Why don't folks understand that the mask also protects other people from your own respiratory secretions? We have a responsibility to protect ourselves and others in a case like this (a pandemic that spreads easily by respiratory secretions). So yes...

Absolutely! Well said! I just commented upon this, as well. I cannot believe that even people who are health care professionals are disregarding the increasingly stringent pleas by infectious disease experts for mask wearing and social distancing....

Here's the thing: wearing a mask provides more protection for others and still some for yourself. So, is it OK to refuse to wear one because: you love the president and are a republican and so you're not going to believe any of the doctors or you t...

Gosh, I certainly do not think you are the bad guy in this at all! I actually think your brother is (sorry,I am sure you love him, I don't mean to be nasty about it), for putting this on you. He should absolutely understand how you feel, especiall...

All very good advice you have given, here. And you are so right: if you can develop an occasional relationship outside work with some co-workers, they are likely to be kinder to you and less likely to report you to the manager for every little thing....

I love this! It actually made me laugh outloud, because, though I have worked a floor for 35 years, I recognized some of my own feelings in what you had to say. I had a chance to enter a program for new-ish RNs who wanted to train to be surgical nu...

You sound like such a kind, caring person! I am glad you became a nurse! You are just the type person that nursing needs, thank you for being kind and caring about others! Glad you are here now, from where did you move when you came here?

With all due respect for you as an accomplished NP, who still works some as an RN, I can't be on autopilot at my RN job, either. One example: being in a room with a gentleman recovering from total hip, about to transfer to a LTC facility for rehab, ...

And whoever thought that one nurse having to give meds to 50 patients was a good idea?

Good point you make. I went to school in the early 80's and they weeded folks out (or people often weeded themselves out) and monitored how well or not we were doing and did not hesitate to jump in and intervene if need be. I don't see how anyone c...

Oh, honey (hope you don't find that demeaning at all, but I just feel so badly for you), I am so sorry for all this. What you are describing is to some degree what so many nurses go through to some degree. First of all, packing up and moving 3 hour...

Look online for headbands with buttons on them where they can place the ear loops instead. I am racking my brain to think of the name of one small business that is making these! But look for that online, it exists!

I didn't know that, thanks! You are in France now? Your life sounds interesting!

Sorry, but I am judging you a bit, despite your request not to do so...first, is this your idea of a joke? It doesn't quite sound authentic, but if it is...get out of nursing, even if you do research, you no doubt will have to talk with patients or ...

And I have to add, just because management is fine with it, doesn't mean it's actually YOU that have the problem. I have been a nurse 35 years and have seen a number of instances where another nurse is just unbelievably lazy, rude, not a team player...

I know that there is ALWAYS a chain of command, and that we will get in trouble if we do not follow it, nonetheless, I wonder if you can/should go to a nursing supervisor since your manager does nothing even when this co-worker is reported to physici...

What a horror story! If you have a union (doubtful), PLEASE go NOW to see them. IF not, I would write a letter of resignation saying just what you have said here, and remember: we are caregivers but we are NOT sacrificial lambs!! We have an obliga...

WOW!, I feel JUST the same way! Well said, and pretty sad. These are the responses of other nurses. WOW!.

LOL, yep, have seen a few of those! Used to work with a CNA who, as soon as she clocked in and got her assignment, would go to the cafeteria and return with a huge breakfast, would take plenty of time eating it in the breakroom, forget vitals and pa...

We used to hear "work smarter, not harder:, too =. But it always seemed a big like a way to encourage nurses not to ask for better staffing but to put it all back on the nurses to figure out a way to do the same amount of work more efficiently, Somet...