Ms_Interpret

The amount of flair you imbue your pettiness with is entirely up to you ?

FedEx the badge to the facility ATTN: whoever is making this ridiculous request. Then email her the tracking number. :)

Having worked in Med/Surg, ICU, and Skilled hospital units myself, I will say that after these Corrections med passes, hospital med passes feel like a leisurely stroll through the unit. The only thing I can narrowly equate it to was when I was a teenager working fast food on the food line during a meal rush. The med pass window is a little more lax in Corrections, in that we are given more time before and after due time, but we have our own time constraints to worry about too. Namely, inmate count. If you don't get your med pass done before they lock everyone down for count, you have to wait sometimes 1.5-2 hours until count/recount is complete before you can resume your med pass.

It says "keep on rolling" not "keep eye rolling." 84 is pretty well up there. You never know just how possible something is until you actually do it, sometimes. Maybe not fun. Maybe not leisurely or comfortable...But possible.

*Shrug* Maybe. I'm not sure what it is you're wanting me to tell you, but I don't really want to spend a lot of time convincing you that what you believe is impossible is possible. You're definitely free to form your own conclusions.

The facility that I work in does not have that kind of history. The majority of nurses in my facility have been employed there for a decade or more.

I think some experience in corrections nursing is necessary for your full understanding.

Every job has it's advantages and disadvantages. You take the good with the bad and keep on rolling.

Corrections is a little different from Med/Surg or hospital nursing. I don't do assessments on these patients unless the patient is newly locked down or there is a medical emergency. They aren't infirm. I pass these meds because it is a safety and security issue for them to keep and take their meds themselves. And it's not a corporate facility. It's a prison. It's a state facility.

The kind of personality/person who is predisposed to being in nursing often has a difficult time saying, "No." Learn to. It is an essential life skill.

What's the largest number of patients you have passed meds on in a shift. I recently took a break from ICU and took a foray into Corrections. They do 8 hour shifts. I'm the sole nurse on evening shift in their behavioral house (tons of psych meds). The house has 4 wings. The way it's set up, you have to -pre-pull meds for each patient in the med room and hand carry them up to the wings to pass them. Last night I pulled and passed meds on 125 patients (including diabetics). What's your record?

The fact that she reconstituted it makes me think she knew good and well that she wasn't giving versed. I'm not ruling out the possibility that this was a sabotage attempt aimed at the nurse she was covering for.

I'm on my first travel assignment and the facility has approached me a few times to consider signing on as permanent staff. There has been made mention of buying out my contract. What would that entail? What does that mean?

Much as we might like to, I don't think anyone here can plausibly promise you protection from being defrauded by some random person of furnished finder. There are no guarantees in life. Take the plunge or don't. That is entirely up to you! Best of luck.

Missed opportunity for ideal communication..Both on your part and on the part of your agency. Knowing that you are fairly new to travel nursing, the agency could have given you a heads up when you all were discussing the scheduling requirements of your contract. But then again, if it were me, I would have asked my recruiter, "Now, are you sure I will have X day off for my test? Or will I need to make other arrangements?" Lesson learned. You'll know better going forward. Best of luck.

I don't take your hostility personally. It doesn't bother me because I don't hold it. You hold it. It is your hostility, not mine. I know it existed long before I ever entered your sphere of influence and judging from your responses, I imagine it will be there long after I'm gone, bubbling under the surface, waiting to be unleashed on the next person who says something you don't agree with. My hope for you is that you will eventually realize that it's eating *you* alive and not the people you are directing it at or projecting it onto and hopefully you will learn to just let it go. Ciao.

I can't even begin to understand why it bothers you so much that someone you don't even know might have the audacity to forge their own path without first heeding or acknowledging your priceless, sage advice. Or why it bothers you so much that I have the gumption to talk about my own experiences from a place of confidence. That's not for me to know.

Once again, I am not beholden to you in any way and so unfortunately your opinion means very little to me. I have a feeling that that is difficult for you to hear because you have shown that you value your own opinion very highly. I'm sorry that we aren't (and will likely never be) in that same camp. It's nothing personal. I'm just not easily influenced by other people's rhetoric. I prefer to draw my own conclusions. And I trust myself implicitly. I don't need your endorsement or permission to do that. And yeah, you're right...I would definitely suggest that you work through whatever it is inside of you that triggers that insecurity when your ideas are challenged. Being able to identify and mitigate your own personal blindspots can only make you a stronger person. But you don't have to take my advice. Still, I'm not going to take responsibility for your anger or for what you choose to do with it. That's your job. Best of luck to you.

Of course. Nothing is always true. It's the expectation, but reality has a habit of falling short of expectation. But the reason expectations, policies, procedures and guidelines exist is to have something to reference when shortfalls happen. It never ceases to amaze me just how little it takes for some people to lose their cool. ...Come to think of it, maybe you need a hug too. Y'all need a group hug sesh.

I think you need a hug. Emergent, you should give klone a hug.

If you ask a question you already know the answer to, it's a rhetorical question. And the reason most often used for asking a rhetorical question is to cast aspersions on a participant in a discussion. I was giving klone the benefit of the doubt.... Are you saying I shouldn't have?

The agency is responsible for vetting each candidate based on the facility's needs and expectations. The nurse's qualifications are assessed before the contract is even offered, generally. If the facility agrees that the candidate is a good fit experience-wise, the facility offers the position. If the candidate's experience and credentials are not in line with the facility's needs, that should have been addressed by the facility and the agency before the traveler ever dared to venture out to the assignment.

Truth is, the Cheetos are less likely to burn a hole in your stomach lining than the 4th Diet Coke you had today.

I have no doubt that you are an authority on rudeness and therefore have full sovereignty to assert this belief. And by my standards, this post meets all the criteria for utmost rudeness that could now or ever be supposed. - A fellow rude person

This probably won't work for everybody, but here's what I'd do: 1. Stay up until the sun comes up. 2. Walk to the kitchen and start a pot of coffee. 3. Go into the bathroom and start the water for a lukewarm shower. 4. Go back to the kitchen and turn off the coffee pot. 5. Go to the bathroom again and shut off the water. 6. Crawl into bed under a nice, warm, soft blanket and go to sleeeeeeeep. 7. Go back to working night shift. 8. Never attempt to transition to day shift again.