By-a-thred, RN ADN

And he is more impressed by https://www.pressganey.com/products/patient-experience scores than actual care.

Saying she's "basking in the limelight" comes very close to shaming a fellow nurse. The media will promote what it wants, like the old saying goes, "if it bleeds, it leads". Knocking down nurses right now seems to be the sport of the day. Remember Co...

For an SYSTEM/PROCEDURE failure? She needs some disciplinary action but "but for the grace of God go I" and I choose to show her grace.

This situation will never be resolved as you don't work with the supervisor. I've worked primarily night shift for the last 30 years and this is what happens. Day shift has the opportunity to develop a relationship with supervision/administration tha...

Is the number of the text available to you to research, say, on the staff phone list? Knowing who the toxic individual is would be helpful in avoiding further contact.

You're a nurse, why would you be expected to be treated like a valued employee? Once again, if you are in a female dominated profession, be prepared to be treated like a POS.

I had an instructor tell me that because of congenital hip dysplasia I would never make it as a nurse. That was almost 31 years (and bilateral hip repacements) ago. Nursing instructors are the worst offenders of stereotyping and judging people ever!

Go to your local hospital or nursing agency and see if you can get hired ASAP. I'm certain that if you make yourself available you will find yourself with at least one shift.

I work nights in a rural emergency crisis unit. The company I work for has another crisis unit about 90 miles away in a metropolitan area and has LOTS more resources than we do. Our "triage staff" on nights and weekends is ALWAYS an on-call situation...

I don't think you understood the question. Nobody asked how you performed superhuman, perfect control in the face of utter frustration and stupidity. Try it again after reading the question correctly.

About 20 years ago at a SNF I worked at implemented a policy that if you were to call in you needed to go in to the facility and be assessed by the charge nurse. OK, I'll follow your rules. I went in, promptly puked on her shoes and went home. That p...

Hey, call the doc. Being your patients advocate is priority one. I'm sure that the next time they have an admit to that facility or floor they will put in PRN orders for pain meds rather than risk being awakened for Tylenol at 0200. Don't piss off a ...

I'm late to the party, but I forgot about a charge from almost 25 years prior when I applied for my OK license. I had been a correctional nurse for years and had passed several background checks without a hitch UNTIL APPLYING FOR THAT LICENSE! Never ...

MANY years ago, as and LPN, I quit because the facility I worked at insisted that staff take a patient (HIV+ quadriplegic) outside to smoke. Bed and all. At all hours of the day and night. This patient was verbally abusive and attempted to spit on st...

Remind me again how "nurses eat their young" isn't a thing? Nurses have proven themselves, time and again, to be the most petty and vindictive bunch of "professionals" in the medical field.

Most states don't allow nurses to work longer than 16 hours (unless it's an emergency). Was your "23 hour shift" an emergency or bad planning?

It's never to late for truck driving school.

In the correctional facilities that I have worked in there was stock medications available to cover new medication orders until the patient specific supply was delivered from the out of town pharmacy. This question is a good one to ask your BON, BOPh...

Your only job security is in your ability to take care of your LICENSE. This place is toxic in so many ways. Please feel free to report THEM to the BON and any other state agencies that oversee LTC. Your patients deserve so much better than this bunc...

You guys are funny. I've had less than a dozen "lunch breaks" in the last +25 years.

Nurses have "been sold a bill of goods" since Florence was doing count. We are told that we are to love this job and if we don't we are less than desirable. Do you know any accountants or engineers who are told the same thing? No, because they are do...

With management like this, there is no winning strategy other than to move along to a better job. If they are going to be all butt hurt about not being greeted, how do you think they will react when it's something important that may involve defending...

What was your objective when you decided to go in to nursing?

Give her the direct number to your marketing department. Problem solved LOL

The only job security you will ever have is in your own ability to work within your scope of practice and take care of your own license. And the statement of "go home and watch Youtube videos" smacks of hostile work environment and should not be tole...