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  1. Incorporating One's Faith into One's Work

    burn out replied to Lilnurse0803's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I believe if you feel God lead you to be a nurse then you need to let him do his work through you...be the vessel. Let him use your hands and mind to help others but it will have to be him doing the...

  2. Admits after 6:00 pm? Does your hospital do this?

    burn out replied to PickMePlze's topic in General Nursing

    Learn what the rules are at your facility and play by them. First they can not send any patient that report has not previously been called on...If it is at the end of the shift and I am tied up and I...

  3. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    burn out replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    You say you have been in the profession for 20 years but how long have you been a nurse? Or are you just now starting as a new Rn getting flack from people your own age who have been a RN for 20...

  4. Nurses' Unions

    burn out replied to nursemike's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    We have voted them out several times at my hospital all for most the same reason being they really can't do that much for you other than charge union dues. Mike what area in wild wonderful west...

  5. I need encouragement!

    burn out replied to autopsy's topic in General Nursing

    First get very comfortable with what you are doing. Start comparing the difference in each patients breath sounds, read a pt history then go try and listen for the heart murmur so you will know what...

  6. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    burn out replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Then there is a herd of dinosaurs at the teaching hospital I used to work at. Those poor residents didn't know what was hitting them..talk about leading lambs to slaughter they not only got eaten as...

  7. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    burn out replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Not to forget to mention the ones looking to hit the jack pot of their "MRS" degree with a wealthy doctor. Look out when the new residents hit the

  8. **nurses Who Eat Their Young Should Be Kicked To The Curb***

    burn out replied to suziesunshine's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I find this posters comments an insult to me and all other middle age nurses who are doing nother more than trying to survive this world ourselves. If she is looking for respect I suggest...

  9. Triad

    burn out replied to hanna-beacon's topic in General Nursing

    Triad is a spin off of HCA (Hospital Corp of America) which was formerly owned by Sen. Bill Frist. The hospital I worked for was HCA and Triad was going to take it over but for some reason didn't....

  10. Difficult situation

    burn out replied to weesyanne's topic in General Nursing

    I would page her every single time the alarm peeped the next time I worked with her then ask her why she took so long to show up. If she wants to know every time it goes off I would let her and expect...

  11. As nurses, Do We "OverHelp?" Can we Change?

    burn out replied to Cattitude's topic in General Nursing

    You call it overhelp I call it fixing. I have to fix everything and do everything. I do this not only with my patients but with my family to a fault. I can not help it , I think it is a control issue...

  12. insubordination

    burn out replied to hhrhrn41's topic in General Nursing

    I think you have to refuse to do something to be insuboridnate or not take a direct order. Like they might say"Are you refusing to float, or take your assignment." I think with what you stated they...

  13. How do you deal with ICU superiority complex?

    burn out replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    those are the same reasons ICU and Med/surg give but we are still floated. What is the difference when the ER nurse says it? When we are full we are told to make room. When we say we don't know how...

  14. How do you deal with ICU superiority complex?

    burn out replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    It is time for the ICU and Med-Sur/Tele nurses to unite. Why is it that all these nurses are expected from time to time to float to other units and adapt to the environment...much of which is...

  15. Deciding whether to drop out CRNA school?

    burn out replied to micugirl's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    No you can not claim bankruptcy on government programs, that's the guaranty on the loan. Yes it was verbal harassment but went beyond that. One day we were transferring a pt. from the OR table back...

  16. Would you recommend nursing to your daughter?

    burn out replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry no disrespect intended, I just don't have a son . I guess I should have said would you recommend nursing to your children to be politically

  17. smallpox vaccine gone awry

    burn out replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    I think an outbreak of smallpox from a terrorist act is far less than one caused from our own stupidity. If this is a live strand given and most of the population has not had the vaccine, why not...

  18. Would you recommend nursing to your daughter?

    burn out replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe a summer job. I really don't want her to stop and take any time off from school, I am afraid she will like the independence and a pay check (no matter how small) and not go back to school. I...

  19. Would you recommend nursing to your daughter?

    burn out replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    Yes you are right . I just can't think of any other profession known to eat their young though. I really feel as a good mother I should support her decisons whatever they are and let her learn by...

  20. Communicating with children

    burn out replied to nurselala33's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sur that I fully understand your question. I have always thought of blood pressure in terms of water flowing through a garden hose and how when it flows through a smaller more narrow hose the...

  21. Typical schedule RN at hospital

    burn out replied to lizzyberry's topic in General Nursing

    We have fixed schedules where I work with senority getting first pick. When I had day care I worked monday thursday friday every week 7a-7p. Now that I no longer have day care I work every friday...

  22. Blood in the IV

    burn out replied to sunshineonleith's topic in Emergency

    Seen this one time. the patient came back from surgery with what was suppose to be a RIJ but instead turned out to be Right carotid artery. First signal something was wrong was that the IV pump kept...

  23. Nurses targets for IRS?

    burn out replied to rnmommy23's topic in General Nursing

    Not only believe it but have lived it and I just use the EZ

  24. I could have strung up my teammate yesterday

    burn out replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gosh where I work patients are not even allowed to smoke anywhere. Neither are the employees or visitors for that

  25. update on steppping on senior nurses toes

    burn out replied to b eyes's topic in General Nursing

    There is one person that works the nightshift that habitually turns of the alarms because they keep ringing out and he doesn't like to hear them. I have reported him and reported him, and a couple of...