10yearsundermybelt

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   What are the things that make you want to leave nursing?

   10yearsundermybelt replied to Red Shirt 6's topic in General Nursing

   Having a chronic illness and my supervisor, who is not medically affiliated (she came from Nordstrom), threatening to fire me. I have IBS and a tortuous colon. I took a job doing dialysis in the hospital and you can't leave the pt's room at all. That...
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   9 Types of Manipulative Patients

   10yearsundermybelt replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

   I disagree with exaggeration. It could be the worst pain they’ve ever felt. How do we know? I suffer from anxiety and, after caring for my mom in my home who has Alzheimer’s, started having panic attacks. It was, and is, the worst anxiety I have felt...
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   Newer nurse hating cardiac stepdown. Where to go from here?

   10yearsundermybelt replied to michigan94's topic in New Nurse

   I’ve been there, thinking I was incompetent. I’ve been in nursing for 10 years. What I’ve learned is this: if you are feeling chronically overwhelmed and on the verge of quitting the profession for good, switch specialties. Cardiac step down is HARD,...