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Sorry, just missing too many too fast. Very hard.

I am a Vietnam Vet and a recent ('01, 14 years ago) grad. Pretty familiar with suicide. It's almost never rational. Recently (I guess almost 3 years ago now), a good friend in the end stages of esophageal CA took his life. Maybe I can see that. But i...

Way wrong at way too many levels- have to let it go.

Very cool!!!

I work on a laid back (relatively) tele unit. It's about all I can handle at the moment. If I am forced (you heard right) to float to ER, I just do what I can do and get help for the rest.

I enjoy OB very much. Not only for helping new life into the world and the basic nursing aspect of helping patients, but because so much of what we do in OB could be done differently with much better outcomes. But for me, the door is closed and I jus...

The quality of nursing care is directly related to job satisfaction, which, in large part, is dependent on relationships with coworkers. If administration really cared about the quality of nursing care they provide, they would have several avenues f...

As is the case most of the time, the bottom line is money. Obviously, the NP care is far better from the perspective of the patients; I haven't ever seen any positive picketing for any MD (some negative, though).

Cool. I can identify!!!!

I have taken care of 12 in a med surg unit on the night shift. Interesting and the shift goes by fast. I'm in CA now on a DOU floor with 1:4 day and night. Pretty cool.

Thank you; you are incredible.

My understanding is the salary is far lower in NZ than in Australia; many NZ nurses work over there. If you have no specific draw to NZ, you would be better off working in Australia.

MamaT, Just looking at the calendar-- I'll be 56 in a couple of weeks. Also went back to nights a couple of months ago. It's really in how you take care of yourself physically. Although I know you were mainly venting, it is very important to take ...

It's good that so many are "thinking outside the box." Although I was not the patient's nurse and was functioning as the chaplain, I was in a situation in which the daughter of a patient who had just died was totally overcome with grief (partly due t...

Hi! As I have said, if you don't enjoy doing what you are doing, find a nursing slot that you enjoy. And as has already been said, this place is dangerous-- get out.

The most helpful thing I did (besides change schools) is to find out why nursing questions are asked. The last I looked, Kaplan had the best discussion on that. I wish I had read it at the beginning of school instead of in preparation for the NCLEX.

I recently started as an RN Administrator of a VA Clinic. Because I am a veteran myself, I have an incredible rapport with our patients. It is far more satisfying than any nursing I've done so far. I make twice as much as I did before (although not $...

No, I do not support PAS. What we would consider "quality of life" or "contributions to society" are irrelevant to objective reality. Which, by the way, none of us are really in.

Jesus paid the penalty for your infractions against His character. This is called "love." It's up to you what you will do with it.

The trauma part is key. DID people have suffered and are still suffering and have to have very good help to get over it, which most don't. Its up to us as caregivers to simply help them get through this life. An aside-- those who fake also have is...

Many times in LTC the family has difficulty accepting the reality of the condition of the resident. However, when the family begins to see reality, it is very hard and they almost always take it out on the staff. You are in a position to help them,...

Dear TNNurse, The knife in the back goes right through the heart. The way I see it is that healthcare is a money-making business that has nothing to do with good patient care-- except in the instances that good patient care makes money. Get in a po...

It's just like in anything else-- I've taken care of some that were a lot of fun and some that were a "challenge." People are people, some fun to be with and some not. Learn what you can from everyone.

Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry about the outcome.

I just answered a thread about someone leaving nursing and I said that there were a lot of garbage people in nursing, but even more really nice ones. It may appear that all in the unit are garbage people, but if one (you, I, we ) speaks up, those wh...