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Some of us want the responsibility. And there's not enough money in the world to go back to the thankless, back-breaking world of bedside nursing. Let me repeat for you: Sounds like you need a new job. Go be a CRNA.

I'm shocked how unsupportive people are here. "Go back to being an RN the pay is really good nowadays." GET. A. CLUE. Not all of us are in it for the money. A lot of us wanted to get away from nurses like you... NPs can learn, just like RNs. The post...

Diabetics, obese, drug addicts, etc. aren't HURTING OTHERS with their poor decisions. There's a big difference. Nurses are allowed to not agree with or even like their patients. But nobody here is saying they aren't providing fair and "just" care to ...

Put the sandwich/meth pipe/bottle down and get a job.

Red flag(s). Dump him.

Is this a NCLEX prioritization question? Good grief. Patient comfort (especially in a hospice patient!) should be the No. 1 priority. Weight? Who cares. Guess--and do not say that we haven't all done this. (It's not a pediatric patient who will have ...

My advice to you is to find a different career path in nursing. Public health? Research? Occupational health? Insurance? I hear you that you are at your wit's end right now, but please understand that your nursing education and professional licensure...

I started out as a new grad NICU nurse. I had a great preceptor. But quickly discovered that this is not the place for me. I found that, on the whole, NICU nurses don't really want to be nurses. They will freely admit that they cringe at the thought ...

I don't get it... this is what nurses do. Call and ask the provider for a pain med order. Day or night. No, it's not the last shift's responsibility. No, you can't control if the provider answers your call. Your job is to evaluate the patient, ask f...

It is a sad situation. But hospitals are for acutely ill patients, not people whose families are at their wits end... Too many times hospitals are dumping grounds when families would rather spend their time and money on things (cigarettes, tattoos, p...

Nobody is forcing fast food on any group of people. Advertisers target the people who purchase the product. That is their job. Nurses tend to forget that there is such a thing as personal responsibility.

To nursing managers, no it's not the responsibility of bedside nurses to recruit staff, ever. And please expect everyone's fake smiles to wither when short staffing continues ad infinitum. If you want to reward nurses, give out gift cards that can be...

I felt obligated to help by going back to hospital bedside nursing during the pandemic. I lasted exactly one year, to the day. I was rewarded by a hospital system that did not protect me=one (1) N95... for my entire year there. So of course I got COV...

Sounds exactly like the progressive care unit I work on. My last shift is coming up. It's unsafe. Hate it. There are so many better nursing jobs out there. Don't believe the "hero" rhetoric. Get out! And become an NP as soon as you can.

Um, that’s quite a leap. I only said I’d take whatever job I can get assuming there won’t be much demand for an inexperienced NP. That doesn’t mean I’ll work for nothing—but I’m not going to demand six figures with zero experience.

I’m in NP school because RNs are treated like medication administering monkeys. I am actually interested in having more knowledge and having more power to help people. NPs who are in it for the money were RNs who were in it for the money. Not my kind...

I am an older nurse who went back to hospital work during COVID. I was relentlessly bullied by my coworkers. They made all kinds of nasty comments about how I was incompetent and didn't have time management skills. I'm in nurse practitioner school......

I went back to hospital nursing because of lack of PPE in the beginning of the COVID crisis. What an eye-opener! I've been a nurse for 15 years and I can tell you that hospital nursing has DEVOLVED into an extremely toxic working environment. Look el...

Night shift versus day shift=One more reason to become an NP...

Just because someone is sitting at a computer doesn't mean they aren't working. In order to SURVIVE, I let call bells ring when I need to get some documentation done. In my hospital it takes a good 30-45 minutes to document that first assessment and ...

Many times MDs put patients on tele as a CYA. And it will be a nurse thrown under the bus if something goes astray. I work in a PCU. We have tele patients but there are no monitors in patient rooms. There is a central tele monitoring staffed by NON-...

The hospital only cares about staffing a nurse body in the ICU. You are responsible for your license and scope. Never ever (ever) assume that anyone is looking out for you or going to help you. If it feels wrong, it is. But you will absolutely be see...