PintheD

PintheD

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  1. Terminated from first nursing job!

    PintheD replied to ILNurse728's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have any advice for you. Just want to say I am sorry that this has been your experience. Keep your head up! Any wise COB's have any advice for our fellow

  2. How can I make an impact in healthcare?

    PintheD replied to mintkiss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Study Healthcare Policy. A nursing degree would not be the most advantageous for your

  3. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

    PintheD replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    CNA as your only clinical experience to an advanced nursing degree? Reputable program? Who is going to hire you? I am afraid for your patients. Im afraid to get

  4. Nursing: The Highly Skilled Customer Service Representative

    PintheD replied to gleanns's topic in General Nursing

    I walked away from the bedside in 2011 after coming to the realization that this insufferable Patient Satisfaction nonsense wasn't going away. After fourteen years as an ICU nurse from New York to...

  5. Nursing: The Highly Skilled Customer Service Representative

    PintheD replied to gleanns's topic in General Nursing

    Not surprised at all, OP, to read that you are a Nursing Director. I knew that before I finished your post. How? Your voice is so out of touch with a nurses reality. The disconnect hurts my

  6. Nursing as a second career

    PintheD replied to katieike's topic in General Nursing

    I am a second degree/second career nurse. Next year it will be 20 years since I graduated from nursing school, seventeen of which were spent at the bedside. I wish I could get those years back....

  7. Is it me? What happened to nursing?

    PintheD replied to Burlshoe114's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have seen the same. Enough of being treated like a naughty child while shouldering the huge responsibility of fellow human beings' welfare. How did this happen? The current acceptable treatment...

  8. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD posted a topic in General Nursing

    Different day, different crap. Today I was screamed at by a patient for mentioning one of his admitting dx; syncope, GI bleed, acute renal failure. No one had mentioned the ARF, he assumed I had the...

  9. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of patients suffer from "comprehension" issues. Could be the stress of illness or could be a general inability to process information. The trouble (clearly stated in my post) stemmed from me...

  10. Nervous

    PintheD replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations!!

  11. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    No interest. I'm done, totally defeated. It's been a long time coming, now I am a nursing cautionary tale. I'm going to concentrate my energy on finding a job outside of the hospital and ideally out...

  12. Peri Cares

    PintheD replied to jlenamae's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Why do you teach them this? In the real world I have never seen this done and we were taught the same nonsense in nursing school. I'm not going to waste time fiddling around with a poop filled...

  13. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, Altra, I read the first sentence of your reply and started feeling all warm and fuzzy. Then I read the paragragh that followed... Why are you offended by my mindset in approaching my job? Are...

  14. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    "It just makes me cringe to hear someone say that they will stop communicating and reduce him/herself to a task monkey." - ALTRA AllNurses GUIDE Monkey? Who said anything about being a monkey? Oh,...

  15. Locker dilemma

    PintheD replied to Morainey's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Be the bigger person, move your stuff. We're blue collar shift workers. Some of us have awful

  16. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Pinkfluffybunny i agree. This is why I'm going forward as the nurse who smiles and nods, as if I can't read or understand English. Limited communication is my new motto. Here is my new work model:...

  17. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know. Patient didn't want to communicate with me (nor I with him) regarding dx, however subsequent unrelated interaction with said patient was pleasant. Actually my impression was he was a bit...

  18. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I'm going forward with this mindset, with the exception of patient care. Here is my new dictate: Keep your emotional energy for those in your personal life, give your patients your utmost...

  19. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Guttercat - I think there is a lot of power in playing dumb. Think about it. You still do your job to the best of your abilities and move on. Unless management wants to blame you for the rain or a...

  20. NO, NO, NO!!

    PintheD replied to PintheD's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, Beckster, I agree. However in this specific clinical environment there is no face to face report. I'm dependent on the written word. Now in a perfect world I would have read all the ecare...

  21. If you had to do it over again would you?

    PintheD replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    I posted on this thread earlier and it was negative. Went back to work today as a prn nurse in a hospital after 3 months and it was awful!!! An attending "ordered" me to change a patients admitting...

  22. I suck...

    PintheD replied to workingharder's topic in General Nursing

    It's a learning curve, workingharder. I believe you're a second degree nurse? I assume you left a job where you had a achieved a level of proficiency. Now you're starting over. Give yourself a...

  23. The ridiculousness of basing reimbursement on customer satisfaction

    PintheD replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    It's all a bunch of nonsense. What is the worst case scenario for the staff RN if patient satisfaction scores aren't top notch? We will be denied a raise, likely 2%. That's much less than $1000.00...

  24. Is this new nurse culture shock or is this plain out blasphemy?

    PintheD replied to Marie.rn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Marie, please know what you are experiencing is an awful introduction to nursing. Reminds me of the joke: What do you call a medical student who graduates top of his class? Doctor. What do you call...

  25. Work ethic, what's your take on it all

    PintheD replied to cardiacrocks's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    CapeCodMermaid I'm assuming you're a Nurse Manager based on the above. I can't understand your position here. You want your staff nurses to hold each other accountable for attendance? That's rich!...