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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 nurse?

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

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 old.

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 San Francisco I had learned a thing or two. All tha...

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 head.

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. Nursing crushed me emotionally and has practically de...

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 of nurses in the US is healthcare's dirty little se...

I, for one, am interested in the original topic of this thread. Guttercat took the time to start this thread with the intention of having a discussion regarding nurses' goals in light of changes in nursing. It seems things have been derailed here. ...

Guttercat I couldn't agree with you more. The landscape is changing before our eyes. Very soon we are going to pay the cost of not having a unified voice. Dana Beth Weinberg wrote Codegreen in 2003, a very fine study on what she labeled the "dism...

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 wrong patient info. I didn't. Proceeded to expla...

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 sharing with a patient what the MD should have explai...

Congratulations!!

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 of nursing altogether. Sorry everyone for spewing...

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 washcloth - it's disgusting, unnecessary, and a colossa...

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 you a bedside nurse? Specifically do you work med/s...

"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, you did. The cheerleader for communication is a n...

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

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: safety, complete charting, figure it out/that's ...

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 sheepish.

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 clinical judgement. When time does not permit, co...

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 snow storm, no harm - no fowl. Thats what I'm loo...

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 (CERNER) notes and would have a clear picture. Not so...

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 diagnosis. Totally out of the scope of nursing, b...

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 break. First off, change your thinking. You know you...

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 annual after tax dollars. Not the end of the worl...