everydaynurse

Go to Dr. Oz site and Beyond Diet for both. The first question in my mind is to ask the client to keep a food diary. Find out what is acceptable to them both financial and esotheric. I have been trying myself to eat nonprocessed foods, growing my own food and canning, and we may even get some chickens and turkeys. There is evidence out there. Take an ecology course or even watch Food INC movie. I know that since swichting to a diet with more fruits and vegies and whole grain sprout bread, I am not bloated and droping pounds. With any patient education, I feel you have to find out their info first and then help them to find what will work for them.

I was a patient recently, and I now realize how expensive a prodcedure can be. I also realize as a nurse how much we get paid. It really seems complicated when you look at all the costs in running a hospital. Are there really deficets? I know health insurance is a slow death to a lot of industries. So are hospitals like some other corporations, big salarys on top and to home office?

I too was let go and started doing agency nursing. Pick my days and times. now looking into other nursing jobs not at the bedside. There are other area we can work in. Office jobs are hard to find unless you are a NP or LPN. The money thing again. Good luck.

I was ready to quit nursing and go back to school to get different training. My physical and mental health was deteriorating, and I was crying all the time. I have been in nursing since 1966, and loved it until the last 6 years. Maybe I'm getting to old (64) and just burned out, but I love working with patients and helping them understand their part in their health care. Then my wonderful daughter, who knows me better than anyone, suggested a site for different careers in nursing. Yeah! Didn't know about Wellness and Health Coaching. Now starting on learning about this new area and hope it will pan out. I have been an agency nurse the last six years, and from my limited perspective feel the bigger the hospital the worse the care and all employees are expendable, just robots. Is anybody listening to us?

tax increases or decreases are done by are politician who make sure there pay goes up all the time. Until those guys take a paycut or no increases for 10 yrs, will they know what others go through. Talk about fatcats!

I put you on my prayer list, and please don't worry. Your career is not over. There are plenty of supportive institution to work at, and many other agency's out there also. Why we as medical personel are so cruel to one another is beyond me. Does everyone realize that as long as they keep us fighting petty arguments between one another that we cannot as a collective group changed the situation. Divide and conquer. We've got to quit throwing people away in this country just because they don't think or behave in a manner like us. Show your agency what you typed above and if they are still hard on you, find another agency or another job. If we no longer want to be slaves of the man, we have to act as free men and women with rights. Suzanne Gordon has written several book about what nurses go through, and she also gives solutions. Good luck and God Bless

Depends on where you are relocating to. The Topeka VA is looking for nurses, great place to work and good benifits, mostly 8 hr shifts. Shifts varry and a lot of hospitals will work around your schedules. Small town hospitals in Kansas are a great place to work and very friendly to agency nurses. Some of the larger hospitals are a staffing nightmare with huge ratios. Just have to be specific of what you are looking for, plenty of jobs.

This has also happened to me as an agency nurse. I have told my agency no more nursing homes, I felt I was putting my license on the line. I feel that the regulatory state officals have caused some of these issues with their staffing guidelines. Then the next shift comes on and wants to know why you didn't do this and that you had no idea of, and how come you couldn't function as regular staff does without an orientation or one of two hours worth.

I am an instructor and appreciate your commets and hope you will give feedback to this instructor. This has been a frustration for instructors also. you would think that students who are supposedly adults wouldn't have to be babysat, but this is what happens. I as an instructor have become aware of this and constantly searching for where my students are and what they are doing. I have let them know that there is always something to do and they need to find it. Please everyone let the clinical instructors know your thoughts so we all can prepare better nurses.

My name is Nancy and after 34yrs of practice I am teaching clinicals in a practical nurse program,and hope to go on and get Masters in Educational Nursing. I am loving it. I need to pick a program and having difficulty deciding. I also have a problem student who came from a BSN program which she was removed from after one year in program. So she entered our program at second semester. She doesn't seem to put it together as evidenced by care plan and the management of just one patient. Any suggestions?

I am reading these post and feeling relief that I am not alone in my burnout. I worked for 34 yrs in one hospital and loved it until the last three years. I spoke out (as a charge nurse) against staffing issues and not being able to have LPN and aides. I was demoted and then worked to death. They wanted me out, but I stuck it out. Then one day I made an off hand comment to the charge nurse and was fired on Valentines day for showing my stress at work. I was crushed, as I had given my whole life to this hospital. It was the best thing that ever happened to me at age 58. Now I am doing agencey work and it is better. What I am seeing is a lot of burnout because we are all being placed in loose loose situations. So how to go about making changes? Through education? Working through our organizations? I want to help to make the changes and improve health care for the people of our country, but where do we start? Any sugestions?

It seemd that this physician is way out of line. Also sounds as if he is burned out and frustrated. I think maybe we need to take a second look through at why doc's behave this way. Some of them maybe ego based. But maybe its not about US(nurses), maybe it is about their own frustrations, feelings of inadequcies, or that so many people look for the quick fix and then demand also. A little understanding and listening may get them to open up and not be fearful of being human. Of course if we all treated each other this way instead of having over infalted expectations, we could work as teams to give the best of patient care.