DebRN06

Exactly what has happened in this thread is what, unfortunatly, drives me crazy about this site. The OP was NOT saying she treats the pts differently, in fact she stated "I will do everything in my power to help them get better or be as comfortable a...

Update: Unfortuately, I was unable to attend the unit meetings so I do not know exactly what was said by co-workers. Supposedly, per manager, only a few people spoke up against it. Others like it. I had a more productive talk with her about it last w...

It just never ends. For the last year or more, management has been harping about hourly rounds. They have gone as far as to go in to rooms with us and watch us do our hourly rounds, making sure we have hit each key behavior. Also, they will go to eac...

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing that!! So beautiful and touching!

Parkland Community College in Champaign, Illinois offers these classes online. I know the organic/bio chem class is set up really well. The lab component is done at home. Parkland.edu

I completely agree, it IS public humiliation. I am so irritated by this! It is not just the nurses that have to sign off, it is also the CNA's. I honestly cannot explain why they have suddenly started this, but it is hospital-wide. We were the last ...

Yes, we do have a badge tracker. They print the call-light report at the end of each shift and any call-lights >2 min they make the nurse "sign-off" on. Although they say that this is not going to lead to disciplinary actions (which I do not belie...

our mgr came on the unit and called a "brief meeting" to, as usual, harp on us about hourly rounding, our scores, complaints, etc. after listening to her tell us how horrible we are and hearing her speak to us patronizingly, i finally told her that s...

I wouldn't say "not for you." I had 2 new-grad orientations. I left my 1st nursing job after 6 months because I could not work nights anymore and there were no day positions. I wasn't too impressed by their new-grad orientation... until I started my ...

No, trust me, it didn't. We have gone through it with her time & time again. She has called meetings to specifically ask our opinions on what is wrong & what/how things need to be changed. We have collectively and individually told her, but s...

No, unfortunately I would not recommend nursing. It makes me sad that I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this profession that I truly believed I would love. Daily I become more disappointed. There are so many things that could be (and I hope wil...

I'm fine with the hourly rounding thing. Actually think it is a good idea and honestly has saved me from annoyance a few times from pts that had said I hadn't been in the room. All my manager had to do was look at the rounding sheet and see my initia...

had a homeless schitzophrenic pt on our unit and after a few days off found out he was d/c'd to a homeless shelter. i cannot understand how this man was d/c'd back on to the streets. he was flat-out scary. completely delusional and aggressive. he was...

i did not take offense to your post (in case you thought i did). it just frustrates/confuses me that i have seen others petitioned with far less mental health issues than this man and they have stayed on our unit for days until a bed opened. again, i...

don't think i would have had to kidnap or false-imprison...i guess i would have questioned the md... maybe detail the need for the following to be filled out: petition for involuntary/judicial admission **a person with mental illness and who because ...

I was off duty. But, was given the low-down on what happened... 4 code strongs called on unit, pt swingin at staff, code strong called in lobby. That all happened the day he was d/c'd. He was obviously not properly medicated or lucid. He needed to b...

State of Denial where the powers that be live, where the supposed nursing shortage has been made up to deny the real issues and ensure problems are not addressed... (i.e. keeping nurses from leaving d/t working conditions in hospitals or keeping nurs...

Looking at your GPA from 13 yrs ago? Things change. You can't compare from then to now. I always thought I was bad at math and science and when I (finally) started back at college after a 8yr hiatus i found out i was actually much more interested in ...

Yup... that is exactly what we are to use. Just drives me crazy. Where is a facility that actually have mgmt/ceo that come up with any improvement on their own, or that see the root cause of real issues???? What do they pay for this, umm....stuff, a...

Had to reply to this one. Didn't sound half bad??? Consider yourself blessed???? Wow!! They have you right where they want you!! Here's what bothers me when I read these kind of replies... Bad conditions are bad conditions. Period. So what if you...

You need to find another job and RUN, not walk, outta there!! Even if things calm down, you are always going to have to watch your back. Sounds like your co-worker is the type of person that doesn't care if she even throws herself under the bus as lo...

I thanked her for the apology and told her it meant a lot to me. We were actually discussing what happened for about 5-10 minutes.

In March I posted about being yelled at by an MD. Not only once...but she came back to the unit to yell at me again and called a couple hours later to continue her rant. https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/upset-about-being-yelled-md-long-288246.html#po...

Perhaps it is not disinterest in learning, but rather being focused on doing the job they there to do and a desire to do that well. I know there are plenty of times when I would like to "pick the docs brain" or find out what's going on with a co-wor...

We have an MD at my facility that is treated like God. It drives me crazy what he gets... and gets away with. He has caused so much trouble in the past that the hospital actually PAYS for him to have his own RN with him on rounds. There is one other ...