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I've had the school dream with the final exam part too! I'll have to Google it!

Yes! I have a recurring nightmare that I did not know that a patient was assigned to me for a the whole shift, and NEVER took care of the patient the whole time! :uhoh21:

You are absolutely right about this. Many times there is a misconception that seniority automatically wins. Not true.

I work with a nurse who is anorexic and has a constant smell like this, more like rotting garbage, from vomiting all the time. It doesn't smell like vomit, it's a horrible, metabolic type of odor. Could this person possibly have an eating disorder?

:yeahthat: Thank you, that's EXACTLY everything I wanted to say, but was COMPLETELY SPEECHLESS for a minute after reading that post! Whoa! Are they kidding! Perhaps she would like to contact her local newspaper, as well!

All I can say is OMG! Don't walk, RUN AWAY! FAST! VERY FAST! GO NOW!

We still do this and we are a huge university medical center! However, for our OR scrubs, we have a Pyxsis type of machine to make sure we don't steal any scrubs! :smackingf

Ambulatory Surgery Centers are fine as long as you are in good health. They are not for people with complicated medical histories or are high risk in any way. In the event of emergency, they would call 911 and transport you to the hospital. If you are not comfortable, just let your surgeon know that you would rather have the procedure in the hospital. By the way, never be afraid to ask questions of your physician.

Every other weekend here is Friday and Saturday. We are also required to work 2 Sundays (as dayshift is required to work 2 Fridays) a month. Most people choose to do those Sundays on their weekend so as not to screw up their weekend off.:beer:

Oh, how I agree with that!

I think an emergent situation like that is a little different that the unfortunate way mandatory overtime is usually used, when adequate staffing was never provided, there WASN'T any relief scheduled, and you are just expected to stay. I believe this was the original intention of mandatory overtime legislation.

Wow, how fancy! While I haven't had to do it for a long while, I used to smash the pill inside the blister package with a Nitro bottle! No fancy pill crushers for us!

Wow, I thought only we had this problem. H&P and consent DEFINATELY required to go into the room! We are constantly getting grief for this, as if it is new or something! I'm wondering how many others have problems with patients not going to PAT requiring everything to be done on admit. Otherwise known as "my doctor told me you would do it here". We spend sooo much time time doing labs, EKG, CXR in addition to our lovely new and very time-consuming computerized charting. If the patients would just go to PAT, and the docs had the paperwork on the charts, everything would move so much faster!

In my union hospital you get time and a half if you work the holiday plus an additional 8 paid hours to take another time. If you are not working the holiday, you get 8 hours of pay.

We have a nurse where I work that used to receive a lot of gifts and things. She was brand new to our unit as well as a fairly new nurse and it just kind of made us go hmmmmm? We have two schools of thought on the subject: 1. She was sending things to herself to try to impress everyone since she was new. (She is a little nuts!) 2. She used to pull up a chair to the bedside and sit there with the patient for a VERY long time while we ran around like nuts doing her work!:angryfire 3, A combination of both! It is 2 years later now and she never gets anything anymore! Additionally, she is one of the rudest, laziest nurses that I have ever had the displeasure of working with and she is privately referred to as the "chair jockey" (since she does not get out of it, EVER!

Welcome to the world of nursing! In my experience, unfortunately, I have seen more codes run like a cluster you-know-what than not. As for the nurse who was just standing there, sometimes when its not your patient you have more prospective. I've seen a lot of experienced nurses "freeze up" when its there patient, but they're great with someone else's. If you are going to bring it up to your manager, I wouldn't even mention this code specifically or any particular staff, but just say that you think it would be a good idea to have a mock code. It can't hurt!

I did PRN only for several years, giving it up 2 years ago when I was offered a part-time position that I really wanted for the long haul. The flexibility was great, rarely was I cancelled, but I have to say I really love that paid time off now! :monkeydance:

I totally agree with everything in the above post. As a new grad I worked nights on a telemetry floor, and there was more time to learn the rationale for a lot of things, and even read the charts. During the day, sometimes its just too busy to learn and its more time management, manager management, and just getting done what you need to get done. You just have to do what you think is right for you.:)

No, but ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!! Give ME a break!

I'm so sorry this is happening to you. This actually happens where I work too. Luckily, I am not involved on either side. We do have one nurse that this is done to. I feel that the nurses who do it are intimidated by her because she is a much more intelligent person in general and a WAY more skilled nurse than they are. I know that she went to the Manager and told her that if a stop was not put to it, she would file a harrassment grievence. Our facility as a harrassment policy that is taken so seriously it is mailed to our homes every year. They were spoken to and believe it has calmed down. There is still always an undertone of it, though. Speak to your manager and find out what your facility's policy is, they probably have one. If nothing changes, I would get out of there. It is not healthy to be in that kind of situation.:icon_hug:

Tazzi, Tweety and CVICURN2003 - wow you guys, thanks for the :redbeathe !!! By the way, on the topic of "well you don't have kids", my best friend who is a nurse without kids, actually had another nurse tell her that she didn't need to take a summer vacation because she doesn't have kids and can take vacation anytime! WHAT???!!! You can't make this stuff up!

OK, as a mother of an 8,6 and 4 year old, I would just like to say I can't stand the "but I have little kids" tantrum. I would never be so obnoxious as to think someone without children does not deserve to enjoy the holiday as much as I do. What we have done in the past when we have needed to work Christmas (my husband works holidays, too) is write a letter to Santa Claus explaining that mommy or daddy has to work on Christmas, and could he please come to our house the morning before Christmas. (We don't say after because we wouldn't want to make them wait that long!) Santa has always managed to come on whatever day we needed him to and we never lost out on a great time! (One time Santa even came on Christmas eve afternoon while we were out! :)

I am very sorry that you feel attacked on this thread. However, you did ask, and you are getting the opinion of people who have been there, done that. Clearly you know what you want to do, so why ask? I will tell you that when I first had my children I was like you and wanted to stay home. My husband (who is a paramedic) worked 5 12s night shift. It was awful. He never saw our children because he was either sleeping or working. There was a lot of stress. Even when he was sleeping, it was often interrupted by babies crying, children playing, lawn mowers, etc., things that my only wake you for a split second, but affects the quality of sleep. After I had #3, we decided that I would work part-time. My children have never been in daycare. I work around my husbands rotating schedule. It works out. We share parenting. We share housework (although I'm the only one who does it right ) My husband is not burnt out. I only work the days that he was off the night before. On days that my husband has worked the night before, he sleeps for a while and then we are both home with our children that are not in school. There is a lot of family time, and my husband gets to enjoy that just as much as I do. My children have thrived on this arrangement. You do not need to be a nurse to have this kind of arrangement. Even if he worked 3-4 12s you could work somewhere doing whatever 2 days a week. It may not be your dream job, but how many of us are lucky enough to live a dream? I know you say your husband is ok with this, and I believe that it is true. While some have been harsh, most of the posters here know what it is like to work 12 hour night shifts and it is brutal. (Yes I once did it too, and hated it.) Additionally, you husband may not be able to get a PRN job as a new grad. Usually experience is required for those, so it is not something you would be able to do right away. I do not think that this thread has turned into stay-at-home vs. working moms. I think it is more about an unrealistic and possibly dangerous expectation. In the back of your mind you must have some doubt or I don't think you would have posted. Good luck to you.

I have to agree with Tweety on this, most incident reports in my facility (or threat of them) are more for the satisfaction of "writing someone up". This is usually physicians. Sometimes the mere "threat" to write someone up gives them the satisfaction the seek. I guess they think that scares us! Usually when I hear one ranting about writing one, I open the drawer and hand it over! The only incident reports I have written are related to patient falls, not writing up staff. In fact, this week was the first time I wrote up staff, a first year resident who is a pompous you-know-what and needed a small dose of being put in his place. Usually if it is a staff issue, I will just speak directly to the person. I find this to be more effective since they may never know I wrote an incident report in the first place, as usually the buck stops with handing the report to the supervisor!