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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 ...

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...

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 PA...

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 thin...

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 s...

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! :mo...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 h...

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 childr...

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 satisfa...