heathIam RN

SHHHHHHhhhhhh! Now the secret is out and you've given it away. If we cure diseases we will all be out of a job. Sure we all know how to cure cancer, diabetes, HIV, trauma injuries, athletes foot fungus, seizures, the common cold, migraines, congenita...

Ooooo, you're not a very compassionate nurse, you probably eat your young and lateral hostility blah, blah, blah. I loved it. I am really looking forward to a conversation I have to have with a nurse who I am pretty sure is one of those who thinks sh...

Looking for some suggestions and ideas of what is a reasonable expectation here...in the past the picu I work in had a fairly unforgiving attitude that if you didn't get it within a short period of time you were out. Now, we have made attempts to rec...

Thanks for your responses. We have already implemented actions along the lines of what has been suggested. The emerging concern is the apparent inability to transfer learning from one situation to another. As a previous RR nurse I would expect an und...

I am astounded at this AND that it was allowed to continue over years! Where the hell was this resident's supervisor? Succinycholine isn't even pain medication, it's paralysis! Why was this not brought forward the very first time she uttered this? Th...

No, not too old, but I would be concerned about your willingness to be swayed by the opinions of others so easily. You also need to realize there are hundreds of different kinds of nursing, so just because you don't like cleaning up vomit doesn't mea...

There's an old adage in nursing - you can't fix stupid. Facebook, twitter and all the other social networking sites prove the adage true. People are willfully stupid about what they post online and who they share information with. Just because someo...

Cultural sensitivity gone amuck. I find it hard to understand how a manager would even suggest such a thing to the staff. I like the idea of asking for a behavioural policy for this. Dare them to make it policy. In my country (Canada) when we run up ...

Now why does this refer to only female nurses? I'm sure we all know plenty of male nurses who view their scrub wearing with a very similar perspective. I've even sighted one or two residents wearing hospital provided scrubs out on the street shopping...

Absolutely no right to know this extermely private information. Our culture has gone way too far in thinking exveryone's private life is within thier shere of 'right to know'. Just because we can know what Lindsey Lohan's favourite sexual perversion ...

Oh yes please, close it down so that words that might disturb the so called positive encouragement won't have to be viewed. Or thought about, or considered. Very sad and disturbing that raising questions is seen as negative and discouraging. When did...

Thanks to kty1, at the very least I know that there are others out there who see the problems and are concerned enough to speak up.

See, all those who posted at what a mean, negative person I was to attack those poor, dedicated people who keep writing their exams are perhaps a good part of what is wrong with nursing. I didn't attack the first poster, nor did I suggest anything ab...

My kind of judgement? Wow! talk about judgement. You know nothing about me other than that I have posted I fear for the profession, the patients and the staff due to the dumbing down of nursing. Let me tell you of how far I have come in nursing. I st...

Ok, first off I want to say here that I am in no way casting aspersions on teh author of this thread, but I just need to ask...Is anyone else but me concerned that nurses are practicing who had difficulty passing the licencing exam? I'm not at all co...

It's not impossible, but it is hard. 22 years ago I was a single parent of three children getting my degree when I found out in fourth year I was pregnant with 4th child. I gave birth 3 days into the final term and returned to class the next week. Ba...

So what? People, women in particular, have gone into nursing for decades because it offered them a means of making a decent living. Does this make them any worse a nurse because they consider their needs when selecting a career? Sacrificing yourself ...

First born female but second born in the family. My older brother is a doctor (does that count?) but my father never drank. So that blows that theory. Just to add to the statistics, my mother, also a nurse was the second born daughter of a father tha...

Oh yeah, that reminds me of the liver transfusion method favoured in PICU - another sign things are going badly with your patient

When your HR, SBP, PAP, sats, RR and innotrop infusion rates all equal 50 (actually, this is the celestial traige sign; they have already GONE bad!) When you hear the words ECMO and TRANSPORT in the same sentence from the doc arranging the transport ...

I stand by my assessment that CARNA is crap. I am unsure why you janfrn chose to take that as a personal attack on Canada. I am canadian, I can freely make an assessment about my regulatory body due to 30 some years of dealing with said regulatory bo...

One more reason to stay working in Canada.

Wow! I must be blessed. In 34 years of nursing I have never had a patient or a family interrupt my lunch break in a public place and ask for anything! Wow! I am just astounded. Maybe it's a cultural thing. I just can't see a patient doing this wher...

CARNA is crap. They are ALWAYs terribly busy, but never too busy to take your money. If you are coming to Alberta, be prepared to have a bloodsucker attached.

You are absolutely right, the new generation of nurses do think they are entitled. Granted there are a few who are aware of the rest of the world and who understanding what nursing is about, but the majority think they can step into an administrative...