SmilingBluEyes

Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis

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    Is it bad I want out of bedside already

    SmilingBluEyes replied to oncnurse1021's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You are not a failure and you're not alone. Stick out the year and then the world opens up more and you can move on. So many feel as you do and this has me so worried for the future of healthcare. We...
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    Crushing Burden of Regulatory Compliance on Healthcare

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I am slowly cutting back my shifts/hours. I am winding down to retirement. I try to work less, spend less and live more. I am sick of this crap. It's time for a new generation to take on this fight. I...
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    9-5 (or 8-5) shifts as a new grad possible?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Kendrer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    THIS is AWESOME. I never thought of
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    9-5 (or 8-5) shifts as a new grad possible?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Kendrer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am going to ask a stupid question. Do you HAVE to work at this time? If not, then stay home w/the kids til they are older. They will never be this young ever again. There is so much time to work...
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    New RN being moved…

    SmilingBluEyes replied to nasr69's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A doctor's office can be crazy too, just a different kind of crazy. I liked working there much more than at the bedside. But the money sucks. In the end, only you can decide what you can handle. ER is...
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    Journey Through Menopause

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    I am not on hormone replacement. I was for a while but realized the risk is not worth any benefit, especially the older I get. I take black cohosh but heard it can take 6 months to really make a...
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    Journey Through Menopause

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    Your post is encouraging to me. There IS an end to this madness. Or at least abatement. Thank you so
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    Journey Through Menopause

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Dr Georgianna Donadio's topic in General Nursing

    I am pretty disappointed that menopause is still a "dirty" subject among so many. It's whispered like it's some big secret that won't happen either surgically or naturally to all women. I wanted...
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    Pregnant - telling manager/unit

    SmilingBluEyes replied to dionkasper's topic in General Nursing

    Please do tell now. Let the manager have time to make arrangements in December. You don't know; you may deliver early -----and it's Christmas so people are going to want PTO. Let her have time to...
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    Are Nurses Superstitious?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Sailors and nurses, the most superstitious of
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    Am I being too picky on a job or is it just bad luck?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Aliceozwalker's topic in General Nursing

    There IS life outside bedside nursing. Keep trying. I have seen nurses with zero experience get jobs in insurance/other non-beside positions. I have seen them do clinic nursing (for considerably less...
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    "The generation before me screwed my generation over". Said by all of us at one point or
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    The Boomers are not completely to blame for your plight. Poor financial decisions come into play, too. I see people spending in excess of 100K for associate's degrees and I wonder, why? Poor money...
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    Glad you're not talking about me. None of the above apply to me. I adapt to and love technology myself. I use it to keep in touch with my grandkids, using my phone or Ipad to facetime them. I...
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    You had me with you until the last sentence. That was uncalled-for and harsh. Signed, Forgotten Gen X
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    Short Staffed: An Epidemic

    SmilingBluEyes replied to KellyM RN's topic in General Nursing

    I appreciate this positive post. Thank
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    Well stated, particularly the portion I
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    Nursing Staffing Post COVID Quagmire...

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Can you take a break from working at all? Also maybe look for another job. A lot of people here moved away from the bedside and succeeded in finding happiness. I hope you can, too. Hang in
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    New nurse feeling like she made a mistake in transferring to the NICU/CCN

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse12390's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would be looking for a new job. Sounds toxic to me. I am so
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    Short Staffed: An Epidemic

    SmilingBluEyes replied to KellyM RN's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed! I want it for the whole year round. The stupid kitschy gifts they can keep. For those of us who got nothing, I would settle for safe staffing and fair compensation for the risks I take being...
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    Short Staffed: An Epidemic

    SmilingBluEyes replied to KellyM RN's topic in General Nursing

    The above post is true except hiring more staff is not the only answer. Making those who work there want to stay is even more important because we always need experience. Having a charge nurse 3...
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    Unprofessional Clinical Educator.. What would you do?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to hama1111's topic in General Nursing

    It's not so much being thin-skinned when places won't hire nurses who are as qualified as their younger counterparts----(all things being equal, except maybe a lot more experience on the older nurse's...
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    Would Flo Have Used a Segway?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Flo would work smarter, not harder. So yes I think she
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    Florence Didn't Fake It

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Leah Mraz's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. It does nothing for your patient's faith in you if you go around acting all nervous and like you know nothing. It has nothing to do with being an imposter but bolstering your patient's...