SmilingBluEyes

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

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    Onerous Onboarding With Nasty Nellie, The Job That Lasted a Week

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. I understand this coming from a middle mgt point of view. SO WHY IS IT they don't ACT like they don't want to see people out the door? This is frustrating to
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    Working with a fracture

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Cgritz77's topic in General Nursing

    When in a Peer Program, you cannot go near narcotics, for a while, from what I understand. Home Health will be forbidden, as you need to have an RN willing to supervise your practice while you are...
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    Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    OH and don't forget the old "Bait and Switch" pulled by many employers. Offer one thing-----nurse, once hired, finds out it's nothing like what they thought. This leads to disillusionment, naturally....
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    Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    I have long held, with many here, RNs/LPNs should charge for skilled services, e.g. IV starts, constant IV titration in ICU, removing sutures, and on and on. If we did this, our value would be truly...
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    Trouble conceiving

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Certifiable's topic in General Nursing

    Get a cervical mucus test kit. Worked wonders for me. OH AND try to LOWER your stress and eat right. The time to be healthy is BEFORE you
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    Working with a fracture

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Cgritz77's topic in General Nursing

    Good luck! Stay at it. Some places want nothing to do with recovering nurses; others are more recovery-friendly. But couple that with a current fracture, and you may have an uphill battle. Best...
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    Leaving nursing

    SmilingBluEyes replied to nay2018's topic in General Nursing

    Six months is hardly enough time to get your feet wet. Don't expect it will be easy until at least 2 years or more, no matter what specialty. Be patient. Everyone feels overwhelmed in the first year...
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    Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Understood. You must do what works for you. I am not saying people should not pursue becoming NPs. I am saying a lot go for this, not really researching the market in their area. I suspect within the...
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    Working with a fracture

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Cgritz77's topic in General Nursing

    You should post in the Nurses in Recovery forum. They know about PNAP, Peer Assistance Programs for Recovery. If this is hanging, unresolved, over your head, no one will hire you until it
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    Working with a fracture

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Cgritz77's topic in General Nursing

    Wait------did I read you had a DUI? Oh boy that is a problem. Unless and until you are cleared by the board (meaning you will have to successfully enter into Nurse Recovery Program ---name varies by...
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    Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    Make sure you really talk to NPs in your area. They make more, but trust me, their scope of responsibility is not something you understand til you are one. They earn EVERY SINGLE PENNY. 12-hour...
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    Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    And the NP route? GOOD LUCK with that. I have a friend who became an NP and she has to see patients all day, every day every 10-15 minutes and spend hours and hours clicking boxes just for...
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    Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    My daughter, a few years back, expressed interest in nursing. Then upon graduating HS, she got a job as a patient care tech. She got to see up close, personally, what nurses go through and decided in...
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    The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    SmilingBluEyes replied to panurse9999's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on where you plan to practice. In the town where I went to college, there was most definitely an overage of new grads being pumped out and that was 22 years ago. No one rolled out any red...
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    New Graduate, Only one interview, Should I Be Picky

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Mrsvirgomama's topic in General Nursing

    BTW most hospitals and other "desirable" positions/units want experienced nurses. You have none. That does not mean you won't get a job. It means you need to try harder. What do you have to offer?...
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    New Graduate, Only one interview, Should I Be Picky

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Mrsvirgomama's topic in General Nursing

    New grad. One interview. Answer? NO you should not be picky. Take any job offered; stay to learn and gain experience and THEN seek something more to your
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    Ask Me If I'm Safe At Home

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Poignant. You are a survivor and a warrior. I have my own story of abuse from a prior husband. He nearly killed me. But I am not stealing your thunder here. I just want to congratulate you on...
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    Women's Right to Choose

    SmilingBluEyes replied to River&MountainRN's topic in General Nursing

    Having a lot of years' L/D experience, I have seen horrifying situations that I won't detail here. Suffice to say, safe, legal abortion cannot-----MUST NOT --- be stopped/made criminal. And IF you...
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    5 years sober!

    SmilingBluEyes replied to dirtyhippiegirl's topic in Nurses Recovery

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Good luck and health in the future. It looks so
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    Denver Weatherman Loses Job over Twitter Remarks about Nurses:

    SmilingBluEyes replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    I think people look no further than our President, and the outrageous things he posts, and think they have the same right to do so. Think what you want about President Trump like or hate, he is very...
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    Denver Weatherman Loses Job over Twitter Remarks about Nurses:

    SmilingBluEyes replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    Can I please like this 10000000000x? Well
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    Denver Weatherman Loses Job over Twitter Remarks about Nurses:

    SmilingBluEyes replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    Right. And there were comments from viewers that stated, and I paraphrase " I won't be watching KOAA now because of what this man said". The station did what it had to do, given their competitive...
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    Stupid hurts.

    SmilingBluEyes replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Nursing

    I can't fathom. But we did have a lttle old lady in the GYN office who had continual incontinence of urine. The GYN dr was shocked and had a heckuva time explaining why she was childless and that her...
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    Stupid hurts.

    SmilingBluEyes replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Nursing

    ONE MORE: Please gentlemen, know a bit about female anatomy: if you want to conceive a child, remember the way to succeed is NOT to put "it" in her urethra for 20 years. No child and horrible...
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    Stupid hurts.

    SmilingBluEyes replied to emtb2rn's topic in General Nursing

    also: Please DO remember when you have a tampon in so the GYN does not have to pull out a foul-smelling mess of goo from your hoo-hah a month later and put you on a strong course of antibiotics. The...