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Psych NPs are in great demand where I live also. Just an FYI, I live in an at-will state, and was let go from my position (10 years in the NP position) due to my age ("If you accept our severance offer, you cannot sue us for age discrimination.") Get...

I will work full-time till Medicare eligible, then 4 days/week till age 70, then per diem. I have pretty good savings, I have (roughly) $3000/month available, and my house will be paid off before I am 70, but my family tends to be long-lived so I wil...

When I worked 11 - 7, you were permitted to nap ON YOUR BREAK (because it was YOUR break,) but after your break you were to be up and working. Perhaps approach it as "Break time is over, this needs to get done now." But I agree, since you worked with...

You worked on a step down neuro unit so you knew what you were getting into, so I don't think it's nursing (although I could be wrong.) But rotating shifts is very hard on the body, there have been studies done (can't quote one off the top of my head...

I hurt my back 28 years ago catching a patient who was falling, I was an RN at the time, declared permanently partially disabled, and still work full time. I became an NP 13 years ago due to believing I can assist with moving and turning patients for...

I find other patient's information misfiled in charts all the time - It is not unusual, so unless it is a habit, I would think printing out wrong MAR/TAR is an "oops!" And why did the paramedics not look at the name on the MAR/TAR before they left? ...

Never ever work without malpractice insurance - it is money well spent, so you can have the lawyer take care of issues like this. I (thankfully) have never had to use it in 36 years, but at (about) $100/year, and an attorney is about $500/hr, I am gl...

I agree - if it was someone I had worked with every day for several years and I knew them well and trusted their judgment, then probably (and because we usually knew quite a bit about each other's patients.) Someone I had never worked with before - n...

LPNewbie, I am an NP and also teach in an LPN program. I also have suffered from depression since age 14 (that I can remember, probably longer.) I started getting help for it when I was almost 40 years old, was prescribed medication that did not help...

Probably works at the "house of God" in Cleveland, which (as a fellow Ohioan) I don't think is as wonderful as the worshipers seem to think it is.

The healthcare system is not interested because they have already done the math, if they cut "x" number of nurses they will save "y" number of dollars, and "z" number of people will die. There will be lawsuits and they have figured out how much that ...

I just don't see why giving sedation should be "routine," without at least trying without it. Less medications (and risk for adverse reactions) the better.

Your management will RARELY give a **** about you. Your co-workers might, but you almost never get a thank-you, we used to be told "work it out among yourselves, but someone has to stay." We never thanked the person who stayed, but we tried to take ...

Agency is a good way to see what facilities are REALLY like before you get hired there. Sometimes if you are good at a facility they will offer you a job. When I did agency for a few months, I was signed on with 3 agencies. I could have worked 24/7 i...

This happened at a SNF I cover - the STNAs kept telling the DON that there would be fewer falls with one more staff member. The DON LISTENED and did a study, and found out that with one additional staff member there were fewer falls, so she gave them...

Can I please like this a thousand times? This says it all - treat me like a human being trying to do a good job with what little resources I have, and have my back when (if) something goes wrong due to circumstances beyond my control (dietary screws...

I've put lots of IVs in pediatric patient over the years, just usually ask the parents to leave the room and the kids are usually better (older kids.)

I believe it could be a Federal violation also, unpaid wages would mean they have not been withholding and paying matching Social Security, and not withholding income tax and unemployment and Worker's Comp. At least that's what the restaurant got hit...

I am looking to go to one of the nursing homes I have been covering as an NP for the last 10 or so years to work when I semi-retire. I know their staffing patterns and their resident mix, and it will be fine. In fact, none of the facilities I cover a...

I agree, whenever I sent a patient to ICU it was STAT -not whenever you get a minute. Don't trust your co-worker, you will be going "under the bus."

Kids aren't safe at home either - parental/significant other abuse, drive-by shootings, parents/boyfriends/girlfriends on drugs/ETOH, watching domestic violence to where it becomes normalized - life sucks for many kids.

It's a different kind of stress being an NP, and it depends on where you work and the kind of practice you work for, your boss, etc. but at least in my case, it's ALWAYS been "productivity, productivity," and I have worked in four different practices...

I too would be mortified. Do they have wives that tolerate/reinforce spoiled brat behavior? My son (age 31) knows I would smack him up alongside the head if he acted like that (I am his mother, he will never be too big to smack - MY mother told me th...

You know I think from reading most of these threads that most of the rehab comes from the support the nurses going through these monitoring programs give each other here. And the programs are basically useless.

This happened to me before I became a nurse (was a waitress,) we were expected to clock out for breaks and at the end of our shift and then still stay to clean the place. They got hit for extreme back wages when someone turned them in, like several h...