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Very, VERY well said KindaBack.

Oh for Pete's sake. Let me tell you something, young and naive nursing student. Nothing pisses off nurses more that high and mighty students that get all judgy and condescending. You are allowed to think this stuff as we all did as young nursing ...

Great article that gives an idea, helps us understand why some nurses are so mean. Any mean nurse that reads this may actually take a step back and reflect on his or her behavior and learn something.

Wow, allnurses.com, you have really started to go down a path of ******, negative, insensitive trash you call post worthy. Are you at a loss for good writers or are ******, holier-than-thou nurses the only ones writing for you?? Go ahead, keep it up,...

OHBOY.... not just ding bat families.... how 'bout ding bat RN? At 0600 on a nightshift (new for me) and an unfamiliar hospital with unfamiliar equipment.... remember I was tired. I was taking VS on my little old lady pt when I noticed her O2 sats we...

Is anyone else sick of hearing "I can't tell the nurses from the housekeeper"? My response is "here's a hint... your nurse is the one who does your assessment, gives you pills, pokes you with needles, etc and the housekeeper takes the trash out, mops...

Ahhhh.. the "sick" debate. I am reminded of how some people feel as though one should be close to death before calling in sick. We as nurses do not have a job where we can just "downshift" and take it easy that day because we are sick. Our patients s...

We see soooo many stupid things where I work... This guy wants to get rid of a mole in his yard. So he dropped a stick of dynamite in the hole, put a board over it and then stood on the board. Lost his legs. This other guy tried to fix the jam in his...

This is why some floors have a high turn over. All but one of my managers has been great.. I've had around 4 or 5. The twitty one asked me once why nurses keep quitting or transferring off her floor. I told her it is because she treats people poorly ...

Not for all of the money in the world!! Reasons?? 1) I am a military brat so I know the deal. 2) I like to make my own decisions on where I live... and don't try to say I can 'cuz I know better. 3) I don't like the rank structure... how I would have ...

[quote=EmerNurse;2122058]I had an older african-american gentleman as a patient once who refused me as his nurse on the same excuse, using the cracker comment as well. I simply asked him if he would like to talk to my charge nurse. He said yes. Ironi...

was this your first "back-handed compliment"? the guy is just a racist... nothing more than an ignorant dirty pig of a racist. i do admit that i am sometimes un-proffessional when retorting to such patients.. so you may not want to take my advice but...

I have been a patient.. Cancer w/ surgery, Chemo and radiation. My brother has had 4 open heart surgeries in 40 years. I will never change my mind about the color of a nurses uniform. I want a nurse who is proffessional and caring. I agree that slop...

At Tri City Medical Center in Oceanside, CA (which is 20 miles north of San Diego) I made $16.20 an hour as a new grad RN in 1999. They gave me nothing for my 7 years LVN experience. I could look forward to about 2-3 % per year raises. In Seattle, I ...

No, I don't work with him anymore but this icky MD was still at that hospital when I left. I've never encounered anything like that at the hospital I currently work at.

This MD we all hated goes into his patients room and pokes around her abdominal wound without gloves! THEN he actually wiped his hands on the curtain that separated the 2 beds. The charge nurse wrote him up and chewed him out. I can tell you many sto...

My friend May and I had the giggles one day after work when we went to the parking office. There were these empty 5-gallon water jugs outside of the office that she tripped on. The first one was bad enough, but everytime she tried to put it back she ...

This is a kind of grumpy one.. I usually only use it about once a year when a patient (Usually a 20-something punk) is constantly arguing with me about everything that he needs to have done. It's fine with me if someone refuses, but when they talk to...

This was the norm for "Carol". She was an RN, if you can believe that. "This pt likes to think that he has all of the answers, but he obviously does not by the things that he says". This "Carol" would write 1-2 page notes about gossip she heard from...

I think it was Mark Twain who said "If you don't read the news you are not informed, if you read the news you are misinformed". HOW TRUE! Also.. from Edmond ?? "The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing"

While transferring a drunk pt who was slurring his words, the pt said "Look at all of these beautiful nurses... I'm gonna get laid". (Did I mention I am hard of hearing too?). So I said.. "Hey.. we don't talk like that around here". So he said "What?...

"Feed and ambulate patient". This was for a completely comatose patient.

"Would you go do my patient" or "Lets go do Mr. Smith" meaning asking the CNA to give him a bath.

I find the Oprah fact a little hard to believe. Of all the 3rd world and poor countries, countries that don't even view women as worthy, all but 5 offer paid maternity leave??? This must be wrong. It would be nice if all states did the whole "tempor...

Are your teachers supportive? Can you discuss this with them? I think you should at least talk to them and let them know what's going on, as they may have some suggestions too. Personally, I have taken Xanax (Never while doing patient care). I think ...