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well I have done many jobs in my life went into nursing later in life late 30s for nursing school early 40s once finished. I will agree I have never been so screamed at in my life as while working as a nurse, most of the time about 99% it isnt someth...

I have lost 23 pounds in the past year by working out on the 4 days that I have off I do a variety of excersizes walking, cardio, pilates or yoga as well as targeting toning movements. I do find that I have more energy i do spend my days off running ...

have to work 12 hours days on christmas get 1.5 pay. we already get paid 8 hours for the holiday regardless

Even with 4 years of tele experience i havnt been able to branch into er or icu as of yet. Hospitals dont want to pay a long orientation good luck to you in your job search..

I usually dont tell people i am a nurse anyway but some of the nurses i have met have been nasty. not sure of thier motive, i try and do the best i can with my patients and give them the best care that i possibly can. The nurse who emptied out the ca...

I hope that my hospital wont discontinue the tuition reimbursement i have 16 credits left and just came back from a loa at school due to problems at my husbands job hey at 395 a credit hour i need that 5000 a year which wont cover everything but it w...

our neighbors daughter has been running a fever for three days told her to go to the dr. my niece is running a fever there are 26 kids in her 3rd grade class and i think 11 were out. Our other neighbors daughter tested positive for the flu but they d...

omg i know its usually the families that drive you nuts yesterday had a family arguing with the dr because they want any changes in medication cleared with them prior to the dr ordering anything yes the grandaughter works at wallmart she is qualified...

I know just yesterday three nurses came in to help put an obese woman on the bedpan as the son said "lets let them do thier job." I was the only one offended by this/

love all those responses i remember myself and the another nurse were in a room with the cardiologist and anestesiologist i know i mispelled that with a rapid that ended up being an in room cardioversion and the family was mad because the nurse wasnt...

We usually have 4 mostly 5 patients on a tele floor for 21 patients we get 5 nurses and 2 techs one unit secretary our floor max is 32. Actually our numbers are not that good today I had 6 patients on days which kept me very busy.

Balancing the demands of the patients and the families Usually the patients are great its the families that I dread. I feel after only 4 years i am feeling burnout, but I always treat the patient properly. try to provide safe effective care but wi...

that was horrible that she did this to you shes the one thats uptight

Another form on note taking the other day a family member was taking pictures of the patients vitals. and then the wife on one of the patients took a picture when I was putting on his id band which had mysteriously disappeared along with the ER band ...

Read the book nursing against the odds thought that it was pretty good. Yes not every day is as bad as some portrayed but thank god someone has the guts to write about it. Always thought oprah should do a story about how hard nursing is and not just ...

I do notice that alot of people think that we are the enemy and I cant quite figure out why? Is is the way society is I have never been treated so badly and yelled at as since when I was a nurse most of the time it was over something that wasnt my fa...

yeah just today, I was walking in the hallway and I heard Nurse Nurse in a screaming voice ( not my patient.) I went running in thinking maybe someone was having a MI or maybe had fallen no he was like take my tray I am done with it no please or anyt...

I have only worked on days and I know that the night nurses have alot of rough nites they get less techs than we do on days and pms and they dont have a unit clerk after 11pm. I know that the nurses do work hard and do all the chart checks which I am...

used to get 4.00 per hour for call pay. They took that away now only 2 nurses in house get to be on call everyone else cancelled one has to be a Icu nurse.

More power to you I say. I have known a nurse who worked in ER and danced on the weekends on the side for a couple of years. Just don't let the negativity get to you. Many of the men are creeps, leave it all behind you when you leave. Most places hav...

I think other nurses can be a pain in the but. I never go in announcing I am a nurse. I have had a nurse calling me and screaming at 1230 in the afternoon when the weather was 40 below zero demanding that I call the renal doctor to find out what time...

No I dont know what time the Dr is going to come if I had a nickle for every time someone asked me that I would be rich.

I know that at my work I run my but off all day and do not waste time and it is difficult for me to get out on time. Most of the nurses on my unit cannot get off on time. Lately the acuity has been so high with so much to do that in the past 4 days I...

Sorry to hear about that it is so scary my husband works for a steel company and is not getting overtime right now, had been getting overtime for 21 years at least he has a job for now...

Several nurses that I know that are working agency aren't getting calls right now they are experienced. I like the suggestion of looking downstate the cost of living may be lower and they competition may be less due to less people maybe.. If my husba...