The sounds like a issue with your agency's management team, not nurses. It also sounds like a typical scenario for an agency worker, that if you want to work you have to be available to work, and if...
Happy seder to you all; I'll be working through. Passover is my favorite holiday, I'm always bummed to miss it. Oh wow! I just noticed -- got my first silver star. I'm really in it for realz
My understanding is that the factory union required that a nurse be on site for the benefit of the employees. Which means that the union was advocating for the factory employees. The factory hired the...
Look like? AGH my eyes! I just got an incredibly clear visual. And yeah, I was surprised that people were actually taking that seriously, and trying to console the OP about the
There's no nursing shortage, so you'd be best to focus on getting through school and actually getting a job. Once you get a job, if and when that happens, you will accrue vacation time as you work....
You know, it seems like we've had a recent uptick in people coming to this site complaining about not being able to find jobs and is anyone else finding this to be true, because everyone has been...
I'm going to admit that I do this sometimes, even though I know it drives people crazy. It would probably drive me crazy if I wasn't the one doing it. I start out well enough, and then get to the end...
This is so funny. I was a waitress for many years, while in school, and through my "transitional" life phases. I remember when I got a better job my fellow waitresses and I went out and celebrated,...
The job market for nurses bottomed out several years ago. I'm sorry that your school told you that there would be a lot of jobs, because it hasn't been true for years. Unfortunately, new nurses, and a...
Ugh. Getting up at 5 AM, or earlier, the horrible scrubs, going in and feeling lost and clueless and stupid, then coming home to do piles of homework, then having to get up the next day to either do...
I kind of get a kick out of it when people use "defiantly" instead of "definitely." Makes me think of someone pouting with their hands on their hips and saying "I am defiantly going to study for my...
I'm sorry you were put in this situation. From your post I understand that you checked the patients insulin at the proper time, were required to give insulin but didn't have any, and then rechecked...
I've been an LPN for years and I still get nervous, anxious, and scared. I've just learned to hide it better. Believe me, it happens to all of us, no matter how many years