sistrmoon

sistrmoon BSN, RN

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  1. How many jobs/units until you found your "niche"

    sistrmoon replied to Michellelove's topic in General Nursing

    Always been interested in correctional nursing. Is it just you or is there other medical staff? I think that's what intimidates me about it, being completely on my

  2. Roaches At work

    sistrmoon replied to Shany1312's topic in General Nursing

    We had mice at our place. They were darting around the hallways. We reported

  3. Charge Nurses and Shift Report

    sistrmoon replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    Charges don't get much report, especially not on each patient. Just any situation with narc count, if there are sits or restraints anywhere and any situation with a patient or family member that might...

  4. Annual Physical - Does Your Job Require This?

    sistrmoon replied to seconddegreebsn's topic in General Nursing

    I have one every year but they don't ask about weight, pregnancy or gyn exams. They do ask about mental health and I divulge my therapist and psychiatrist's names, meds I'm on, and I'm still employed...

  5. How many jobs/units until you found your "niche"

    sistrmoon replied to Michellelove's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked 2 jobs in my 8 years as an RN, both at large medical centers bedside on Onc/med surg units. I'm trying to go to home care, private duty, informatics, insurance company. Something entirely...

  6. Is anything at your work that puzzles you

    sistrmoon replied to pras's topic in General Nursing

    Another thread turned

  7. What do you do to protect yourself on floor?

    sistrmoon replied to juana15's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, we've been constantly sick now that I have a school age kid. It's the worst! I'm convinced school is just a cesspool of roving

  8. What do you do to protect yourself on floor?

    sistrmoon replied to juana15's topic in General Nursing

    For awhile, I kept getting admissions from the ED with blatant flu symptoms but they hadn't been swabbed and the symptoms weren't reported to me. I would swab them and lo and behold, they were...

  9. Lowest turnover specialty

    sistrmoon replied to guest769224's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, not my floor(Onc,Med/Surg). We have huge turnover. There are management issues but the work itself is just freaking draining. I don't care how great a manager, pay, benefits, etc, I'm not going...

  10. Quit great job to stay home with baby?

    sistrmoon replied to Sangrita RN's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm sorry. We had 4 recurrent miscarriages, 2 after 12 weeks. I ended up going to a controversial specialist in NYC and was on many many meds but it did work. I hope you find a protocol that will work...

  11. Quit great job to stay home with baby?

    sistrmoon replied to Sangrita RN's topic in Nursing Career

    Usually you and me are on the same page, but I've gotta disagree with you here. Family friendly policies are good for business, employee loyalty/reduced turnover, employee satisfaction. Why do Canada...

  12. I thought we learned that in nursing school!

    sistrmoon replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I insert a lot of foleys and I work Onc so I could practically do central line dressing changes with my eyes closed. The other checkoff we had was pressure ulcer measurement/charting/assessment which...

  13. Quit great job to stay home with baby?

    sistrmoon replied to Sangrita RN's topic in Nursing Career

    They seem pretty rigid to me. I was hired full time at a large medical center but after having my kids, I was able to work part-time 1-3 days a week. I wouldn't go so far as to say they are...

  14. Do you talk to yourself?

    sistrmoon replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, out loud. I will make a joking comment if someone overhears me but I don't stop:) definitely keeps me

  15. Why can't we have 12 hour shifts and 8 hours shifts?

    sistrmoon replied to ziplag's topic in General Nursing

    I leave at 7am when well-staffed day shift comes in, so I don't really see how that's me leaving anyone to do my work for 4 hours. We've had a few 12 hour shifters do 3p-3a and that is bad for the...

  16. Schedules. 1st time poster. Lol

    sistrmoon replied to sprince17's topic in General Nursing

    I work 3 8s, thurs/fri/sat overnights. Most people work 2 8s, 2 12s, a very few select get 3

  17. I Love Night Shift

    sistrmoon replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked nights for 8 years in 2 different hospitals and have never seen

  18. Asking for prayers: multiple nursing students died in car accident

    sistrmoon replied to __patiently_waiting's topic in General Students

    Tragic. Many thoughts for the families and fellow students as they pick up the broken pieces and try to move

  19. Sad news:

    sistrmoon replied to prmenrs's topic in General Nursing

    Awful.

  20. School Nurse Abandonment over Pledge?

    sistrmoon replied to E Non Imus, RN's topic in General Nursing

    A large group of people droning the pledge in unison while gazing at the flag gives me the creeps. Any good traitor would be in the front row, with hand staunchly over heart, saying the words loudly...

  21. Professionalism....name your irritation here!

    sistrmoon replied to LobotRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    There isn't a scrub top that doesn't cling to my breasts. I'm an HH cup. I would have to wear some sort of sack for a shirt. I don't wear low cut, skin tight scrubs though, if that's what you

  22. Professionalism....name your irritation here!

    sistrmoon replied to LobotRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I would swear we work on the same

  23. New Grad, New State

    sistrmoon replied to ItsSarahwithanH's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't have a family yet, but I got the job first then moved(Texas to NY.) I did phone interviews first( which I've been looking for local jobs now and they even do that as a screening) then set up...

  24. Older nurses-what's your advice on working towards retirement?

    sistrmoon replied to RatherBHiking's topic in General Nursing

    My current hospital doesn't match at all. Every other company I've ever worked for has matched at least 3%. That 8% sounds

  25. Workplace Bullying

    sistrmoon replied to ERnurz's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Only empathy here. I know all too well the sick stomach at having to work with a particular nurse. Ours has also been reported to management by multiple people and nothing has happened. I'm actively...