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Years ago, yes. Per the lady at the employment agency that arranged the interview, the interviewer wanted people to show how much they wanted the job by contradicting his negative responses with positive information about themselves. He also wanted p...

Dude! That just plain sucks! No wonder you said in another post that you didn't want to bring your golf clubs to work. What if they took your wallet AND your clubs? So, did you give the family the name and phone # of your manager? As in: Pt: "I'm gon...

Sorry you had a stressful bunch of firsts all in a row. The first thing you need to do is put yourself in your patients shoes. He is hungry. Hunger and pain will drive a person to do things that don't make sense to someone who has a full belly and do...

Thanks to the wise advice of the people at allnurses.com, I took a stand at work and started refusing to take assignments that were more than double the ENA recommendations for staffing because it wasn't safe for my patients for me to have 5 shock ro...

In the 42 years that my mother practiced as a nurse, she always talked about how busy she was and how physically demanding the work was, but not about being short staffed or worrying about safety issues and her license. It really is good advice.

How about: Longer orientation. Preceptors who like to precept. An on-going relationship with a mentor who likes to mentor. Smaller assignments to start with. A no tolerance stance on lateral violence.

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts. My hope is that another nurse at some point in their career will think "If she did it, I can do it." It is rather neat to move from a position of feeling trapped and frustrated to feeling rather liberate...

You did the right thing. It is so much easier to vent about the idiots than to pray that the person who had a reaction doesn't sue you because you didn't follow policy and gave the shot without the epi pen.

Even though it seems like your heart is breaking, think of the gift you give each family by taking care of their loved one and helping them have the best death possible given the circumstances. They are so fortunate to have you there to explain thin...

We have the walkies with the ear piece in the ED that I work at. I HATE IT!!!! They have 2 volumes regardless of where you have the volume dial set; loud and inaudible. The other problem is that sometimes they transmit, sometimes they don't. So, ...

Wow! We had a half day lecture about it, but were never tested on the material. Say, can you use "energy field disturbance" as a diagnosis for a person who repeatedly causes light bulbs to not only become unusable, but also issue a loud pop, and, ...

This is one of those things where I feel if you are interested in the idea, have $400.00 left over after you meet all of your financial obligations and have nothing else that you need or want to do with the time the class takes, why not? You may lea...

The sound of retching gets to me too. I am fine if the person vomits silently, and I don't wig out if I wear someone else's vomit. However, the loudly yakking person 7 rooms away gets to me.

Don't ever feel bad for practicing within your scope of practice and against policy! The minute you do something that is outside of your scope of practice/against policy and something goes wrong, it is your butt and license that are on the line. Not ...

A live chicken? Cause that would almost be worth watching just to see how!

Would you care to share those skills?

I am so sorry that you had to go through this. While what you went through is traumatic and horrible, it did not happen in vain. When you become a nurse, you will never let your patients or families go through the same experience.

Hi Coolpeach, I have never worked hospice, however I watched both of my parents die from cancer. My father died in a hospital when I was 10. My mother died in a hospice facility 8 years ago. I have also worked in ICU. I think the best place to die i...

Tom, people don't enable the bullies. Enabling implies that the target is helping the bully be a bully. I don't think any of us who have experienced the things the OP listed have jumped up and down yelling "Pick me, Pick me," or "Hey, after I leave, ...

Thank you traumaRUs and RNcDreams.

I joined the ENA, but don't know where to find the patient to nurse recommendations?

Thanks a bunch for your replies. Management has cut our staffing to the point where it is dangerous. Last Thursday I had the following 5 patients by myself and all at the same time. There was a pt with a hemoglobin of 7 with a bleeding mass in his ...

I graduated from a BSN program and we had to pass math tests with a 90%. I calculate dosages frequently. I always do the calculation twice. If I am dealing with a peds med calculation, I always ask someone to check my math.

OK, true story that happened when I worked on Thursday. I was in the ED and had a pt come in because his defibrillator fired. At 2314 the tech room called to tell me that the pt's defibrillator had fired again. I checked the time frame that they we...

We were told in ICU that the number of people who were clocking out using the "worked through lunch" option was excessive because there were 2 people who used it in a 3 month period.