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SoundofMusic

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  1. Is APN realistic at my age?

    SoundofMusic replied to Mudwoman's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm 47 and will graduate in 2013 at the age of 50 or so. What hampers me is not my age, but my BUSY, busy, lifestyle. I've got a house, husband, dog, kids, older kids who need me still .... I've just...

  2. Rant about ungrateful, demanding patients

    SoundofMusic replied to KSU-SN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ha ha!! Love this one ...going to USE this for sure!! And I'm really NOT loving all of you who say how "great" you are at setting limits, how NO one gets away w/ any crap with you, etc, etc --...

  3. Really disappointed with the reality of nursing.

    SoundofMusic replied to NurseFrustrated's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am, too. It's truly at times a position of no respect. And then at times, it's a position of admiration and respect. It just goes both ways. At times, unfortunately, it depends on how well you do...

  4. Veteran nurses give your opinion of the new grad job situation

    SoundofMusic replied to RachH's topic in General Nursing

    Acute care experience is important, but for now, they aren't hiring new grads, which I find deplorable. They are going to run into a heap of trouble someday when there aren't enough experienced...

  5. Why do nurses treat each other do way they do?

    SoundofMusic replied to MsbossyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's because as a group, they're generally oppressed. The management knows they're trapped by the administrators, so they just use whatever little power they have left to brutalize their...

  6. Wow, is it really a zoo out there?

    SoundofMusic replied to loving2's topic in General Nursing

    In my hospital, ratios are climbing and the management just makes life miserable for so many. They never picked on me, but I saw them torture so many co-workers that I just left for a smaller newer...

  7. Quit my stressful job, now I miss it ...

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, I left this crazy floor tele job which was so stressful I'd leave w/ headaches and chest pains and generally go home in a stupor. It was always hectic, the managers were nutso and in general,...

  8. Nurses with depression

    SoundofMusic replied to grandmawrinkle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I've suffered from one major depression and one post partum one. The post partum one was definitely worse w/ dehabilitating anxiety. I really hit me out of the blue ... but somehow I pulled through...

  9. Feeling worn out all the time

    SoundofMusic replied to hs2005's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in the same boat. The stress and the long 12 hour shift just kills me, even as I cut back to only 2 shifts a week. Now,I take care of kids at home and also go to school, so I really NEVER get a...

  10. How hard is it really, to hire new nurses?

    SoundofMusic replied to Goodyear's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know. The unit I just left is bleeding out nurses, yet they will not hire to replace a SINGLE one of them. I guess they don't give a crap about the current nurses or the current patients...

  11. New to nursing but arleady tired of freaking politics.

    SoundofMusic replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well, face it -- we work for the lawyers now -- and the litigious minded public, and for everyone who feels the world "owes" them or that they are entitled to 100% perfection in all environments. It...

  12. Excessive write-ups at work

    SoundofMusic replied to Little_Mouse's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly the reason I've left my current position -- petty write ups of the staff by our management. It's just gotten ridiculous and in these times when the staff is constantly short and being...

  13. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    SoundofMusic replied to canigraduate's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And you see them when they're anxious, a nervous wreck, dealing with something unexpected, dealing with living in a strange place outside of thier normal routine. Most of them are just clueless about...

  14. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    SoundofMusic replied to canigraduate's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't know sometimes. I guess I let things slide because I never want to go back to the "hell" of working 9 to 5 in a cubicle all day and deal with office politics the whole time. Hospital/nursing...

  15. How many of you hate your job?

    SoundofMusic replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I will have to say I'm disappointed in what nursing has turend out to be for me, due to basically all of the reasons of the poster above. What has killed it for me has not just been the paperwork, or...

  16. My God, these family members!!

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, i work at the big east coast hospital, and we get a lot of the inner city disability folks. They can either be really great, or at times the WORST in terms of wanting to be supplied w/ constant...

  17. Lower stress areas to 'get your feet wet' in nursing?

    SoundofMusic replied to amr1234's topic in General Nursing

    You COULD start off in a phycians office somewhere ...but it won't give the true nursing skills you need -- putting in foley's, IV"s, labs, dressing changes, etc. Then again, you might like and...

  18. Can we get rid of the sugar in nursing?

    SoundofMusic replied to Nurse Joey's topic in General Nursing

    I will admit -- I'm a sweetie and honey person, but it's only because I just CANNOT remember their names!!! I nice "sir" or "maam" also works and is respectful. Over the past 2 years, I've gone full...

  19. My God, these family members!!

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    LOL -- I see how I started this thread last year, and how it's grown, and I still have more to add. Came off a unit I floated to yesterday, and was trying to discharge a man w/ his jaw wired shut....

  20. So, I'm leaving my unit of 2 1/2 years

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    And the unit is chronically short staffed, chronically toxic, and just about everyone who CAN leave, does leave, whenever they find other opportunities. And so, I'm leaving for another job where a few...

  21. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    SoundofMusic replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah!!!!! This is got to be the #1 question that every FAMILY member -- and do you see how I say FAMILY MEMBER?? The patients could care less ...it's the nutty guilty crazy nervy uppity family members...

  22. So, I'm leaving my unit of 2 1/2 years

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    I also concur that management is just not THAT busy. I'm sorry, but are they really literally running from one end of the unit to the other, doing 10 tasks at once, their phone exploding w/ calls,...

  23. So, I'm leaving my unit of 2 1/2 years

    SoundofMusic replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone for all their replies. They confirm what I've suspected about these large teaching hospitals and the bottom line. And I think it's so sick. Really sick. I'd always been told -- X...

  24. Secret to successfully inserting an NG tube?

    SoundofMusic replied to Nurseinprocess's topic in General Nursing

    I've just always sat them up, have them tuck their chin to chest, lubricate it, and start sliding it down, pointing it in towards the opposite nostril. I have them swallow -- for most folks, it goes...

  25. Going to Nursing School at an Older Age

    SoundofMusic replied to AmaurosisFugax's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Let's see -- I started school at 43, graduated at 44, and am now going on 47. I can't say I've experienced all that much discrimination, although the younger set never seems to let me forget that I'm...