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SoundofMusic

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  1. 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

    Oh, so you want DAILY updates IN PERSON, FROM THE DOCTOR, at YOUR conveniece on DEMAND, on your 100 year old grandmother who has terminal lung or some other body part cancer? And, you're getting...

  2. 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

    No, I don't know when the doctor is coming today. I don't have a LEASH on him. Honestly, what makes these people think that we know where the doctors are or that we have ANY power over

  3. Does anyone hate their job as a nurse?

    SoundofMusic replied to Pongoo's topic in General Nursing

    I HIGHLY recommend some time as a CNA to see what it's like to be around patients, to be around nurses, and just to get the general atmosphere of a unit. If you don't, prepare to be shocked. If you...

  4. do you skip your lunch break routinely?

    SoundofMusic replied to Leelee2's topic in General Nursing

    No, because I just can't. I can't think or work if I'm too hungry. ANYTHING, unless a patient is coding, can wait for 30 minutes. Really. If we cover for each other, we all get at least our 30 min...

  5. NP vs. RN job satisfaction

    SoundofMusic replied to Sammi15's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Right ON. This is EXACTLY why I want to become an NP. I might frame this post and keep it on my bulletin board for encouragement during the tough times -- THANKS!!! With nursing, you just cannot get a...

  6. frustrated with "fluff" in my NP program

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

    I share in the frustration. My first semester included a fantastic patho class, and one Nursing and Health Organizations something or other class. I could not TELL you what this class was about. It...

  7. Sometimes, I just feel like such a bonehead!

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    And that my day was a total failture .. .but gosh darnit, I shouldn't!!! Yesterday I handled what was an extremely busy day. Two discharges, two admits, one right after the other, and one patient...

  8. Where are the professionals?

    SoundofMusic replied to mswim's topic in General Nursing

    I think you're onto something here. And the fact that nurses are basically oppressed with no control over their careers in any great way and you get that caged group mentality. Instead of turning on...

  9. Where are the professionals?

    SoundofMusic replied to mswim's topic in General Nursing

    I wondered this myself about six months into the profession. As a person over 40 also, with a prior career in communications, I was shocked at the rudeness, the backstabbing and the unprofessionalism...

  10. Nurses not speaking english at work

    SoundofMusic replied to Guest296136's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds a lot like where I work, although the numbers of people speaking each separate language isn't that high. We have about 4-5 African nurses w/ techs who love to get together and speak their...

  11. Transition from new grad to RN: What did you wish you knew?

    SoundofMusic replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

    That honestly, my education wasn't going to go all that far. I was going to just have to put the time in and learn on the job. So much of it I just had to learn through DOING, through SEEING, through...

  12. 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

    Please don't ring the bell two minutes after I just left your room so you can ask me to move your tray off your bed. Whatever happened to "I'll move it myself, I can walk, move, sit up, ambulate...

  13. Being told a nursing career is a pipe dream

    SoundofMusic replied to heartbeep's topic in Nursing Career

    Ha. I could have written your post. I graduated from nursing school at 44, and now have been working in it for about 2 years. I was also a bit pudgy, but just couldn't stand the thought of working in...

  14. Happy Flippin' Nurse's Day

    SoundofMusic replied to tencat's topic in General Nursing

    What gets me is they hold whatever THING they're doing in a location far from where nurses actually work, and do something that you have to try to fit in in a busy nutso day w/ patients calling you...

  15. New nurses thinking of leaving nursing

    SoundofMusic replied to mswim's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My way of fighting back has been to advance my education. I know this may not be a possibility for everyone, but for me, in a year or two I will leave hospital nursing for a NP degree. I just cannot...

  16. The retro nurse's outfit has returned

    SoundofMusic replied to cicatrixx15's topic in General Nursing

    OMG, I would look HIDEOUS and matronly in those caps . . . I would look like the pillsbury dough girl in white hose and a dress ... Please GOD, don't make me wear something like that. I could not do...

  17. Patients who de-sat

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in General Nursing

    Learned a lesson yesterday. Little older lady came in, w/ report having said that she would desat off her O2. I checked her in, and as it was change of shift, just passed the info on to the next nurse...

  18. Am I too old to become an NP?

    SoundofMusic posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I just graduated two years ago, at the age of 44. I'm 46 now, and probably would not be done w/ my NP program until I was 48 or almost 50 even if I take my time. That MIGHT give me 10-15 years in the...

  19. Having trouble fitting in

    SoundofMusic replied to new_oldRN's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like this occasionally on my unit also, and yet, sometimes I think all the youngins' really like having me around for a lot of reasons. I listen to them, I'm laid back, and not catty, and I've...

  20. I've been bullied all my life, and it continues...

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

    Sometimes I wish nurses could bring lawsuits against each other, or grievances of some sort, for this ill treatment. I mean -- I would never want to see it abused, but people, especially some of...

  21. Am I too old to become an NP?

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

    I always ask myself -- do I want to sit around in my 50's and 60's wondering what I could have done, or just go ahead and DO IT and spend my 50's and 60's BUSY, ENGAGED, and EMPLOYED?? I see a lot of...

  22. Stop the bullying

    SoundofMusic replied to funmom's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, these morons exist in every unit. They made my life hell as a new nurse, yet now most of them are gone off of our unit now and I remain. Probably because they were just miserable people to begin...

  23. Nurses, are you glad that Obamas Healthcare Bill Passed?

    SoundofMusic replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Heck No. It does nothing to address tort reform or to control costs. Now we'll just have 30 million or more folks who have no idea how their care gets paid for. People will have NO incentive to take...

  24. What tips would you give a new RN

    SoundofMusic replied to SkeesB's topic in General Nursing

    1. Be humble. Don't try to be a know it all. It's annoying to nurses who already know it and have to listen to it. If you do this to me, I'll assume you DO know it all and you won't need my help...

  25. What is your routine to clean-up and decompress after your shift?

    SoundofMusic replied to kelsn's topic in General Nursing

    Rock and roll music, or something loud on my way home. Just anything to let my mind go and wind down. Shoes off at the door when I come in. I'll take off scrubs, but I don't separate anything in the...