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Turns out size really does matter !

I'm so Stressed. I thought I could escape Adulthood and return to my inner child.

Does this make me look fat ?

The hospital picked it up from the Star Trek sale. It's a transporter it will beam me back to the hospital if their short staffed

We're over capacity again bed cordinators wants us to put patients in the bathrooms

If I'm working night shift with 30 patients and three nurses, with one tech who has to sit with an elderly patient whose confused and delusional and a patient complains because they had to wait half an hour for water. I feel its fair to say i'M sorr...

Nurse Tin Lizzy just shorted out the MRI machine

I feel your pain. Bedside Nursing is extremely difficult you have to balance multiple demands at one time. You not only need to be clinically excellent you also must be a diplomat a social worker a teacher a computer wiz on and on the list of attribu...

Here we are again in upstate NY. Yet another blizzard is upon us. All area schools are closed, business's are closing early and sending their employee's home. A state on emergency has been declared, no unnecessary travel. But for those of us who wor...

New Grad salary is $22.50 an hour. Shift differential is $2.00 and hour eve and nights. New grads get a $5.00 hr raise after 1 yr. Hopes that help

Years ago I had a positive reaction to a PPD. A large red bump appeared on my arm. I had not had any exposures so I was alarmed. The employee health nurse asked me if I had been around any horses. I had My daughter had started horseback riding lesson...

The facility I work at has a phone triage unit. Nurses who work on these units facilitate patient transfers from Doctors office or other facilities to the Hospital. They make sure the correct paper work is in order nd that important test have been co...

I would look into a transfer to another unit, your managers are looking for mistakes. It doesn't,t matter how much you do right or how much the patients like you, they are only going to fixate on what is wrong. considering the volume of work tha is e...

Reimbursements to hospitals are being tied to press Ganey score. Hospitals that receive high scores are given bonuses. Hospitals with poor scores are penalized. Some of the verbage in the rounding scripts mirrors questions on press Ganey surveys. " D...

I had a similiar experience recently that made me feel frustrated. I never took the course in mind reading in Nursing school so I guess I am at a disadvantage. The Patient and I had a good first four hours of my shift. At bedtime he asked if I could ...

In Rochester NY at my hospital one of the two largest in the area New Graduate Nurses start at $ 22.50. They get a raise to $27.00 after one year. Salary is relatively stagnant after that.

I have mixed feelings about this. Doctors make more money and are given more respect partially because they have more education. Does this mean Nurses will see a increase in salaries and more say in policies if they have more education? To be honest ...

I have a question? When your unit has its staff meetings is it a lecture on staffs short comings, are you treated like children, or is it a give and take of opinions and ideas on how to improve floor performance. What style do you feel is more produ...

This man might had appeared to have no psych issues.I'd bet Based on his hurtful comments he has major ones. Hospitals are full of bullies , Patients, families even co-workers and managers. You are a kind and thoughtful person who was trying to hel...

Sorry to hear you were given such a difficult time by this family. I'm sure they are frustrated maybe they have to repeatedly retrain staff to meet their childs needs.

Here in Rochester their are jobs for new graduates

You have a right to work in a safe enviorment. I would think it would benefit everyone , the patients the staff and administration to investigate the situation and formulate some sort of plan to deal with the behavior. Doing nothing at all and contin...

So sad a terrible mistake that took 2 lives. I have to say that as nurses we face constant distractions as we try to provide care. How many times have other nurses, techs ,patients familiy members, patients, doctors interupted us as we prepare med...

I hear you. My last shift I was running down the hall to draw a stat blood on a patient. When a visitor came out of another room and asked me to get them a soda. I mentioned to them that their family member was NPO and was not allowed soda. The Visit...

In one segment of this piece there was a discussion on lowering cost of care for medicare patients. They talked about dramatic reduction in the cost of care when hospitals use Nurses as case managers to help manage and organize and deliver care to ch...