Hellllllo Nurse

Hellllllo Nurse BSN, RN

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  1. Do you get extra work cause your bilingual?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    As I said, I am not talking about people who make an effort. You say your husband speaks english, pays taxes, etc. Then why are you offended? I'm not talking about him. If you said you didn't like...

  2. Do you get extra work cause your bilingual?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in a hospital six miles from the US/Mexico border. I did take care of non-english speakers who'd been in car accidents- I worked surgical. Just like you, I gave them the best care I could....

  3. Do you get extra work cause your bilingual?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    We've already spent years in classes learning how to take care of pts, now we need to take more classes so we can communcate with them? Where does the pt's responsibility start? My great grandparents...

  4. Do you get extra work cause your bilingual?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to CyndieRN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I think it should be mandatory for anyone living in the US to learn english. I don't get extra work because I speak spanish, I get extra work because I don't. Everything takes much longer than it...

  5. What exactly is so bad about Med Surg?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    No, you have these things on other floors. It's just worse in med surge,

  6. Sister Kenny- Heroic Nurse

    Hellllllo Nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Couldn't sleep tonight and turned on the TV. TCM was showing a 1946 biographical film called Sister Kenny starring Rosalind Russell. It is the true story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny- a UK nurse who came...

  7. What exactly is so bad about Med Surg?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    It's not just new nurses. I've been a nurse for 15 years. I ran from a horrible med surg job. What was so bad about it? Rediculous, unrealistic work load, terrible working conditions, danger to...

  8. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for that. Yes, I usually make more money as a traveler. Occasionally, I make less than regular staff. Either way I earn every penny. Whenever a regular staff person has a negative attitude...

  9. Question about "W"s on your record, urgent please

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to maximus76's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have 5 "Ws" on my transcript. Whenever I do not care for a professor's style of teaching, I drop the class and take it with another instructor. I figure I'm paying for quality teaching. I'm not...

  10. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    It goes both ways- I'm a traveler- which is considered a type of agency nurse. I am tired of regular staff nurses who have no idea what their facilities' policies and procedures are. Also, many do...

  11. Not Happy With My OR

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to IsseyM's topic in Operating Room

    Lol, I totally disagree. I've been a nurse for 15 years, and it took me a while to realize that being miserable is not worth any amount of money. I've quit bad jobs, and paid back bonus money before....

  12. Help with scrubs...please!

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to Medic74's topic in Men in Nursing

    I wear cheap twill pants from Walmart. The white ones are not see-through, they look just like scrub pants and are only $9.00 a

  13. maggots?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    I've never worked ER, but did have a pt with maggots in hospice. Pt was a lady in her 40s- well dressed and appeared clean. She had a fungating CA of the breast. She kept it covered all the time at...

  14. Pay wise for RN's in office?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to Nightrn16's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Where I live, there is a big surplus of RNs who can't find jobs. Because of this, all the doc's offices here are all RN staffed, no MAs and hardly any LVNs. Most office RNs here work for a low salary,...

  15. I wish all the washed out tired nurses would retire.

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to NC Girl BSN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I have to say- I've worked with a lot of techs (dialysis) who come in to work disheveled, wearing wrinkled scrubs that look like they were taken out of a hamper, dirty hair, etc. Although, I find that...

  16. Miserable. Is this how it is everywhere?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to gearheadfly's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It isn't any so-called "shortage" that has stressed the system to where it is today- it is hospital administrators, business-oriented nurse managers, and for-profit managed care corporations who are...

  17. Miserable. Is this how it is everywhere?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to gearheadfly's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow-your new grad experience pretty much echos mine- only mine was years ago. I was the only caucasion, only non-tagalog speaking RN on a miserable, disorganized, hostile unit. I quit, and never...

  18. job change woes

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to reely's topic in Travel

    As a traveler, I use unit managers, co-workers, and charge nurses from previous

  19. help

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to OLIVER209's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    You don't. You need to graduate from an accredited school of

  20. Nursing hat with ruffles required?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to Suninmyheart's topic in General Nursing

    I always wanted to be "capped." At my school, we didn't get capped or even pinned. Our sour old instructors told us that "pinning and capping are indicitive of diploma programs. We are an academic...

  21. Nursing Student's breakdown moment

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to CC918's topic in General Nursing

    In the real world, I find that the numbered pain scale just confuses most pts. When you ask them to rate their pain on a scale of 1-10, one being...blah blah blah, they mostly just stare blankly- Huh?...

  22. refuse to float ?

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to nursejllrn's topic in Travel

    Get it written into your contract that you are not to float to other units. At some hospitals, travelers are the first to

  23. Rediculous "could you be a nurse?" quiz

    Hellllllo Nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    This quiz claims to be able to tell if you are suited for nursing. I took the quiz. The answer analysis told me that nursing is perfect for me. Why? Because according to this quiz, nursing is a great...

  24. US needs foreign-trained healthcare workers

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to mhwa's topic in International Nursing

    If you are addressing me, I did not alter any figures, or contribute to the article in any way. I simply posted it. You may want to actually look at it. "Immigrant nurses account for 40 percent of...

  25. US needs foreign-trained healthcare workers

    Hellllllo Nurse replied to mhwa's topic in International Nursing

    40% is not a tiny minority- Here is an eye-opening statistic: 40% of all US nurses are foreign-born. (http://www.aarp.org/research/interna...icy_forum.html) In fact, the fastest growing group among...