shmoofins

Don't be such a jerk all the time. You don't know everything and you don't know all the things I have to do as part of my job while you just sit there surfing the internet or talking. Hey, I know, maybe you could get up and actually help me. Stop being so judgmental and stop talking about people behind their back. Also, there are many things that are none of your business so butt out. Similarly, no one cares about every minute detail of your life, so shut up!

I have cried more times than I can count both at work and at home after work. I've always been a bit of a crier, though. The stress of it all gets to me.

Yes, I regret it. I didn't like it when I was in school and I still don't like it. Not that I hate every aspect of it, and I hate it less now than when I was doing floor nursing but I still wish I'd changed my major when I was in school. I want to go back to school for something different. I'd even be okay with a non-clinical position, but those are very hard to find, especially without much experience.

I would like to know how many call-in days nurses at other facilities get. At my facility we get 1 call-in per 6 months. This seems outrageous to me and it's unsafe. We work in a place where people are already sick and when the nurses are sick too it makes for a very dangerous situation. Besides that, you're not going to be able to do your job very well if you feel like crap. Now, you can call in for multiple days on one call-in but past 2 you need a doctor's excuse. Also, if you have a weekend or a scheduled day off and you called in the day before and the day after it counts as 2 separate occurrences. How is it at other facilities?

Yes! That's one of the things I'm interested in :nuke:

I am actually thinking very seriously about quitting nursing and going back to school. I want to work with computers. I wouldn't mind doing something that incorporated my nursing degree/knowledge but I don't want to be a nurse.

I should have asked "Why is this interview so easy?" When your interviewer doesn't ask you hardly any questions and you feel like you're practically hired already, this could be a BAD SIGN. (Especially if you don't have much experience and most jobs of this type usually want lots of experience!) I also should have asked more about the nature of the work and the hours and whatnot.

We have several at work who are bad but one in particular. He yells and gets upset over nothing. He treats the staff horribly and of course nothing is ever done about it. He's gotten irritated with me before but never yelled. I'm sure it's coming though since he's yelled at just about everybody at least once. I'm just worried because I cry way too easily over stupid stuff, and I know if he yells at me or even gets snippy I'll tear up. And I've heard from others you NEVER want to cry in front of him or show that he's gotten to you because then he'll be worse. What a lovely person to work with. It's unavoidable too because it's an operating room type situation and I can't just avoid him, I'm stuck in a room with him. Aaah!

What did you do to pay for school and for money in general while you took your pre-reqs? If you don't mind me asking...

I would like to work with computers. I'm sick of nursing and I don't really like it. I have much more of an affinity for learning computers than nursing, which I still feel like I don't really get. Also I think I would like it better, working with computers in an office environment. Just my two cents though. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean there aren't tons of people who feel like it's their calling or whatever. I've also thought somewhat about pharmacy because one thing I really enjoy about nursing is learning about all the meds and mixing them and such. That's a lot of extra schooling though.

Stress that if they smoke, they should definitely quit! Also like others said reinforce Plavix big time if they've gotten stents.

A lot of our doctors are rude and just expect to get their way all the time. Of course the management just encourages that because they're too scared of losing them to a competing hospital. We have one doc that's really awful to the staff but nothing's ever done about it.

My boyfriend and I are actually pretty similar. We like a lot of the same things and we're both fairly nerdy. We both like videogames and nerdy movies and such. We have similar tastes in music (although we both like some stuff that the other doesn't). One difference is that he's still in school and I'm (recently) out. We both hate cleaning. We both like learning useless facts. I can't think of any huge differences.

Loans out the wazoo, about $23,000...although I'm told as long as I work as a nurse I can have about $3,000 of that forgiven. I also got some scholarships and worked various jobs. I still never had very much money though, so it was nice once I finally started getting the RN pay :) Question...If I ever go back to school full time do my loans defer even after I've started paying them?

I felt the same way in school. It wasn't because school was too hard but because I felt that I didn't like nursing. I was really jealous of other people who changed their majors. I wish now that I'd done that too, but I went ahead and finished the program. Now I have my license and all that but I still feel like maybe it's not for me, although I haven't been out of school very long so maybe that will change (I hope). I'd like to go back to school one day to do something different, but I wish I'd changed majors back when I first knew I didn't want to do nursing. I stayed because my family kind of pressured me and told me how I'd have a great job when I got out and whatnot. Yeah right. I'm not saying you should quit, but make sure you think long and hard about whether you want to stay or leave. You can do a lot with a nursing degree but you may have to work in a hospital for a few years first.