NurseRachy

Every shift i doubt my choice of profession! Sad but true.

Carebear06 - Firstly - good luck in your new job. You'll never know unless you try it. I have a couple of friends that work in prisons and they LOVE it. They always have officers around them and are NEVER alone with the inmates. They would never come back to a hospital and they tell me the extra money surely helps too! Good Luck and ENJOY Rachel

I'm sorry to read that you have had a bad time in nursing. These issues are identical in nursing world-wide! I can fully identify with your issues expressed and they are very similar to reasons why i have decided to leave the profession at only the end of my 2nd year of practice as an RN. It really is a shame that people like us are leaving. I have rotated through various areas of nursing at various establishments and the bullying, backstabbing and horizontal violence is all too common. It is not healthy or satisfying when you are working under constant intimidation. Out of 10 of my nursing friends from uni I am the 8th leaving the profession. I will be doing temping positions for over $12 an hour MORE than i got when casual nursing!!!! AND this is admin duties with a tenth of the stress! SO - good luck with your baby - your future is bright. You do not need to work as a nurse if you don't want to. Your skills are transferable - when one door closes another immmediately opens. All the best, Rachel

Hmmmmm... let me think...... Absolutely NOTHING!!!!

Unfortunately not in Australia either.... I'm in the same boat. I have qualifications in Public Health and Health Promotion...... The powers that be are struggling to see the connection to nursing practice and how my knowledge is of assistance to our patients.... very disheartening really!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I would LOVE to be a teacher. Mother was a teacher - really don't know how i ended up nursing..... can we please swap qualifications? Rachel

How about medihoney? It's real honey from bees but a certain type with better healing properties. I have also used normal honey on myself, but that was just for a graze when i tripped. Worth a try..

Sorry Marla I've never heard of it either but I hope that everything ends up ok!! Sending good wishes.. Rachel

Hello jetta1, Yeah a good friend of mine was written up by a Dr because she paged the Dr to query a dose (INR 3.3 and 3mg of warfarin written up to give) and when the Dr called back she was really nasty, yelling and carrying on down the phone that she (Dr) had already clarified this with (with who we do not know) and who was she to usurp her authority and she was "just a nurse" so she should "shut up and just give the damn thing as a good nurse should" and when my friend said "Excuse me, when you can speak to me like a decent human being you can call me back on xxxx and my name is xxxxxx on ward xx" and proceded to hang up the phone. Well, that was it - the Dr came flying around and put in a complaint about her. The nurse unit manager called my friend in, laughed at the complaint, wrote it was a pathetic on top of it and filed it in her file. If I was in the same position I'd want to do the same, but I think that I'd probably just cop the abuse and move on. Rachel.

Wow - I've never been asked if I've been saved. I'm sure i would blurt out "from what, what do you mean?" Other than that I think I would just answer "yes thanks" and quickly busy myself with another task. When people (usually 2 young men) knock on the door to give me pamphlets I politley and answer "No thanks" and close the door. If someone jammed their foot in the door I would freak and probably stomp as hard as i could on their foot. Oh, i hope that never happens!

ALL THE BEST!!! I fondly (haha) remember my 4 impacted wisdom teeth being removed. I had to go to a hospital's day surgery and had a general anesthetic. Well, I too had the bruising, SWELLING, pain, SWELLING, numbness, oh, did i mention SWELLING really bad. My face was like a square for at least 2 weeks and i couldn't talk or eat at all (lost a lot of weight that i really couldn't afford) and was on pureed baby food for over a month ( so 6 weeks from date of surgery cause I couldn;t eat for the first fortnight). Luckily i loved the fruit baby food in the cans. Yes - the numbness has a VERY HIGH chance that it will go away. The swelling in time will go down, and the brusing is your temporary battle scars :) Wear them with pride :) (or at least try to!) Just think - no more problems from them EVER AGAIN!!!!!! Best wishes Rachel

oh my gosh - that is terrible news! I'm so sorry to hear about that Julie. I'm keeping you both in my best wishes. Positive thinking ((((((((((Julielpn))))))))))) Rachel

Sorry to hear that you are soo sad. i too would strongly recommend a drug rep job, or maybe work as a homeless outreach nurse- that way you might feel less like a bird in a cage. How about being a case manager for chronic illnesses like COPD or some mental health. Maybe you could even think of doing infection control or OH&S? I don't think that you should need to sacrific your salary or take a substantial pay cut, but I'm in Australia and things may be different. ALL THE BEST!! Rachel

I love nursing but I'm too busy to run around and find the patients friend a different flavour of jam for the patients toast! (but i do it anyway cause I'm a softy)

Sorry to hear this markjrn, sorry no advice just best wishes! Rachel