cokie

i agree, i think that people are late for the things that they CAN be late for. i wonder if these same nurses were late for the interview that got them hired. my friend who is spanish tries to use her culture as an excuse for being late to things she and i do together. i have never seen her late for work, and i tell her so. one time we were going to carpool somewhere, and i left without her (she was late), we passed on the road up to my house, she parked her car on the street (not at my house), and we left from there. she is no longer late to things with me.................

management needs to be aware of this, and something CAN be done. at one of my jobs if one is 5 minutes late the staffing office is called, so that they can call a replacement. i would like to see people docked 15 for anything past the time they are supposed to be ready. and to me, 3 means, you are in the chair, all items in hand ready to roll the tape AT 3. my first job in high school, one punched a clock. if one was one minute late they didn't get paid for the first 15. made an impression........is it easy to see i'm one of the early ones......i leave my house 45 minutes before my shift, even though i only have a 20 minute drive. i like to take my time. rushing is just way too stressful.

i think i am weird.....by first grade my kids were able to get themselves up (cool alarm clocks). eat (cereal and milk, no cooking or knives allowed), and out without me .....of course we carpooled.....so, i get home about 12, have a set routine, hot shower, warm milk, read in bed, when drowsy sleep....1 or so. i even grocery shop on the way to work, use a cooler with ice, but no frozen food on these trips. only work this shift if it is YOUR cicadia rhythm.......it is mine. being to work by 7 am makes me feel urpy, no kidding. best of luck finding a shift that works for you, i wish i could work noon to eight pm, can't.....

am typing with one hand......breaks....yes....but only the dinner break, not the 15's. as far as the 30, i don't wear a watch and i don't watch the clock. some days my dinner break is short like 10 minutes, and some days it is an hour. at my med-surg job we have a very strong union. if you know that you are too busy to take your dinner break, you are to call the ns, and they will pay two hours of overtime for missed breaks. if they can make it possible for you to get a dinner break, they will....i do see some of the new grads missing their dinners, but i didn't even when i was a new grad....not too long ago either,2000.......don't let all the complaining get you down......some people like to complain....this site lets us complain..........have a great thursday...i know i will.....

read a very good book about this. i talked about the stages...in recognizing that right now you are in the honeymoon and i can't remember the other 5 stages, but one is disillusionment and depression. the previous ideas given will help.......

please don't stop posting because of negative responses. everyone is entitled to an opinion. maybe if you are doing research you need to be clear, to be fair. as far as pyxis solving the problem of DIVERSION, this is not possible. i believe diversion by definition means that one is diverting something. diverting is still stealing, but at this point it is the pt. who suffers.

i swear by my chiropractor for acute problems, but not too sure about the chronic stuff. the standard at the md is vicodin and soma, not too conducive to working as a safe rn....the chiro fixed up sciatica (i know i spelled that one wrong), and my neighbor's sciatica also.....my current health plan covers, so i'm happy....

welcome, welcome, welcome......pick up a pill bottle, and if you can read the print with your glasses, you will be fine....hang on tight, nursing school is a heck of a ride....stay seated until the ride comes to a complete stop.......

i never believed that this went on when i was in school. now is realize that it does. save up all the breaks and take them all at once. some places i have worked, this is 2 hours, per nurse, and they all cover for each other. if the super comes by they say, oh she just went to the break room, even though it was over an hour before. i have done doubles from pm's, but i don't work nights. the reason is that i can't stay awake for the entire night, and if i take a one hour nap (all my breaks rolled into one) i would just get up with a bad headache. i feel bad for night nurses, i couldn't do it myself, but i don't know what the answer is.....zzzzz

is it cheating if only a few people have the exam questions and answers (no thinking required here) not all, and the instructors are unaware that their tests have been copied..... just a short story from my first semester in school...you be the judge. we were supposed to study 500 abbreviations, but would only be tested on 20. since i was one of the first people to take the test, and had actually studied all 500, i only got 18 out of 20, but that was passing. by the time the second half of the class took the test, they were getting 100%. one of my classmates actually called me an uptight b.... because when she asked me what had been on the test, i told her to study the abbreviations, she would need to know them later anyway.

just read a long thread about lowering the standards etc. for people with special needs. how about cheaters. i went to school with quite a few people who were not only sharing notes from the previous semester, but also test answers, fully written care plans, magazine reports. i know that this is cheating, that is not my question. my question is, isn't it better for someone to have to work very hard for a 73% and be passed, than to achieve by cheating. please don't get me wrong, i am in no way saying that all the 4.0 people are cheating, but quite a few people in my class SHARED answers. i think that it is wrong, but didn't have many on my side. any one else experience this, and feel that they are quite alone in feeling that this is wrong. i don't want to work on the floor with people who cheated their way through school. i think that these are the truly dangerous people, not my co-workers who occasionally ask me to help them with a drug calculation. take care and have a great week.........

we actually had two female students have a major shouting fight in class, while we were in groups and the teacher had stepped out. i couldn't believe it. there was desk shoving, and yelling, i was in the group and thought i might be the ref if they started to throw punches. this fight too was about this one girl who came in late, when we had already gone over a number of the questions. then her papers were all out of order, so she rustled for a few minutes, then wanted us all to catch her up. someone told her something about coming on time, then she said something about people having notes already and all the answers from the previous semester. wow.....the teacher did find out and they were both cautioned.

probably the best way to handle this is to become active in your union. i work in CA, and here we belong to CNA. CA is california, not cancer. anyway, i also get put on call occasionally and we get paid 2 hours. don't hate me. but CNA is a strong union. just a thought. good luck...... when i am on call i make sure that they have my cell phone number, throw my uniform in the trunk, turn on my cell phone, and still go do what i want. hope that all turns out well for you and yours.

at my facility these are called ADO's. assignment dispite objection. i have filled these out a few times. i have also threatened to fill them out a few times and averted a dangerous assignment. i work pm's, and can usually tell by about 5pm whether i will be able to take another admit or not. then, when i am being told that i will be taking the first admit (which is almost always the case, because i am junior, per diem, and not a member of the club so to speak), i tell the charge nurse that i will be filling out an ADO. if she says i will still get it, i call the super, and then if i get it, i fill out the ADO. doen't change getting the admit, just protects my license somewhat because i have made people aware that i'm overwhelmed. they are not allowed to persecute you for filling one out, but i use it sparingly, to improve the impact. good luck