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  1. Accused of abandonement

    marie-francoise replied to bell83's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Agreed - it's about respectfully

  2. Accused of abandonement

    marie-francoise replied to bell83's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Actually, I was talking about the tone of some of the responding posts

  3. Accused of abandonement

    marie-francoise replied to bell83's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If this is the type of treatment I can expect when I graduate, I guess I'll just be contributing to the nursing shortage by saying "B'bye", rather than working in a disrespectful environment with the...

  4. Doctor becoming Nurse?

    marie-francoise replied to tenrec's topic in Nursing Career

    You might also want to think about if nursing is a fit for your personality. I would read through the threads on this site to get an idea of what nursing is like, and maybe shadow a nurse if you can....

  5. How do you deal with all the bickering and backstabbing at work?

    marie-francoise replied to Dunno?'s topic in General Nursing

    I think it's healthy to have a mix of male and female in any workplace situation. In nursing, though, that healthy mix has not yet been attained, and why some of these behaviors are more

  6. Nurses not responding fast enough-VENT

    marie-francoise replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    But hospitals just keep up this charade - worse, they encourage it. They promote this image of their hospital as a Ritz Carlton, not somewhere you go to get a medical problem managed and stabilized....

  7. New & Ready To Move On To Bigger & Better

    marie-francoise replied to NewGrad07's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe times have changed in hospital nursing. Maybe it's just gotten worse for hospital nurses (thanks for those ratios, managed care!). And now the patient is the "client" - this term's a real...

  8. New & Ready To Move On To Bigger & Better

    marie-francoise replied to NewGrad07's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to HealthyRN's post,

  9. New & Ready To Move On To Bigger & Better

    marie-francoise replied to NewGrad07's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a nursing student in an ADN program it's dawning on me - actually, has dawned on me - that BEDSIDE nursing in the past ten years has really seemed to gone downhill. The way the health care system...

  10. New RN already ready to quit!

    marie-francoise replied to RNroseshea's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know... I think you are experiencing a problem that is endemic to hospital nursing these days. It's not your "stress management skills" that's the problem here - it just seems hospital nursing...

  11. Safe Nurse:Patient ratio

    marie-francoise replied to hoopette34's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You could ask the General Nursing Discussion forum. I've seen many threads there observing high patient-to-nurse ratios. I don't think you're "complaining", but observing a phenomenon that appears...

  12. Proof There's No Nursing Shortage: Show RN's the MONEY

    marie-francoise replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

    Yes - I'm in a large metropolitan area, and my school doubled the number of students they accepted this year. So, this really has swelled the ranks of students in my school. There are also a bunch of...

  13. Your daily tasks

    marie-francoise replied to wlb06's topic in General Nursing

    You may want to Google the following: a day in the life nurse This serves up some pretty detailed descriptions. Also, I am going to try to shadow a floor nurse through his/her full shift since in my...

  14. Families from Hell

    marie-francoise replied to traumamomtx30's topic in General Nursing

    But maybe it isn't nurses, or patients, who have changed so much as the health care culture. Nurses seem to have worse working conditions now than they did in the 1980s, and this impacts both nurses...

  15. Pimples, blackheads and acne

    marie-francoise replied to weirdRN's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding P_RN's post: Yes - some docs have told me about this "triangle of death" around the nose, where if you squeeze or pop a zit, there is a chance for the infected material to travel back into...

  16. Am I assessing today's nursing situation accurately?

    marie-francoise posted a topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this is more for the career advice forum, but I have two questions for working or recently working nurses - who have been working as a clinical nurse sometime in the past 7 years or so. My two...

  17. Johnson & Johnson Nursing Commercial

    marie-francoise replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    I wish they would... From what I hear, though, I don't know if hospitals will ever be willing or able to redress their own nursing working conditions, since the way they are run is so rooted in the...

  18. Absolute No-No's

    marie-francoise replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    This thread describes a no-no:

  19. Am I assessing today's nursing situation accurately?

    marie-francoise replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, Tweety. You raise good points, and this is good to know from a nurse, and reassuring. (I hope I don't seem too much like a downer

  20. Johnson & Johnson Nursing Commercial

    marie-francoise replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    I think the J&J ads are misleading. They may inspire people to go into nursing, but they cannot inspire them to stay. They need to concentrate more on retention than recruiting. If current nurses...

  21. I think I really screwed up choosing nursing

    marie-francoise replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    I would NOT be embarrassed. I'm a nursing student and feel the exact way you do - I am doing great with the book work, don't find nursing school difficult, but do not like clinicals and know I could...

  22. Am I assessing today's nursing situation accurately?

    marie-francoise replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    THANK YOU, all, for your responses! They are sincerely appreciated. To answer your questions, I've typed up my replies, in Q&A style, below. Anyway, thanks again....

  23. Absolute No-No's

    marie-francoise replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    Yikes! DVT's are scary, insidious

  24. Absolute No-No's

    marie-francoise replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not an experienced nurse (student), but... never rub or massage a calf with suspected DVT or signs of DVT. I guess never rub/massage the calf muscle of any bedridden - particularly post-op -...

  25. Has anyone ever quit a new job after a few weeks?

    marie-francoise replied to HealthyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't knock yourself too hard for not wanting to be a nurse! At least you're being honest with yourself and trying to explore things you find more appealing. Nothing bad about being honest with...