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We rotate charge at my facility too. And I still say hurray for you, you have a great attitude...I want to work with you@!!!

Hurray for you charge nurse!!! In time, it will get easier as you get comfortable in your position. I will tell you this - a word of advice. DO NOT tell a nurse to be a patient advocate and call the MD and dismiss the nurse and her concerns. I alr...

I guess no one is ever happy with what they receive...especially nurses that really are the core of patient care. We deserve so much, ask for so little and in return...get sooo little. Got an ice cream bar, beach chair, lunch box, and a tea service...

Honey, Welcome to the world of nursing. In addition to patient education, patient advocacy, trying to decifer MD orders, dealing with overbearing family members.....Do I need to go on? You are worried about a 600 BS level, and rightfully so. As a ...

I wish you the world of luck. But girrrrl, if you think BCC north campus is mean....get ready for the real world when you graduate (management, fellow nurses, patients, family members). Start now to develop a thick skin and go for your dream. Ignore ...

Hello all, I too have been told that I should feel very "honored" to have a job in today's economy (by management). Having said that, it took a nurses aide to make me think....(her words, not mine)....Is the hospital going to go out of business? No...

Hello everyone, I really need some insight on what to do. Let me start by stating that I work alot of OT. I have been told by staffing that when our census gets low, nurses that are on overtime, pool, agency, etc... get flexed 1st. Here is my pro...

Thank you everyone for replying, just to give you an update....my nm (while still on maternity leave) sent an e-mail to everyone questioning how we can improve customer satisfaction. Well...I let her have it (of course in a professional way). Fir...

It is so great to hear all of the newbies chime in. I don't know if you would consider me a newbie or not having been a nurse on the floor for one year already. I have worked day shift and I have worked night shift. There is no one nurse that can ...

"Bringing oneself to the level of the newbie sa ys very little about the maturity of the group." Excuse me the level of a newbie??? Speaking as a newbie I have am at higher level and display more maturity than most RNs with 20+ years of experience. ...

Okay, so while I was in school I was told that I could do so many things with my license. I am not finding that to be the case. I have been an RN for 10 months and I don't know what to do now. I am unhappy with my current position, yet I like floo...

Okay - so here is the deal. My friend and I graduated from nursing school together. She convinced me to work with her in a small hospital, even though I wanted to work at a trauma center. We have been there for almost one year and we are both unha...

I replied to this thread before as a newbie, newbie = If that makes sense. At first I said yes, yes nurses do eat their young!!! Now I realize after having been a nurse for almost one year nurses eat nurses. I think that because we are a female do...

I have only worked at one hospital as an RN (am still a newbie, almost one year as an RN now!! ), so I have no other experience to base this on to say this really stinks. I am relying on other nurses to let me know. I am really exhausted right now ...

Thank you for your replies. I am having an argument with my husband about this. He doesn't seem to understand, there is more to this situation than what I have mentioned. I worry for my license, something that I have worked so hard for (as we all ...

Sometimes action speaks louder than words. We have one particular nurse that is very vocal and complains about everything. At every staff meeting she reminds everyone that night nursing is much harder than day nursing. I was curious - so I worked ...

It's funny you should mention that...the ANM helped out on the floor one day - not a full shift, only till 4:00pm. She told me the next day that her husband had to rub her feet and she was exhausted. She mentioned that realized the perfection manag...

Thank you all for your responses and advice. I know I need leave but I am nervous about what my NM would do. 2 of my classmates have already left. One transferred to the ICU in the same hospital - she gave them a months notice. The NM wrote her ...

Hello everyone, I have briefly glanced at everyone's responses. I guess everyone has a different opinion - what a wonderful world we live in that we can agree to disagree and in my opinion that is wonderful. My short experience as a nurse is differe...

I was told in school, as was Tweety, that nurses eat their young, in fact, some of us had to write a research paper on it and do a presentation. I had always heard about it - though I never experienced it - up until several weeks ago. I am putting i...

Dear Danissa:Thank you so much for your reply. After much soul searching I don't think that I am in the wrong field - just in the wrong hospital department. More particularly with the wrong manger - she is on my back when I get morning report and s...

Because I didn't like how my grandmother was being treated and I know I could care for her better (trust me I did run to the hospital when she called me at midnight because she was in so much pain and no pain meds were being administered - and this ...

Dear Danissa: Any tips on how to deal with it and still provide effect patient care and teaching? Dee :uhoh21:

oh... and by the way I AM one of the young - and I can truly, honestly, deep within my heart tell you that it is true - you definelty eat your own young weather you believe it or not. DEE

Thank you for those that agree with me and thank you to those that even don't agree with me - yet - recognzed that I was posting out of frustration and anger. I know I said that I was not going to respond to this post - but curiosity got the best o...