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Your absolutely right, my bad. I was writting out of pure emotion rather than my mind. Courtney, I reread what I wrote not sure exactly why it struck such a cord with me. My stuff not yours. I am very sorry that I came off the way I did, we do need to be more supportive of each other and not so willing to attack our own like I feel I just did.

mistaken entry, my bad!

Wow! what a great friend/ roomate! Glad ur not my friend! If you want to do the right thing keep YOUR focus on what YOU are doing. They will figure that other stuff out. Nursing school can be challenging enough let alone when someone is trying to sabatoge you. That is a very real situation you may create for yourself by becoming the class rat! Not many people would want to be in your company and rightfully so. Besides karma can be a *****. I promise you that in the future you will find yourself at someone elses mercy at some point. When that time comes hopefully it will be a close friend. One might expect something else from a stranger but a friend!!! Remember where mercy is shown mercy is given. I also wonder what your true motives are. :down::down:

Funny how reading through these blogs it becomes easy to distinguish between the nursing students/new nurses with the seasoned nurses. The new-be's get really focused and hung up on HIPPA and are quick to point the finger at how obsurd another's behavior is and how they would never do that. The seasoned nurses: alot more down to earth and real. Know/learn who you are, BE YOURSELF, and as others have said we all have the personal responsibility on how we conduct ourselves no matter what our profession be. There are always going to be consequences to our actions, some good, some bad and everywhere in between. The question being, what level of consequence am I able to accept? It all comes down to common sense.

I had six years of ICU experience prior to entering the ER. The experience was invaluable when treating the criticaly ill pts I encountered. It did take some major adjusting however, ie. becomming comfortable not knowing everything about each patient I was taking care of. Most of the time I was not able to give the highly one on one personal attention to the pt or the family either. Many of the ER nurses that I worked with didn't have critical care in their background but were excellent ER nurses. They had many strengths that I didn't have. They were a jack of all trades and a master of none.

PS: I am planning to work ER if that helps guide you all a little more.

I am newly single and in 11 months am going to start travel nursing. Looking for everyone's experince in this category. Do's / dont's. Fun places to go, wildest places to go, places to stay away from etc. Which agencies pay the best, which ones are a joke etc. Any help is appreciated. Thanks guys.

Who are these jokers talking about sexual harassment?! Are they serious? I know the overwhelming emotion that you describe and how intoxicating it can be. Brother, the last thing you are worried about is being sexually harrassed. If anything you would be more concerned if she stopped. I have been in this situation and ended up marrying the girl. We spent 10 years of our life together, a beautiful daughter and many laughs. Working on the same unit created many problems between us and also with other staff members. We survived though and learned a lot from the experience. Overall it was great and I am glad we did it. Things did get much smoother once we worked seperate units. Thats the nice thing about nursing. it is fairly easy to change environments.