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  1. So did I get the job or not?

    maxthecat replied to Nursestef2's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I agree with contacting HR and asking for further information--if no decision has been made yet, do they have an approximate date when one will be made? Unfortunately, having a great interview, with...

  2. Nursing Spirituality

    maxthecat replied to EGspirit's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I often wish that nursing had chosen a different word than "spirituality" for its approach to patients' and nurses' issues of meaning in their lives. Spirituality so easily becomes seen as some sort...

  3. Intrusive application questions!

    maxthecat replied to Scorchednurse's topic in Nursing Career

    So does anybody think that since they are going to be paying a portion of your health insurance costs if they hire you, that an employer has a right to know if you are going to be a likely liability...

  4. Responsibilities and tasks when receiving a new patient to the unit

    maxthecat replied to Jyj5050jyj's topic in General Nursing

    While I like your initiative, it probably makes more sense to wait for orientation. You could read up on the policies and procedures, but you may find that a typical admission to your unit doesn't...

  5. orientation prob. bring it up with my boss or not

    maxthecat replied to singleye's topic in General Nursing

    I know it can't be helped sometimes, but I think 2 years experience is too little to precept in

  6. Fiorcet and Tramodol

    maxthecat replied to ruby_jane's topic in School

    Does the kid have a migraine or some other sort of headache? I was told that Imitrex worked only on migraines. I'd also watch the fioricet. it's great if you can take it without side effects, but I...

  7. I'm Sorry

    maxthecat replied to vintagemother's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry that hospitals staff so poorly that nurses cannot do their jobs as they would wish

  8. CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    maxthecat replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Yeah, this morning it looks like the CDC is denying that there are any "banned words." They say the list was mrely a way tfor their employees to phrase things so as to maximize chances of getting...

  9. Is earwax removal an emergency?

    maxthecat replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    I don't know about public aid, but I was always told that private insurance has the option to refuse to pay for an emergency room visit that wasn't a real emergency. I was told that "it's life or...

  10. Many nurses do not chart?

    maxthecat replied to Guest716906's topic in General Nursing

    How do you reconcile "charting by exception" with "if it wasn't charted, it wasn't

  11. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    maxthecat replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I wouldn't want to be precepted by someone who didn't want to teach. I don't think it is every nurses's responsibility to precept either. To give help to a new nurse, yes--to formally...

  12. What is your opinion on calling in "sick"

    maxthecat replied to Goofaroo's topic in General Nursing

    What do you say when you call in? Any of the places I have worked did not recognize "mental health days," you had to give them a physical reason (and that better be a good one, an "on my deathbed"...

  13. Why nurses don't want to talk to a ward psychologist?

    maxthecat replied to manjar's topic in General Nursing

    I also worked in a hospital that wouldn't make an out of network exception for mental health. One of my co-workers started having problems and had to come to our unit for treatment. Not only was...

  14. Not excited about nursing--feels like a bad joke

    maxthecat replied to Cola89's topic in General Nursing

    Another reason that we need to have some part of nursing education equivalent to the old diploma schools. Those graduates knew exactly what the job entailed before they

  15. I just set my friend up

    maxthecat replied to Kaylle's topic in General Students

    You are not responsible for taking care of this person. Stop trying to take care of her and her feelings. If telling her that you cannot be responsible for her schooling and career decisions ends...

  16. New Nurse ... not distinguishing myself as brilliant

    maxthecat replied to SilverSister's topic in General Nursing

    You are still in a learning stage, as you should be. You will make mistakes. Believe me, there are nurses who have made far worse mistakes than what you have shared. What jumps out at me is how you...

  17. Teamwork...Why do we do this to ourselves?

    maxthecat replied to Beachbum671's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Before we come down too hard on the CNA/techs (and I agree that the comment is out of line), we would do well to police our own peers. I find it just as frustrating when nurses act like they are the...

  18. New grads in specialties without the basics

    maxthecat replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Until we come up with some hybrid of university education and diploma school education there is going to be the problem of people graduating without basic skills under their belts. How to do this in a...

  19. How to deal with rude coworkers

    maxthecat replied to nicenurse819's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's not you as a person, it's what you represent. She knows she is "stuck" (for whatever reason) at her job level. Maybe she once entertained dreams of moving up and becoming an RN, but (for...

  20. Getting along with coworkers

    maxthecat replied to nur14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As a psychiatric nurse, of course I believe in giving people who struggle with their issues some leeway. All of us have some problem parts of our lives and personalities , whether they rise to the...

  21. I got reported to HR

    maxthecat replied to katie92's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I can imagine why you thought the remark was not offensive and I can imagine why the recipient thought it was. Would have been nice if she had called you on it so that you two could have a discussion...

  22. I'm a sexless nurse

    maxthecat replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    As a female RN, I'm just amazed that other female RN's feel they are able to analyze what goes on with male nurses. I'm not a man, therefore I cannot assume I know all about what males experience in...

  23. Enrolling in online RN to BSN after NCLEX: Should I work?

    maxthecat replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Aside from the issues of employability already discussed, you will find that an on-line BSN program will typically assume you are a working RN and assignments will be based on information you would be...

  24. Scientific or paranormal explanation?

    maxthecat replied to Mavrick's topic in General Nursing

    What's really sad is a supervisor who would write up an employee for having name badge wrong side up if she happened to see it that way in the hall. (This was not someone who was trying to hide their...

  25. Please Help, new Nurse, don't know what to do, transferred

    maxthecat replied to Michellelove's topic in First Year After Licensure

    About all you can do is chalk this up to a valuable learning experience. It's always dangerous to go over your manager's head, but at only 6 months in, it's suicide. You don't know the lay of the...