LelaRN

It's funny this question was posted over 10 hours ago and not one reply, had you put up a complaint about nursing you'd have 20 responses by now LOL ! To answer the question, leads I, II, and III (the limb leads) are bipolar you have both + and -

That's exactly why when I get on Facebook, I chat with a few Friends/Family, then I play my Farmville and that's it. Momma always said, you can't just say any and everything that comes to mind without consequence.

If your going to stay overnight, bring your own, toothbrush & paste, and stop asking me to serve you juice and snack it's for the patients only. I don't care if the last nurse gave in to all your freeloading, you are a VISITOR not a patient.

My response is only based on what I'm seeing where I live, and the the places I've worked as a Travel nurse : NYC, Baltimore,DC, Atlanta, places that are generally diverse. In the last 5 years I've noticed more and more minorities. At John's Hopkins for example I did an 8 week assignment and there was a large # of Phillipians there whom I found out that the hospital was short staffed and contracted them to the U.S. from there country. At my own job more white nurses are managers, clinicians, and charge nurses. A lot of my white co-workers are in school for their MSN to become NP's. So no offense to anyone here, but like I said if some racist "trash" (cause that's what the racist one's usually are) wants his/her "White Nurse" let them have it- For Now....

The only thing dumb and equivalent to stupidity is RACISM, so take your sarcasm and smack yourself....

I too work in good ole Georgia right outside of the very diverse Atlanta; but I started my nursing career in upstate New York and it's the same both places. Let the pt. have their "White Nurse" little do they realize in some areas nursing is becoming more minority because White RN's tend to go higher up the ranks and more of the floor nurses are minorites. Pretty soon when these racist bastards the shouting about wanting a "white nurse" there won't be one-- you know the D.O.N or a manager is NOT gonna step back down to work the floor just to take care of a racist, no insurance having jerk !!!

I've worked on this unit as a postpartum nurse for almost 5 years now, before that I was Tele, Med-surg. I had a great Interview with the ICU dept. to do a residency that manager accepted me and wanted me to start 3/17 for classes, all of a sudden my manger claims I had attendance issues she is counting in my FMLA for a knee injury from last Sept. 08 which I gave her copies of the papers from the MD. This not only is a way to try to make me look bad to the new manager that wanted me. But isn't it illegal to try to count a medical leave against an employee ???? I considering talking with an attorney

What would you do if a manager blocked you every time you wanted to transfer to another unit????

I know exactly what you mean, this is important to me as well, especially still being young. I make myself workout, try to eat right, wear and do all the "girly" stuff I can on my days off to keep it Sexy. At work I try to keep it "Cute" and Professional: hairpins, clear nail polish a little lip gloss but NO PERFUME, just a soft scented lotion. Sometimes I try to starch creases in my scrub pants! :wink2: and keeping those dansko's CLEAN and white is a must. Patients and visitors notice it and sometimes compliment it.

to ms. "zelda" and others who are taking the nclex-rn for a consecutive time, stop letting anxiety win !!! if all of you have graduated nursing school, you can pass this exam. the hardest part of becoming a nurse was getting though school and you've done that. you've gotten through the pop quizzes, care plans, finals, dealt with mean nursing instructors, you got up at the 'crack of dawn' to go to clinicals to practice what you learned on real patients etc.... this test is just a formality to give you the license you need to practice in your respective states. you only have to pass this test once and never take it again. so kick anxiety in the back-side so you can pass, we need more nurses out here, we're short staffed, besides aren't you tired of spending all that money :twocents:each time you take the exam, i told myself i was only paying that exam fee one time and was determined to take the test once and that's what i did. good luck to all

As a Postpartum and Newborn Nursery Nurse, I've seen the difference between getting a patient from a L&D nurse with experience -vs-a new grad, for both the mom and the Baby. For the Mom it really "erks" me when they transfer the pt. who is still numb from the epidural and hasn't emptied her bladder nor did the nurse bother to cath. her-- that's a set up for hemorrhage. For the Baby, I can't stand when a inexperienced nurse knows she assessed poor APGAR scores and the baby is grunting and tachypneic and instead of having NICU come to asses the baby, they wrap the baby and send it to Well Baby Nursery, when the baby should have gone to NICU. This area of nursing ranks the highest for Law Suits, ask any OB/GYN Physician about malpractice insurance and they'll probably growl at you. Unfortunately yes the busy Georgia hospital I work at will hire an RN straight out of school for both L&D and NICU, and a lot of time's I can see where it's a bad idea. I worked Med-Surg, Tele, Clinic and ER triage before coming to M/B to take it easy for a few years.:wink2: