queen777

queen777

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  1. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    queen777 replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    You talk about management like you can just walk right in there and take over! You have never even seen poo have you? You just want to make good grades and tell all the peeons what and how to do...

  2. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    queen777 replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Stop right there! Over time, guess who gets your pay for working over time? The government! I used to think if I didn't work 5 days a week I was not getting in enough time. Then one day I looked...

  3. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    queen777 replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have had a LPN hang the phone up while I was in the process of repaging a doc to tell him I did not have Humalog on any of the floors, I went to work 11-7...a lady went into respirtory distress and...

  4. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    queen777 replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Listen to Chicagobsn, she said a mouth full and said it right! She is a smart

  5. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    queen777 replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to the nursing

  6. Back to nursing, have low confidence

    queen777 replied to MommyandRN's topic in General Nursing

    As another RN once told me, maybe its just the way you look. I always dressed in white with my lab coat, wore makeup and fixed my hair nicely while the other two head nurses, that were always on my...

  7. I am getting terminated tomarrow

    queen777 replied to nl2005's topic in General Nursing

    amen!

  8. I am getting terminated tomarrow

    queen777 replied to nl2005's topic in General Nursing

    This door might be closed, but another will open as it did for me. I got fired too. An elderly lady in her 90's went into CHF while I was off the floor with another pt. Other nurses I worked with...

  9. Am I Just a Cynic or Is nursing a poor career?

    queen777 replied to MrsCaseyRN's topic in General Nursing

    And thats just why I quit. Every point you make is the honest to God's truth! Go home to your son. Give him memories so one day he will not be like my daughter and remember mom had to work as a nurse...

  10. How to fix the nursing shortage?

    queen777 replied to wish4RN's topic in General Nursing

    All I wanted to be ever since I was a little girl was to be a nurse. But I had epilepsy which kept me out back in 1971. So I went on to get married and had 2 children when the thing about segregation...

  11. Trying to figure out schooling is making my head spin!

    queen777 replied to arynberg's topic in General Nursing

    I started out in the RN program and almost finished all of the prereqs all except Pharmacology math by .3 of a point and they ousted me! So I figured I had too much involved to just quit and I wanted...

  12. Back to nursing, have low confidence

    queen777 replied to MommyandRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hang in there. I have experienced the same thing. I found that when I treated those the way they treated me, somehow they became my best friend. For some reason I gave off this imagine of being a...