emmy27

emmy27

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  1. 8 vs 12 hour shift?

    emmy27 replied to RN-Doula's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, many is the day that four hours in to a miserable shift I thought to myself, "and now we still have to work a normal person's entire work

  2. 8 vs 12 hour shift?

    emmy27 replied to RN-Doula's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My unit recently added a ten hour day shift that nobody seems to want but me and I can't even tell you how much happier, better-rested, and less generally filled with work-related-dread I am trading...

  3. Panic attacks following never event.

    emmy27 replied to Iamgroot29's topic in General Nursing

    Remember, there is no reward for maximum stubbornness/sticking it out in a miserable position the longest. Also, enduring miserable working conditions is not a useful form of penance. You are not...

  4. Eating Their Young

    emmy27 replied to futurelnd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All the nurses who have ever been seriously unpleasant to me were just a year or two more experienced than I was at the time. I have had no issues with older nurses, only with those who were insecure...

  5. Should I pursue my dream?

    emmy27 replied to mwilburn's topic in General Nursing

    Strongly seconding everyone who said both to read these forums carefully and get a realistic picture of what nursing school and modern nursing employment, especially in the early days of a career, is...

  6. Should I pursue my dream?

    emmy27 replied to mwilburn's topic in General Nursing

    Wait, what? In a decade in healthcare I've never seen this, ever. I've seen people let go over some petty things working in right-to-work states, but never, ever have I seen an employer with an...

  7. Gift for a pt

    emmy27 replied to mountainjc's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know a nurse who tracked down a new small-breed puppy for an elderly patient with no family who had lost his beloved dog of the same breed in a car accident (the same accident we had met him in the...

  8. New RN's: Is it normal to help your preceptor with all their patients tasks

    emmy27 replied to NewRN'16's topic in General Nursing

    While you'll have to ask your preceptor for clarification, my guess would be that what's happening is that you're near the beginning of orientation (or by preceptorship do you mean you're still a...

  9. Seeking job choice advice...appreciate all feedback

    emmy27 replied to Lucky724's topic in General Nursing

    Having worked with an hour+ commute each way for several years, I'm not sure there's any amount of money that could entice me to take on the same situation again. And that was for a job I loved! But...

  10. Rough Day, Need Help, encouragemnt

    emmy27 replied to Testing12345's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't finish, it was giving me flashbacks to floor nursing. All nurses have bad days but this sounds exceptionally bad. Not all units are like this, not all the time. The fact that you thought...

  11. What does it take exactly to become a nurse?

    emmy27 replied to Juson's topic in General Nursing

    Another thing I forgot to mention- even (in fact, in many places, especially) for ADN programs, the demand is usually higher than the available seats- sometimes much higher. So the odds of her...

  12. What does it take exactly to become a nurse?

    emmy27 replied to Juson's topic in General Nursing

    Military wife here- congratulations and good luck to you as you embark on your career! On to the questions for your wife- like everyone has said, the actual nursing component of an ADN is two years...

  13. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    emmy27 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Also, absolutely seconding people who said "owning two sports cars does not necessarily means someone is making bank." Many, many people live with crippling amounts of debt. Just because someone is...

  14. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    emmy27 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    I think you are experiencing confirmation bias- you believe that everyone else is making more than you, so you NOTICE people who (you believe) are making more than you. It's certainly true that...

  15. Be honest: do you feel valued by your employer?

    emmy27 replied to sunnyskies9's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. Not at all. I've worked overtime for weeks on end only to be called on the carpet over failing to take a lunch break (when no coverage was provided) during times of short-staffing. I've seen...

  16. Undocumented Patients

    emmy27 replied to srercg6's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. It's estimated undocumented immigrants pay billions in income tax annually, either through the same employer payroll withholding (using a false social security number) that the rest of us do...

  17. Undocumented Patients

    emmy27 replied to srercg6's topic in General Nursing

    Not having a valid social security number stops someone from registering for medicaid/medicare, but it does NOT necessarily stop people from paying payroll taxes. Many, many undocumented immigrants...

  18. What's In A Name Badge?

    emmy27 replied to TruvyNurse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As far as I can tell, ninety percent of people don't look at badges closely enough to have any idea what's on them at all, so I could put "RN, BSN, High Queen of Narnia" on there and patients would...

  19. "Fixin' to die"

    emmy27 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    "Is this really the hill you're fixing to die on?"

  20. "Fixin' to die"

    emmy27 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    Nobody is "questioning your credibility." Questioning your credibility would be claiming you were lying. We believe you mean what you say. We just think you're

  21. "Fixin' to die"

    emmy27 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    The irony of complaining about the public perception of a colleague's professionalism in using an extremely common colloquialism in an interview explaining to laypeople what happened (do you think the...

  22. "Fixin' to die"

    emmy27 replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    A Yankee transplant to the deep south here to confirm yet again that this is a completely normal colloquialism, a perfectly normal way for someone from Tennessee to speak, and is no weirder or more...

  23. How much death do you see/ have you seen on the job?

    emmy27 replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

    And I agree with Commuter that the worst potential outcome for many people, things I've seen in elderly patients, were all sustained conditions that seemed much worse than death. As in, given the...

  24. How much death do you see/ have you seen on the job?

    emmy27 replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

    Quite a bit. When I was med-surg, not so much- maybe one a month who was already a DNR (happening on the floor, not necessarily my patient) or a frequent flyer passing and we were aware of it (small...

  25. Never chart this

    emmy27 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is what I do. When they raise holy hell with upper management I want it on the record that at the time they were so dissatisfied they were also standing pantsless in the hallway screaming "I'm...