RNFROMTHEHILL

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The patient is in the hospital usually because they are going through a true medical crisis or having a life changing event. They do not want to hear about how hard your last test was or how you really wanted to do clinicals in another unit.

I report to her, but in this case I will have to report her to the administrator and hopefully she will take care of this situation.

Okay, my relative by marraige is a CNA II. She works for a Dr's office that is owned by a larger hospital coorporation. Since she has worked for this office she has called herself a "nurse" and she does get to administer IM injections and do lab draws, EKG'S, immunizations, and she says she even does patient teaching. Her husband told all the parents on our ball team that if any emergency arose not to worry because his wife is a nurse. This truely irritaes me to no end because I worked my butt off to get through nursing school and sacrificed so much to get my RN. I hate the fact that she has no idea what nursing is all about. Well, the other day she got off work and I saw that her badge said nurse, not LPN or RN just nurse. Not only am I offended that she uses this title but I feel like it is very misleading to patients who see Dr's at this practice. I know there are some good unlicensed health care workers but they still do not have the background, education or right to call themselves nurses. I have not confronted her about calling herself a nurse but I see this happening in the future. Makes me wonder if the "nurses" in the office that I go to are really nurses. I think from now on I will ask, "Where did you go to nursing school," just to be safe.

What a good approach, but it probably would have ticked her off even more that I was not coming back at her.

I would love to be a barista at my local coffee shop. I love watching them make latte's and frappe's. It not only looks cool but I think it would be therapeutic for me. Plus, it can't be that stressful the worst that I could do is mess up someones coffee. I would never give up nursing though, Maybe I can be a barista in my retirement years.

My DON is so unprofessional. She called my office which is steps away from hers and started screaming at me with her office door open. I am a MDS-RN, and she told me that I needed to come in and do my part of the patient admission on a Saturday. My part of the admission literally takes 30 seconds because all we do is export the patient from one system we run in our facility to another. We actually have some le-way as to when we do an admission assessment on our patients, we actually have to evaluate which reference date would be better to use if it's a medicare A patient. Anyway, Our admission nurse and my DON are friends and the admission nurse thought that because she had to come in that MDS should have to come in also, even though she is crossed trained to do our part of the admission for this reason. When told to come in, I asked my DON why the admission nurse could not do this and when she started screaming at me about how I should pull my weight and be a team player I explained that gas is 3.50 cent a gallon and that I live 30 minutes away! why should I come in if a nurse who can do my part will be there anyway. Now here's the unprofessional part. She started screaming about how I was not a team player and how I should not be allowed to work part-time b/c she couldn't be part-time b/c of her position. She also said that should have to come in and do the entire admission because our admission nurse had more senority than I did, which a slap in the face because I have been there 2 years longer than her and she didn't even realize it. Not only did other nurses hear her rake me over the coals, but so did CNA'S and residents. She was so loud. I ended up telling her that I would come in and do it, just to get her to stop yelling. I am not sure what to, I realize that I may should have come in with no questions asked, but it didn't make sense. Should I hit the road because of this disrespect?

I have great hours, lots of flexibility, not alot of physical stress on my body like I had when I worked as a staff nurse. Sounds good, right? Well not really because I battle with myself everyday as to whether I am being a "real" nurse. I recently excepting a job as a MDS Coordinator and I really am struggling to find happiness with this job because I get little to no direct patient care. I know that the hours and the pay are good, but am I wrong to question whether this should be considered nursing. I feel like I am not being true to my calling to help others in need. I can see the benefit of implementing care plans for the patient but I cannot see the benefit of the mds assessment for the residents. Can anyone make me feel better about this position?