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What kind of horrible profession do we work in? How healthy does a person need to be to work as a nurse? I have heard this a lot over the 25 years that I have worked in health care. Are we supposed to be athletes? They they need to pay us like 25 mil...

Can anyone actually give some real advice here? What if she does hate it. I have hated it since I started and I hate it now six years later. It has only gotten worse. The economy is so bad now that we have to be grateful to have a job so we get treat...

I am so tired of complaining about this profession. I realize now that I was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I just wish is that students would really read these posts before just saying "It is my dream to become a nurse". The bible says;...

What ever happened with you? I am in an almost exact same position as you. I instead started working in a nursing home a few months ago.

I was wondering how much time should you spend with nonpharmalogical interventions? It does kind of sound like torture just thinking of ways to make people who are in pain wait and try different positions until we feel like nothing else works.

I work in a long term care facility. A couple of my patients have told me that they have their medical marijuana cards. (we live in a state that allows this). I believe that my patients deserve to receive this medication. Recently I have started an ...

My residents are allowed to smoke and I have worked at facilities where they are allowed to keep gallons of vodka in their rooms. But I am thinking about treating their symptoms, so us helping to administer it.

All I have found so far is the OSBN statement on nurses who need medical marijuana. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.oregonrn.org/resource/resmgr/imported/Medical_Marijuana-FINAL.pdf It is the same as any drug that might impair a person. That you should ...

The more I research cannabis the more stories I hear about people who are helped. I have never heard of a person that was actually harmed. We really need to stop acting like children and actually help our patients. I am not sure why nurses feel like ...

Please don't act like you can feel whatever other people are feeling. How long have you worked in healthcare? i doubt that you have worked long enough to have real pain.

Workers comp is a joke don't put yourself through that hell. They don't care about you and will do everything they can to discredit you. The only answer I have is to suffer. I will never understand how health care professionals are treated so badly w...

I just got fired because my husband wrote an anonymous email to my boss with legitimate complaints about one of my coworkers

Thank you for the opportunity to share this information with young people. I have worked in health care all my life and I think that young people should think before getting into the field. It is very hard to find work right now there are many promis...

I hope things go better for you. I am still not working either. I don't know how we are going to pay the bills anymore.

It's almost a year now, any luck? I am about to give up.

Please have a little heart. I have been on a ton of interviews too. They are soooooo different. I have also done quite a few interviews myself. How many interviews have you been on? Some are extremely casual and some ask you very hard questions. When...

I am with you I graduated in 2008 and have about 22 months of actually working as a nurse. I worked in an office for over a year and then the company decided to lay everyone in the office off. I still don't know why. This experience does not really h...

I feel like there is a lot of pressure to work in traditional nursing jobs. I have a shoulder injury after working in direct pt care for over 25 yrs. I am very excited to find other types of work. My biggest reservation about it is being judged by ot...

I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem. I keep injuring my shoulder when I lift patients. Over the last four years everytime I get a job that requires lifting I end up deveveloping severe pain and a frozen shoulder, recently I had an MRI a...

Thank you for your reply this is helpful. I applied for disability but was turned down. My plan is to move to a bigger city where there will be more jobs. I have already worked doing case management and so as soon as I get moved I will try to find a ...

I would like more information about RN jobs that don't require lifting. I have destroyed my shoulders working as a CNA for over twenty years. I also want to dispute the last comment. Although you would never be required to lift a 300lb pt. completely...

Help! I worked as a CNA for 20 years before becoming a nurse. When I got my first nursing job I immediately injured my left shoulder. It was not caused by lifting one patient but was something that got worse and worse over about three months until I...

Thanks Sweett I am doing this now. Personally I think the worst is that the company is out to make money and don't really care about anything else. They don't want any Res to leave no matter how inappropriate for ALF they are. And the families are in...

Can someone please help me with this question? I am the only nurse at an ALF I get 24 hours per week and there are over 50 patients and no other nurse at all. I am not really the type to work a bunch of hours for free which is what they expect me to ...

Wait a minute people. Is everyone that posted here okay? Why on earth would you even send your resume in to a company that you don't know their name? Let alone go out to an interview. Please be safe. I know it is hard to find work right now but it is...