BradleyRN

I would say the best move would be for all nurses to drop to PRN status. Then when they are begging you to work, you can give them stipulations, like either give me PPE or no coronavirus patient. I don't see how a nurse wouldn't feel responsible for ...

School barely prepares you for the real world. It takes a year, and everybody did it. So regardless of how others act, they were once like you are now. Ask questions. Don't do procedures you haven't been shown and then overseen performing. Be a new n...

Nurses stab each other in the back all the time. They will talk about the girl who isn't there, but when she's back, she will be in the circle talking about someone else who isn't there. Bored, unhappy people. Who cares what they say or think. One ba...

Come on now. Half your post is blaming mean patients. Is that really the main reason you want to quit?

You seem to try to exonerate yourself for being late just because they hadn't started report. "That was considered late", like you don't know that. And then the "unfortunate mistake of oversleeping". Haha. You can't be late, missing classes, taking y...

Companies just sent 280 million masks overseas. Those shipments should have been stopped and redirected to our facilities. Trump still hasn't released the supplies promised by the Pentagon. 1000s of ventilators apparently don't work because Trump let...

Nurses have the right to refuse any assignment they feel to be unsafe.

That is ridiculous. "Equipment is never guaranteed"? Ludicrous! You would willingly spread the virus to your grocery store clerk, your family, other patients and your fellow workers, trying to be a martyr. You do what you want, but leave me out of wh...

If you take care of a patient without appropriate PPE, you risk contracting the virus and taking it to the rest of your patients for 2-14 days until you realize you are sick, as well as family members, grocery store clerks, etc. You could kill severa...

The title of the thread is "I don't get the "anxiety" part of nursing"? You're telling people not to cry? You seem a little flippant about the things you "occasionally miss", and perhaps that gives you an edge in the anxiety department. And I'm sur...

Medication aides should not exist. Nurses must band together to fight against taking our skills and giving them to under-qualified persons. Sure we are overloaded with work, but they should hire more nurses to alleviate our burden. We should never ac...

Nursing is not an easy career path to choose. It is certainly one of the most difficult. When friends or prospective students ask, do you recommend becoming a nurse?:)

It is the lack of true disciplinary action in LTC that gives CNA's this "untouchable" attitude. It is due to such apathy from the DON and administration, that i would recommend to any floor nurse to handle the discipline on their floors themselves. ...

Do you have a little bit of disrespect for CNA's as well? Pompous! :stone

All you need to do is write them up...If you ask them to perform their duties and they refuse, then that is insubordination. After you write people up a few times, word will spread like a ripple in a pond that you are a real charge nurse, and the pe...

Happy Birthday Tait! :BDCk:

That was a beautiful post Mentos. A few med aides have told similar stories to yours, and they all seem to paint the same frightening picture. If you ever need any help in any subject while working towards your RN, please let me know. The world ne...

Med Aides are not allowed in hospitals. They are only allowed in long term care. Therein demonstrates the fact that their capacity so so limited, that only defenseless vulnerable people who can barely tell this fact should be subject to their substan...

There was absolutely nothing valid about the CNA's concerns. Getting water and a temp is her job. If she thinks someone else should do that for her, she is right. And that someone is her replacement!:)

Diverting. She has probably been exposed for giving so many PRN doses in the past and now realizes she needs to keep as many as possible out of her name.:)

I wouldnt rest til i had this idiot's job. She has obviously lost track of her role.

Should Medication Aides Exist?

They can legally say that you are not eligible for rehire. Likely that is what they are saying, so if you have an opportunity to check NO about contacting them, you should do so. That way you can at least explain the situation in an interview. Goo...

Id rather management look at me as the "enemy" than as their "whipping boy". They are made up of businessmen or sold out nurses, and their profit-driven points of view will never align with my safety-driven one.

I was just debating with a tech the other day why despite the fact that techs give each other report, the nurse will give them one too. The tech thought it to be a waste of her time. She resented the nurses for giving a second report, but i am cert...