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No I haven't wished I were a doctor. Nobody has ever asked me that. Though sometimes I have looked at physical therapy assistants and physical therapists with some envy. Only because patients and other members of staff blame everything on nursing and expect nursing to carry out duties that are non nursing when they are not expected to. I like what I do, I don't like the expectations of nursing by non nurses sometimes.

LOVE this thread. We have no pyxis on our ten bed unit and I could still take narc keys home and still have to count narcotics.

I think she means that they were admitted the night before instead of the day of.

Thanks. I didn't think of that one. I'll be interested in seeing the outcome of the stand MSF is taking.

Doctors Without Borders Refuses Vaccines from Pfizer - The Atlantic I'm not sure where I stand on this one. I feel they should have accepted the vaccines, yet I understand why MSF are taking this position. What are your thoughts?

No, I never do. A 12 hour shift means at least around 14 hours out of the house due to commute and giving shift report. This is when everything went smoothly. Often it doesn't. Either I have leftovers, frozen Lean Cuisine meals or something my other half made.

I don't work memory care but I visit sometimes with hospice. One man at the locked door to the unit told me he was visiting his wife and he didn't know how to get out. I was slightly suspicious and looked around the room, then his wife came up and told me she was visiting him. According to her he said this line quite a lot. :)

Mr Bill, I switched to hospice home health after feeling as you do. My pay came way down but I'm so much happier. See if there is something different you can do with that BSN. You don't have to work in a hospital at all.

My experience with working at a perpetually short staffed floor or facility is the short staffing perpetuates the staff turnover. Working short a little can be done, but months at a time takes a toll on anyone. The workplace needs to be adequately staffed. That's one answer, but there isn't much to work with here in the question.

I like hiking, gardening, and go to the gym on most days I am off. In the winter when there is no gardening to do, I do cross stitch and drink. :)

I think it's been mandatory for me for at least three years. I don't have a reaction and I don't care. I just get the shot and show'em the proof. I cannot go around for four months wearing a mask.

Years ago I used to frequent a stop smoking forum. It was around 1999/2000 so back before anything was moderated much. People would cuss you out on that forum. Nicotine deprived people are crabby the first few weeks I suppose.

I agree with Nutella, find out everyone's name that you want to thank and then write a letter to the CEO mentioning them all by name. That does it for me more than a plate of brownies.

IF I'm doing telephone triage then only before. If I did home visits or worked on the floor then before and after, and yes it's time consuming when doing back to back twelves but I feel grubby showering, going to sleep and then just going to work straight from bed.

Oh I don't think so. I have probably said the "no problem" thing too. That's why I find these threads so interesting is that there are behaviors we have that may annoy others. Whether people are justified in their annoyance is another thing.

Oh I'm glad it's not just me this happens to! Sometimes if there isn't a bagger handy I will bag my groceries and the idiot behind me has moved up to the card reader counter bit. I said to one woman, "Can I pay for my groceries, or would you like to pay for them for me?" She didn't seem to think she was in my way or find it in the least funny.... :)

I do home care so mine might be different. But not being in when I show up for your appointment time and then getting a phone call saying "can you come back at 3?" No. No I can't. You've just wasted my time. I'm seeing someone else at 3. Do you do this with the plumber? Non nursing - close standers in grocery store lines. Creeping up to me before I've paid and getting close enough so you can read my PIN number will not make me pay for my groceries and get out of your way any faster. This will only piss me off enough to start chatting with the cashier so your wait is an extra 20 seconds or so. Keep a respectable social distance please.

I have a Thermos lunch bag and have lots of those very small rubbermaid containers that might only have four ounce capacity. I put healthy things inside them, nuts, blueberries, hummus etc. I also have a really good salad container that has divided bowls so you can keep dressing and the crunchy things like seeds or croutons separate from the rest of the salad before you eat it. Those sachet packs of tuna come in handy when mixing with a salad, or you can put beans or cottage cheese on top and it's quite a substantial meal.

I have always used insulin needles.

I thought I hated nursing and I was making a sacrifice. Turns out I hated the administration at various former employers. I love my job now. There is no sacrifice on my part. Sometimes I wonder what other occupation I could possibly take up. Aside from bacon critic (and I would expect to be paid at least 20k for that) there is nothing. I'm up there on self actualization on Maslows hierarchy.

I do home hospice and palliative care. Last Sunday I got a call that went like this; Entitled: "Yeah, you need to get someone out here and deliver some lorazepam. I just gave (patient) the last one" Me: "So......you didn't think to call us when you had, I don't know, six or ten left? You didn't see the bottle going down?" Entitled "I thought they automatically got sent. Anyway, if you don't get someone out here with those pills he's going to be really upset and go crazy" I don't get to call my pharmacy on my prescriptions and demand they fill it within the hour as I've taken my last pill, didn't bother to reorder or tell anyone about it. Nor would I think of guilting the triage nurse about how much I'm going to suffer if it isn't done RIGHT NOW. Still, we do manage to fill and deliver these medications. But the lack of planning and the attitude drives me insane.

It is offensive if the same cannot be done for other members of staff. I'd say it's nurses who don't get breaks or are under constant interruption. Once someone knocked on the toilet door when I was, you know, to tell me I had a lab back for one of my patients. I unloaded on them once I was out big time on how disrespectful that was. I dunno. We finally got a break room. I ate my lunch in it on Tuesday alone. Everyone else ate at their desks because they weren't used to this break room concept.

Away with you! Off I say!

Oh I'll bet!

Nope. But I've paid mine and then some........