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I am wondering what to expect on my first nursing evalutaion. This is the one year mark. I am not under any contract after July 23rd. I am scared on one hand, but I can't change anything either. I know that I have done the best that I can. I hav...

Hello all! My unit has this cold thing that starts out as a upper respiratory thing then it lands in your lungs with think yellow sputum. I'm talking chunky. My whole unit has got it and this is the 2nd day I have called off. I didn't call off f...

I know this board can not offer advice. My nursing unit that I work on as an RN has had many staff members have this virus. I was wondering if it is crossing state lines and things. Sometimes these illnesses crop up in other places. I was just cu...

Allergies? Are you kidding me? Fever, cough, thick sputum and all most everyone on my unit has it. Thank you, but no thank you for the "allergies" advice.

On our floor we took care of a pt. that had to go to surgery to get something taken off of his penis because of a dare. The pictures were quite interesting. It took another look at plumbing that week.

I thought the very same thing. I do watch the show and also yell at the TV when it is so obvious. I HATE it when they mispronounce something. Sometimes it is so simple! I know what is real so I try to nevermind it. Just like movies, no one can j...

Hello fellow nurses, I love the people I work with and my floor that I work on now. I work three 12's a week. Lately I have been scheduling them three in a row. A handful of us do the same thing on this floor. I have been off for 6 days due to...

I did a work diary my first year of nursing. I put down room numbers and some details like couldn't get a iv or whatever. Never names and enough vagueness that you might know, but no one else. I still do it, but not as much as I should. I think i...

Agency comes and goes. At one time no agency and last month they had to let one come in for hours. Float pool is on our floor alot. I know most of them by name and face.

Sometimes they will switch some days around such as work today and have Saturday off or whatever. It will be a stretch for incentive pay which is $10.00 roughly on top of your hourly pay. The new schedule is coming out and I hope that it isn't as b...

I don't think you understand. I do say NO everytime. I was trying to get a solution to help with this system. That is all. Thank you for some things that help you in your hospital.

Amen!

Not enough people scheduled! Sometimes people are sick, but usually that is covered by the house r/t short time period. Sometimes they are good about calling in the morning for night shift, but the other day it was two hours. Most of the time us n...

Oh, I tell them no all the time. I have not gone in once in several months. I like the solution about the available days and calling 5am or 5pm. Something has got to give.

I'm boycotting Hershey's now! My money can go to someone else that makes better chocolate.

I usually don't start alot of posts, but when I do usually there is a purpose. Got to work last night and had two "love notes" in my mailbox. One for not putting a teaching topic for a post op person. The way it is worded it sounds like you put if...

Thank you all. I thought this can't be the only person who does this. I mentioned it to some of the people who where there are one of them said, oh yeah so and so had one. It's amazing. I didn't get good sleep r/t to some of that stuff. I'm dead...

yeah, what gives! If it is your or your childs info you have the right to know. Like it is this super secret thing or something. After a long night this is one of my top pet peaves! :)

wierdness(of the patients) , (alot of)walking , wisdom (how to take care of you patients)

I'm sorry you had to go through that, but it sounds too familiar. One day I was pregnant, when I was asking about who has kids that would be interested in something going on that day. BTW I"m not pregnant. My favorite was that I didn't give to co...

I had that happen on my floor once. I was told we have extra staff tonight you will be ok. The family member was trying to recruit me to another local hospital while here mil is dying. I couldn't make this up!

Hello all! My husband is going to be taking some classes through work. He works days and I work 12 hour nights. Usually, I get up anywhere between 1630 and 1730 and eat dinner see husband till 1815 and go to work. He is gone when I get home in th...

I'm required to work on weekend a schedule Friday and Saturday and one weekend day a month which is Friday for me. They are already set in stone which weekend and which weekday. I'm going to try the three in a row. It will either kill me or make m...

I started a new job. They call alot on my days off for me to come in. I work night shift. One charge nurse will not even look at the schedule to see if you are going to be there already. I have called them back and said I would like to come in ex...