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Believe in both....

Here is Wikipedia on Nightingale Pledge history. I said it in 1999. It is beautiful traditional and of no cause to offend anyone....after all , the dollar bill still reads.... In God We Trust Nightingale Pledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I found the great Allnurses forum when I was a student, before I graduated. It helped me so much! And has helped me throughout the years. But here I am posting this....I am leaving nursing. I am a LVN. Shortly after graduating, I landed a full time job, not once but twice! First on acute care ortho/surg floor full time then I moved and received the gift of a great job on a med-surg acute care floor, float to ob/gyn, ICU and ER. The experience I was getting was awesome. I enrolled in the RN step up program, but for various reasons, I dropped out. No, it was not that I was incapable....my GPA in school was 3.85 which is do-able. And I really like studying. It was due to reasons (then) that have grown into being even stronger in me to the point of I am done. Simply put............I decided I can no longer work against my conscience. As a nurse there have been to many occasions where I have been "required for the sake of employment" to perform, participate in things that are just so wrong. Its not relativism that should be guiding us .....for whats that? A guideline made up in your head, "whatever works", "whatever you decide is right, is right?" "whatever the popular consensus is, oh, then it must be ok?".......no, I see just so much wrong in this thinking. It is wrong. To have a medical system that is driven by profit and greed, where we can see, for instance- in long term care, the elderly have become a commodity. Where in acute care patients are sometimes sent home way before they should be, where drug companies are handing out and FDA approving drugs that are doing more harm than good in way to many cases................and the worst is that the very systems put in place at the beginning of our US history are no longer, due to government restrictions, able to perform works of charity. Well, maybe one more reason I am done is I am older. The new nurses have the energy and drive to work in environments that will demand all of you. And perhaps my contribution now can be to write. So I will end with this.........for new nurses........... 1) know history. there is one, you may have to dig a bit, but it is still there. you will find so much wisdom and truth. 2) foster your compassion and find what helps you know there is a right and a wrong. Think of a river, whose sides are high and firm and how the water rushes past, because it is contained by edges. then think of the water flowing into a lake where there is no edge, it moves wherever it will and eventually weakens into shallow nothing. We must regain our moral edges.

Contemplating and came up with answer. We have a right to not be harassed in the work place, a legal protection. In that case, situation referred to employer who is responsible for protecting employee from harassment and for taking appropriate measures to insure this.

As a nursing instructor you can find out what faith related nursing careers there are. Google "Parish" nursing, or community faith based nursing, etc. and then let students know about these options. There are various faith related medical systems, many actually.It is not a secret. I recently visited a well known State University Med Center and in the hospital, next to the ER, was a prayer/meditation room. It was beautiful, it had a waterfall. It offered pamphlets- all designed the same, the difference being one Christian, another Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim. within each, their prayers. side note ...I notice many people responding to your post with a programmed response, something repeatedly said and heard in media, secular news, songs. But I think, as in example of the Med Ctr I just visited, people are finding common ground and this is a good thing. To get rid of the hysteria:-) Blessings

I would not think so ..if the Board of nursing was contacted every time a med error was made, they would have no time for anything else. We are all human and we do all make mistakes. If the hospital/facility was so unforgiving as to terminate over situation, perhaps better all the way around. The most important thing I see here is for your friend to reconcile within herself how she/he made this mistake and try to improve personally...figure a way to not let it happen again. we can only learn from mistakes and become better for it. and yes, anyone can contact the nursing board over anything, but personally I would not concern about that and rather consider how why I made that mistake and make a system- a habit of sorts- to always do....like the 5 rights is the nurses bible. good luck to your friend

I have really loved nursing when on full time staff. As agency nurse, I still love the patient/nursing aspect but the politics personalities of other nurses have made it little bitter. So I would say//I love nursing and look forward to compassion common respect helpfulness among nursing staff to make a come back

I just remembered! The place I agreed to work ( agency) next weekend has some hostile nurses. UGH! They work Noc shift, I am doing days. No problem except during report. A few of them who have no need to be in report, will sit there and taunt me. Try to bother me, insult me. Unprofessional. Disrespectful. So options are 1) make a written report and leave but this may be against hospital policy. 2) not an option to refuse shifts now that I accepted them. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

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In small rural areas I think this is common or has potential to be. I have worked with doctor as coworker who was also my doctor at one time. It was fine, professional lines respected, relationships separated. Maybe a little more warmness from knowing each other better. Maybe try to stay in the present moment ~~~

Long ago, we did have a patient called Spiderman. He was the real deal. He had been bitten by brown recluse , delayed seeking treatment, damage eventually to bone.... and he ended up having total hip replacement. He was Spiderman! :-))

Now that is funny!!

good advice. here is what I discovered.....collect written references from nurses you work with who know you feel comfortable with you. you know, the old fashioned hand written on paper kind of reference. Go see, call, or hand write prior nurses you worked with as well...I did and they were happy to fill out reference form:-) Now I make effort to keep up, and just ask a nurse and hand them a reference form if they say yes :-) otherwise I found out like you our work history can go into the abyss. Best to you!

In report, as agency new on the scene, I care to know a brief but relative history if there has been change of condition in patient. Who is diabetic, and pills crush or whole. New admits, recent falls, isolation's for_________, any GT's, ABO's currently being administered for________. its OK to hear "OK, no changes" if all is OK and none of above. out of report... where things are located ( med room, supplies, drug overflow, etc) yes, always narc count on with nothing funny going on. Added note: I guess its like, if you know how to drive and drive on freeways regularly, then travel to an different town on a different freeway...you can still get around with a general sense of how things are .... but its always good to know where the exit is. :-} And thank you for your concern and questions...it really is about the patients well being...nurses that care are awesome!

Greetings new nurse.....all nurses can be treated poorly so its nothing about being new. just a place to jab, but if it was not that, they would find another. well, I am an older nurse- And I see changes among people everywhere, but to stay on point....there is increased hostility meanness pettiness gossip ego competitiveness in nursing. There is also caring love support...a spirit of helpfulness with the focus on good quality patient care. So you have seen, or are seeing, what there is....its strange, you would expect nurses to care about people, to be respectful and professional. I did:-) I have worked in some pretty dysfunctional hostile environments and in some wonderful ones. Well....my whole point is to acknowledge your clear observations. Sometimes the only cure to dis-ease is a change of diet to a wholesome one. Best to you!