voraciousj

I love my chiropractor...he's saved me more times than I can count! I have arthritic hips at the tender age of 30, so I go see him often!

OMG this is wonderful!!!

I usually baked a little something...but as a general rule nurses like food. All kinds of food. Regardless of the shift. Especially if it's free and easily eaten! Best of luck to you!

Hello all and happy (belated) Veteran's Day! Just wondering if anyone was aware of what the 2011 COLA increase was going to be. Thanks!

RN perdiem...I am curious about your leech experiences... Did you have to touch them with your (hopefully gloved) hands or just shake 'em from the container onto the pt? How do you get them off? I got the heebie-jeebies just thinking about that!

Were you able to rapid response the patient? I have done this when the MD don't/won't return my calls/write orders...

I just want to thank everyone for their wonderful advice...it's nice to know that there are people out there to talk to. I actually have already started to look into counseling and my husband and I have discussed me going PT at this job while I either wait it out a year or find something new. We can afford it, so now I just need to talk w/ my manager. Again: thanks!

I'm not crying because of the stress of the job, but because I am exhausted and miss seeing my family and friends. I know I need to stop working the five nights/week...it's too much...

Mulan...they don't. I'm lucky to get get 1 weekend a month... It's a really bizarre place...they kinda do what they want, when they want.

So I graduated in may 2009, got a job working 3-12 hour days on a med-surg/tele floor. Long story short I left after about 10 months due to a difference between me and my nurse manager. Now before you get to thinking that it was me, I was the first of about half a dozen nurses to leave that floor for the same reason...so I know it wasn't entirely me... I went back to the hospital where I did my internship my senior year of nursing school to 5-8 hour nights, med-surg/tele. Long story short, I HATE it with a passion. Understaffed, unsafe, overworked ( I work every holiday/weekend), never see my family friends, the manager is a nightmare (once again, I'm not the only one with these feelings)...the list could go on and on. I pretty much have lost all interest in doing anything other than sleeping, I cry almost every day and I feel like absolute crap... I've now been there for about 4 months and I am trying to hold on while I submit applications to other hospitals in different departments, specifically the ED. My questions for you all is: How bad does this look that I left my first job after 10 months and am now seeking new employment after only 4 months? How can I manage to hang in there until I find something new? How shall I phrase my lack of longevity in interviews? How can I avoid these situations in the future? I am actively looking/applying to a multitude of different facilities and while I would like to be in the ED, I'm open to other floors. I am also trying to obtain different certifications to advance my career. Thank you guys for taking the time to read this, and to all those out there who don't have jobs...you have my sympathies and you're more than welcome to take mine...

My husband is not a good sounding board for when I've had a bad day/week/month at work. He just doesn't get what we go through on a daily basis. He feels that because he works as an oil technician in people's homes that he understands what it's like to deal with the public. I've tried telling him that healthy people in their own home and sick people in a strange environment are two totally different beasts to contend with. I've since stopped telling him a lot of things and instead vent to my RN friends, who vent to me instead of their SO's... Come here and vent away, and to heck with any of the naysayers, non-RNs, RN students who will tell you to slap a smile on and be nice!

I do 5 8hr nights midnight to 0800. I hate hate hate it. I left a day shift 3-12hrs and feel as though all I do is work and sleep. I'm a newlywed who never gets to see her husband. I am desperately looking for a different job...5 8's wouldn't be so bad if it were day shifts...

In the time it took to argue with the aide, why didn't you just toilet the first pt yourself? Or offer to start the shower why she toilet the first pt?

I found it insulting that as a "floor nurse" I am a tradesman, nut my ICU counterparts are the "true" professionals.

Lol....I opened this thread thinking it was going to be full of blood, guts, and glory. I'm sorry that you had that kind of night/patient though...they are tough to deal with and management always wants you to slap on a happy face and deal with them tenderly and with kid gloves. *sigh*