KalipsoRed

You know, for all those people who say "What's the big deal?" or "I'm a guy and I like hot women, where's the problem with that?". Please grow up. I'm glad you're a guy and you like hot women...I like hot men, but it is fully inappropriate and UNGRAT...

Saint Luke's East in Kansas City Missouri. Yes ladies and gentlemen they are hiring and will be hiring more as the second part of their facility is being built. Get this, there are a lot of travelers at their hospital right now...wanna know why? Beca...

A**wipe. I hope the next time he's in the hospital they find a cute nurse to overdose him with a laxitive and a sleeping pill right before he's discharged so he can go home and poop while he's sleeping. Plus "Doctors and politican's walk hand in han...

@CrunchRN I really thought I did.:) What was cute was some of the young ladies that I worked with had never worked in another facility and would try to tell me how hard and fast paced their current work environment was. Then I'd tell them about the...

The hiring issue for the recession has got a few parts to it for nurses: a) We went into a recession, thus people are out of work. The shortage didn't go away. More experienced nurses who had left the profession came back because they needed money. b...

The most tragic thing about this is that there was no support for her! The statement that the hospital has a "Just Culture" clause that does not seek punitive action for mistakes is bull****. ANY hospital would have made the same decision under these...

If these patients are mentally challenged in someway or demented then the best thing you can do is get a psych consult. If they aren't and are just being rude then I would just say, "Please don't talk to me that way, I'm doing what I can to help you....

1) Don't panic. 2) Think of ACLS like you do Basic CPR certification. Yes you need to study for it and try to be prepared, but you go to the class so someone can teach it to you! You probably don't panic about BLS, right? I'll tell you this, I can't ...

I've only been a nurse for 3 years, so to answer my own question I would say that it hasn't changed much since I started. I think you could probably read some of my previous posts and see what I think about nursing. I personally feel that nursing is ...

Thank you all for your responses, I have enjoyed reading everyone of them. I know that caring for people is something I've always done, ever since I was a kid, but I get more statisfaction doing it for free than I ever have being employed for a hospi...

I like the 'do both' idea, just realize that you won't see much of your family for another 6 to 12 months.

I do believe I am burnt out on nursing, however I'm burnt out because the conditons are terrible. I mean I put this along the terms of slavery. What, because it was normal for black people to be slaves and mistreated they shouldn't have complained an...

first of all sorry i didn't spell reason right in my title. to make a long story short, i had a patient who needed abdominal surgery. the patient did and because of other reasons ended up staying for a good length of time. after 4 days the abdominal ...

I agree with you IMTHATGUY. Just trying to trying to go over some pros and cons. :)

I worked ER as a nurses aid. I felt it was too steep a learning curve to try right after graduating. So I decided to do something 'slower' and went to a telemetry/step down unit. That learning curve nearly defeated me, but I understand a whole lot of...

The show one, do one, teach one technique of learning is actually a very good way to learn. The military uses it all the time. The hectic feeling you have from an inability to keep up will aleveate in 6 to 12 months. You will still be staying over mo...

I want us to be able to say we are sorry to the patient, Lineartlinker. I'll go in on the blame with everyone, I'm alright with taking my share of responsibility for something that fell through the cracks. No one 'saved the day' in this situation and...

I did not call the MD because I knew he was aware of the dehiscense. Like I said in my post this was a wound that was closed for 4 days then gradually began to open over 5 days prior to the patient being sent home. This is not a case where in the per...

Just a little addendum. 10 months ago I got an award for catching an almost deadly medical error at a hospital I worked at. Shortly after I had to go to the ER my self and since there were posters everywhere with my face on them and what had happened...

I didn't use them for the first 2 years I was a nurse and I've already started to get spider veins! USE THEM! I also felt my legs were a lot less 'heavy' after work than when I didn't use them. I don't particularly like hose, I like compression knee-...

This has been my issue with nursing since I became a nurse. Drives me bonkers! I'm done....I've set my self up enought that if they feel like firing me for doing what needs to be done then so be it. I think patient surveys are good, I like feed back...

Hi, I've just started travel nursing. My first position was way up north and I'm not really digging the freezing cold. However I have found the people I'm working with very wonderful, luckly. I'm in the 8th week of my assignment and I have some conc...

Huh, I came to read this because there was a heated discussion about bed changes and baths that I was posting on. As a 3 year old nurse I can safely say that nursing is not the loving, caring, and compassionate career that I had believed it to be. I ...

Okay, I've worked as a nurses aid in a very large ER for 2 years, I've worked as an RN for 2.5 years on a cardiac step down/ telemetry unit (during that time I was floated to floors with less acuity), now I'm doing travel nursing. I like the travel p...

Mrs. Sparkle Pants...I don't think this thread is "my life is harder than your life" I think it's just about the frustration of not feeling like we have time to give more personel attention to the patients. Put the patient first is and should always ...