KalipsoRed

Hi! I'm a nurse of 3 years. For the last year I've been doing travel nursing. While the company I chose to travel for is pretty good to me, the availability of assignments I wish to work are very small and I get very tired of feeling like I'm having ...

Does anyone know how to start a revolution? I'd like to know because I think our profession is in serious need of a nationwide strike...quite possibly a global one. Of the 4 hospitals I've worked at 3 of them have awful working conditions....and I've...

OMG! My agency just said that they might have to fork out $5000 for me canceling the contract?! Is it normal to have to fork over $5000 for canceling a contract?

Thanks 79Tango. I do have a firm start date for my part time ER job as long as I can get out of my contract. I went in to the job I'm contracted for today and explained the situation. It is something that happend rather fast and unexpectedly. I didn'...

Judy, Thank you for your input, but this opinion is the sort I detest the most. In my opinion it is difficult to be happy with what I'm doing because it is NOT helping anyone. I feel as though we end up hurting more patients due to neglect and under ...

I don't pay for insurance because if I just save money I can pay for a yearly physical and other minor visits to the MD for a A LOT cheaper than what insurance costs each month. I have also found that insurance doesn't really cover much if something...

In Missouri, Illinois, and Texas (at least all the places I've worked) they only have to let you go eat. You still have to take your phone with you and you still have to answer it and you still get docted like you had a 30 minute break. Mostly becaus...

Well hum, As a cardiac step down nurse I made about 37K as a new grad. take home pay...that doesn't include 401K contribution or insurance benefits. It was abou $1400 every two weeks. My new job as a traveler RN I make about $1000 - $1300 every week,...

I'd lock myself in a room with the over head pager device and start out "This is Nurse KalipsoRed and I quit because"....then start listing name along with the sins they commeted in detail. Example? "Hey MD Smith, you remember that patient that you w...

I say God's speed and I hope for a safe hectic work environment for you all until it blows over. Please don't take what I'm about to say as rude or not understanding. Think about it like you do when you see people from Texas freak out about a quarte...

@ ZippyGBR I wasn't trying to make jibes at the UK. I've just read quite a few bloggers from the UK that mentioned something like 15:1 on medical-surgical floors and I think that is quite a heavy load. I've never experienced something that high here ...

Thanks for all of your replys! I know well all know things need to change, but we just don't know how to get it done with the money constraints and legislation as it is. I want to start a campagin in my state called 'No more than 4' to hopefully impr...

@Grn Tea, Thank you for your input, it is appriciated. I would, however, like to disagree with some of your comments. 1) The idea that "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" is as silly as the saying "Sticks and stones may break my ...

Actually what it sounds like is the first hospital you worked at was really nice and where you are working now is normal. Welcome to nursing.

Be upfront about being employed now and that you go this job after you had filled out your application for a job at their hospital. That is understandable. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SAY DURING YOUR INTERVIEW THAT YOU HAD NOT PLANNED TO STAY AT THE JOB Y...

So I guess you work for a bunch of RNs who have little to no understanding of the scope of practice of an LVN. I'd find that frustating...hell I find it frustrating as an RN who has little to no clue what LVNs can do. All they kind of push on you in ...

This sort of stuff aggrivates me. I don't have anything to hide either, but that doesn't mean I want my potiental employer to be able to judge what he/she thinks is appropriate behavior based on my facebook page. Should I have to worry about some com...

First, quit beating yourself up. You are doubting yourself and I don't really see any reason you should be after reading your story. This is your first experience and fortunatly it will become more organized for you as you continue with your care. I ...

P.S. In reguards to the idea that 'not all nursing is at the bedside'. That is true, however, most non-bedside nursing rolls required bedside nursing experience. Right now, with the current economy, just getting a bedside nursing job for a new grad c...

First of all, I think nursing is a burden. It is not the caring field I thought it was when I decided to go to school to become one. To me this field is full of internal bickering and backstabbing at the patient's cost...and at the cost of the profes...

I agree. You need legal advice, not advice from this website. I hope your illness is undercontrol now and you are doing better.

Floor nursing sucks for both nurse aids and nurses. Everything you are dealing with right now you will have to do as a nurse and more. I realize that you think your co-workers are unhelpful and lazy, but that's not excatly the case. First of all you...

Hi! I'm a fairly new travel nurse...been doing it a year come october. I love it and I cannot see going back to floor nursing...ever. So how does one 30 year old get out there, date, and possibly have a family doing this sort of work? Anyone out ther...

You know maybe I was a little harsh in my reply. So let me help you out. Emergency Room - This means medical personnel take care of the most likely to die first, then the next most likely to die second, so on and so forth. With those vitals you shoul...

Well I'd like to complain about patients with extremely high blood pressures who think that its safer to go home with a BP 180/120 because the 'wait' was too long and 'nobody' was listening and thus they went home to have a stroke. THEN THEIR FAMILY ...