Flightline BSN, RN

Recently, there was a discussion in this forum about know-it-all nurses, and it got me thinking about all the other kinds of toxic personalities we encounter in the healthcare setting. What is the worst toxic healthcare personality you have ever enco...

Congratulations on entering the nursing field. So, will you be a Certified Nurse Aid? The largest hospital in my area only hires PCT. They don't hire CNAs. They train them like a CNA, but they don't get their CNA card.

I have no doubt given some of the asinine questions our instructors came up with when I was in nursing school that this is indeed how the question was written, and the correct response is probably other than "can't be calculated."

My mission is not to convert you to Christ. My mission, if I have one, is to show people how to love nursing and be happy doing it. Like Tweety said below, and I agree, I don't think the owner would like a lot of religious debate in the forum. Yea...

I agree, a person either loves it or should leave it. But how does one come to love it?

But that's what atheism is: it's willfull ignorance. It has to be. Any armchair philospher will come to the conclusion that there is at least some kind of God of the universe. Then, anyone with a New Testament will come to the conclusion that what we...

OK, so it seems the TOS are quite clear on that. Sorry for my faux pax, or forepaw, or whatever. My link is in my personal information area, and I suppose that's where it belongs. Nevertheless, I'm a professional nurse, and I don't think I should get...

Sorry, but look at what you just wrote. Where did the "minutes" ever come into play? There's no time parameter in the question. The question asks how many mg/h, it doesn't say how many hours or parts of an hour, so it can't be calculated. You are cor...

I didn't know that. But don't you think "reporting" me is kind of childish? How else am I supposed to let people know? I guess I could just say I have a blog, and then people will go to my info and find my link if they want to. If the Mods tell me to...

I'm sorry, but since we are all bearing our souls here, so to speak, I think atheists are simply ignorant--willfully ignorant, but so long as they do the job, their ignorance is of no consequence. I will say this, however, if they were correct, nursi...

There is no working of this problem. It doesn't matter whether or not you add 4ml to 50 or how many mg/ml you end up with. The question, which you say is stated correctly, asks you to calculate mg/h but does not give a time parameter over which the q...

Yeah, or the help hypocrite: "Can I help you with anything," they are always asking, but if you actually say, yes, they get an attitude. They just want to be seen as helpful, they don't want to actually be helpful.

I hear your vent, but I have to say 36/48 is not a possible blood pressure.

This is interesting. Can you elaborate? I had an incident once where I was in the right, but the only one who was a wittness to it didn't want to get involved. It is true though that those negative people drain energy and make a bad day worse. A...

I suck as a preceptor. I tend to work at a fast pace, and having a fondness for math, I tend to see everything as either factored or not factored, that is, either efficiently done or not efficiently done, either the right way or the wrong way. I'm pr...

OK, I'm not saying this is you. But what you said here at the end is one of the things, I must say that grates on the last nerve ending the lidocaine couldn't get to: The Defender! This is the person that no matter who you marvel at (i.e., the dayshi...

The perpetual victim, for sure! I know a nurse who constantly comes in for others and then complains about the amount she has to work. Amazing.

I hate the latecomers. When you walk in fifteen minutes early, they're all ready to give you report, but when the end of your shift comes, they've already called in to say they're "running a little late." Then they finally get there and dilly-dally b...

I think the thing that gets me the most is a lack of energy in the clinical setting (as if they are just killing time until it's over). So, be energetic to learn and to help out in whatever way you are qualified, even if that is only in turning a pat...

True: there are many respectable jobs out there. I still maintain that nursing is the greatest possible profession that creates the greatest possible people. But in no way do I judge you: I have often thought that if a person didn't love being a nurs...

Hear, hear! I used to look foward to the day when I would have five years experience. Now I have five years experience and the thing that has really changed is how much I respect someone with 20 years experience. Where I work, the know-it-alls all t...

I believe it is possible to love nursing. I'm not sure it's possible to be happy in nursing. But you know, I look around and no one is actually happy. I think life may be too chaotic to allow for a continued feeling of happiness. And you do realize ...

Try to get financing so you only work when school is not in session (summer, between semesters, etc.). And don't go back to that dungeon. It's not worth it. I worked in a dungeon as an aid once. I was so happy to hear Hurricane Katrina wiped it from ...

I believe nursing is the greatest possible profession. I believe it creates the greatest possible people. There is no glory in being a librarian. However, there may well be personal happiness. But no one ever touched glory without great pain and sacr...

I think you should do exactly as you plan, only I think you should visit the HR office in person. Make sure they know that that is the hospital you want to work in, and theirs is the ER you have your heart set on. Good luck.