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Girl, u have to learn how to drive and get it. If you are hungry for a hospital job, you have to sacrifice or you will be complaining for years while life goes by. Get your licence, car, start applying where its 30min drive at least and see what happens. If the opportunities come, that is the universe, you just can't complain, u have to bend a little. Good luck in your journeys:)

Hi, Add the experience but DO NOT put the ER, add the ward that you transferred too and if you get a ER gig, just go there fulltime and keep the ward you transferred to as PRN. You have to realize in nrsng, you fend for your self, 5 months orientation is too long, whatever you learned in that 1st ER job, tag on to it for next ER job but in the meantime sounds like you need med surge to learn the basic, ER can be fast paced but with repetition, u get better. Take the criticism and be better from it, good luck in your journeys.

First, I want to say that I am sorry that happened to you, that was uncalled for to call you a N-g-er. If you are blk on this post, it hurt to have anyone call you that, let alone a patient family. That was unjustice for them to fire you, if u have money, it would great to get a consultation from a attorney because if they would have called a homophobic word, it would not be tolerated. You did nothing wrong, I would have security escort them out too or release from assignment bc of racial slurs. The only thing you did was took your resignation back but you probably saw the good in people. If you do not proceed with a lawyer bc of expenses, just move on and have awareness of being a minority especially blk working in healthcare. This was your 1st lesson, just stay low, do your job, apply no emotions with coworker or patients and go home because people do not understand unless they personally go through it. Good luck in your career and do not let haters bring you down, you are a nurse helping the sick, you earned it, it was not definitely given.

Hello Wuzzie, Do not never say it can't happened to you, yes we are taught how to do things correctly but in the REAL world sometime we do not do it because the amount of pressure hospital administration put on US, ie, nurse managers, charge nurse, clinical coordinators, etc... The only way this can never happen is if ratio are doable, nurses are not burnt out and have time to care and know the patient we manage instead of completing task. It is so sad to see nurses like you think the nursing world is perfect, you probably never put time in and actually worked,REAL work. Smh... Nursing is a cut throat world, majority of our fellow sisters eat and chew us out. No support. I pray this never happens to you or anyone else.

If I wasn't a N.P, i would have left long time ago. Nursing is scary, the whole 12hr shift your heart is squeezed, its too much. Something have to give...

Listen, you can put up as many examples as you want, it is not the same when you are a bedside nurse and have critical patients to manage. I see you are a N.P (me too) but remember when you were at the bedside doing the best you can to manage these patients, praying none of them coded because you are barely making it for the shift. Please stop throwing nurses under the bus because it can happen to you too in different ways. As nurses, you know hospital administration treat us like garbage, never listen when we say we have too many patient, cannot admit another so you are forced to transfer another to get another (don't forget) with your silly sad examples. I can't stand nurses like you, acting high and mighty. This has touch my heart because I know as a SICU nurse now NP how things can get crazy.

Not charge. All of you guys know how these hospitals throw patients at us, do not care if we are overwhelmed, tired, didn't have lunch, they just don't care. The situation is sad, heart breaking but this could happen to any of us. She is not a criminal, no she should not go to jail. Health policymaker should put a law for nurse-patient ratio in ALL states to end hospital greed because this is a safety issue, something we all have said before.

I totally understand. If you say something then they may write you up, just go with the flow because if u say the truth then you become the PROBLEM. Ridiculous huh but thats nursing....

It is still not enough compare to the work we do and the liability risk.

I love you.... Amen to this quote

I just did right before go to work. We need to prevent her from going to jail because this can be one of us in this complex profession that is in constant demands.

It is the hospital fault and of course the nurse should have some responsibility but lets not eat our young and see the big picture. This nurse should not be in jail with criminals because honestly this was an accident, her license should be revoked (that's it). These health facilities have to face fault too because they put US in situation where we are stressed and do the best we can with what we have until something like this go wrong. Sometimes I wonder why nurses never stick together, you know how demanding the profession is. Thank GOD I left bedside because of nurses like you that immediately would throw another nurse quickly under the bus. This is soooo sad but it should bring awareness to these health organization that increases the staff ratio because these are one of the event that could occur.

This is such a sad situation. We as nurses dedicate our compassion and care for patients even in stressful time. We are humans and mistakes occur, why are nurses always punished for errors. This will make the shortage of nurses even worse, frontliners are scared to implement any task because at the end of the day, the nurses are always blame. I hurt for this nurse and hurt for the patient and family. We cannot blame because we do not know the whole scenerio, this could have been one of US. We need to band together and not throw this nurse under the bus, we all know how this occupation can be demanding.

I think you should decrease your time with her because this is just the beginning (signs).... she is basically using you to get what she needs, she need to understand your family is first. Too much drama already

hey, I started in Dec 2013. Soon will start Patho and leadership together. So far it is challenging and time consuming but I have been doing it. Pray for me everyone, I heard exams will be involved in this 11-12week course.