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No extra pay...no assignment...25 beds...MedSurg but also must help in OB, ER, and wherever else there is a crisis. Lots of responsibility for no extra money!!

We would get fired for accepting a gift over $3.00. We had a patient bring in about 30-40 books one time for a few specific departments, and the hospital had their lawyer "look in to it" and see if it was ok for us to take one of these gifts. After we got the "ok"...all hospital employees helped themselves and the majority of us who they were actually meant for didn't even get one.

Just wondering if anyone can help me and my fellow nurses on how we can remember to chart our stop times for fluids and ATB. We have a new computer system and there are so many stop times getting missed, and when we don't chart them the hospital doesn't get paid for them. Generally I am pretty good about it, but obviously others aren't because we are constantly getting nasty emails about it. We've even gotten screamed at and threatened to hold our paychecks over this issue. So if anyone else has had to deal with this issue and has any suggestions for me, they would be greatly appreciated.

Rotating shifts is tough. I did it for over 2 years. I work 12's so it was 7a-7p and 7p-7a and it was all over the place. Even having to switch during the same week. I now work straight NOC because I couldn't do it anymore. Even though nights isn't good for you...its much better than rotating. But if they would guarentee you 1 week of days, 1 week of nites or whatever....that wouldn't be so bad. Depends how much you want the job I guess...good luck.

How about Fear...R/T hospitalization....most kids are scared to be in the hospital.

Well I am an RN of 2.5 yrs with no previous medical experience, and where I work the EMT's basically do the same thing as the ER nurses....besides going out in the ambulance....triage pts, take vitals, history, that sort of thing...they are our saviors in code blues...help us out in any situation. The downside to being an EMT....the pay. They make about $7-10 and hour less that the RN's. They deserve so much more for what they do. Now maybe it's different in other parts of the country...I hope so.

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I get called a lot too...have overtime almost every week. But when they called the other morning at 10:30 after I had worked 3 12hr nite shifts...one nite off...then 3 more....I was sooo mad they woke me up I may never do overtime again! Have some respect people!!

No I am not going to massage your inner thighs.....You ******* Pervert! And would you please, for the hundredth time, keep your gown down. Trust me...your little sausage does nothing for me or the other nurses.

We USED to be able to wear whatever we wanted, but as of Jan 1st now we are color-coded. RN's navy and white...CNA's burgandy...Lab hunter green...Respiratory tan...and so on. We are a small rural hospital and our pts loved the bright pretty scrubs that we used to wear. Now it's just depressing and boring. The BOD seems to think our pts will be able to tell us apart easier if we are color-coded. Really? Most of our pts all know us by name......not the color we are wearing, but what do I know.

i would love some feedback from any rn's who work in a prison....likes and dislikes??

i just interviewed today for a job i applied for 2 yrs ago...called me out of the blue on monday. i am currently employed and wasn't really looking to change jobs. now i'm confused of what to do if they offer me a position. it's more money and better benefits, and also in the town i live....but it's 8 hr shifts...i currently work 12....and a totally different environment. i guess i will have to cross that path if it comes my way.

well i am hoping the computer charting will be user friendly and less time consuming than the paper charting. i have worked with computer charting at other facilities that were a nightmare...so i guess i have to wait and see.

my facility is still living in the stone age....paper charting! can you believe it? although we are moving to a new facility in the near future with actual computers. 21st century here we come!

well between the 2 i have to pay in about $1200....and i have 3 kids. sometimes that makes me want to quit my job so i can get $thousands$ of dollars of everyone else's money. but i'm not bitter or anything.

i switch back and forth from days to nights. now that's tough! it doesn't even switch from week to week...i am usually scheduled days and nights in the same week.:sstrs: i have survived this for about a year and a half now, but i am seriously considering going to straight nights so my body can have some sort of normal schedule. of course it is not an option to just do all days since everyone wants that shift. so we'll see what i decide, i am still debating about it, but i would be making more money and usually less stress on nights.

Lol...I understand the confusion. We weigh out pts in their bed...so yes it was the same scale and the 4 previous days she had been there her wt was documented at around 27 lbs lighter. I even weighed her on a different scale. She was pretty bloated and had some pitting edema, but not 27 lbs worth. It was just weird. The Doc looked at me like I was crazy in the morning when I told him...but he did order lasix.

so i worked the night shift last night and one of my pts was a forty something female...hx of htn, new onset iddm, obestiy, and all sorts of other problems. anyway when i weighed her in the morning she had a wt gain of almost 27 pounds from the day before. believe me i weighed her several times on different scales. they were all relatively the same. has anyone ever heard of such a wt gain in one day?? is it possible??

i remember one pg comment from a patient who actually complained about "people coming in all the time asking me if i needed anything". you just can't win.

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Please don't turn off the IV pump because it is beeping and annoying you, and then not tell me. That's very bad. Oh and please don't be snotty and act like you know everything...that's not the way to get the nurses to teach you. Probably will have the opposite effect.

There are other hospitals in the area that are not matching retirement also, and their employees had to take a pay CUT! Plus with almost all the hospitals being on a hiring freeze I guess they can stick it to us while the economy is so bad! Where else are we going to work?

Yes my hospital is totally all about the surveys, and usually all we hear about is the bad ones and never what a great job we are doing. It's very annoying...I can't help that some other nurse had a bad day and a patient had to complain about it. Or of course the patients that are never happy no matter what you do. Unfortunately its usually the patients who feel that they have something to complain about that actually fill them out and send them in.

i started my first job as an rn about 8 months ago, so of course i started at the entry level wage. well july 1st they increased that entry level wage by $1.11/hr. so now the new batch of new grads that will be potentially hired will be making more than me and quite a few others. we get a whole 30 cent raise. so my question is...is this pretty standard at hospitals to increase the starting wage w/o bringing the nurses that already work there up to that amt? or are we just getting the shaft??

i am 37 and i've been working as an rn for 5 months now. i worked in the food service industry for many years when i decided to go back to school, i didn't want to work there forever either. i also have 3 kids and a very supportive husband. you just have to go for it, and when you are done it will be the best feeling! it is hard to find a job right now, depending on where you live, but it's not impossible. and by the time you are done hopefully things will be better with the economy. it will turn around, there's always going to be sick people. so stop trying to talk yourself out of it and go for it. in the end you will be glad you did!!