MissBrahmsRN

i work with several RNs that have stretched lobes, most of them wear clear glass or plastic plugs to work. none of them are stretched larger than 1.5 inch though. nasal piercings are common, many of my coworkers have a discreet nose stud and most o...

i just wanna know one thing....are you hiring?? to be fair, my first nurses week they had free 5 min chair massages and last year i think they had a nice meal on days and i did get a nice wooden picture frame with facility logo on it, i gave it to...

i'm trying to move into outpatient surgery PACU and/or Pre-Op. i have 2 years experience in inpatient hospital critical care and still cannot seem to get a callback, even for PRN positions which is what everyone tells me I need to secure to get my f...

central texas

omg, you are making me cry...i'm considering a switch to pedi critical care but can i go to work and lose a darling pt (full code or DNR) and then go home and not cry my eyes out or want to hold my own 2 children nonstop while bawling...alot of tough...

i work critical care for Seton at Brack. If you like adult cardiac (including transplants) Seton Medical Center on 38th also known as Seton Main is the place for you. If you like adult heavy trauma, trauma with a large dose of neuro thrown in then...

that's absolutely ridiculous. whether people approve or not, using tobacco is LEGAL. period. testing for it, and treating it's users like hard core drug addicts is just wrong. my grandmother smokes like a freight train and i dont like it but she'...

i also meant to add, if they dont want tobacco users on our staff, well there goes about 85% of your surgical staff. including the surgeons actually they'd lose a good portion of the doctors as well as a good chuck of the nursing staff. whether o...

so what makes the cut i'd like to know?!? a SBP of 130? 140? 150? what the hell sorta lab values are "acceptable?" it's my personal medical info and my boss has no business knowing my blood pressure! and i'm a nonsmoker but last time i checked...

girl, how on earth do you do it?? even when i worked days, after 12-13hrs running around at work all i had the energy for was to put my feet up & watch TV. even then i crashed usually within a couple hrs of getting home (DH found me passed out ...

is your manager ok with a trial period? i had a coworker who tried days for a couple weeks then decided it wasnt for her & went back to nights, our manager was fine with the trial. if you can try it, go for it!!! she found that she was just as ...

i would NEVER accept a job from a manager that said something like that unless i was desperate. he/she has told you two things right there: 1- they do not like employees who take a day off, even if you are sick 2- they do not want their employees to...

we dont do seniority, if you are fulltime (36hrs weekly) then you are expected to sign up for 4 weekend shifts per schedule (each schedule is 4 weeks.) the way we do holidays is everyone fills out a sheet in late Sept telling which is their 1st choi...

Texas is not begging for nurses that's for sure. Texas is flooded with new grads & everyone with experience who can't get jobs anywhere else!! In my system we have 100+ people competing for one experienced slot in some cases..and there are zill...

i think i was misunderstood. in our hospital system preceptors get their normal hourly wage plus a precepting bonus (kinda like a shift diff) for precepting. so for example, say your base pay is normally $26.00/hr and you work nights and you have b...

i didnt get my preceptors anything. not that i didnt appreciate all they did for me, i really do, and i was sure to tell them at the end of my residency and since i still work on the same unit I still tell them often how much they've taught (and con...

there's a nurse who happens to be a male in my hospital's L&D. he's been there delivering babies for 20 years and many women have asked for him by name. i had a female OB who works there tell my pregnant coworker: "there's no one better when yo...

hey girl, i'm a night shifter & i appreciate you, i totally do. both shifts have alot of crap that goes all, all of it difficult in many ways. (i dont get many sleeping pts, where do i get some of those?? ) we all need to just chill, we have...

i work night shift & i dont do caffeine much cause it makes me have trouble sleeping when i go home to bed! i also get massive HA from caffeine, get jittery & nauseated. I keep a pretty tight sleep schedule so I usually do alright but I st...

i can definitely see the 2 sides you are talking about. i work critical care & i have some thoughts: 1- those ICU nurses were completely unacceptable and need to go do something else or at least take a very long vacation. i have seen many ICU n...

i'd pay off our house, pay off the car, pay off my parents house, set a bunch in the bank for retirement & college then who knows...i'd probably work in healthcare again but on my terms, if they ticked me off i'd be out.

waited tables at 24hr restaurant. i was 16 made $2.13 hr plus tips and i loved it. had a great time at work and we were like a big family there, whenever i visit I always stop by and say hi to my old boss, he's the nicest guy. i blew every penny i...

patientson, i have to say your post gives me hope that there are more caring families out there than i have seen of late. a while back i had a husband who wanted his wife alive "cause her parents will cut me out of their will if she dies" it was ...

i wish my ADN took me only 2 years, but that was just the nursing core. the other classes took an extra 18 months on top of that. so really, it was 3.5 years for an ADN from my college. programs vary, in my ADN an 80 was passing BUT required re...

i truly meant nothing personal. please know that. i know you worked hard for your degree we all did. i myself have 110+ college credits & i am certain you have way more, i think you need nearly 200 for a bachelors. i have spent a fair amount ...