St. George

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1. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

   St. George replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

   The remark is not totally off base since being over weight is unhealthy. So is smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol excessively. However, being overweight is more observable. Other contributing factors to obesity not mentioned: being married; havi...

2. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

   St. George replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I would look for another job in a different hospital right away. It may take some time to find another job and there is a real possibility that you might be fired if you are not in a union. Even if you are in a union find out if there is a period whe...

3. If I had a million (or more) dollars...

   St. George replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in General Nursing

   If I could be 40 y/o again, could work with the same staff and same head nurse that I did in 1982, on the same psych unit and in the same hospital, and if the funding agencies had the same reimbursement for patients that they did then; if all of thos...

4. Are you really not a "real nurse" unless you work in acute care?

   St. George replied to tenderfootjoe's topic in General Nursing

   I am so grateful for your comment. The last year I worked as a RN was in 1999. By then the staffing was so poor and the patients so severely ill that it was impossible to do a good job unless you worked so hard you were exhausted at the end of the sh...

5. Are you really not a "real nurse" unless you work in acute care?

   St. George replied to tenderfootjoe's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for your comment. You are 100% correct and I apologize for what I wrote.

6. Which one did you do while in Nursing school?

   St. George replied to Mchs4735's topic in General Students

   I did not have the option to choose when I worked during my first year of an ADRN program. I was 33 y/o and self supporting. I had 1 and 1/2 years of courses from a university in Milwaukee and was in St. Paul MN. I had to work and go to school at the...

7. Is this right?

   St. George replied to kariace's topic in General Students

   I think that you wrote a very kind and a very informative answer that included all of the information a person should need to understand the situation.. I worked as a RN on psychiatric units in acute care hospitals for 20 years. I am proud to have w...

8. Paramedic Vs Registered Nurse: knowledge

   St. George replied to EMEddie's topic in General Students

   I worked as a RN for 23 years and frequently was told by EMT persons and even EDT students on my unit to work a "clinical" who told me the same thing. I politely informed them that they had this attitude because they did not know all of the things an...

9. How do you leave it at work?

   St. George replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Relations

   I was talking some time ago to a friend's wife who has a sister that is a RN in ICU. My friend's wife said that she was concerned about her sister, the RN, because she seemed to have gotten so hard recently. I explained to her that an ICU nurse must ...

10. How do you leave it at work?

    St. George replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Relations

    What a nice plan to help you maintain emotional integrity after working a shift in an emotionally demanding profession. All of your suggestions are effective but I especially like your idea of reading the Bible or listening to a sermon, I suspect on ...

11. How do you leave it at work?

    St. George replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Relations

    Relax! You are a human being and a woman and you did not leave those qualities behind when you entered the Nursing profession. I worked as an RN on psychiatric units for 20 years and always was concerned about my patients after they left the hospital...

12. Are you really not a "real nurse" unless you work in acute care?

    St. George replied to tenderfootjoe's topic in General Nursing

    I agree 100% that new grads should work at least 1 year in an acute care area as a "staff nurse" before deciding on a specialty area. I worked in 2 hospitals as an RN on medical surgical and surgical units and every minute of that experience was inva...

13. Are you really not a "real nurse" unless you work in acute care?

    St. George replied to tenderfootjoe's topic in General Nursing

    Are all of you kidding? I began as a Registered Nurse in 1978. It has always been the case that acute care RN's consider themselves to be the only real RN's and that they are above RN's that don't work on acute care settings in hospitals. Intensive C...

14. Why does this stigma exist in relation to new nurses?

    St. George replied to VeraciousRN's topic in New Nurse

    I don't know what you are calling a "stigma". I was 35 y/o when I graduated from RN school and when I started as an RN. Some nurses liked me and some didn't. There was some gender discrimination because I am a man but you don't have that. A big part ...