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Totally support you OP!! ...and what the heck is up with all the silly people denying reality? GHETTO ('Tis. what. it. is.) ...underserved population, OMG. To those silly posters, yeah you go. You've received your calling Ha, ha, ha.

The further I move away from all of this ...I understand that many nurses faced with what the profession has become, reach some kind of crossroad where they must decide to either work on getting out of nursing, or disassociate themselves mentally from the mess that is their reality, in order to survive. Those that are still in reality and objectivity, try and see if there is any logical reason to keep beating the dead horse (the OP), and will take concrete steps to get out of Waco if their attempts to improve things don't pan out. Those that have no way out must become someone else. These are the posters who chime: you want rainbows, you aren't tough, you can't hack it, it's the same in all work, etc..... I guarantee that the psychiatric conversion to #slavelifeiswhereIfeelmostfulfilled means you've flown over the cuckoo's nest, peeps. What really blows, is that the clinically awesome and mentally intact often execute departure from this profession (or are "let go") - leaving the ...well you know.

Somehow ...this post sounds a bit like "someone" wants to have someone else lose their job, and is coming here to ask if they have the paper-trail in order to get that accomplished and still smell like a rose. Maybe, a friend is waiting for a position to open? I just smell something other than a rose.

Actually, those constant cranks will wear your battery quickly. You must be driving @10 mins non-stop - keep those wheels turning - before any recharge can occur. So stop going out just to crank it and idle it. Bottom line, if your battery is over 4 years old, you need to have it checked, like at an oil change. If its even sort of low, it will not be there for you at these temps that continue. If you have every bell and whistle on your car (electronics), you really need to check at the 3 year mark. Those accessories drain, drain drain your battery. Get a new battery.

Illinois has many, many nursing colleges just pumping out nurses, IL alone could fill any, and all new nurse positions across the country (if there even were that many opportunities for new nurses). http://nursing.illinois.gov/PDF/IlApNursingEdProgPassRates.PDF

OOOOOH What's terribly enlightening about that article is the fact that there are more than a few MDs who have their heads up that same unicorn's rainbow... ugh. #failuresinprivatepractice H.E.L.L.O!!

That is just awful...

:)! But so true, so true.

"Also, I would eventually like to get into plastic surgery and/or medical aesthetics and I feel the circulator position falls more in line with my passion and is a better fit for me." Being a circulator will do nothing for the future you are interested in. You actually need to be post-surgical in some way. That is, taking care of patients who've had surgery/trauma (circulators don't do this, that is a different job) A burn unit would be fab, too. If you can deal with breast cancer patients. These are what plastic surgeons want, as these are the majority of their patients with insurance ...PACU if you want to be hired as resus. in an outpatient center. Cosmetics can be learned. Plastic surgeons won't need you for anything else. Also surgicenters can be notorious for sloppy or nonexistent training - talking about flying without a parachute!

OK everybody. The OP is just following her established thread pattern. If you look at her history over the years (yes years) she pops up with this same "Gee, golly, why?" thread, over and over. Usually I and casts of thousands prove her back into hiding, but hey. She's up and posted the same thread again. The encounter with 2nd career/degree students always a bit different, for flavor, I suppose. Me thinks the fear is competition. Now, OP maybe you need another degree?

PMFB-RN, Geeeez! Your new manager can be labeled A FOOL, as she has demonstrated a complete lack of comprehension - even at the most basic level, of what that job requires of her - that she would dare to apply for the position. This all makes me sick....

Some insight I've had about some labs. Cath lab "monitor techs" are often the entitled relatives of MDs - radiologists, cardiologists etc. Used to be, there was no real education involved in that, also, no certification either - just on the job training in many hospitals. I got the low down about that when I was a student and in the cath lab one week. Those peeps bring in a good buck too! At that time, some were getting rad tech certs, for "the paper" should someone decide that there should be SOMETHING edu-wise involved. I'd figure it's a great find for a tech without having to drop the money for much education "if" that's required at all. The bossy stuff comes from the entitled part and the lack of education part, and not wanting to eventually be "found out" part :)

or, 250 x 10 (over) 4 x 60 which becomes: 2500 (over) 240 which equals: 10.416....

Of course. Anybody with very basic RN/MD education should be able to pass the NCLEX, if they have reviewed a NCLEX test taking strategy book. The NCLEX test has nothing to do with finding out if a person has knowlege of anything really - other than how to play the game of taking the NCLEX. It's a rather dumbed-down and insulting excuse for a board exam.

Truths: You have just begun to realize the gravity of your situation. You will need to wallow in it first. You will need to meet with your school nursing admin and totally honestly "own" your situation. You will be remembered at this particular clinical site. I BS you not, you will be remembered at this clinical site. You will most likely have an uphill battle to finish your nursing clinical education. Best start to construct a way to make up for your losses with your college nursing administration. Then ask for advisement on apologies to this clinical site... Why??? because there ain't no nursing shortage.

No RN with a license intact, shares your brand of "common sense".

OP, you should be able to arrive at clinical, be assigned your patient(s), take report, and then get to your orders. Just a glance should tell you if you are familiar with a med or not. If not, you have many resources eg your drug app, your hospitals drug database, a book. No excuses. And if you don't yearn to know your pathophys like the back of your hand, you're a danger regardless. Insulin. Following what's been written is the easy part. Knowing what the consequences of any delivery of insulin *might* be is what you seem to me to be totally missing, and is likely why you got canned. You do need to "time-out" so to speak. Look. Once you've killed someone from being selfish, you're just done in every way.... and there is a sort of selfishness in your original post. You need to stop looking for a way out of things, and just deal.

This is a totally awesome thread!!

Makes me miss some of the great, award-winning, threads of sarcasm we used to love... *sigh* as well as the posters who used to frequent them. #goodtimes Hey I got an idea: Throwback Thursday threads!!!!!!

Very much how I see it.

I know a plastic surgeon who uses Aquaphor for all lots of issues.

But you all forget, the reason for the move to MAs is just that. They don't want thinkers. They just want "staff" to complete the list of tasks given. I see movement to off floor management centers full of telemetry and live feed images from each patient room. Generalists probably NP/PA hospitalists will be responsible for managing the day to day. MAs will complete tasks given and talk to the camera on the wall as THEY perform assessments and med passes (No thinking, just doing, charting and reporting findings). NP/PAs will supervise and will report back to a MD in a glassed-in central area within the management center (He's eating cheetos and watching SportsCenter and plotting fantasy football). He's there in case he's needed... better not bug him... I don't see RNs in this mix, once it's all established.

Yup the business she works for makes it's money on these infusions among other things. If she educates the guy, or all the others that they don't need this stuff IV really, and it's best to OTC buy supplementation PO, she's out of a job. It's like saying no, no, no, don't buy our product. After all the guy already got the "song and dance" from the business owner about how he must have this stuff...

"anticoag is no big deal, it really doesn't matter, nothing can really happen, we don't need protocol, I don't have any real way of figuring it to put in writing" - Cardiac EP specialist (so funny that at the time, I forgot to laugh - I ...you know what, you not ...folks)

Look out. Ask what she means EXACTLY by "hand holding". Often it means.... 1. MD that yells and shouts, at you, at everybody 2. MD that refuses to chart until a week later, if he does at all, and then wants you to try to OR schedule with crap for patient records. 3. MD that along with refusing to chart, refuses to learn the EMR too and the practice looses money because of him. 4. MD that will expect you do do all of his worker's comp paperwork (this is big easy money in ortho, lots do it ...that is, have you do it) 5. Most of all, it means a basket case that they shove off on a new RN every 3 months or so. Be careful. They warn you - which seems ridiculous, but they feel like they are throwing you in with Nutball MD, and even though they all know he's a PITA, they'd rather actually blame you for accepting the job, since they DID forewarn you. Thats some crazy crap too, now isn't it.