LilyBlue

When I gave birth to my daughter, I had been up for 48 hours solid. I had PIH and had been vomiting for hours upon hours - and then pushed for three hours until she was born. My husband had been by my side, awake, for the entire time. I had wonderfu...

Nope. In my world, they dumped the harder patients all on me because I didn't know any better. I would wonder why I was running around like a headless chicken while my coworker sat there doing crossword puzzles and occasionally smirking at me.

She sounds unstable. Slippers to work? I would definitely have a convo with the nurse manager.

I definitely think it reflects badly upon a professional (any professional) if they consistently mispronounce words. It's irritating to people, number one, so they get a fingernails on the blackboard type feeling, regardless if that is an appropriate...

Those shots etc are not done anymore. When your milk comes in, avoid breast stimulation as much as possible. If you get uncomfortably full, hand express a tiny bit to comfort. do not hand express so much that your breast becomes soft - this will ecno...

I don't know, but I am completely sick of hearing about patient satisfaction and having management lay it on MY shoulders. If management was truly concerned about patient satisfaction, they'd have a lower ration than 1 nurse to nine patients. They ju...

In answer to you original question - a government that values big corporations over healthcare for every citizen.

I have four days off a week!!! :)

I was given Toradol when I had a 6 mm stone blocking my ureter and causing hydronephrosis, and it helped tremendously until I could get lithotripsy. They gave me Dilaudid prior to that, and it made me feel so loopy, and so nauseated, that the pain of...

I have the same hope...with more men coming into the field, I think benefits will start getting better. We also "get called off when not busy" (read: when there would be "only" 5 or so patients a nurse with every nurse there) and we have to take our...

Holy cow, I am so sorry. If I had ANY other income I would seriously tell you you could have my job...bad as my job is. I'm so saddened that we desperately need nurses yet no place is hiring! What in the world is wrong with this country?

There is ZERO recession proof job. If an economy completely collapses (as other countries have experienced) you might have a job but that doesn't mean you'll get paid.

I will admit I definitely have no love-fest with most doctors. My hospital seems to foster an environment that encourages physicians to treat nurses poorly (or at least tolerate it well). Many nurses who come to my hospital from different areas can't...

Being laid off, or NOT being laid off. They're trying to work skeleton crews. Not filling positions. Now the talk is cutting the support staff. Please oh please oh please mr CEO don't take my nursing assistant away. I can barely take care of the nine...

I am the first to admit I don't understand the ends and outs of being a physician, and I greatly respect them and know they are incredibly driven and work hard. That being said, I sometimes feel that they rarely if ever put themselves in the nurse's ...

I don't know about whose job is harder, but I know that ours is more tedious. If the doctors had to be the one to get every diet coke, take every menial complaint, and talk to the families everytime they have a question, along with wiping every patie...

Hmmm. Sounds like your husband is more concerned with you bringing home the bacon than being supported. That's an entirely separate issue but I can tell you that will not improve, either. I'm sorry you re going through this.

I would definitely go after your ADN degree. Success is always the best revenge. I would also personally talk to your coworker directly and tell her the gig's up. I would let her know in no uncertain terms that you are not stupid as to what is going...

I have occasionally had to give "emergent" psych meds on a medical floor, (in one case with two doctors, two security guards, three nurses and a tech trying to wrestle down a 300 pound combative man)...it was IM Geodon, and there was NO WAY I could g...

The scary thing with IM injections, IMO, is even if you give the injection in the perfect place anatomically as described by academia, how do you know THIS particular individual doesn't have a strangely-placed huge nerve network? I mean, people have ...

The new grad, or the 30 year veteran who is making a ton more? Or does it go by performance reviews?

"If you are so concerned about customer care efforts, why don't YOU go walk up and down the halls and ask anyone if they need to potty while I hang the emergent nitro drip and start the chest pain protocol. Or I'LL go go ask everyone about potty whil...

"You might find this hard to believe but I really DON'T care what you do. Sign out AMA; I seriously do not care. You're hellbent on destruction and I really seriously don't care. It doesn't affect me remotely. So please either go, or stay, and quit y...

Maybe you should understand that nurses are people, too, complete with flaws and failings - and show the same tolerance for your fellow nurse that you do for your patients. Being holier-than-thou isn't helpful.

"When you bring in a visitor dressed in scrubs and tell me she's a nurse, and then demand different medications that your nurse friend thinks you should have, do yourself a favor and tell nurse friend to keep quiet. Better me to think she's a fraud t...