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Maybe similar? I work with a nurse, she is part time where I work full time. She comes in most mornings she works, attention seeking telling of her life saving heroics while working the pediatric floor, (regular pediatrics, not PICU). Saving countless children from stupid doctors and stupid nurses each shift. And she sprinkles in tales of woe about whatever guy she is "seeing" that week is cheating on her. Staring with zero expression or acknowledgment usually shuts her down pretty fast. ?

You can have my job. I want nothing more than to get out of nursing

LOL, stay off Facebook or any of those sites. Or don't comment to strangers. Girl I work with had a false claim filed on her via a comment like this. Now shes looking for a lawyer to sue the person who filed the false claim. ?

45 pages LOL No OT to pick up??

I had a quit or be fired deal few years back. Been a peds ICU and ED RN in a regional trauma and peds faculty for about 10 years. At this point I had been a paramedic for 25 years as well. I took a job at a critical access hospital for the slower pace and to pad my state retirement as EMS and this place both paid into the same state system. Job was in their "ICU' which for this place was the most ICU thing was hanging blood. Everything was sent out to the big city about an hour up the road literally. I had been there a few months and asked to move to the ED. That was when my troubles started. I was brought in and received a scathing review and then was told I was going to be "retrained". I was put with a particular nurse and knew my days were numbered. Long story short the manager called me and started with "well according to nurse so and so your not cutting it. We have to let you go. I knew from day one of "retraining" I was done. So I asked the manager, "listen could you just let me resign? I've never been fired." She said, yes she could to that. So we blah blahed for a few and she said I could go home. I submitted a resignation. Yeah it bothered me. I am nobody special, I'm not super nurse or medic. I can be slow. My work gets done and knock on wood, I've never had a med error. I was the one they called to try the hard IV's. My GF said put in for travel nursing so I did and this particular manager gave me a favorable review. I ended up at another big city hospital ED instead. I'm now doing prison nursing and its the easiest job I've had. Keep your head up, the state said you did nothing wrong. some places just have miserable management and miserable staff.

Are we allowed to mention employers here? Thought I read something at one time that was a no go? Anyway they do start with a W

Seems like abandonment is the new catch phrase being passed around to scare nurses into working more than they are scheduled for. What exactly is it? I work in a correctional/prison setting for most likely the largest outfit contracting such services to prisons and jails in the U.S. Said outfit is really a pretty crappy outfit, and the management in my prison is no exception. Employees at my place are leaving left and right. So with no one to work and no one applying especially at my location, my managers are spouting off mandatory call ins. I mentioned that if I don't answer the phone you can't mandate me. The reply was "well that's abandonment and you will be turned into the state." As far as I know there is no set "mandatory call in" requirement to cover shifts. Then again, in the 2 years I've been there I have never received the "employee handbook" I'm told to reference. I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. Wanted to get some insight on the subject from you all.

I respect the hell out of the LPNs I work with and ask them a million questions a shift. 1. they have been where we work longer than me. 2. They are not stupid. But yeah, nobodies telling I can't call a doc. This sounds like something my sister in law would do. She is actually an LPN supervisor in a nursing home. My mom will keep her kids and sometimes when she gets them, she will come in stethoscope around her neck, ID badge dangling, telling her tales of life saving and woe? My mom is like "the girls had dinner" and her uncle bought them nerf crossbows ?

LOL I "might" know some ED nurses that "might" share this information and more on a daily basis. I've been in some big and busy ED's and "maybe" everybody talks about "everything".

I can't say it any better than this. I rarely if ever pick up extra work and I don't trade shifts either.

Place I work now, is small and 2 people have quit, one by facebook messeger and the other over the phone, no notice. Both had new jobs. Doesn't effect me either way, I go to work and go home. Seems the way adults do things now though. Last job was a busy ED that was a regional trauma center, heart and stroke center. Busy as hell, never enough staff. I'll give the manager credit, she seemed to try and could never get ahead. Female staff constantly fighting with each other, calling off, just miserable. The kicker for me was registration just brought people to your room, and most times never told you they were there. Triage was a nurse sitting out front with registration BSing and playing on a computer. Anyway, just a screwed up system with no enough help. I made it 6 months and put in my 2 weeks as I got another job. In those 6 months I watched at least 20 maybe 30 people quit this ED or transfer to different depts. Day I turned in my resignation, the manger turned hers in as well. Couple of things- you mention probation, I too quit a job 2 weeks in and was placed on the "no rehire" list for a few years. So if you ever think you may go back keep that in mind. This outfit said I didn't have to put in a notice and still black balled me. If you could stomach another week or 2 weeks just drop a notice, maybe with days off if you work 12's it won't be to bad just knowing you're leaving.

Probably an unpopular opinion but, firing “heroes” for not taking the ‘vid shot or forcing it on employees is not going to fair will for retention. And I agree, let that guy making 7 figures work it out. I go to work, do my work and go home.

I've worked in a women's prison for close to a year now. Easiest nursing job I've had. LPN's handle the meds, I assist as needed. Work a week on and a week off. Money is good as well. Inmates are a non issue, respectful, friendly. Just have to factor out their crimes when dealing with them. Women are just as violent as males, keep that in mind. Only complaint is coming from critical care, ED nursing, I don't use the skills and knowledge I've learned. Basically pass OTC meds and common prescription meds. We run a mid level -PA and she is there a few days a week. Its been an interesting job to say the least, and I get paid to play on the computer most nights.

Smile on my face/ Clocking out Payday.

Never had it happen. I tell people when they ask what I do, I'm a mechanic or truck driver...? Last thing I want to do is tell people about "the worst thing I've seen". Plus I drive truck and wrench on things on my days off. Things I'd much rather talk about.

Hasn't effected me one bit. I had covid back in December and guess what! I am alive and well typing now!! I did get 2 weeks paid off so that was great. I work as a prison RN, at its height, we had 250 out of 500 female inmates with the 'vid. Zero admits to a hospital and zero deaths............ If it wasn't for the media and politics driving fear, this would be business as usual. Save your responses as well because I don't care. You are entitled to your opinions same as I am. Just as the shot and getting your "papers". I don't care if you get them or not. My GF hounded me into getting the shot, so I did to shut her up. She's a CT tech and the 'vid as well. Not sure about #2 as it will interfere with trip plans I have and I don't want to be sick from it. So I will ask, can I get #2 after the 4 or 5 week deadline? And for something supposedly free, why did they want my insurance information? I told them I had no insurance.

Started working in my states only women's prison. To go from working one of the states busiest ED's to the prison was a huge shift. As an RN, I do almost nothing. LPN's pass meds, techs handle most everything else. I scan papers and put in "sick calls", make rounds and listen to the same nonsense as in an ED. While the money is great, most I've made so far. I don't know how much longer I will do this, no more than a year I'd say. To go from using my hands and brain to office work more or less, not really what I want to be doing.

Never love your job because your job won’t love you back.

So let me start with life is tough and not nice. So if Internet comments bother you I don’t know what to say. With that, I was made a no rehire for something similar. I worked in a public safety gig while I went to nursing school. I applied to the local hospital knowing the pay was sub par. I got hired FT, I had the years to take a reduced retirement from my job as a medic then. During orientation I then learned how crappy the benefits really were. So long story short, I meet with the ED manager and asked if I could trade jobs with a PT hire that wanted FT. No way I was going to give up a job with a State pension now. The manager told me I had to quit or keep the job I was hired for. I mentioned we were 3 days into orientation. She said, no stay or quit. So I quit. It obviously pissed her off as I was placed on the no rehire list. Fast forward, this same place ran out of candidates to hire as we are in a rural that the started to “evaluate” the no rehires. I took a job a few years later in the same ED after I retired from my FD gig. so there is a good chance you be black listed. Call HR and ask them, they will tell you. I am now training in an ED that touts itself as a LEVEL 3 TRAUMA center!?! along with regional cardiac center. The orientation program is a total *** show. I’m already looking for something else. Opinion here, if you only have a few days or weeks there, I’d leave the place off an application

LOL A wise old NYPD SGT I knew had a saying that holds true for any career "Never love your job, because your job won't love you back."

Been laid off close to a month and I don't miss it a bit. Thought about traveling. Applied at the local kroger and lowes, don't mind stocking shelves or running a forklift. Ohio nursing sent out an email to build a volunteer list. Promptly deleted it. if I can't be paid, I can't help out sorry. We pay the military when they go to war but we can't pay nursing to fight this war. Peaches are in isle 4. You need 10 bags of mulch, I'll get those down.

I was a medic/FF over 20 years,RN for 10 now. I finish this BSN,I'm hauling *** into the finance/insurance/real estate business, fast food, wal mart greeter, gas station clerk etc. Like public service, no way I'd ever recommend nursing to someone I liked. Granted I work for a *** outfit and thats on me, and the ED to boot. But I can't see nursing anywhere, overall any better. And before asked I just wanted a bachelors degree. And its a Fing BS filled joke as well. Two things I've learned, APA is king and you can never do it right. Nurse teachers hate nurse students. 4 classes to go kids!

Outraged? yeah. Doc would have needed a tube had he tried this with me or one of my female co workers.

That place with a sign on bonus. 1. You more than likely will have to pay that back if you quit, or get fired. 2. Ask yourself why is this place offering a 10 G bonus? With the supposed "nursing shortage" I always question these big bonuses. 3. I turn these bonuses down. Remember there are always strings attached to "free money". Better to be able to walk away no strings attached!

Yeah this is a horrible idea. I retired after 30 years as a FF medic. I went and got my RN while on the job. Your 66 and will be 69 if you do a 2 year program and then test. Enjoy yourself. If you just want some extra money, get a side gig at wal mart, lowes, home dept, mow grass, etc. Nursing blows friend.