Merlyn

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  1. Help! Stuck in my job and hating it

    Merlyn replied to faithoRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    As was said above take a brake. School and real hospital working sometimes don't mix. I think Med/Surg is the hardest. Life is too short to wast on a job you dread. You have to take stock as to if...

  2. Do you bag your bodies naked?

    Merlyn replied to mama_d's topic in General Nursing

    Naked- easy in, easy out. Don't make yourself crazy. The morgue stacks them, The Pathologist cuts them, and the funeral home makes them beautiful. We're not talking King Tut

  3. Maybe I'm just old and cynical, but....

    Merlyn replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I hope that you are not suggesting we who say we work for the money don't care. We do care and I bet every nurse on this forum have made a deference in someone's life. All we are saying is that we...

  4. Maybe I'm just old and cynical, but....

    Merlyn replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Trying paying the gas bill with "professionalism". Try paying your mortgage with "compassion". Try paying for groceries with "empathy". I was taught that if someone had a "calling from above" he or...

  5. Please help me, I have some questions for a nurse.

    Merlyn replied to bnfoutz's topic in General Nursing

    You may be right. When I went to school (1970), we learned this on the job. How to approach staff and patients, talk to them professionally. But that was 41 years ago. We had theory for 4 months,...

  6. Please help me, I have some questions for a nurse.

    Merlyn replied to bnfoutz's topic in General Nursing

    It's a whole new word . Nursing and Nursing School are hard enough. Anything I can do to help someone that might take my job over when I retire I do. I just wish could have had the internet when I was...

  7. Please help me, I have some questions for a nurse.

    Merlyn replied to bnfoutz's topic in General Nursing

    My mother said be a nurse, I had just gotten out of the Air Force and needed a job. I wanted to help people. After 40 years, I don't remember much about school. But here is a true story: I was working...

  8. Nursing Agency driving me over the edge

    Merlyn replied to Merlyn's topic in General Nursing

    I have tried to straighten out issues with her. She just rants and raves at me, and then if any issues are brought up again, even the next day, she will say "I never said that". In fact, that is her...

  9. Nursing Agency driving me over the edge

    Merlyn posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm an agency ,male LPN I belong to about five agencies. One is a real pain when it comes to my time. I give this women my time according to what I think I can do for the next week. If I can't do the...

  10. Nursing Agency driving me over the edge

    Merlyn replied to Merlyn's topic in General Nursing

    In my state, you can work as long as you don't make over a fix amount. If you make over that amount they deduct it from your weekly

  11. Nursing Agency driving me over the edge

    Merlyn replied to Merlyn's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I'm going to check with my unemployment

  12. Nsg agency questions.

    Merlyn replied to Sherriblu's topic in General Nursing

    who is this wonderful agency that you work for? I can decorate my Christmas tree with all the ID badges that I have. I work Trach / Vent LPN. I have not set foot in a hospital for years. I used to...

  13. Nsg agency questions.

    Merlyn replied to Sherriblu's topic in General Nursing

    I am going through the same thing. It's not just one agency. To me it has been almost every one that I have applied for. They advertise for nurses for adults then you call them and all they say that...

  14. Online CEUs May Not Be Accepted by NJ

    Merlyn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I am an LPN in New Jersey and require 15 CEUs every year in order to retain my license. I signed up with an online service called MEDCEU and have so far gotten 27 credits from them. Or so I...

  15. Think of Working In Virginia-Help Please!

    Merlyn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I visited Virginia and fell in love with the beauty of the state. I even got my Virginia LPN license in order to work there. I've been an LPN in NJ for most of my 37 years in the profession. My...

  16. I was totally dissed last night

    Merlyn replied to Law of Fives's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I maybe new in the business (35 years as a Nurse) but I have yet had a Patient what my school's rank in anything or what my class rank was, all they wanted to know is could I help them, what's the...

  17. LPN Jobs in the South KY,TN, GA

    Merlyn posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    My wife and I want to move down South (KY, TN, GA, VA etc.) I like to know first if there are jobs and second what are the salaries.

  18. LPN Jobs in the South KY,TN, GA

    Merlyn replied to Merlyn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Thank You. I always loved Texas even when I was there in the Air Force. First time that I realy saw the

  19. LPN Jobs in the South KY,TN, GA

    Merlyn replied to Merlyn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Write the State Board of Nursing in the state that you want or go to their Web site They have information on how to reinstate your

  20. I was totally dissed last night

    Merlyn replied to Law of Fives's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Hey Kid, The Medical Profession is like a human body and,as you know from your Anatomy lessons every human body has a vent to get rid of its waste..You just met one. If you go on in this crazy...

  21. Ethical question...what would you do?

    Merlyn replied to ksrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    OK, Kid. You made a mistake but no one died. Next time don't rush. No one is going to strike you dead if you are a little late puting the medications away. The first duty is to your patients. Oh the...

  22. Problem Being An Agency Nurse-Please Read

    Merlyn replied to LostHearts's topic in Agency Nurses

    I just want to thank all of you beatiful souls for the advise that you gave my wfe the agency that I was with at the hospital just gt a contract with a state MR facility it's not too far from my home...

  23. Husband shoots wife and self in Icu in CA

    Merlyn replied to Geeg's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nurses don't count to hospitals. CEOs count. Security will only increase if and when a CEO is attacked or killed. If that happens you will see Storm Troopers gaurding the halls. Until the workers get...

  24. Can Someone Help Me???

    Merlyn replied to dream8's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry to be so negative but over the past 34 years as a nurse, I have seen the strains that Nursing have put on families. The lost birthday parties, the school plays, even with other male nurses...