beckingrace

Just got home from 12 hour nights in the ED. I am trying to find a joint in my body that doesn't ache, my back is screaming. I will be 60 this year. My eye sight ain't what it used to be. I think that nursing has aged me but it has also kept me young. I work with some young ins that keep me on my toes and laughing. I carry around not only extra physical weight (darn those cookies) but the thing that gets to me is the weight of patients who have broke my heart. Nursing is hard and I hope that I can retire from nursing and I hope the rest of you can too. Hang in there my brothers and sisters, I love and respect you all!!!:redpinkhe:redpinkhe:nurse:

I live in southern Ohio and everybody is going to nursing school. We have a multitiude of nursing schools and now everybody is scrambling for a job. It is really tight right now. Even in-house transfers are tight. I can remember the last nursing glut, I worked in Columbus at the time and there were no full time, only part time positions. It's a great way for the hospitals to slash benefit pay outs. Now that health care is a business, not a practice, money is the bottom line. I saw what previous writers wrote about experience but there seems to be a cut off, it all has to do with how much they have to pay the nurse. Hate to sound so critical but I am so fed up with press-ganey, pt's surveys I could just puke!!!!!!!!!!

I too have seen moms on welfare with their nails, cigs and cell phones, and it has made me crazy. BUT, I also know people with the "magic card" who were working their butts off on low paying jobs and that was the only way they could get health insurance. I say we let the elderly and the under-employed have the card. We will always have those who cannot work due to physicial, psychological reasons and I don't mind taking care of them. However, those who are baby machines should be cut off at 2 kids and given 2-3 years to get off. In that time they could go back to school or find a job.

My most favorite was the mother who wanted her child checked because they drove through Cleveland and a child in a suburb of Cleveland had menningitis. They did not stop in Cleveland, did not know the child but they did drive through there.