metal_m0nk BSN, RN

I actually get paid more in the ICU than I did on Med/Surg in the form of a "specialty bonus."

I tell them that holding on to all of that hate is terrible for their health. What's worse is when you have co-workers who actually defend their behavior..."Oh, they come from a different time. It was okay back then." It should not have been okay th...

I have often wondered if that was the motivation...

You know the one. They have fewer patients, fewer tasks, lower acuity patients, and still every small hiccup is a disaster. They routinely stay hours after their shift to wrap things up even though they have exhausted every other nurse on shift by ho...

What gets me is that she IS the experienced nurse in our small ICU. I am relatively new to critical care and to nursing in general by comparison. She's got 15 years on me at least. I am usually more than happy to help. And for the most part, our team...

Another voice here recommending staying on top of your tasks and charting throughout your shift. I am relatively new to critical care and I notice that many of my seasoned colleagues are the types who are always scrambling at the end of the shift. An...

You use 3 mL syringes to draw on PICC lines? How many PICC lines have had to be replaced after you've had your hands on 'em? OP - Did the patient have saline running when you drew your labs and did you remember to postpone the infusion beforehand?

If you'd stop making excuses for why you can't do your job and just do your effing job, it'd be done by now, you'd have developed a sense of organic confidence because you surpassed your own grossly underwhelming expectations of yourself, and you mig...

I'm not certain where you work or why the situation is so dire there. But where I work, preceptors are paid a $2.00/hr differential for precepting and are not responsible for any more patients than their preceptees are assigned - which is no larger a...

Ewww...The cesspool of the internet.

I believe that happiness is not in what someone else can give a person. If I waited around for someone else to MAKE me happy, I'd probably be miserable too.

I think it was pretty clear that the OP didn't mean that ONLY nurses are miserable....She was just identifying the context of this forum....This NURSING forum. Miserable nurses are easy to spot....they're the ones creating things to get offended abou...

I think at least part of the reason why what is widely considered as abuse is changing is because with the passage of time we are beginning to more fully understand the real physiological and psychological impact of our interactions with others.

Nursing is not an easy job. There are a lot of knocks to take when you're first starting out. The trick is to learn to take your knocks, reflect, and move on. This too shall pass.

It's as simple as the laws of physics which dictate that a person cannot be in two places at once. Unless each nurse cares for one patient and one patient only, SOMEONE is going to have to wait and it's going to be the patient that the nurse is not c...

"I'm going to need a bigger tongue depressor..."

It seems that some of the folks who are talking down nursing programs that don't give their students opportunities to take on more realistic patient loads are lacking in scope a bit. When I was a student, I had 1-2 patients first year and second yea...

I'm getting a jump on NCLEX questions using the NCLEX-RN 3500 - Institutional Version software and there is a question that seems odd to me: A female client who recently had a colostomy expresses concerns about her sexual relationship with her husban...

I've got a better question... Why do organizations, co-workers, managers, and other spectators and members of a team working toward a common goal continue to let bullying go unchallenged and unresolved - or worse, leave the burden of the bully's...

Yes, there was a pervasive "everybody wins" indoctrination of children at one time. Some of this still exists in varying degrees. However, so seldom do the people who rally cry against the "Everbody Wins" generation ever acknowledge which generation(...

Hmmm.... Perhaps it truly is a very rare nurse indeed (or person in general) who is skilled at not only prioritizing their patient's needs, but also managing the rigors of mentorship with grace and respect. This discussion has made me appreciate my p...

I don't remember ever saying that anyone had to be overly friendly or hand-holding. I do remember saying that I can see how having to contend with that expectation could be frustrating. When more than one person is involved in the success or failure ...

Let's not try to cast too many generational stones... I'm old enough and learned enough to know that the Boomers were termed the "Me Generation," characterized by self-involvement and a "me first" attitude. Also, the notion that "everybody wins" was ...

That can't possibly be true. I'm fairly certain that what each is describing is the exact same behavior. The difference is not the behavior, or the definition of it, but the perspective. When hearing the perspective on either side of the debate, I tr...

I couldn't agree more.