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Oh, just wait until I finish my 2 years on my unit. PEACE!!!!!!! I am gone.... Where? Dunno, but anywhere that doesn't involve admitting vents 30 min b/f my shift ends, with 2 admissions b/f that. Bump this.....

What about my husbands peritoneal dialysis. Ummm I am not a dialysis nurse mam. Have you asked the Dr. about it? Whats the last he told you? Ok then thats all I know. "Patient has

This is a critical unit... I am getting a page, sorry I have to go....

OH, I just have to say, Montgomery has to be the most boring city in Alabama, JMHO....... If your thinking of going there.... Mobile or W Georgia is where I will be heading next.

Starting pay is from $18 to $18.75 + about a $5.75 shift diff. We had nearly all hospitals come to our school b/f I graduated. Raises are non existent at my hospital right now. We have an extremely high turnover rate in critical care for the last 3 years b/c of this at the hospital I am currently employed at.

Its a needle and its entering my body.

I was told by my supervisor that I didn't need any. Even as a newbie I looked at her and said I do not believe for one second that this hospital has my back....

We do at our hospital. She spoke openly about a heb B exposure from working in dialysis, it got real quit real fast in the room. I later told here that I appreciated her honesty and it actually was very sobering to hear her testimony...

Maybe some of us are wrong and some are right?? I have decided not to let this bother me anymore, I will do what is required of me and yes I will suck it up. I'm already grown up and this thread is starting to make me want to throw up..... I didn't come here for sympathy and thanks for all the replies. I have set my goals high and will take this one in stride. I know exactly what was happening in that supervisors office now:cool:... Please chill with the critisism of peoples spelling, I don't think that poster was targeting all supervisors and managers. JACHO is not here to analyze our abbreviations... I will now conclude my interaction in this thread. I appreciate all your feedback "direct or indirect..." I do not like it when posters take shots at each other like this even though I have done it in the past, "politics..." The interaction here is starting to remind me of angry nurses sticking knives in each others backs.... Sad....

No, I have the right to be a skeptic.

Some people will get this and some won't. Sometimes its like beating your head against the wall trying to make people understand "rights." You will be accused of being an idiot conservative too... I have a European wife that will tell you all about immunizations, socialized medicine etc.. etc...

Huh.. Hep B immunization has always been an option for us. We don't have to take it. But, it is strongly advised...

I understand what some of you are saying. I know this is totally different situation as far as job in this hospital. Some of you just repeated the same thing my father told me yesterday when I got off work and called him. All I know to do is try to have a response for the things she wanted to see an improvement in... Which is what I already knew was what I would do. What I don't understand is I feel like I need to change my attitude... I am always extrememly nice and courteous to all my coworkers and patients. I always take the extra step to keep everybody happy IMHO.... I know of on RN who gave me negative feedback that had treated me like I was a complete idiot when I was doing post cath cardiac exercise intervention. But, believe me this guy needs a hug BAAAAD..... But, he is a good RN and has alot of experience. I just feel like my manager has only received pecks of information from a few people and did give me some positive feedback of improvement from another senior RN. Also, I have handled the whole team lately and only had the usual problems of getting choked at the end of the shift. See, I get positive compliments from other RN's but those have not surfaced. I have had more positive sheath removal than negative, "I had 2 small hematoma formation on some bounding pulses that completely massaged out.." On the flipside, I jumped in on a volley ball sized hematoma that was another nurses patient. Kept pressure and did my usuall friendly communication that I do WELL with geriatrics. I successfully encouraged the charge nurse to stop massaging and start calling the doctor and the OR, sheesh..... Successfully communicated "what I knew" information to the OR and the Cardiologist. The very next day I caught another bleeding #8 French on my patient during a scheduled pulse check. Same thing only this time the RN that let the woman the night before nearly bleed out decided to pull the sheath "making me look like she didn't trust me..." But, she had a scare the night before and I think she just wanted to do it... So, as far as I can see only negative comments were solicited from senior staff. Not the situational life threatening positive stuff.... On a final note, what got me the most was being accused of sleeping in an orientation class. Ya'll remember a time when you have been accused of something you know you didn't do? Its an angry feeling! And, I am left with the challenge of "how people percieve me???" I am a nice guy and simply don't know what to do about this... I try to stay quiet rather than say something stupid.... I always ask questions before I do something I don't know how to do... I know one thing for a fact, I WILL BE A GOOD NURSE, I have always succeeded in being very good at my previous jobs.... Thanks guys for the feedback.

Seems to be a trend in other hospitals....

I can feel ya... Nursing was my 2nd degree, I was already working in the hospital and became sick of health care and decided sick care would be more stable and I could "most likely" be good at it... The drive to succeed in school was overwhelming. Failure was not an option for me at this point of my life. It didn't matter I was going to finish and show up all the critics... I have enjoyed it "its been an interesting job.." Honestly if I could find a for sure stable job say, farming or doing an outside job I might like it better. But, then I wouldn't feel as successful "which in reallity doesn't make any ******* sense at all..." Edit: I didn't curse there... Frig...