Angelofdeth

ughh.... can't stand medicine much longer...!!

My advice is to stay away from message boards and the internet and hit books and study!!

Yeah I just wear my stuff until I get to the bedroom, strip naked, than hit to showers. Mind you- the idea of being MRSA+ doesn't bother me so w/e hahaha. I remember sitting on the bus with DO-DO on my pants before, hahaha.

Hey everyone, just looking for input from people here...I am considering a switch in my hospital that I work in, and was hoping someone could tell me some details. First off, I am an LPN, and I work in Internal Medicine- which is nice when I actually get acute patients with real issues! It seems to be the norm at my hospital to assign the LPNs to the (awaiting) Long Term Care patients, which is fine, I mean we have NAs on the floor who do a large part of the personal care, instead my job is essentially doing meds for these patients, (usually 8-12 per nurse with LTC patients), and it is BORING. The manager on the floor is very foolish in how she books the staff, so nurses with LTC patients will have 8-12 patients, while the nurses with acute patients usually have 4-5 patients. So here's my dilema, and I think it lies with the fact that I am in Medicine- when I have LTC patients, I am busy doing personal care, and the sheer amount of meds, but it's boring- the same thing day in and day out. On the rare rare occurrence that I actually get a load of acute patients, I am bored because there is too much staff with acute patients, so I have 4 patients... So there is my feeling in a nutshell, NOW I am considering a move to the Emergency Department in the hospital, but my dilemma is, I don't really know what I would be doing down in Emerg... SO- to all those who work in emerg, what would be the usual patient be? Vitals, Assessment, IV meds than D/C? Saline locking people? All I know is I feel sick of feeling like my job is cleaning up poop and giving colace to people... Anyways what do you all thing- I'm a male, 22 years old, and I've been working for a year in Medicine. IV experience and everything.

And if you feel disrespected, pick yourself up, suck it up and deal. People will disrespect you and you will work with conceited people- this is like all jobs of course. It doesnt change your job or your salary, it just means that you wont have a friend in them. Boo Hoo- their loss.

I did my consolidation @ a LTC facility, and let me tell ya- most of the people there are so stuck up and play the politics (maybe not @ all LTC facilities, but this one- yes- everyone believed they were God.) Now I'm working in a hospital and everyone treats everyone the same. IMO I attribute it to this, LTC, IMHO, is boring, stagnant, and the staff stay there for too long, and lose their lust and "spark" for the job. Therefore- becoming a contrary old thing is an easy thing to do, so I saw the doctors (rarely) and they thought they were god, the RN's would be contrary to the PN's, and the PN's would be contrary to the PSW's. IN the hospital, we need to work as a team, therefore, we all bond as a team and don't really care what designation you have, just as long as you get the job DONE. This is just my experience and opinion though.

I already moved out and love this place. Yeah we send patients to RAH, but, remember this hospital was built when the population was 25 000, and realistically isnt designed for a population of 90 000 people. The amount of people that we treat here is ridiculous many times the over run ICU cant accept patients so they get sent to internal medicine. It makes for an intense shift! We usually send extremely acute patients or cardiac patients down, only because we don't have the resources (blood usually) to treat them. This town is great if your a young person looking to have some fun in a boom town.

I know its better to have your PhD in the United States- There is no nurse anesthetists in Ontario. NP's dont make significantly more money I find neither.

Huh- My facility is pretty flexible, you can refuse anyone you want for any reason you want essentially. Once someone switched a patient with one of mine (before our shift) on the basis that she had him before and just didn't like him. One person switched with me because the guy was homeless and stunk and she didn't want to deal with him. If I knew someone I wouldn't provide care for them, it's a conflict of interest. I know it's against the Ontario CNO Standard that if you have had sexual intercourse with someone before and you provide care, you could be brought up on charges of sexual contact with a patient. EVEN if it's like a one night stand from high school or something!

Not true- RPNs do work @ St Marys- only in a few areas though. Couple friends of mine work there, I remember being shocked when I heard of it. They don't work on the cardiac area, they work in the med/surg floors.

Yeah my last sentence was kind of a tongue in cheek punch back haha. See? We can all find something to get under each others skin if we want too. Every RN I know that works in LTC gets asked all the time "Isnt that a PN job? Why dont you work in the hospital?" and it drives them crazy hahaha. Just like people asking me why as a male I am a nurse, or people thinking im signifigantly inferior to an RN. I can't do IV push meds, picc lines, and central lines everything else- the same. (especially in Fort McMurray...the most desparate hospital ever, haha)

Don't worry when your new people will help even when your orientation was over. When mine was up was funny- 3rd day working someone left for a family emergency so my mentor got pulled to take her load and I was on my own. Supposed to be 15 shifts or something, but after that the charge was like "well you did great, your orientation is over" hahaha.

Do what I did- I graduated in K/W and moved to Fort Mcmurray AB. They pay moving costs, provide housing for 6 months, and pay very well. My first full time year and Ill be making a net income of 72 000 this year.

Fort McMurray Alberta; Banking usually 5-6 grand a month

Fort McMurray... Day shift 4-7 (usually 5-6) Nights 4-9 (again usually 5-6)