billyboblewis

I have found that the quality of cna's has really gone down the tubes and that only a small minority are good efficient workers. As to their pay being too low I disagree. They are basicly unskilled workers and if they have the ability they can increase their pay by increasing their education and level in the job market like myself or anyone else can. I can always say the same for myself but I have the same option as a CNA to increase my value.

That is a sad story and certainly not the story of the majority of nurses. I went to St Francis Medical Center School of Nursing a little while after graduating I started working there. I had previously worked there before I got my license as an orderly. When I started I already knew many of the other nurses from being big sisters there last year of nursing school and many others from time spent in clinicals. The hospital though located in Trenton NJ was really just a small town hospital where everyone knew each other and had all their lives. There were some bad moments of course but usually it was one big team of everyone working together to get the patient well. I went there from 1972 till 74 and am not really sure if many places like this still exist. My only worries were about getting high enough grades to graduate and after that no raising the ire of the nuns. Our patient outcomes I am sure were above average. If you made an error you usually discussed it with your headnurse and moved on a better nurse. Sometimes of course you had to talk with a supervisor usually a Nun who would give you a sterner lecture. I think that if you are having a terrible time as the writer discusses you really need to seek some professional help. I dont believe that is the norm for a nurses first year.

I would much rather work 8 hour shifts but there are very few around any more. I was working 7 12 hour shifts every 2 weeks but management lowered it to six because of the over time..4 hours what a joke

One day when I was working on a step down unit as a fairly new nurse I was doing an overtime shift. I was in the assignment area and the pm supervisor called me and an agency nurse. He said to me go to ICU, you are in charge and the agency nurse is working with you. That was my first ICU assignment with less than a years experience as an RN. I made it through the nite and had no complaints from the oncoming shift of experienced ICU nurses

A lot of getting a job depends on being in the right place and the right time. You also have to be able to sell yourself to the interviewer as the person they are looking for. I would recomend you start reading some of the self help books on salesmanship and even How to win friends and influence People. This information has helped me throughout my career. Dont be the bland person who just gets passed over.

I do not like 12 hour shifts. I work nites and only have energy to sleep on my days off. We work 7 days over 2 weeks and it wears me out.

I have worked in nursing and in sales for most of my life and I have learned to never show anything that might upset or offend your client. This includes my tatoos, I always wear long sleeves which in nursing is a good idea anyway. I always am clean shaven no beard or mustache. This helps me build trust and confidence of my patients. When I am in my free time I expose my tatoos and too be perfectly honest if I could start all over again I would not get them. Any thing that upsets or offends your client makes your job tougher and invites complaints!!!

There are many people practicing illegally and this matter should be brought to the attention of management and the Boards. It is a red flag that you found so many.

It is unfortunate you got into that position. I would take steps to make sure that it did not happen again.

I guess I have missed out on something in life. In my fifty adult years I have worked in all areas of many cities and rural locations and never felt the need to carry a firearm. This includes many jobs where all the work was done in the worst areas of town..ie the hood.

As far as I know firearms have only one use and are designed to cause injury of varying degree. People and the other items you speak of are used for many different and positive things the majority of the time.

I work as a nite supervisor/case manager with title nurse consultant. I get salary of 50k, no overtime and am expectect to worik about 84 hours a 2 week pay period. Since there is no chance of pay increase I do only the minimum possible and do not go out of the way for this alleged non profit organization I work for. Home health and staffing are not leaders in salary an often owned by private individuals. A staffing job would be the least stressful and a good deal at that salary. If you are looking forward to a higher salary as a don/adon you are looking into a real mess as your work will often be 16 hour days and if something goes wrong the blame will generally be placed on you and solved by firing you. Good luck

It is sad when nursing comes down to accounting. I work on salary now as an RN nurse consultant for a charitable organization. They are very skimpy and try to get as much work as possible for as little pay as possible. They often try to sneak in taking your pto and holiday pay when you havent used it and making it add up to your salary. Fortunately I am on ss and do this to live at a more comfortable level. I do not bend over backwards for my company but I will for my customers as they are referred to this week. If I had the energy I did when I was younger I would organize this company as I did to a facility which took advantage of me when I was much younger. I dont know any other way to fight charitable greed.

and you never know when your best friend or relative is going to go craz

Interesting opinion for a nurse.

I would think that you could have gotten a higher stariting rate in 2013. I would keep my eyes and ears open and start job shopping./

When I have an emergency I call the np direct you have their number if you have been texting them.

I have never encountered one of my patients outside of work who had anything but gratitude for the services I had provided for them or a loved one.

We are forced to work 12 hour shifts due to the non profit religious organization cutting down the number of nurses way below need. In additon we were put on salary and if you work less than 40 hours in a week of a 2 week pay period we get docked despite the fact that we worked 48 hours are more in the opposite week. For some bizarre reason this organization which uses the name of a religion in its name feels this is proper and that we should be donating our time to them I have never found out the salaries of the board members or ceo, etc but I dont think it is low.

I do not carry a weapon. I have no problem with people who choose to doing so. I do believe they should be criminally and civilly liable for any crime that is committed with a weapon they own. The only times in my life I have been threatened by weapons it was by off duty law enforcement who thought they had been taken advantage of. I know unfortunately that many people do not store their weapons securely including law enforcemt which I have witnessed myself. I have spent great periods of my life working in the inner city and other poor areas. When I was younger collecting money and later on performing physical exams. People have had words with me and I chose to move on. I have had attempted robberies and chose not to surrender. I use common sense and when I see trouble brewing I seek safe harbor. Not every person knows their limits or has a feel for situations so I dont recoment anyone necessarily live their life like I have. But I do choose not to live in fear.

Pt care is not a war requiuring victories. We attempt to provide services to maintain and preserve health. Some people are more compliant than others. There is an apropriate speed to push any medication and lenthening it for personal satisfaction is not profesional.

Customer service is something many nurses dont really grasp. Once you get on the wrong foot with anyone in any business it is very dificult to turn it around. As far as going ama, I would not try to stop anyone or threaten them with loss of insurance which is something I dont really have control of. Why would you push the medicine over 5 minutes? To punish yourself and the patient?

It is sad to see that so many nurses seem to have a need to carry guns when their purpose is the opposite of what our mission is. It is unfortunate that the NRA has been able to brainwash so many people. I guess it is my problem to have been brought up in a Quaker atmosphere.

I dont feel the need to carry a weapon. In many occasions you would not have the time to use it. In other cases it may be used against you. Many firearms owners seem to be careless in the handling of their weapons and the fewer around the happier I am.

I have been a nurse for many years and have worked in emergency. It is not my job to determine whether or not a patient should seek this level of care. I make my assesment and listen to the doctor. Some days I am bummed out and other days are great. This is not the patients problem. I know from personal experience that er employee prejudice can cause serious illness to go untreated. If you are not interested in treating people with problems you dont recognize or care to treat perhaps you should try working in a surgical hospital without er facilities. Everyone is admitted for surgery and nothing else.