blamejoe

I have to vent. I can't stand that I never seem to have time off. When I'm not at work, I still get the calls about, " my kid swallowed...", " my mom is ..." etc. family, friends, fbook persons, etc. it's as if people can't respect the fact that thi...

Thanks for all the judgmental replies. And an honest thanks to the few who actually tried to help, you are a welcome minority. I've decided that the majority of people who replied thinking that this is my fault might actually represent the majority ...

Where I work, we started bedside shift report about 2 years ago. At first I had some of your same concerns ( and some the you don't mention, like getting out on time). Some of your concerns I don't share at all. In either event, bedside shift repor...

It's like Pavlov's dogs these days. That bell goes off and I feel drawn to check. You're right, of course, but I feel compelled to check if my staff are the ones calling or texting (it happens often, and I can't leave my team hanging.) Then once I s...

Only thing I would add to all the responders comments, which I wholeheartedly agree with, is this - when someone is only speaking about the things you do wrong, calmly say, "I appreciate your input, but please understand that for me, this is easier t...

agree with MN-nurse. I didn't like it too much when I was an aid, but the fact remains that one of the duties of an aid is to follow instructions as given by the primary nurse. It was the job I agreed to take at the time, and I remedied it only by ...

I will clarify also. I have been assaulted several times at work and have never once pressed charges of my own, despite having been seriously injured (with scars) more than once. But not everyone thinks like me, and keep in mind many of my peers are ...

I believe LVH might be hiring for external candidates now. I don't access the external jobs but on the internal webpage there are many RN positions. They recently approved to add an additional RN to every med/surg unit so keep looking. It would be...

I always wonder about this, because I believe it is a common misconception and I do not know of a single instance where a person caught heat for this. Wherever I have been a supervisor, I was never directed by policy or practice to reprimand or term...

not to be a complete @$$ about it (because I do sympathize with your friend's condition. I know of situations where people with seizure disorders have been arrested, tasered, etc, because there were these kind of behaviors during or immediately afte...

I'm glad others commented about the looks thing first. If your looks were never a problem in the past, you're probably in good shape. On my unit of the hospital, many of the female nurses are young and attractive. Too many times I have watched som...

I teach our behavioral dyscontrol safety class for the hospital I work for, and part of that class covers exactly this topic. It is a felony offense to assault any healthcare worker on-the-job. I do not know if this is a state law or federal, but I ...

so how did it go?

haha, tag! :)

I agree with nursie_pants. More and more over the past decade+ I've been in healthcare, it seems that nurses stop taking care of themselves and learning assertiveness, and then break down when issues arise that completely require self-care and asser...

time for my 2 cents: I was 27 during OB, and in my clinical group of 8 people, 2 of us were male. It made it easy to almost always have a female present, because as a student, in a field I'm not super-knowledgeable in, I typically had the primary RN...

I agree that there needs to be separate units, but depending on the number of peds your facility sees, this could be impractical. I work for a large health network. We have 3 hospital campuses, and our largest (flagship) hospital has a peds depart...

Your coworkers need to be reported. They're not playing for the same team as you, and in fact it sounds like they are against you. Regardless of their intention, stating that they will wring your neck is an overt sign of lateral aggression, and I d...

After over 6 years on night shift at my hospital, the past 28 months as an RN, I finally switched to days 1 month ago (Nov. 2). We also have only 12hr days or 12hr nights, no middles. And I had the same concerns. In addition, a few months before I...

I have the benefit of working with great staff as well. I try to keep in mind that I am not helping the techs with their job, and they are not helping me with my job, but we are helping the patient. It makes it easier to cope when you're stuck ther...

another point maybe to be had: Even if that 24g IV in the hand was not painful, I never give anything simultanously to blood. If the person is on TPN and already has a dual or triple lumen access, too bad. I think blood is the important compenent t...

Provigil also helped me, more while I was also going to nursing school and the classes were after a shift, but still - I suggested it to my doctor and it made a difference; I only had to take it maybe 25% of the time.

The suggestions above are great. I would definitely discuss this with your doctor if you are prone to depression, because the lack of sun (as well as the lack of social contact we night shifters deal with) can impact that. And sticking to your slee...

www.findarticles.org click under "HEALTH" and if you go to advanced options, you can search for specific journals. I used to just do a general search under health, and then visually narrow down articles from appropriate journals vs. the rest. It w...

The hospital I work at just changed their policy to allow us to look up our own medical records. We can even access our family members' info if our name is on a signed consent for the patient/family member. I think this is because our society feels...