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I never even heard of Portal 'til just now.

Not to mention being a one-hit wonder in the 80's - who was it? Tommy Tutone - I had to go look that up.

Believe it or not, we got 'em where I work right now. Call lights go off in the hall, but CNA's get paged immediately, and if they don't answer in 5(?) minutes, they go to the nurse pagers. Re: your comic and people being thought of as 'important'...

Yep, Gasoline! Light up that finger! Reminds me of my former mother-in-law, who once said that my former father-in-law had had gonorrhea. She meant glaucoma. Well, it was a g-word, y'know... Of course, this was the same woman who thought that we...

Yes, yes, Davey Do ... see, part of the problem was that I got upset at something once, and I'd never heard that saying 'cut off your nose to spite your face', and before I knew it, my nose was gone, and my face was ... spited? Hahahahaha. Now, alt...

The signs were there. A classic CMF (chronic malcontent flibbertigibbet), yet I failed to diagnose!

At my previous job, yeah, there were numerous boomerang employees. I don't remember noticing that they were more apathetic, though.

We could all come up with various ways to tell her, but she's your mother-in-law ... you'll have to decide what to do (if anything). But your story reminds me of an ex-friend - ex on his part, but that's ok, and this is just one of many reasons. Whe...

This is a late second career for me, and I'm half-ancient myself, but it was a shock to me to find out a year or two ago on this forum of companies/hospitals firing someone who'd given a 2-week notice. I don't think that should be LEGAL. I've alway...

Yep... but on that one thing, I'm glad you failed!!

Wow. I hope this really turns into something.

I think that's pretty bizarre, because nursing is not easy, is in demand, is or definitely can be rewarding, respected, and usually pays well.

I went to school with a guy who was not interested at all in being a mostly-medical RN... he was already working in a mental health clinic and wanted to get his RN to further his work (and $$/status) there, and that's what he did. It sounds like you...

This isn't psych per se, but it might as well be. Had a pt. with 10 'kids'. Post-op hip fx, so obviously in pain. Dementia. Various 'kids' and spouses (with a handful I never knew who was a son or daughter or son-in-law or daughter-in-law). Cons...

My facility is a little like that, or especially was at first. Nice, new, fancy, hotel-like, but ... supplies?!? Oh yeah, wait, we need some of those, hunh?

That is BRUTAL! I bet he worked like, maybe, EIGHT HOURS (gasp). I hope he can take some days off to recover...

Management. ^)

I could call it for working nearly every weekend in my 8 months at my new facility, but naaaah...

We've all forgotten something. One of my 'favorites' was when an often-cranky resident at the LTC I used to work at, after I forgot to give her a PRN pain med she'd asked for, said "EVERY TIME! EVERY TIME you forget to give that to me". It happene...

I don't think it's that bad. But I will say that I think those of us in this field are probably better at recognizing reputable websites, plus looking at several different ones when we're looking something up (kind of a meta-analysis), whereas Joe A...

No, you didn't make a mistake! But there are idiots everywhere. I had a hard time finding my first job - which still makes me angry - BUT, I've been working as a nurse for not much shy of 6 years now, I'm quite a bit older than you, and I'm a bit o...

You did great. While I don't want to waste money and resources, at the same time, I'd rather err on the side of caution & take action than not call when I should've.

Not often, but yes... I had a '7.5' lately, and ok, this is not decimals, but I've had '12', '14', and that patient told me her initial post-surgery pain was a 20. I hope I'm not a patient any time soon, but I should say, when asked about pain, that...

That is very strange, and it almost borders on abuse. Never saw that at all in the nursing home/rehab I worked in.

"A little bird done tole me that Jim Bob and Juan were wrasslin' on the playground, and I heered they mighta rolled over a dead squirrel, but howsomewever, it seem like both of 'em came up with lice". That's how you could 'otherwise become aware' of ...