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Lie. Tell em' you got the shot. Go to Walgrens, get a receipt for something, tell em' you bought the shot. Photoshop someone else's receipt. Flu shots are a pharmaceutical gold mine. The flu kills OLD people and the immunocompromised. It doesn't kill people that go to work for a living and are up walking around. So play the game until a LOT of years go by that will prove that the flu shot ain't what it's supposed to be.

The income. That, and the job security. Sooner or later you'll be working beside a coworker with an iffy background, but "nurses are a dime a dozen " so they'll take anybody. You won't find a more screwed-up career choice anywhere. Your female coworkers are back-biting. The "nurse practitioners" are functional morons playing doctor without the years of clinical rounding necessary to make good judgment. Beware of those badges with "BSN" tacked onto it. A nurse anesthetist is actually a worthy, independent practice choice, however. You don't have to work with nurses and you'll be very independent with the highest income return you can expect. And you'll get some respect EXCEPT from real MD Anesthesiologists unless they want you to cover for them when they're on vacation.

I like your Bill Murray graphic.

An MD threatened to "kill that nurse." The nurse involved and I have reported it. He is suspended and ordered to take classes on "Anger Management." 1.) We don't believe that's adequate punishment. 2.) We have been instructed to "not mention this to anyone." He's a previous offender. 1.) That is an assault and creates fear in the workplace and creation of a hostile working environment. 2.) The nurse involved, entirely by coincidence, is leaving the hospital anyway for a new job. 3.) She followed the exact directions and order of a "covering" physician in his own group. Did nothing wrong. I'm respecting her request to me to keep it quiet. But, I believe this also does a disservice to our other nurses who, indeed, work in daily fear that he will round and subject them to the same behaviour. I also believe that this "Anger Management" class will be nothing more than an on-line 30 minute sales job purchased by the hospital. She filed for a restraining order with the local police department. This IS a serious offense but it's ALWAYS toned down by the hospital as bad PR. Thoughts?

I tried this but was disqualified because of having a radial keratotomy.

YOU are correct and way ahead of the game. It's the rare patient in my ICU that is there because of some non-self-contributory disease. I've heard that in England, you can't get a knee replacement if you're obese and I completely agree with that. After the surgery, historically you're going to be an overweight sloth that won't do what's necessary to recover.

Makes no sense and is illogical. If you follow that theory, you would have to use a separate and complete IV SET and TUBING for each antibiotic. If the antibiotic runs through the piggyback tubing, where does it go next? Into the PRIMARY tubing just like ALL of the other antibiotics. It's magical thinking to feel that 24 inches of tubing will keep the primary tubing from "crystalizing." It's all going through the SAME tubing after it leaves the piggyback tubing. AND, each time you disconnect one tubing, cap it, unscrew the next antibiotic tubing and attach it, you are breaking the line more times than if you just simply spiked the bag with the SAME tubing. Some nurses will use a different tubing because an antibiotic is simply a different colour. No logic behind it. Flush the stuff back into the bag and throw the bag away, even though that is pretty much senseless to allowing that the primary tubing is going to have a mixture of drugs in it anyway. ALL of the drugs have run through the same primary tubing.

Eight percent of nurses are Democrats. No one else to blame for Obamacare except for the people who voted for it. Coincidentally, about 80% of prison inmates are ALSO democrat. Nothing strange about those numbers either. The "takers" in the world need the providers, but we are outnumbered now. And I don't think it's going to change. The country is in complete economic collapse.

My diploma nurse friend runs our hospital. It's folly to believe that a BSN should be the only degree allowed. That would be nothing but protectionism for an already overpriced "degree." Look at chiropractors. What a laugh they are. They can't be as invasive as an RN but they're called, "doctors." You don't need a degree to be a nurse.

RNmomm...that's Julie London, right? Didn't she just die lately?

I wrote this. Not really, but this was EXACTLY my feelings 20 years ago when presented with the same ********. I simply ignored it and followed the medical dx. I quickly realized that the purpose a nsg dx was to sell textbooks and to add nonsense to the curriculum. I still don't really adhere to the idea that critical care nurses give "care." I prefer to think of it as "treatments," much as a physical therapist does. Another sore spot too: Who's the physical therapist when there is no physical therapist? Who's the respiratory therapist when there is no RT? Who's the pharmacist when there is no pharmacist? Who's the CNA when there is no CNA? Who's the "crisis" team, the "diabetic teaching" team, the speech therapist, the psychologist, etc., etc., when the hospital you work in doesn't hire them, use them, or staff them 24 hours a day? Stupid NURSES who have passively assumed all of the roles for lack of strength in simple numbers. I worked night shift with nothing but male nurses. All of us, about 8 at a time. Piece of cake. Go with the flow. No "issues." Screw the signing of care plans. Screw the "get the doctor to sign the 12 hour restraint orders." Screw JCAHO and their "can't do this or that, no beds in the hallways, use an entirely separate tubing for EACH IV abx, etc." crap. Screw turning "every two hours." No human being tosses and turns every two hours throughout their sleep pattern unless they're coming down from a drunk. And we have BETTER outcomes because more of what is needed gets done. We have all the time we need. Men don't take maternity leave. Men don't have baby well-checks. Men don't have...well, you've heard it all before. Didn't mean to go THERE again, but it always comes up. Doctors don't yell at men. We yell back. This keeps everyone on an even keel. Visitors are kicked out, not allowed to linger. More work gets done when you maintain a male perspective. But yeah, we like a hot female nurse that is smart and competent too. But there just ain't that many around. Oh hell, I'm sleepy and rambling. Go ahead girls. Type away in vicious response. Moderators have me banned again and again. I can't change the way you think, but I can make you think and make you mad enough to realize the BS needs to stop.

You didn't do a thing wrong. Screw it.

Lately I've been asked to have a female nurse fill in for me when doing bedpans, pee pee, etc. I'd rather have the women do it anyway...less work for me. But I'm surprised at the number of female patients who don't give a damn if they're on their periods and "I'm the victim" for a clean up on isle 7. It's a complement that they don't mind me doing it. There's no rhyme or reason to it at all. Young, old, etc. Recently I did bedpan, menstrual care all day on a hottie that looked like my first wife. We flirted all day. But when the night shift male nurse came in she called it quits and asked for a female. I dunno.

Imagine working in a heart unit and you've dealt with a patient all day post-op, with diet instructions, etc. And then you hand off the assignment to a night shift pig. Doesn't work. I'm glad Texas got the ball rolling with no fat nurses.

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