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Cherokee Workwear. Those things wear like nothing I've ever seen. Marcus Uniforms has them for the lowest prices I've seen, and they're available in every color under the sun.

I second the vote for Old Navy's t-shirts. I hate thick shirts under my scrubs.

Etsy.com has adorable ones, and they're all handmade! Boojeebeads.com has some as well.

We had to give something like this once and mixed it in baby applesauce, then mixed the applesauce with water to make it viscous enough to go down the g-tube without clogging.

Don't call. Go to work. If they want to send you home, they will. Otherwise, try to find time to study at work.

You can say something, but it might not do any good, and her parents might not appreciate it much. Your patient might act out more than usual when she's not feeling well. You mention that the nurses were hanging blood products. Your patient might be more opinionated and stubborn than usual when her counts are low. Adults understand the difference in the way their body feels when their counts are low, or they're developing a fever, or they're becoming septic... they may not understand which of these is happening, but they know something's wrong and are able to verbalize that. Pediatric patients can't. So, much like infants cry when they don't feel well, preschoolers react differently than usual. They may withdraw and become quiet, they may cry, or they may become obnoxious and loud. Your patient's father may understand that, and it could be that this is why he wasn't correcting his daughter; he may have seen this behavior from her before when she has been ill in the past.

Congratulations! So glad everything worked out for you!!

Those same nurses that I talked about in my first post... the backstabby, catty new grads? They had older, seasoned nurses that treated them very well too. Not every nurse treated them badly; it was easier to get on their good side than to be on their bad side. I'm not saying that this is how you are. My point is that you may want to take some time for some self examination to determine if any of these bad interactions could be colored by your attitude in any way. And I'm not sure what you mean by "hard to face the music." I don't work in a hospital. So, by your very definition, I should be one of those nurses that you prefer to work with.

I would mention your case in your room. Explain that you were in a room sitting, and you had a call light on for over 20 minutes without being answered. Share that you were concerned that other patients might have had to wait for a similar amount of time without a staff member present in their room with them. If it's all about your experience, there's not any problem in bringing it up. Good luck, and kudos to you for wanting to enhance your patients' experience.

Most places are going to require weekends, or at least every other weekend, unless you can get into something like a doctor's office. The pay will likely be lower in a doctor's office, though. A free-standing surgical center might be another place to look. Good luck!

If you're not able to get anything at your current employer that's daylight only, the school nurse position may be your best bet until you're able to get your health in better control. Keeping yourself per diem in the position you have now is an excellent idea because it will allow you to maintain seniority if a position opens up. I wish you all of the luck in the world, no matter what you decide to do.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/index.html How to file a HIPAA complaint. I hope that HHS can clear this up for you much more quickly than your state's BON.

If your manager's "playing for the other team," you may have to quit, if you can find another job. I hate to say that, but it's so true. It's next to impossible to break that inner circle at times. I just wanted you to know that someone else has been there, had that happen, and is so sorry for you that you're going through the same thing. I wish that it would end soon throughout the profession as a whole.

International Nursing - Nursing for Nurses Hope this helps!

The other thing to remember is that the acuity of the patient in the doctor's office is much lower. You're not primarily responsible for that patient for the full duration of a 12 hour shift. You'll see them, do a quick history, get vitals, and you're out. You may administer an injection, you may do some teaching, you may do some front office work, depending on the office. Offices with specialized work, such as chemo administration, in my experience, generally pay more. However, a lot of these things are things that an LPN can do; the offices just need an RN on staff to supervise the existing LPNs and MAs. They're paying low because the intensity of the work just isn't that high.

It's just you. Some of the most toxic, most backstabby nurses I've ever worked with have been new grads with something to prove. So many of your posts are about how people mistreat you. Have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps your attitude comes off wrong in its interpretation?

Unless OP is in a state that does not allow mandatory OT, in which case state law sets the precedent.

There's not a thing wrong with you. If you're paying for 6 credits of grad school, then you owe it to yourself to study as you need to and maintain your work/life balance as is acceptable to you. As long as there's nothing in your employee handbook that mandates overtime, then you've got no reason to come in on your day off. They're just trying to get the pity hours out of you.

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would you recommend nursing? -a quick, "yes, i would," for most and then some say no. the "no" nurses are the ones i consider the money nurses (in it for the money and all the wrong reasons). i think that's a little close minded. some people are doing what they do right now because they're good at it, or as a means to an end. for example, to be a nurse anesthetist, you have to do a year or two in an icu. perhaps some of the nurses that you're talking to aren't icu material, for lack of a better way of putting it. they may not enjoy the stress and the frustration that goes with critically ill patients and their families. however, they may do amazingly well in crna school because they have the temperament for that. there are days that i'd tell you not to be a nurse. those are the bad days. you may be catching these nurses on their bad days. please do not berate me for this... i always thought nursing was a think-less job. physicians, nps, or pas write orders that nurses carry out with little to no thinking being done. i was shocked when i called an icu nurse not to long ago and she said that she needed a coagulation result to make a titration for a patient. i never thought nursing entailed that. i like being a tech because of the calculations, formulas and the see the pathology of diseases. would i get that from being a nurse? do staff nurses make decisions with the input of physician? i always hear nurses speaking of autonomy when they move to another field like np that i believed in my ignorant assumption. some nursing specialties have more autonomy than others. icu nurses, for example, frequently titrate drips to maintain parameters. flight nurses are fairly autonomous. regular floor nursing does involve some calculations and formulas, but the autonomy is a little less, usually. this can vary, depending on the type of hospital or other facility you work in, and the organizational structure. if you step outside the facility setting and into the home health setting, you are that patient's care provider. obviously, you can't write orders, but you are primarily responsible for ensuring that a care plan is carried out. additionally, i have to think about every order i carry out. does giving the diabetic with a blood sugar of 140 10 units of humalog make sense? my oncology patient is vomiting and has half an hour until the next dose of zofran is due. better to let them retch and gag, or give the med half an hour early? doctors, nps, and pas write orders, but they are not infallible, and it's important to double check orders. nurses are the ones with patients throughout a whole shift. doctors pop in and out. nurses are the ones who analyze vital signs to realize that a high temp and a high heart rate and a low blood pressure could mean sepsis and impending septic shock. we're the ones who activate rapid response teams for poor patient conditions. we're the ones that ask the doctors for increased pain medications, different anti-emetics, pet therapy orders. there's nothing think-less about my job. when i get home, the last thing i want to do in a given day is think any more. also, i read that the average tenure of an rn is five years. they either leave the field or move up the ladder. -can someone clarify this? is it really tough to continue as a staff nurse or are the numbers skewed because of the money nurses? this may be true, partially because baby boomers are exiting the profession, and younger nurses are flooding the field. also, bear in mind that nursing is a female-dominated profession. people leave to have babies and take different positions in different places that are more conducive to family life. everything i'm finding has turnover rate in the 13-15% range. turnover is really what you're looking for; how many are leaving bedside nursing altogether, not how long has the average nurse been in her current position. floor nurses go to the icu. icu nurses go to the ed. ed and icu nurses go to flight nursing. floor nurses switch units. this all contributes to the average length of time a nurse spends in a position. most of the nurses that i know have been bedside nursing for over 20 years, with no intention of stopping. do people go into nursing as outgoing and come out irritable and standoff-ish? do you take stress home and take it out on innocent friends and family members? absolutely, but that's how i'm built. not everyone does that. if we've had a particularly bad day, co-workers and i will find something to do before going home to our significant others, to spare them the brunt of the misery. some people go in outgoing and come out irritable, but i'd say that's the exception rather than the rule. i'm irritable at the end of a long stretch of days, but that's a function of the decreased sleep and increased stress. if i was sleeping less than eight hours a day and doing something as stressful as nursing in my own home, i'd still be irritable. (and i usually am at spring cleaning time. ) and, lastly, i'd like your answers to these two questions: would you recommend nursing to your children? it would depend on the child. i wouldn't recommend it to my stepson, because he doesn't have the temperament for it. nursing is something that i would only suggest to people who are truly capable of carrying out the job description and doing it well. but if i had a child who was capable of doing that, absolutely. my mom recommended it to me, and i love what i do. would you do it again if you had it to do over? would i go to school to do what i do now again? in a heartbeat. i loved clinicals, i loved studying, i loved the tests and the practicals and all of that good stuff. and i love that it all brought me to this point in my life. i have another bachelor's degree that i have no interest in using, because i'm doing what i'm meant to do. like i wrote before, i have a hypothetical mind and i think i have utilized every resource allocated me to research nursing as a career. i found this site and i believe that i will come to my conclusion from the opinions of you all. i think i just need to do it and forget other peoples opinions. then my hypothetical mind comes into play and reminds me -- 2-3 years of schooling and what if you don't like it. if you think you might be interested, shadow a nurse. shadow several nurses in several different departments. see what we do. there are a million opportunities open to you; you just have to seize the one you want. good luck to you.

Sending lots of :hug:. Keep thinking positive thoughts, and hopefully things will be better soon.

As long as we know you've done your research, most people here don't have any problems answering students' questions. Sometimes we'll ask for your thoughts, or what your attempt at the answer got you, but we like to see what your thought process is before we give you ours. It's not fair to your learning process if we give you answers all of the time. This question, though, could've been answered by Google. Nothing is more frustrating than questions that are Google-able, or students who want answers handed to them. Again, with just a little indication of effort and exertion, you'll find that the nurses here are some of the most helpful individuals you'll find anywhere.

Hey, now. I answered the questions. Of course, Google could have too, but I answered them. Perhaps I didn't provide enough information for you. An entire page written by a male midwife. An article about a male midwife. Better? :)

Yes. Midwives. Yes.

I'm not sure if you'll get an answer, because this thread originated in 2004. Just didn't want you to think people were ignoring your question! :)