westieluv

westieluv

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  1. How Do I Tell My Boss?

    westieluv posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I am an RN of 25 years who has been working at my present job for 14 months. It's a decent job, I don't hate it, I don't love it, but I have an extremely supportive and kind supervisor. What makes...

  2. Celebrity TV Nurses

    westieluv replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    The best were the soap opera nurses. All they ever did was hang around the nurses' station or cafeteria and gossip and look impeccably pretty. Oh, and have affairs with doctors. Anyone remember nurse...

  3. Weighing my options for telehealth triage

    westieluv replied to Cape47's topic in Telephone Triage

    Most telephone triage jobs pay quite a bit lower than an acute care job in a facility, that's just the way it is. I work doing telephone triage from home and I took a $10/hour pay cut to leave my...

  4. renal patients

    westieluv replied to starlane's topic in General Nursing

    I used to be a dialysis nurse. Normally, if a patient has no history of renal failure, the doctor will monitor the BUN and Creatinine and will not initiate dialysis unless the elevated level is...

  5. Don't Want To Touch Patients!

    westieluv replied to ThinBabe's topic in General Nursing

    I was just thinking about the time that about 800 ml of slimy, pea green, N/G tube drainage dumped out of the cannister and spilled down the leg of my scrub pants. Also the time that we had a...

  6. Don't Want To Touch Patients!

    westieluv replied to ThinBabe's topic in General Nursing

    This is true. In order to get to one of those nursing jobs where you don't actually touch patients, you will need to touch a lot of people, and some of them will be sick, dirty, sweaty...it isn't...

  7. An Irrelevant Observation

    westieluv replied to bagladyrn's topic in General Nursing

    To be blunt: They don't have to get up for work the next day, so they can just go home and sleep in if they want to, and many of them will never see a bill, so who cares if they really need to be...

  8. Do You Ever Ignore Your Employer's VM When They Try to Call You In?

    westieluv posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My employer called a couple of hours ago asking me to work tonight. Honestly, I have been shoveling snow for hours and am tired and sore and absolutely do not feel like driving in to work and staying...

  9. What Would You Do?

    westieluv replied to NewTexasRN's topic in General Nursing

    What would I do? I would get out of that company ASAP before they get criminally charged with Medicaid fraud. I worked for a regional hospice and home care company for one month because I learned...

  10. I Have The Time and Other Lies

    westieluv replied to Preeps's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was just thinking...if I was hospitalized and my nurse came in and quoted that script to me, ending in, "I have the time", I would either know immediately that it was scripted by some upper...

  11. I Have The Time and Other Lies

    westieluv replied to Preeps's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Forcing nurses to say "I have the time" when they clearly don't is demeaning, dishonest, and deceptive. It's bad enough that they stretch nurses thinner and thinner, but to force them to lie and...

  12. Do You Ever Ignore Your Employer's VM When They Try to Call You In?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I also love when they try to guilt you with the "team player" argument, as in, "Well, I was hoping that you would be more of a team player and come in when your co-workers need you." I haven't heard...

  13. Is it best to sleep or after a night shift?

    westieluv replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    I work nights and I would definitely plan on getting sleep in the morning after your shift. It would be ideal to get both, but if you have to choose between the two, in the morning after staying up...

  14. Do You Ever Ignore Your Employer's VM When They Try to Call You In?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow! I had no idea that this thread would end up being eight pages long! Thanks, everyone, for taking the time to reply. As a PP stated, just knowing that there are this many nurses out there who...

  15. weekend work Harder?

    westieluv replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    That's true, sometimes having families present is actually a plus because the patients are occupied and often feel better with someone they love

  16. My Cushy Per Diem Job

    westieluv replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, really? In every nursing home I've ever seen or worked at, every single nurse, RN or LPN, is stretched so thin you can almost see through them. I've never heard of a nursing home that pays anyone...

  17. Do You Ever Ignore Your Employer's VM When They Try to Call You In?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Keep it up, guys, you're starting to get through to me. The guilt and anxiety is starting to subside. This facility knows that their nurses don't want their coworkers to get screwed so they depend on...

  18. Do You Ever Ignore Your Employer's VM When They Try to Call You In?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ha ha, no, I'm not a young nurse, but I'm one of those "people pleaser" types who takes on a lot of guilt, so situations like this get me all worked up. I keep thinking it over and over in my mind and...

  19. weekend work Harder?

    westieluv replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto what the others said. Weekends are more laid back; fewer doctors rounding, fewer diagnostic tests, fewer ancillary staff, fewer surgeries...there may be more family if they have weekends off to...

  20. Will my scars from cutting be a problem?

    westieluv replied to S.F Skylar's topic in General Nursing

    This^^^. Most employers do not look favorably upon tattoos, and they would be much more likely to prevent you from getting hired than some old scars, regardless of their source. I would wear long...

  21. Cut Throat Competition Makes Me Sick

    westieluv posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I had been out of hospice nursing for a couple of years until recently, and maybe I had just forgotten or it has gotten worse, but I'm finding it very sickening to watch hospice companies circle...

  22. Question About My Status

    westieluv posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I have a full-time RN position at a dementia/ALF. Recently, I developed a medical issue and have to work a restricted number of days in a row per my physician. Due to this restriction, the facility...

  23. Question About My Status

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Nursing Career

    Thank you, Emergent, for putting into words how I feel about this whole thing. If I didn't have concern for the residents or a sense of decency, it would be so easy to just quit without notice. They...

  24. Question About My Status

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Nursing Career

    Thanks, you're probably right, although when they told me I was going to be per diem, I guess I assumed that that meant letting them know what days I was available, vs. their giving me a completed...

  25. Unhappy Hospital

    westieluv replied to lilbitgeeky's topic in General Nursing

    This whole thing is just hilarious! So the high heeled ladies got to pass out the bread and appear caring to the patients, but meanwhile the patients probably didn't see their nurses more than a...