westieluv

westieluv

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  1. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply and offer your support and advice. This is very difficult because, like a lot of nurses, I am a people pleaser with a strong work ethic and feel very...

  2. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I have just now renewed my BLS, and the reason why it had lapsed was because I have spent the past 15 months working from home as a telephone triage nurse, a job that I would have never quit had we...

  3. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't even ask why the previous nurse left, I just asked how it happened that a full-time day shift position was open, as this is virtually impossible to find in most facilities and I was told that...

  4. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that it should be this simple, but when you work at a place where the culture is such that the other nurses are willing to work seven days a week and over at the end of their shifts (while...

  5. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you.

  6. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    In case she doesn't hire me, because we need for me to have a steady income. I know something else would come along, but if I felt pressured to hurry up and get something to keep the money coming in,...

  7. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    So I went in today for my third full day of orientation and the nurse who was supposed to train me called off, a day shift aide called off, an afternoon shift aide called off, and a night shift nurse...

  8. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I get what you're saying, and it is true, except that this facility has call offs every day. It is not an occasional thing, it is constant to the point where the lack of staff is a critical problem....

  9. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    westieluv replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly, and by the way, I meant to say "severe" and "terrible" abdominal pain, NOT surgery, lol. Surgery was not indicated because no one could ever find anything wrong with them. I once had a young...

  10. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I respectfully disagree. I have been a nurse for many years and after too many years of allowing myself to be manipulated and made to feel guilty if I did not do everything in my power to solve my...

  11. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I might add that, since my most recent job that I just left was one where I worked from home, my BLS certification lapsed, since I didn't have to worry about doing CPR and thought I would be at that...

  12. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    westieluv replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Since my early days as a nurse back in the early '90s, I have had an aversion to young adult females in pain. I think it comes from the fact that I worked on a Med/Surg floor back then that had many...

  13. Lied to in Interview

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all of you for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate your feedback. I did receive an email a couple of days ago from a dialysis facility of one of the Big Two dialysis companies that...

  14. Here Now Gone Tomorrow

    westieluv replied to WonderingWhichWay's topic in General Nursing

    I have been an RN for 26 years and just turned 50 last year, and I can tell you that age discrimination in the nursing field is very real. As an experienced nurse in my early 40s and younger, whenever...

  15. how's this for backwards

    westieluv replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    If I had to guess, the reason why they are opening positions only to new grads is because they can pay them a much lower rate than what an experienced nurse like you would earn. You are being...

  16. When You No Longer Need a License...

    westieluv posted a topic in Travel

    in a different state than where you reside, how do you stop being licensed there? I am not a travel nurse, but I posted this here because I know that travelers are required to be licensed in multiple...

  17. When You No Longer Need a License...

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Travel

    Thanks for your reply. I didn't realize that you could let them lapse, I guess you're right, I'm thinking it looks like I did something irresponsible. I don't like that word, "lapsed", lol. I would...

  18. Letting Multiple Licenses Expire?

    westieluv posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am in the process of leaving a job that required me to be licensed in multiple states where I do not live nor will ever move to (telephone triage job that required me to handle calls in those states...

  19. Letting Multiple Licenses Expire?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for reminding me of what a pain it would be if I let these licenses lapse and then did decide in the future to return to this company! I will put them on inactive status when the time

  20. Letting Multiple Licenses Expire?

    westieluv posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I am in the process of leaving a job that required me to be licensed in multiple states where I do not live nor will ever move to (telephone triage job that required me to handle calls in those states...

  21. Moving to Michigan! (Help)

    westieluv replied to isis07734's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Well, I may be just a bit biased too..., and I know the upper LP is lovely, but I just wanted him to be aware that SE Michigan does have a lot to offer as well. I am not a native of Michigan but I...

  22. Moving to Michigan! (Help)

    westieluv replied to isis07734's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Unions are not as big in Michigan as they used to be, now that it is a right to work state and the UAW has given so many concessions to the management of the Big Three (not a bad thing, they had to to...

  23. Type A Personality in Nursing

    westieluv posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been an RN for almost 26 years. I am a very organized, punctual, type A kind of person. The good qualities that this brings to my career are that I always develop an organized system for...

  24. Have I Destroyed My Career?

    westieluv posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I am really getting depressed. I have been an RN for almost 26 years and always been competent at my work, never had a legal issue, never been let go, and never gotten a bad performance review....

  25. Have I Destroyed My Career?

    westieluv posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I am really getting depressed. I have been an RN for almost 26 years and always been competent at my work, never had a legal issue, never been let go, and never gotten a bad performance review....