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Good God, no! Where do people work where they can do this? I'm lucky if I can scarf some food before I pass out around 3pm. I haven't taken a real lunch break in the year I've been working.

I can't believe that I'm the only one wondering if the plastics job would give me free/discounted plastic sx.

Being there for someone's death is as much of an honor as being there for someone's birth. It is very hard sometimes, and I have left work crying (I can ususally hold it together till I'm away from patients), but it's really special too.

If I was doing it all over again, I'd just go to med school!

If the threats during staff meetings are correct, then breathing wrong will make you loose it

We do HCGs before Toradol. Rarely give it to women though.

#2 for me. I'd love to do outpatient work.

Gravity. It would do it with or without a pump.

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Yep you can. How about a nurse tech job in an ER?

Option 1. Day shift makes it. Plus, you want to go to CRNA school so you won't be there forever anyway.

I'd stay put. If you want to go back to NP school, then take this time to gain experience where you are, pay off your loans and save up some money for grad school (you won't be able to work full time when you are in the NP program).

A job as an ER tech is your best bet. And use your husband...as proven by certain people I work with, it isn't what you know, but who you know! Does your husband know anyone that works in the ER?

I love women/children's health. I'm working er though.

Yes. There are many people that can pass the NCLEX and get a licence, but that doesn't mean that they are good nurses. More like technicians who can pass a test and perform some skills.

Please complain. I've seen so many bad nurses that are taking up space that others would happily fill and do such a much better job at.

I've been so sick since starting nights. It hasn't shown on my face, but I think it would be easy for it to do so.

Sucks for the pt to go through a version and still end up with a c/s b/c the doc insisted on doing the AROM. If I was the pt and really knew what had happend, I'd be ******. (I didn't SROM until 10cm)

Thanks for the input.

What the heck are you trying to ask?

I was hired for a department, oriented on one shift, and now moved to the shift I was hired for. The staff on this shift are much less professional that the one I oriented on. It feels like a completly different hospital/department. This week a situation happened that I was uncomfortable with. A nurse's attitude and behaviors caused a patient to become aggitated and it escalated way, way, way out of hand. I truly believe that this did not have to happen and wouldn't have if my co-workers behaved in a more professional, less aggressive, less judgemental manner. I did not intervene at the time, as I was the new person and from what I could tell, the only one that disagreed with what was going on. I would love to go to the other shift. I don't know when that will be an option. I can't work like this for long and will be looking for a new job if another shift isn't available for me soon. I don't want to be made miserable for the rest of my time on the current shift. If I report this to my manager and it comes out, I know that it will be obvious that I was the one that reported it. I think I know in my gut that this should not go unreported, I just don't know when.

I'd say it's time for a change.

12s are ok. In my perfect world, I'd work 9:30 to 2 (while my daughter is in school) and be off every weekend and holiday. (actually, in my perfect world, I wouldn't work, but whatever.)

Have someone review your resume and coverletters very carefully.

Yea, that sucks, but you probably drive to work on roads that are paid for by those taxes, are protected by cops and firefighters and military that are paid by those taxes, and most likely went to a public K-12 that was funded by those taxes.