Fivestar22

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  1. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i would like to know anyone's opinion on nurses who smoke. i know someone who works in an outpatient cancer center, and on her breaks she smokes outside while patients are going in and out of the...

  2. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Very Well Said! I am afraid to post a thread now, b/c I am afraid I am going to be judged. I was looking for an opinion, and I did say I was sorry for the mis spelled words (several times) It wasn't...

  3. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If people who smoke want to smoke while they are at work that is their right. Smoking is an addiction, and I wouldn't want to work with anyone who smoked, if they were not allowed their smoke breaks....

  4. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you so much, I felt the same way, but I was afraid to say something. I felt like I was attacked for putting up a thread regarding peoples opinions about smoking. I didn't mean to cause all of...

  5. How do you deal w/a student you don't like?

    Fivestar22 posted a topic in General Nursing

    how do you deal with a student that you do not like? i am doing well in the course, but i have clashed w/my instructor on many occassions. i have tried several time to work things out with this...

  6. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Fivestar22 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    ITA.... that is so

  7. How do you deal w/a student you don't like?

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in General Nursing

    I am the student, and yes I am having a hard time with one of my instructors. She was nice at first, then things just kept getting worse. Now they are so bad, that we are not even speaking to each...

  8. How do you deal w/a student you don't like?

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in General Nursing

    I am the student, thanks for the advice, I think it is the best I 've heard so far. I know that I am there for one thing, and that is to learn. Sometimes its just hard to deal with someone who is so...

  9. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I only spelled opinion wrong, and I put "no" instead of "know" . SORRY!!! I was only asking about your opinion........no need to be

  10. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    To all who have responded, I am glad you did! Being in nursing school, I just like to know what's going on in the real world. I am a smoker, and I have seen people, even my professors, get bent out of...

  11. Nurses who smoke

    Fivestar22 replied to Fivestar22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think its wonderful to have an opinion. I didn't mean to make anyone hot :angryfire I was just looking for different views. Sorry about the typo's in the original message, it was a late, drunken...

  12. Medical patients on post-partum floor?

    Fivestar22 replied to tiliimnrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    i worked in ob/gyn icu, special care nursery, and nbn for four years, and there is no way we would never take a pt from a m/s unit. these pts are considered dirty, even a gyn pt that was operated on...

  13. I am a worried CNA

    Fivestar22 replied to Krissy NY's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You have the right to express your anger, but I honestly think it is time to start looking for a new place to work. Their is a health care shortage, and I think you may have better luck in a hospital....

  14. I am a worried CNA

    Fivestar22 replied to Krissy NY's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Krissy, I have been a CNA since I was 18, I am now 25 and a BSN student. I want you to know that no matter where you go, there will always be some people that are going to neglect their pts/ I have...

  15. working in the ER as a new grad.

    Fivestar22 replied to nerdynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think that if you have the drive to be an ER nurse then you should go for it! Many hospitals have excellent training programs, and the ones that don't usually don't hire new grads into the ER. I...

  16. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    Fivestar22 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    My biggest pet peeve is when a nurse is in a pts room and the pt asks a nurse for some water or to take them off a bedpan, and the nurse goes out of her way to find a CNA to do this task for her....

  17. As a BSN student in clinicals it seems like many floor nurses are "mean spirited".

    Fivestar22 replied to Love767's topic in General Nursing

    I am so sorry that you are havinga hard time. I am also a BSN student who has experienced some negative staff in prior places that I have done clinicals. The good news is that not all places are like...