I don't think you have to be a "saint" or "Mother Teresa" type person to be an excellant nurse, BUT, it really peeves me when someone goes into this profession thinking of it as just a job & doing...
I would recommend that if you don't have to work while in school, don't...until towards the end. What I did was work an evening shift every other Friday my last year of nursing school. Things I got...
I work with several LPNs and 2 of them, I greatly respect. (The other one's not bad, it's just that she tends to be a little lazy...personality thing, not a degree thing.) These two ladies have had...
I couldn't either and that's why it peeves me that someone could while they're being paid to work...not to mention the extra work it causes someone who has to change that bed again before a patient...
I like MOST of the people I work with and there are a lot of hard workers there, but here are some of my peeves... TECHS: - Finding a tech in an empty room with the lights off, lying on a bed &...
I started out in Labor & Delivery. While I did enjoy this area, I wish I had started out on a Med-Surg floor. You will learn much more once you actually start working as a nurse than you did in...
This is a subject I could go on and on about. I work nights & I think a lot of our manipulative patients are that way because their family/friends have gone home and just want company because...
When I was a new nurse and began working as an RN, I had only good experiences from the other nurses. After taking a couple of years off work to do things with my family, then going back to work on a...