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  1. Career Advice Required, New RN, BScN Leaving the Profession

    giveface posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    Hello All, I'll make this short. I have decided that I do not want to do direct patient care any longer. In a nutshell, after graduating this past June and being employed straight away in a...

  2. How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    giveface replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think for me the frustration comes in where it is well known that a certain nurse (be it either category) is very lazy, the nurse manager is well aware and anything documented just falls on deaf...

  3. Highest nursing burnout areas?

    giveface replied to magn1jes's topic in General Nursing

    I think every practice area has its pros and cons, some more cons than others, obviously. I've done med/surg and psych. I have to say that med/surg workload was just not feasible and it burned me...

  4. How to handle lazy LPN's on the team

    giveface replied to Nurse ABC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am the charge nurse responsible for a busy unit with a team model and I encounter this on almost a daily basis, as do many of the other RNs in charge. It really disgusts me how SOME of the LPN...

  5. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

    giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've worked with both female and male borderline PDs. Some of the females have been abused, but same are highly intelligent and in my opinion strongly embrace "the sick role" and don't seem to be...

  6. Well just the other day I posted careeer suicide......

    giveface replied to Ernurse2012's topic in Emergency

    That's crazy/funny, "Have you paid all your state taxes?" What on Earth does that have to do with one's eligibility to be a licensed nurse (provided there are no related criminal charges steming from...

  7. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

    giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That is so true. Obese patients get most upset over dietary restrictions as inpatients, not medical or nursing care. Of course, obese patients still deserve excellent care. I had to deal with insulin...

  8. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

    giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Honey, if the shoe fits, wear it. Lol. And, it is a statistical fact that I think 75% of borderline PD diagnoses are in fact female, possibly

  9. What patients/behaviors/illnesses/injuries do you HATE the most?

    giveface replied to JZ_RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hearing a clang at 6AM to walk down and investigate only to find a 70-year-old psychogeriatric woman squating and forcfully urinating into a large stainless steel wash basin, filling it to the brim...

  10. Please quit wasting my time: Interview Advice from Hiring Manager

    giveface replied to Teacher Sue's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Ditto. I lasted 8 months at my first job and just couldn't tough it out any longer: too unsafe and too

  11. So Down, Any Career Advice?

    giveface posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi All,Here I am again. I've been a licensed RN, BScN here in Canada for a little over a year. My first job right after graduation was an 8 month stint in a small medical/surgical unit, dangerously...

  12. End of shift blessings

    giveface replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Enough said! I can't stand this lollipops and rainbows should be spewing out of our mouths mentality that so many nurses seem to have. Ours is a tough profession and it takes a big person to resist...

  13. What is the point of becoming a nurse?!

    giveface replied to newRN121's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't know why so many of the responses here are reeking of the need to give the OP a "reality check". The OP is stating that she/he has fears about entering the nurse labour market, that's okay!...

  14. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I disagree and feel that it is being nosy, stirring up trouble and spying. As I stated earlier, unless I am posting privleged info (which I never do), than what photos I choose to put up, or what...

  15. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    M point is only that why should you have to make and maintain two separate facebook accounts (second one under a pseudonym), simply to enable this misguided concept that employers have the right to...

  16. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Excuse me but aren't we trained to be wholistic? I am not a nurse only during my waking hours at the hospital am I? If I were driving in my car and saw a train derailment, would I get out to help...

  17. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It may not be the reality but I believe it should be and would be if nurses just stood up for ourselves and told employers to mind their own business. I am not paid to be at work 24/7, until that...

  18. Do nurses have a responsibility to keep their Facebook professional?

    giveface replied to Bortaz's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have to say I feel very different about this topic than most responses here. I have always believed, nursing school included, that what you do in your own private life, so long as you don't show up...

  19. Poor nurse role models.. is this what I have to look forward to?

    giveface replied to Jane says's topic in General Nursing

    From what I have witnessed since I've been in the nursing world (I finished my BScN last May), including my time in school, this type of carrying on goes on more than most would like to admit. I'll...

  20. Am I harrassed???

    giveface replied to neeke816's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Real nurses don't cry eh? Hmmm, somehow I must have really pulled one over on both my university graduating at the top of my class and passing the CRNE. I cry all the time. But mostly because I...

  21. My co-worker stinks like gin every morning!

    giveface replied to pawsomepooch47's topic in General Nursing

    We just had a lady that worked at my last hospital die after being retired less than 1 year. She was not a registered staff member, but nevertheless she was drunk for pretty much her 30 years at this...

  22. Healthcare professionals using insulting language

    giveface replied to cayenne06's topic in General Nursing

    All I can say is that it is the group being in which the comment is being said about that gets to decide if it is hurtful or not. I personally am a gay man and I liken the use of the word f**** with...

  23. Healthcare professionals using insulting language

    giveface replied to cayenne06's topic in General Nursing

    Bravo RN in training. Your response to this ugly word warms my heart during a blizzard outdoors. You

  24. Healthcare professionals using insulting language

    giveface replied to cayenne06's topic in General Nursing

    I think this all stems from our high school system not putting a stop to this. As a gay man I can't tell you how much it hurts to hear the expression "that's so gay", even if the speaker meant it...

  25. I Just Quit the Worst Hospital in Canada and It Feels Great!

    giveface posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'll spare you the nitty gritty of it, but suffice it to say this morning I tendered my letter of resignation to possibly the most unsafe, most understaffed hospital in Canada. I know for many it is...