jrock17

I just told the girls at work the other night, if I am ever REQUIRED to get my BSN (am a current travel nurse), that I'm taking my nursing license, shredding it and burning the shreds. This profession (what a joke word for it) allows for abuse from all levels...management, families and patients. It's pathetic. I swear, if I get out alive to another career, I'm throwing a party and you are all invited

Sooo...Spider-Man was a Nurse?!? I knew it!!! ('...great knowledge, great responsibility.') No wonder our patients demand so much from us!

Where I previously worked, a new employee was 'precepting' with a case manager, learning how to be a HH nurse/case manager. The preceptor had taught the new employee to 'set up' her visits the night before (meaning, chart on the patient based on the initial assessment/order the night before the visit, leave out the vitals, of course), and then just go through and change the answers that needed to be changed at the actual visit. This was to save time (the preceptor told the new employee). Well, upper management found out about this because the new employee transferred her computer the night before on accident (documentation fraud), and confronted the new employee. New employee says my preceptor taught me to do this (truth) but the preceptor lied and said,' I didn't teach her that.' Pretty much threw the new employee under the bus. New employee was immediately terminated. Know what upper management did to the preceptor?? Well, they promoted the preceptor, OF COURSE! ***DURRRR!!!!***

Dear OP,Thank you for reminding us that not all of our patient's are only out to scam us (drug-seeking, 'getting their money's worth as an in-patient, etc). I just wish we could get our 'thanks' for actually helping those who need it and appreciate it...karma does not seem like enough anymore.

Thank you for speaking the truth! Too many of us feel ashamed that we hate nursing, but can't tell anyone about it because it makes us look like 'bad people.' I tried to tell my mother (who is an RN of 20+ years...ICU, ER, Comm Health, and now Endo) that I hate nursing and she just cried and couldn't understand why I felt that way. Boy did I feel like an a**hole . I dream every day (for the last 6 years of being a nurse) that I was doing something different. When I worked on my first Med/Surg floor, I used to dream about mowing lawns, picking up garbage, making birdhouses (yeah, I know...lol), anything that WASN'T nursing. I play the lotto and scratch off's religiously in the very small hopes that I don't have to be a nurse anymore. I have worked travel assignments and it's all the same in EVERY hospital...same nurse personalities, same jerk patients and families, same 'customer service, it's all about money and we don't care what your nurse to patient ratio is, as long as there is a warm body to fill in part of the census.' What's the old GI JOE theme....'Knowing is half the battle?!' Maybe now that we know we hate nursing, we can make our lives better, in what ever way possible, so that we don't look back and regret the time we wasted hating our work lives. We work too freakin much to hate every second of it.

Hi All... I would like to start a scrubs store and was wondering if anyone had any input on it...whether you have started one and failed or started one and had success, or if (like me) you are dreaming of owning one.... Any input, good or bad, is welcome!

If I could kindly clarify... Taking heavy pt assignments (complete, labor intensive, back breaking) b/c the charge nurse has 'friends' who are working on shift w/ you and they would never give a crappy assignment to their 'friends', having pt's hit, spit, pee/poop, bite and verbally abuse you during your shift (it's a felony to hit a cop, firefighter, doctor...but not a nurse), being floated to other floors 2 and 3 times a shift (caring for up to 20 total pt's in a 12 hour shift), and when lodging a valid compliant/concern to those above you (in the proper ways and channels) only to be ridiculed by your peers and nurse manager for 'opening your mouth'...... Hostile, hostile work environments. No respect for knowledge gained or given. I'm sorry for you that your position was outsourced and that you have worked on salary for nothing or less...honestly, I am. I wish we could work together and rid both professions of their problems.

IMHO...if you are doing ANYTHING that might 'splash' up into your eyes and be infection worthy... you should wear goggles anyways. Esp w/ bladder irrigations (you will learn)..they always seem to splash when you don't want them to. But I would stick with contacts...when you are in a 'contact precaution room' and you are all gowned and gloved, is always when....your nose itches, you drop your stethescope, and your glasses want to fall off your face into a pt's giant icky abd wound. Go with the contacts! lol

Wow...I am soooo jealous of all you engineers...I'm trying to get OUT of nursing and into engineering (civil). Please...if you are considering nursing, make darn sure you get an advanced degree (and do so immediately), and get off 'the floor' as soon as you possibly can. You will Never get the respect you deserve as a floor nurse that you receive as an engineer...Ever! I'll switch places with ya in a minute! PS. my husband is a transportation inspector (consultant), and I am jealous of his job every single day... Work outside, work on a project that actually gets results, work with mostly guys (wait til you work with all/mostly women....dog eat dog, every b*%#@ for themselves attitude), M-F schedule w the occasional Sat/Sun and double time and half for any holiday worked, laid off in the winter for 2-3 months.... the good life! God bless you if you are considering getting out of your prestigious career.

Good Job!! If I could only add...perhaps suggest a follow-up BMP in like 2 or 4 hours to confirm/deny the need for this extra K+? Then, you will both find out if there is a true need for this pt to have supplemental K+. Way to stick to your guns

pbrookes, I can't PM bc I'm a newer member. I can receive, but not send :-/ I would love to hear your story and appreciate your time and response. Thank you !! :yeah::yeah::yeah:

Hello... I'm interested in getting my esthetician license...I've been an RN for 3 years, mostly med/surg....Is this a good career move? I've looked into legal nurse consulting, and other rn specialties. I just want OUT of floor nursing. I'm so tired of missing out on my family and friends on weekends and holidays, and having nursing managers (who get all those holidays and weekends off) not give a crap about the rest of us. Most of my co-workers don't mind working like that...they like 'being away from their spouses and families'...but I don't. I'm so exhausted of pt's families thinking nothing is ever good enough for their family member, and oh, I'm sorry I'm taking out my anger and frustration about my family member out on you, I know you are JUST THE NURSE, but I'll yell and complain and make you feel like crap anyways..... The only thing I like about nursing is the 'tasks'...eg. putting in foleys, NG tubes, wound dressings, IV starts....things that have a beginning and an end. Projects. I hate meds, families, whiney coworkers (esp the women, and I am a woman) and the awful scheduling. My mom is a nurse, and I asked her if she ever hated being a nurse in her 30+ year career and she looked at me with shame and remorse and stated plainly, 'no, not ever.' I hate being a nurse every shift I work :-( HELP! Suggestions please... and for those of you wanting to say, shame on me for how I feel...keep it to yourself, respectfully, please.

I have done travel in WNY and I have had 2 day (2-12 hr shifts) with a staff nurse on the unit. I also get training (computer training for documentation, etc) of about 1 or 2 days. I have never had a problem with staff...most are so appreciative of me being there (well, bc they mostly give me the 'difficult' patients). But I have made many friends in the two facilities I have worked with. What's makes a good travel nurse: 1. Flexibility 2. A 'It's all good' attitude (see #1) 3. A strong sense of skills 4. A knowledge of what you can do, and what you can't. Don't EVER do something (procedure, etc) that you are not comfortable with. Make someone else on the floor do it...no matter what! It's your license. If you come across willing to help the staff and are a semi-'happy' person at work...you'll do just fine :-)