NurseFrustrated

Hi everyone. I am new to posting here but have been reading the site for a month or so. I am an RN with just over 5 years of experience. I worked nights (3 twelve hour shifts) in med-surge for four years but couldn't deal with my sleep getting so mes...

I was wondering if any other nurses have advice on how to work these long shifts and still be at a healthy weight. How do you fit in exercise? How do you eat regular, healthy meals? I always read that we must work out at least 5 days a week doing car...

If this works in your hospital (where the females cath the females and the males cath the males), and no one minds then what's the issue? As I mentioned before, it doesn't work in all hospitals due to different patient loads and the fact that another...

Hello. Female nurse here. I understand your concerns, but at work, yes you are a nurse first and a male/female second. That is part of being a professional. Believe me, I don't mind to help a fellow nurse out but sometimes I simply don't have time to...

Personally, I probably wouldn't do home care nursing as a new grad. You would probably be better off working in a hospital or long term care facility for a while so you could have back-up from other nurses/a supervisor if something goes wrong with a ...

Anyone else feel the same? When I was in nursing school, I was so excited to get finished and get a job. I thought I would enjoy doing nursing tasks all day...meds, IVs, injections, dressing changes, catheters, charting. I was so proud to tell people...

I don't really like being charge. When I am assigned to be charge I have to take a full patient assignment myself and get no extra pay for it. The unit manager just assigns someone to be charge every shift. It's a lot of extra work and extra responsi...

Unfortunately this kind of stuff happens all the time in nursing. It's one of the things I really hate about this job. You can work your tail off and the next shift nit picks everything apart as if you sat with your feet up all shift. It drives me nu...

I think that if MA 1 agrees to take a shift for MA 2, the shift now belongs to MA 1. If MA 1 will not come in for that shift she should be held accountable for it. It's a crap thing to do to MA 2.

I've been a hospital RN for nine years and I was talking about this very subject with a non-nurse friend of mine at lunch today. I told her that I find it strange that the supposedly "caring" field of healthcare attracts so many people with nasty and...

I couldn't agree more. I could have written this myself.

This.

I've been a nurse for almost 9 years and yes, it can suck that badly at times. I wondered the same thing before I became a nurse. How can it be that bad to have job security and make decent money? Well, you will never understand until you do it. Unfo...

I agree with the part of your post where you said that hospitals like to make one person do the work of three people. My unit at my hospital is always short staffed but that's the way they want it. There could be jobs for other nurses if the hospital...

You are very lucky. I work at an inpatient rehab hospital as well. I work from 7a-7p but with 8 patients every day. I wish our medical director would set a limit of 6 for us. I don't think they care that much about patients or staff though unfortunat...

I failed a couple of tests in nursing school but I still made it through. I failed one big test because I had something weird happening the night before the test. I was getting strange stalker calls on my home phone all night! I was home alone and wa...

I don't know what state you live in or which other states you have tried exactly, but have you tried applying to smaller towns and rural areas rather than larger cities? Perhaps places that are considered less desirable locations may be less saturate...

I can clean up poop from bedpans and bedside commodes all day and it doesn't bother me, but having to squeeze poop out of a colostomy bag...yikes. I have to hold my breath and try so hard not to let my face show any signs of wanting to gag. That gets...

I used to be shy too but after being an RN for over 8 years now I am no longer that way. My personality sways more towards being an introvert than an extrovert but I am no longer shy at work. I remember my first year as a nurse working med-surge and ...

It's been over 8 years since I graduated nursing school, but I was always one of the last 2 or 3 left in the room when taking tests. I would always start by answering the questions I knew and leaving the ones I wasn't sure about blank. Then when I wa...

I don't think I would contact them again. If they want to hire you, they will call you. You have already followed up with them and they know you are interested. It's hard to be patient, but if you don't hear something from them within the next few we...

I agree. I don't mind to do my fair share of floating but lately it has been happening to me once or twice a week. I am NOT in the float pool. I have a home unit. My hospital makes us do it all the time and we get NO extra pay for it. We never get an...

If I were you, I honestly would stick to jobs in finance. Why go back to school for another four year degree and get into a lot of student loan debt for something you may or may not even enjoy? New grads apparently are having a hard time getting jobs...

I don't hate being a nurse, I just hate the hospital I work at. It is a rare day if the nurses ever get breaks. We are pulled from our home units 2 or 3 days a week and never have any continuity of care for our patients. The way they pull nurses isn'...

A hospital I used to work at recently cut nurse's and CNA's evening/night and weekend differential pay by almost half too. They cut down on staffing too so nurses were essentially doing more work with less pay. Morale was very low and tons of people ...