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Someone who is argumentative with their coworkers is sometimes masquerading as a nurse, CNA, etc. They sometimes know just enough to be dangerous. I know about a nurse who argued with her coworkers about everything. One day, the police came in and a...

I worked it. It is not considered a holiday in our facility. Straight time, but if you called out, you had to have a doctor's note.

I've seen it. We had a nurse well into her mid 60's that never sat down and was ALWAYS, ALWAYS way ahead of any younger nurses. Please don't generalize.

I was not on the cell phone. It was in my locker. I was online at the desk for about 5 minutes, sending my brother a quick, short email. Our mom is not doing well, so I try to stay in touch. His cell phone is on the fritz, so I sent email. Maybe my ...

I'm in kind of a bind. I recently got written up and some of the things that were said were not true. I asked for dates and times, but I was seen as being defensive. Some of the things said were from a particular person who works with me. She claimed...

I forgot to say that my manager is the one who wrote me up, so I have already spoken to her about the issue. I'm concerned with what to do for future issues that I may have with this tech or my colleagues. I have looked at my behavior and I can see w...

Thanks everyone. I just thought a notebook so that I knew dates and times and could prove what I did would maybe help, if only jogging my memory of events. I'm not keeping it for anyone but myself, in the event that I am called into the office again ...

Good grief! I thought that this stereotype died with my grandmother's generation! I had a great aunt who actually said something about me marrying a doctor 25 years ago, but in this day and age, I would have hoped for some progress! I'm currently ma...

I would interview with the hospital that has the open positions. You don't necessarily have to accept the first job offered to you, but it is worth your time and effort to prepare for the interview with the out of state facility. Interviewing for a j...

Sorry that you are having such a rough time with your preceptor. In my opinion, if he is constantly talking about you behind your back and putting you down in front of coworkers, he should not be a preceptor. Your job as a preceptor is to mentor and ...

Someone mentioned the fact that one of the National Patient Safety Goals is to improve the effectiveness of communication between caregivers by implementing a standardized approach to "hand off" communications, including an opportunity to ask and to ...

When I was in nursing school, someone charted, "Alert and oriental" about one of her patients. The guilty party would never admit it.

Diary Girl, I have been called names and told that I was incompetent by a patient and I have been a nurse for almost 23 years. It happens to a lot of us, regardless of the length of time we have been in the profession. I was reading your post and the...

You've got to be kidding! She was offended by the word butt? God help her if she ever is working around me when I'm frustrated. She might hear the f-bomb. Darn, I'd be fired, wouldn't I?

I wanted to comment on whether pregnant nurses/techs should be given isolation patients. I think it all depends on what the isolation is for. I can see not giving a pregnant nurse a patient who you know has CMV or shingles/chicken pox. But as far as ...

Where I work, the shift diffs for nights are substantial. I think for evenings, they're something like $4 and for nights $5, plus the weekend shift diff is about $5-$6 per hour on top of it if you're working then. The night shift can be extremely bu...

Hello and welcome to the site! I'm originally from TN myself. Glad you're here!

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Oh my goodness! She must have a death wish.:selfbonk: We had a patient years ago that had numerous central lines that had become contaminated with stuff like e-coli and enterococcus. The doctors finally figured out she was contaminating her lines wit...

When I first got out of school, I was waiting to see if I had passed my state boards. One day when I went to work, I was the only nurse on the unit. :uhoh21:Everyone else was a tech, and I didn't even have my license and was the only one scheduled to...

You can be a nurse and be on antidepressants. I know a lot of nurses that are on antidepressants. It's very common. :smiletea2:Lord knows that some of the units I have worked on would be in a lot of trouble if the nurses weren't taking antidepressant...

Suesquatch, A lot of us have had bad work situations. I once worked a job for about 8 months that I really hated. My supervisors were mean and the charge nurse wrote things in my evaluation (which she laid on the medication cart in the middle of a v...

NIH defines lates as being gradual in onset and that the nadir occurs more than 30 seconds from the beginning of the deceleration. Variables are quick and the nadir occurs less than 30 seconds from its onset. Even if a decel occurs after the peak of ...

I call any late because I am an antepartum nurse who is one floor up and down the hall from the nearest OR suite in the L&D. L&D nurses don't generally call because they are normally actively laboring the patient when the late occurs. When yo...

I would call a late decel on a patient. Lates signify placental insufficiency, not cord compression, as would be the case with a variable where the baby temporarily compressed the cord. I always run it by my colleagues and the charge nurse prior to c...