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anotherone BSN, RN

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  1. Another Philadelphia thread: RN hiring and degree requirements

    anotherone posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Here we go again, with another Philly thread. This time it is a bit different. i am currently living in a pretty rural area and want out, sometime soon. I am looking at different cities in the country...

  2. You are not my only patient

    anotherone posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    2 different issues I work in a busy unit with many pts that should probably be on step down unit and very time consuming patients. I go about tasks by prioritizing them. Sometimes that means someone...

  3. Mandated overtime. What?

    anotherone replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure who would stay? In a large facility , they may have MANY 15+ call offs, a supervisor isnt going to be able to fill them nor are they capable of for many units. ( I highky doubt any...

  4. Mandated overtime. What?

    anotherone replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    You are scheduled 7a to 7p. 7pm comes and due to call offs, or not enough scheduledd nurses there are not enough nurses. No one wants to stay, no one agreed to come, they are short as it is so...

  5. Patients that fire everyone/demand everything

    anotherone replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Depends on how my other pts are but for q1 hr demands that are not needed and I am busy , I have and will say something lile "many of my patients need things at 6:00, I can't be in 6 rooms at...

  6. No more phlebotomist in the hospital?!

    anotherone replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in General Nursing

    OP , I think I understand. I have had 6-7pts no aides. Yeah, IV starts, rt stuff, labs are "basic" and nursing but we get pts with q4 labs. sometimes multiple. now it is yet another task. no...

  7. Super Obese

    anotherone posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    in my unit we have had many super obese (500lbs+) pts. Most have been complete care. We only use lifts to get pts oob. it is very difficult to care for such pts because of the logistics and staffing...

  8. Nursing makes me hate fat people

    anotherone replied to LifeCrisis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    wow. back injuries are debilitating. one injury and one's nursing career or any! may be over! wow. some value their ability to provide for themselves and our back. Yeah, complaining won't solve...

  9. Nursing makes me hate fat people

    anotherone replied to LifeCrisis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't care how fat of thin they are.... Not high and mighty but don't think all thin people are that way by chance either. Once a pt is in a certain weight range, and unable to care for...

  10. What is the worst hardship/story you have ever seen/heard in your nursing career?

    anotherone replied to succinate's topic in General Nursing

    there is so much misery . and so many people who seem and are like monsters.... I am often amazed when I encounter kind people after dealing or seeing some of these lunatics. I think these stories...

  11. Nursing makes me hate fat people

    anotherone replied to LifeCrisis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    heh. i meant to hit quote buy hit like instead..... i started a thread myself on the obese but with a different tone. my back hurts too sometimes. i am female but in your age group. 250-350....

  12. Do you have 30 minutes for lunch?

    anotherone replied to Kurious RN's topic in General Nursing

    not all the time. med surg . sometimes you can plan all you want but if we are short and constant bed alarms and frequent vitals etc.. with even other nurses pts , then there isn't anyone to watch...

  13. You won't believe.....

    anotherone replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    wow, i thnk it is rude and presumptuous to expect a greeting from a stranger. exceptions being work related ( with customers, not coworkers). If people make eye contact or stare i say hello,...

  14. Need a hug

    anotherone replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    I never would tell families/pts we are short. Didn't want to worry them and knew it is a no no . Well now on shifts like the ones you describe I refuse to be seen as a bad nurse when we are short 2...

  15. A few questions about bedside manner.

    anotherone replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If I ever cry in front if someone, the worst thing , Ii think,, would be for it to be acknowledged. Patting my shoulder or trying to hold my hand will increase my anxiety or have me thinking you...

  16. Dr said no hope for lpn for me :(

    anotherone replied to NoWomanNoCry's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    A typical bedside nurse position is extremily rough on your back, neck etc.... I can't thing of one single coworker who has been a nurse longer than a few years who doesn't have some muscular...

  17. Long term effects of working night shifts

    anotherone replied to yadirosa's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I work 7pm-730am 3-4 times a week. Day shift is way too hectic. nights can be stressful and busy but it is different than on day shift. i try to keep the same schedule but come on... if i did i...

  18. I regret forever not going to medical school

    anotherone replied to nurse2dr's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    could have, shoukd have, would have.... I see many doctors around my age at work. 80 hra at least at the hospital making peanuts, wasting their youth there... I feel the apposite of envy! I...

  19. Taking away chairs from nursing station

    anotherone replied to pinkessence_58467's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    pts think we are working harder when we are standing to chart as opposed to sitting..... so ... just another way society has to appeal to the lowest thinking of us...... last few timea I went to a...

  20. Taking away chairs from nursing station

    anotherone replied to pinkessence_58467's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    the day we get treated like professionals is the day I will think we are. this is why I am strongly in the "just a job" camp. I have been to ( either through clinicals or as a visitor) many hospitals...

  21. You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    anotherone replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    My last post was filled with sarcasm. I rather have the new md/do if they are seeing me as an out pts/he is already an attending and if inpatient the attending still

  22. You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    anotherone replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    If anything Inthink nursing school should focus a lot more on patho and pharmacology. Bed making, fluff nursing theory, WASTE of time. the longer i go as a nurse the more I understand why many...

  23. You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    anotherone replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    Almost anyone can learn to put in ngs, ivs, labs etc. anyone. that is the least of what I bring to a pt. I think of my job and the lives I have saved by assessing pts and reporting abnormalities...

  24. You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    anotherone replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    If I wanted to be an no i would have done that or gone into medicine. I don't want to nor do I want to see a PA or NP over a MD or DO for the same reasons posters here prefer nurses rather than MAs...

  25. Hospital Errors 3rd Leading Cause of Death

    anotherone replied to sapphire18's topic in General Nursing

    Lower ratios for nurse.. most of the nurses are new and inexperienced Also the doctors are worked to the bone too. An intern cross covering 80pts who are all acutely ill is a recipe for disaster!...