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Roser13, I am not trying to squash anyone, or destroy their optimism. I am just hoping to save one person from the holy hell that has become nursing. I was a second career nurse, coming from the finance industry, where professionalism was always a pr...

JulesA, The nursing profession has one of the highest turnover/ burn out rates when compared to other career choices. In my area alone, there are faciltiies that have a 100% turnover every 6 months, second only to fast food joints. Maybe its just me ...

ummm sorry roser13, but I am a realist, not a cheerleader at a pep rally. I had no access to these internet comment forums when I made the decision to go to nursing school. Wish I had. My decision was made due to the fake propoganda that there was a ...

Obviously you have not been in this field long enough to see that it truly is all about money, any way you choose to fry it. I have seen and heard thousands of stories and examples of great nurses getting fired, and stripped of their confidence for n...

Hi kyfitch...years ago I was in nursing school and the clinical rotations were basically a huge waste of time. The nurses on the units refused to allow us to do anything meaningful, and we were basically diaper changers, bed bath/ and bed makers, as...

Hello Johnathan. I have been an RN for many years and have experienced many negatives, such as you have. First, since being a nurse, I worked in hospitals, nursing homes, a jail, rehabs, surgical facilities, a doctors office and homecare. Do not fall...

Honestly JulesA? The practice of floating should be completely voluntary for the nurse and never , ever, ever for a brand new nurse, even if she wanted to float. Floating is just another term for a hospital that refuses to properly staff and train an...

Oh my, I see nothing has changed from the days I used to work in a hospital. I hate to be negative for you, but I see the hospital has no respect for you as a nurse, and likely has a revolving door of nurses. First, the practice of orienting a new nu...

I happen to think that giving two weeks notice (while professional and admirable) is a practice that went out the window, and is about as existent now as the curly cord wall phone. In most of my experiences in nursing, when it was time to go, it was ...

Hi Jen. Just some advice to you from a friendly observer who also had a career in accounting and switched over to nursing. All I can tell you, is from my own perspective, I made a huge mistake. I too was bamboozled by the fake nursing shortage, which...

I happen to think that the "shortage" was nothing but contrived media propaganda in the late 1990s, which was hyped up by our government, depts of labor and industry, hospitals and nursing homes, physician offices and outpatient facilities, to create...

I have not only seen the "horizontal" violence, but also the "verticle" where a doctor is as rude and nasty as can be, and this is also tolerated

I just read the article and left a remark. It was a wonderful article and I am happy to have the opportunity to vent about it. This is such a problem in our profession and we all know that "only the **** survive." I read some of the comments in that ...

Excellent article. I posted a few responses to "nurses eating their young" . It is truly a demon in the profession and repeats itself year after year. I am hopeless when I learn that this happened to me 10 years ago, and is still happening today. If ...

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One of the things that I never understood was why these "precepting nurses" are allowed to continue down a path of emarassing, humiliating, and chastising new hires. In most of my experience, the nurses who were precepting have done this over and ove...

Every precepting experience I had was horrible. Hospitals are really the only places that do this, which is why I dont work in them anymore. In fact, I made it clear in an interview once that I refuse to be precepted. An experienced nurse should alre...

I have also noticed that the false "nursing shortage " propaganda helped to foster this environment of frequent firing. The more nurses there are, the quicker all nurses become a dime a dozen. Frequent firing allows for wage control and reduction, n...

I have noticed a disturbing pattern of new nurses getting fired. I attribute this to 2 things. 1. As soon as a nurse is eligible for medical benefits, days off and all of the other BS that is advertised, they are booted, usually at exactly 3 months. ...

In hospice, (though I have not been a hospice nurse) you are dealing with rollercoaster emotions that happen at the end of life. Mostly, the patient has accepted death, but the family has not. It takes a special type of person to be in hospice.

Its in every nursing vocation. After 7 yrs in nursing, I went into home health. The horizontal and vertical slashing is alive and well in home health too. Although home health has a reputation for being a babysitting job, things go wrong in the hom...

If you are intelligent, professional and motivated toward excellence, able to see the forest beyond the trees, enjoy doing your job and doing it well, possess poise and rational logic when dealing with patients, co-workers etc...then stay away from n...

Perfectly said. My stint in PED Homecare was short lived, as I no longer believed in what I was doing anymore. One case had 11 different nurses assigned, yet no one was good enough. I honestly believe that some of these kids may actually do better ...

I agree. Many orientation programs are set up to make the new hire fail. My very first job as a nurse is one I will never forget. I never made the transition, and left while on orientation. I found out that there were so many others who failed to t...

Dont get discouraged and keep looking. Not sure where you are from, but the job market in my area is dismal at best. I could blog on for days about why hospitals arent hiring new grads. Its complicated and very frustrating. Everyone needs experience...