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  1. What is your greatest fear in nursing.

    nola1202 replied to Yiggs's topic in General Nursing

    me

  2. Rewarded for med error?

    nola1202 replied to Jenni811's topic in General Nursing

    They used to call it systems theory, if there is an error, it probably lies in the system. If you can make that error so can someone else, so lets look at the system of delivery. I liked it while it...

  3. pt complaint/called to office

    nola1202 replied to AggieNurse99's topic in General Nursing

    What idiots in management even felt the need to bring this to your attention, if it was me I'd have filed it in the round file....(trash) Oh I'm sorry I seem to have misplaced that, could you send me...

  4. I dont know if I can be a nurse anymore please advise

    nola1202 replied to Psychtrish39's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry. I've never not gotten paid but I have had it delayed until the next paycheck while I'm barely scraping by. It's crazy to have to decide if you need gas or food more. I chose gas cause I...

  5. Lifecare (LTC) anyone have experience with?

    nola1202 replied to nola1202's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    yup...I'll PM u a little

  6. Lifecare (LTC) anyone have experience with?

    nola1202 replied to nola1202's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    a little update, reality has set in....nuff

  7. Suicide and nurse's reaction

    nola1202 replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm sorry that happened to you. A lot of people in ED get really angry at people who want to die, when they see people who wanted to live die in a trauma or some random accident. They think those...

  8. how many felt overwhelmed?

    nola1202 replied to natalia13's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You know, I've been at this 25 years in one specialty or another, I still feel overwhelmed and anxious sometimes..ok alot of the time. Some shifts I feel like I'm riding down this huge hill on a...

  9. Cried at work... in front of a doctor!

    nola1202 replied to scorpio82's topic in General Nursing

    One day you'll laugh about this...but not for a while. I've cried, the residents and medical students were the first to pull me aside and tell me not to worry, they've had days like that too. I saw...

  10. A patient flat out lied about me

    nola1202 replied to TwilightRNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Been there heard that, about a gazillion times....never fails to mzake my blood boil. I'm not lazy, and if I stay over there's a good reason. Yet... so all I have to say is AMEN

  11. Lateral violence from manager

    nola1202 replied to Taramariah's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Not sure, I question your friends boundries, the other manager may have just been talking as one manager to another...I've said things about patients that I really would not have getting back to them....

  12. Have you ever made a medication error- yes, no or almost.

    nola1202 replied to Yiggs's topic in General Nursing

    yes, of course, if you work long enough you will make an error, omission, or the wrong time or wrong med or the right med to the wrong patient. even IV meds. That why I'm so careful, the...

  13. What is your greatest fear in nursing.

    nola1202 replied to Yiggs's topic in General Nursing

    Not being able to find another job, this last job hunt was really scary and I was out of work for 5 months. I'm afraid of not being able to pay my bills and ending up not being able to take care of...

  14. Am I ever going to get this?

    nola1202 replied to jlynn2303's topic in First Year After Licensure

    woops..thought my first message got eaten by the internet

  15. Am I ever going to get this?

    nola1202 replied to jlynn2303's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ditto the above post. I feel for you, learning a new job and feel the same. I think it takes about 6 months for me to feel like I have a clue and at 1 year I realize I know phone numbers and the...

  16. They won't stop calling me!

    nola1202 replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    Ha!

  17. What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

    nola1202 replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I once commented that I loved halloween and it was my night. I always requested it off. Word spread around the Nursery that I was a Satanist. I couldn't resist the night before halloween, gently...

  18. What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

    nola1202 replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    regarding the nurse who was turned into the state for not giving insulin early: this happened to another nurse too. It was in a psych hospital in the south. The former DON now works as a floor nurse...

  19. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    nola1202 replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've already been "saved" and no I don't want to talk about the comming rapture during report or at work. quit complaining about how much charting and work you have to do...just shut the f%*k up and...

  20. New Grad - Med/Surg Float position

    nola1202 replied to dragn2623's topic in First Year After Licensure

    hope you get it, I got the position of a pediatric float nurse after 8 months on a crazy busy peds unit. It was a new hospital in a different state and I loved it! I kept my head down, looked up...

  21. They won't stop calling me!

    nola1202 replied to optimist's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, sentimental slop whoever wrote that also wrote the song "Mother" M is for all the thing she gave me...o is for...blah, blah...makes me want to

  22. Help

    nola1202 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    regarding the new grad that posted ouch that hurt a little bit! she's not talking about you, she's talking about the fluffernutters...they come in all ages from diva to princess to queen.

  23. Has Mr Peabody been here with his Way Back Machine?

    nola1202 replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    bahahahahah:yeah:

  24. State~!

    nola1202 replied to nghtfltguy's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    yup, pretty much! People are on their cell phones calling the other dept's to look out for this and that, also when they head for the stairs up or down? It's this big spy network of unit managers...

  25. When "The Calling" wears off?

    nola1202 replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    You know a lot of people think if you don't "have a calling" for nursing you are not really caring and shouldn't be a nurse...but does my dentist feel he has a calling? Do I as his patient doubt his...