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You know, though, there are different power dynamics at work in your sister's situation. An attorney of any status in a law firm has a lot more power over the clerical staff than one new staff nurse does anywhere. Cattiness and pettiness are endemic...

There's no excuse for harassing people, and even less for lying to them. I guess I have a much lower tolerance for abuse than most people, because I would have given notice the next day. When I interviewed for my next job, I would have told them exac...

We make mistakes. Fortunately, most of them don't kill people! Your physician needs immediately to take responsibility for writing her own orders completely and you need immediately to stop doing it for her.

It's about 40 or 50 miles from York to Portland, all turnpike though. There are actually quite a few small community hospitals in the York/Dover/Portsmouth area. Portsmouth Regional is probably the largest and is always advertising, especially for nu...

I am an RN instructor who does not work full time in a hospital and never intends to again for all the reasons above. However, the difference is that I GOT OUT OF IT!! There really is no reason, as an RN in 2005, to stay at any position you hate-ther...

MMC probably has the best program and never tires of letting everyone within earshot know they were voted one of the top 100 hospitals in America. It's the only teaching hospital in the seacoast area, I believe. Just so you don't die from the sticker...

If you are looking for staff positions, you shouldn't have any trouble. If you are looking for NP, CNS, instructor positions the well is pretty dry around here and I wouldn't recommend it. Salaries aren't bad but the cost of living in York and Cumber...

Thank you for sharing your experience. Obviously part of the issue is that you just had too much for one person to safely do. I am a firm believer-and research backs me up-that for the most part, unless we are completely incompetent (and there are a ...

I'm a nursing instructor in an A/D program, and I disagree w/many of my peers that new nurses need a year of med/surg to "learn the ropes." That's unfair to the unit, the manager, and the hospital to just put your time in and move on (although that's...

I'm sorry up front if I'm offending anyone, but Martha Rogers and her starry eyed protege Delores Kreiger are both crackpots, IMHO, and a significant reason nursing as a profession is dismissed by other healthcare providers and the public at large-th...

Have you considered a refresher course before going back into the work world? might shore up both your skills and your confidence.

Oasis is not typically required on pediatric patients.

Hi, Melissa, I've been in home care for ten years, first as a staff case manager in a nonprofit Medicare certified agency and now as a clinical specialist in a private pay for profit. You can feel free to contact me if you'd like. I never get tired o...

I've been a nurse a long time now, and currently work as a gerontological care manager and part time nsg instructor at the local community college. In no other profession-not even medicine-do you have the diversity of choices that you do as a nurse. ...

I just wish we spent less time talking about doctors in these forums. Do you think they spend one tenth of the energy thinking about us as we do thinking about them?? They're coworkers and colleagues is all, just like the PTs and social workers. I ha...

It wouldn't bother me to care for a patient who had an abortion, but then I am fanatically pro-choice. I do think that one ought to be able to put one's personal views aside when caring for anyone, although it is only reasonable not to put yourself i...

Bingo. It is not doctors who abuse us. Most of them don't even think about us that much, or at least not nearly as much as we think about them. In 17 years of nursing-admittedly most of that in home care and now education-I can think of maybe two tim...

You know, I thought things were bad between the ICU and PACU nurses, or the med/surg units...but apparently they've got nothing on the OR staff. This type of petty behavior, folks, is why nursing is destined to be a second-tier profession, no matter ...

I agree. I saw the first movie, actually, and hated it, only because the situations were so contrived. The entire nursing profession wasn't put down, but the stereotypes of male nurses being somehow unworthy was-as I recall, his future father-in-law ...

Four years ago my family had to make a similar decision when it became clear my father was not going to recover from a protracted illness. We had made plans for everyone to be together in the am to "unplug" the vent, but he spared us following throug...

I took the MAT after doing some practice tests and scored well. It just depends on which schools you're looking at what test you take, if any. I think they're a waste of time myself. My friend who also hadn't taken math for years took a prep course f...

I agree. So much of what I read in these posts concerns someone's reactions to another's action-be it physician, manager, coworker, whatever-and what can I do to change that person's behavior. Well, you don't have the power to change another's behavi...

Holy smoke!! I can't blame you for being disgusted by some of the practices of these instructors. I've been a med/surg instructor for 2 years now, and I ALWAYS have assignments ready the day before, have my students listen to report, and would never ...

Your hospital by law has a Corporate Compliance hotline, and I would take advantage of it. You can make an anonymous report if you have to.

Quit, and soon. As a professional, I have certain standards for how I expect to be treated, and this episode for sure would have violated those in a big way. Get copies of your glowing evaluations and get your butt out of there.